This to me sounds like a much more favorable situation. It will be interesting to see how it works out. On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 5:43 PM, der.hans wrote: > > Am 14. Dez, 2014 schwätzte Matt Graham so: > > moin moin, > > On 2014-12-14 15:10, Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> sounds like the new owner of the old stamtisch meeting place just >>> shot themselves in the foot. >>> >> >> Or the PLUG people weren't spending enough money to suit the new owner. >> Some of us are kind of frugal :-) >> > > They were doing fine off of us. We always get complements from the staff > for being good customers and being easy to work with. We get complements > from the staff at Iguana Macks as well, but the manager doesn't get it. > > It's true that some attendess are frugal ( or they ate elsewhere because > there were no vegetarian options ), but overall they get a good dinner > crowd booking. Only a few people drink, so they don't get a bar crowd > booking. It's a win for a Tuesday evening when we often double the crowd > for the night. > > The restaurant we're moving to wants to earn our business. It's owned by > the same family that owns a location we used to go to. The old location > had a couple of issues: no parking; very busy Tuesday nights; slow service > on very busy Tuesday nights. The new location won't have the Tuesday > trivia, so won't be busy on Tuesday nights and has lots of parking. > Hopefully there will be consistent good service. It's a bar, it's not a > fine dining experience, but the menu has variety and I like their food. > > A huge difference is that the owner wants us to come in. He's glad to have > a good, regular customer base return. The manager of the location we're > using in December contacted me to see what we need for a reservation even > though he knows we only need one month. That's far more consideration than > we've gotten from Iguana Macks. > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.PhxLinux.org/ > # If you don't think for yourself, others will think for you -- > # to their advantage. -- Harold Gordon > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen