The screen has yet to arrive, so our friend Low-Voltage Louie took a break from setting up our phone system and burglar alarm and set to work on a makeshift screen so we could get the projector going. It looks really great, despite the impression you get from this photo. The only bad news was […]
I mentioned yesterday the bit about the doors to the private dining room arriving several inches shy of covering its doorway. Now I’m considering the idea of semi-private dining, for the economy-minded large party. Imagine, if you will, a curtain that may simply be drawn around the diners, but which allows them to hear the […]
Golly. It’s been so busy what with setup and all that I haven’t even gotten pictures of everything that’s happened, nor have I recovered fully from the drama. The day before yesterday, the massive freezer that we bought from my brother’s former establishment shuffled off its mortal coil, or, more accurately, had a tiny leak […]
We have an address now. I guess we did the whole time, but now we have one you can see.
So Kristy saved us once today, but I didn’t have the camera handy. Stephanie’s fixing the phone situation. By tomorrow, the What’s Cookin’ line should be back in operation, and I was finally able to access our voice mail (39 of them). I was still there calling people back who’ve left messages over the past […]
The doors arrived for the private dining room today, and, like everything else today, they were accompanied by news of previous miscommunications: Oh no, the doors aren’t in our scope of work, that’s your responsibility. Somehow, between the door manufacturer, the architect and the contractor all allegedly making arrangements with one another, we ended up […]
I love how the building is turning out. I really do. But the bar has been a source of frustration from the get-go. Somehow, there have been mismeasurements and miscommunications about the bar from the very first, from a mismeasurement of the beer cooler by three feet to today’s problem, two days before our final […]
The light fixtures have come with us to New Feast, and, Surprise of Surprises, the lighting guy who sent us the wrong color fixtures (which, incidentally, won’t be in until well after we’re open) also managed to short us about twenty-five eight-foot lengths of track. The good news is our industrious electricians managed to salvage […]
Light fixtures are starting to go in, both the right ones and the wrong ones.
I was honored yesterday to have been told, “you’re just a right-brain thinker and you can’t help it” in regard to how my office looks, because most people just think I’m an incredible slob, and I think I’m just plain scattered. Anyhow, this should resolve any future disputes over how my piles of disorganized papers […]