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 Post subject: Re: Late night bar seating at a dying restaurant
PostPosted: Mon June 10, 2019 9:04 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Late night bar seating at a dying restaurant
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The bar across the street from the one I manage closed last night. They cited COVID-19, but they haven't been profitable for years. It's hard to explain that concept to people, since they were always packed to the brim during weekends, baseball season, soccer season and playoffs, but that's what happens when your staff gives away the house night after night and you constantly buy out your distributor's warehouse beer inventory and just sit on it.

Still, we all (the bars around here) had a good neighborhood thing going on before the pandemic, and it's been rocked. Now the dust is settling and a lot of places are learning the hard way that their management should've read a P&L every once in a while. Of course this isn't true of every spot that is closing after the pandemic, but it's often the case early in this new era of mass closures.

I don't really know the moral of the story here if you're a consumer? I guess I'd say the best thing for anyone to do right now is get to know their local dying restaurants and bars real well, learn how they operate, how the treat their staff, and give your money to the ones that deserve to die a noble death. Let the shit shows crash and burn and don't let 'em fool you into thinking it was just about COVID-19.



...on that note, my regular coffee shop was subletting in one of this bar's leased areas and they closed overnight along with the bar. That one hurts. I will miss them and their staff dearly.

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The bar across the street from the one I manage closed last night. They cited COVID-19, but they haven't been profitable for years. It's hard to explain that concept to people, since they were always packed to the brim during weekends, baseball season, soccer season and playoffs, but that's what happens when your staff gives away the house night after night and you constantly buy out your distributor's warehouse beer inventory and just sit on it.

Still, we all (the bars around here) had a good neighborhood thing going on before the pandemic, and it's been rocked. Now the dust is settling and a lot of places are learning the hard way that their management should've read a P&L every once in a while. Of course this isn't true of every spot that is closing after the pandemic, but it's the case more often than not this early in this new era of mass closures.

I don't really know the moral of the story here if you're a consumer? I guess I'd say the best thing for anyone to do right now is get to know their local dying restaurants and bars real well, learn how they operate, how the treat their staff, and give your money to the ones that deserve to die a noble death. Let the shit shows crash and burn and don't let 'em fool you into thinking it was just about COVID-19.

Also, my regular coffee shop was subletting in one of this bar's leased areas and they closed overnight along with the bar. That one hurts. I will miss them and their staff dearly.


I enjoyed reading this post. You SHOULD do short stories.

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washing machine wrote:
The bar across the street from the one I manage closed last night. They cited COVID-19, but they haven't been profitable for years. It's hard to explain that concept to people, since they were always packed to the brim during weekends, baseball season, soccer season and playoffs, but that's what happens when your staff gives away the house night after night and you constantly buy out your distributor's warehouse beer inventory and just sit on it.

Still, we all (the bars around here) had a good neighborhood thing going on before the pandemic, and it's been rocked. Now the dust is settling and a lot of places are learning the hard way that their management should've read a P&L every once in a while. Of course this isn't true of every spot that is closing after the pandemic, but it's often the case early in this new era of mass closures.

I don't really know the moral of the story here if you're a consumer? I guess I'd say the best thing for anyone to do right now is get to know their local dying restaurants and bars real well, learn how they operate, how the treat their staff, and give your money to the ones that deserve to die a noble death. Let the shit shows crash and burn and don't let 'em fool you into thinking it was just about COVID-19.



...on that note, my regular coffee shop was subletting in one of this bar's leased areas and they closed overnight along with the bar. That one hurts. I will miss them and their staff dearly.


I enjoyed reading this post. You SHOULD do short stories.

But now I don't have a coffee shop to write in... :|

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I saw a chinese food kitchen getting wheeled away out of the back alley of a strip mall today. Deep fryers, flat tops, low-boy coolers all slathered in years and years of grade-a grease and MSG. I've had countless meals at this spot, but never a truly memorable one.

This was the place to eat if you needed to kill some time and read, or if you had money burning a hole in your pocket and a day off. More than a few times in the financially dark decade I spent doing everything but going to my college classes, I can remember using cash I had earned pawning my laptop or selling some DVDs on a hot plate of their sesame chicken. Sad to see all that history get snuck out the back door like that.

Funny thing is, as absolutely disgusting all this equipment looked, there was an immaculate looking carbon steel wok that got loaded in the front seat of the truck. I wonder what's in store for that thing.

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washing machine wrote:
I saw a chinese food kitchen getting wheeled away out of the back alley of a strip mall today. Deep fryers, flat tops, low-boy coolers all slathered in years and years of grade-a grease and MSG. I've had countless meals at this spot, but never a truly memorable one.

This was the place to eat if you needed to kill some time and read, or if you had money burning a hole in your pocket and a day off. More than a few times in the financially dark decade I spent doing everything but going to my college classes, I can remember using cash I had earned pawning my laptop or selling some DVDs on a hot plate of their sesame chicken. Sad to see all that history get snuck out the back door like that.

Funny thing is, as absolutely disgusting all this equipment looked, there was an immaculate looking carbon steel wok that got loaded in the front seat of the truck. I wonder what's in store for that thing.


rank 5 good movies you would sell on dvd and never watch again for a sesame chicken..


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washing machine wrote:
I saw a chinese food kitchen getting wheeled away out of the back alley of a strip mall today. Deep fryers, flat tops, low-boy coolers all slathered in years and years of grade-a grease and MSG. I've had countless meals at this spot, but never a truly memorable one.

This was the place to eat if you needed to kill some time and read, or if you had money burning a hole in your pocket and a day off. More than a few times in the financially dark decade I spent doing everything but going to my college classes, I can remember using cash I had earned pawning my laptop or selling some DVDs on a hot plate of their sesame chicken. Sad to see all that history get snuck out the back door like that.

Funny thing is, as absolutely disgusting all this equipment looked, there was an immaculate looking carbon steel wok that got loaded in the front seat of the truck. I wonder what's in store for that thing.


rank 5 good movies you would sell on dvd and never watch again for a sesame chicken..


5. I Heart Huckabees
4. Kingpin
3. Amelie
2. Coffee & Cigarettes
1. For a Few Dollars More

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not sure this is the right thread but a great article nonetheless....this will hit home with Joey...i was lucky enough to eat there a couple times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/maga ... covid.html


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i realized that article was reprinted today from earlier this year...my apologies


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doug rr wrote:
i realized that article was reprinted today from earlier this year...my apologies

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doug rr wrote:
i realized that article was reprinted today from earlier this year...my apologies

fuck you

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doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:
i realized that article was reprinted today from earlier this year...my apologies

fuck you

i'm doing the best i can in uncertain times

i'm kinda craving dickeys

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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:
i realized that article was reprinted today from earlier this year...my apologies

fuck you

i'm doing the best i can in uncertain times

i'm kinda craving dickeys

i have not had okra in a few months


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doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:
i realized that article was reprinted today from earlier this year...my apologies

fuck you

i'm doing the best i can in uncertain times

i'm kinda craving dickeys

i have not had okra in a few months

i've had it a few times recently, but also went a somewhat extended period without any

why we do deprive ourselves so

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