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Skriven 2015-01-06 16:17:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: more on FLA 12
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-03-15  19:39 <=-

 NB>> Apparently this place understood the value of keeping customers
 NB>> in the store, even at the cost of having other food brought in. 
 NB>> I suppose another option could have been reopening the kitchen for
 NB>> basic stuff... as long as there was anyone in the building that
 NB>> could still cook... 
 ML> Probably not.

 ML> 1. The gas was off and the food put away.
 ML> 2. The cook wasn't there, and the rest of the folks had
 ML> stuff to do (the waitress was also the busgirl and also
 ML> was mopping the floor in her copious spare time).

So they'd probably had been shutting things down well before the stated
kitchen quitting time already, so that they'd could leave on the dot. 
And there really wasn't anyone else to cook...

 ML> 3. Bad precedent, probably the most important reason.
 ML> 4. Likely contrary to protocol set by the management.

Quite likely, true... 

 ML> 5. Everyone except some of the patrons was hoping to
 ML> get out of there soon; this was obvious.
 
Except the bartender and support staff if any...  You did say this was a
bar, didn't you...?

 NB>> Once I misjudged the time, and arrived at Yang's just at closing time,
 NB>> with a girlfriend who needed a quiet place to talk... Mr Yang wouldn't
 NB>> hear of our leaving... (I realized my mistake just inside the door,
 NB>> and apologized and was planning to just leave quietly)... He said, what
 NB>> would you like, egg rolls? egg drop soup?... and proceded to seat us
 NB>> and go back to the kitchen to get us our tea and egg rolls and soup...
 NB>> I'm pretty sure he did any cooking/heating necessary that night...  :)
 ML> Different situation, because it's the proprietor's call,
 ML> especially if they were doing the work.

Granted...  but it does make a good impression all the same.  :)

I did have a similar experience to yours, once when my son was
bartending at a small town hotel bar/restaurant up in the North
Country... I'd not made it there before the kitchen had closed for the
night, and there just weren't any options there at all... I think after
I left, I had to hunt down some place that at least sold pre-made
sandwiches, I seem to remember that I finally found a gas station with a
convenience store still open, a ways away from either his workplace or
our camp...  :)

 NB>> Whatever it was in reality, it sounds like it was pretty impressive...
 NB>> and hopefully reasonably tasty...  :)  Were the fillings flavored to
 NB>> meet the expectation of yellow=lemon, green=lime...?  Not exactly a
 NB>> light dessert, by any means...  :)
 ML> All the layers were the same flavor, i.e., sort of lime
 ML> cheesecake.

So impressive only in looks, not really in taste...  ;)
 
 ML>> the man-eating clam, which Annie made me pose inside.
 NB>> Is she keeping the picture for blackmail...?  (G)

 ML> I'm beyond blackmail, I think.

One hopes..  :)

ttyl          neb

... A grapefruit is a lemon that had a chance and took advantage of it.

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