Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes’ Restaurant Embroiled In Ugly Fraud, Embezzlement & Discrimination Lawsuit Involving Partners
This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.
Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce decided to dip their toes into the restaurant entrepreneurship field. Their new Kansas City-based restaurant, 1587 Prime, opened in 2025.
It was most certainly not the type of restaurant for your average American, as the prices on their menu were insanely high. An 8-oz Filet could go for as much as $95, while a 32-oz Prime Porterhouse is $195. Even the sides are high: Mashed Potatoes are $16, as are Mac & cheese, grilled carrots, and Truffle fries.
Around the time of their opening, Patrick Mahomes’ and Travis Kelce’s restaurant wasn’t getting the best reviews from the general public. Things have only gotten worse.
The duo opened their Kansas City eatery, 1587 Prime, on September 17, 2025. 1587 Prime was the newest addition to the hospitality group Noble 33’s restaurant portfolio, founded by Tosh Berman and Mikey Tanha.
What appeared to be a great thing has turned terrible.
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It has been just over a year since Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce opened a new restaurant together. Now, their business partners are accused of wrongly ‘siphoning’ millions of dollars.
Noble 33 co-founders Tosh Berman and Michael Tanha have allegedly ambushed chief legal officer Matthew Syken with his termination from their hospitality firm, The Madera Group. He claims it was retaliation for exposing their misconduct, per The Daily Mail.
Now, a major legal battle threatens to engulf the firm amid allegations of fraud, embezzlement, and discrimination. Lawsuits filed in Nevada and California by Syken claim his firing was retaliation for exposing Berman and Tanha’s alleged plot to siphon millions.
Syken is claiming that they used a gift card scheme while he was off work, dealing with a blood cancer diagnosis.
To be clear, neither Patrick Mahomes nor Travis Kelce have been named in the lawsuit. They are not accused of any wrongdoing. The chief legal officer is alleging that Noble33 partnered with a gift card company called inKind. That deal paid Noble ‘millions of dollars in advance payments in exchange for the sale of store credits redeemable at Toca Madera restaurants.’
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Syken claimed Berman and Tanha improperly stole those millions and put them in their own private accounts.
‘Although presented as a marketing and financing program, these arrangements allowed Berman and Tanha to generate significant up-front cash that was later distributed to themselves,’ Syken wrote.
Once he confronted them, both tried to ‘extort’ him by threatening his legal license. In retaliation, he claimed they withheld his pay, fired him, and canceled his medical insurance during his cancer recovery. Syken claims Berman and Tanha falsely accused him of taking $257,000 in improper business expenses.
The Daily Mail reached out to reps for Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes, but did not receive a response.
Berman and Tanha deny all wrongdoing. They claim in their own legal filings that Syken ’embezzled’ and ‘defrauded’ their company. He did so by ‘surreptitiously putting personal expenses on his company-issued credit card and authorizing overpayments of his salary.’
The duo further alleged that Syken charged $7,000 on the company card. It was to a clinic ‘offering hair restoration, testosterone replacement therapy, Botox, light therapy, and other cosmetic services.’ Syken called allegations that he used the company card at an anti-aging clinic ‘false’ and ‘absurd.’
In their counterclaim, Berman and Tanha say there is ‘nothing improper’ about their gift card deal with inKind.
