New Bar On Victoria Street

[oogie boogie 1]

Does anyone know the opening date for that new bar next to the library?

They're not doing things by halves in there.

[Dave Hedgehog 540]

A posh place opposite Macbeths?

 

It will be like North and South Korea on a smaller scale (though with much more violence obviously)

[oogie boogie 1]

Speaking of which I saw a guy outside McDeaths with a suit on before.

[John 29]

Yep , its called Chapters and it opens in approx 4 weeks.. and it is going to look ace inside, all old school video games etc.

[keyboarder 668]

Speaking of which I saw a guy outside McDeaths with a suit on before.

Must have had a court appearance.

[2084 0]

4 weeks is pushing it. Though we may have the building done by then. We're thinking of doing staff training (I know, it's a difficult concept...) which will take a few weeks, and we have August shutdown of Europe that might screw up furniture, lighting etc.

 

As it's not a bar, we will have only a restaurant licence, so if you want alcohol, you have to eat...

 

There'll be more info soon, but there's some details on the temporary website below.

 

I thought the same re the guy in the suit!

 

Cheers

[Back to the Future 0]

From the web-site:-

 

Think ultimate contemporary menus and 5 star service, but think again if that says hard-to-digest prices, and over-attentive staff.

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from the Courier 'jobs today' :-

 

be pro-active, excel in aggressive hospitality

 

Anyway - good luck!

[Nosferatu 21]

excel in aggressive hospitality

Hmm what the fuck does that mean ? "Heres the fucking menu you cunt" , (as the waiter/waitress delivers a bone jarring uppercut at the same time as passing you the menu) ."The chef's special is fucking great , order it now" . "Enjoy your bastard meal or I'll break your head" . Hmm can't see this aggressive hospitality catching on although in some places it would be a marked improvement.

[Rhumsaa 2,484]

That worked quite well here

[2084 0]

it just means good, well-delivered service. A couple of examples would be being shown to your room in a decent hotel or getting assistance choosing the right nails in b and q rather than being told 'they're somewhere on aisle 5 mate'.

 

Hopefully we will get good staff!

[Nosferatu 21]

it just means good, well-delivered service. A couple of examples would be being shown to your room in a decent hotel or getting assistance choosing the right nails in b and q rather than being told 'they're somewhere on aisle 5 mate'.

 

Hopefully we will get good staff!

Aggressive is possibly a poor choice of words , there can be a fine line between an attentive waiter and a pushy overbearing waiter .

Good luck though hope it works .

Edited July 17, 2009 by Nosferatu

[2084 0]

i guess it's not brilliant wording, but i didn't invent the phrase. There's nothing that annoys me more than in your face staff as more often than not it shows a lack of awareness of the customer's actual needs. Eg three different staff members asking us if we'd like desserts when we'd already told the first, no.

[dooahhdoo 7]

Well, you have me won over with a Dragons Lair machine

[Cresta Fiesta 0]

Is there going to be a pinball?

[2084 0]

there are a couple of issues with pinball, but we're trying to get a couple. We'd want something of the same era, the area with the games is retro early 80s aimed at people who remember then. Which means, i think, that we'd need a mechanical pin, as opposed to a more recent one. Headache maintenance wise and very expensive.