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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    msg wrote: »
    Hey, all of these numbers are outta service!

    I mean, I heard they were.

    Thanks for checking!
    A most appreciated public service.
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    Two I liked today on over t'ASR.
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    This one's maybe a little edgy but, I mean, heck, we want to make sure that the moderators for this board have something to do -- it's job security, right?
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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 2,154
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    OleBoot wrote: »
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    What if the service sucks arse?
  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 12,015
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    Or if the food sucks? :#
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

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    --Mark Twain.

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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,748
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    Just raise all your prices 25% don't accept tips and pay your employees a decent wage

    Jeez
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
    edited February 2025
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    so... my intent here is absolutely NOT to besmirch another forum, or what is in fact a perfectly reasonable question.
    Altec woofers of a certain era famously used a sticky black goo on their (accordion pleat) surrounds to mitigate their mechanical properties (resonant frequency and probably other T/S parameters, too). The goo is notoriously metastable; e.g., it can run and redistribute under the influence of gravity.
    I guess a poster with an Altec driver has some response anomalies (apparently a couple of broad but perhaps not very pronounced peaks) and is asking about a possible causal link. I just found his thread title to be quite amusing...

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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 2,154
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    VR3 wrote: »
    Just raise all your prices 25% don't accept tips and pay your employees a decent wage

    Jeez

    Doesn’t sound doable, in today’s market, as people are so gun shy of everything increasing in price at alarming amounts.

    Having owned a restaurant/bar one can easily price themselves out of customers. They have other choices called competition.

    Unless it was a joke?
  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,748
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    No tips allowed, tips priced in. I don't see how this would prevent anyone from dining there.

    I do see how it would be harder to retain workers as tips can be lucrative
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 2,691
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    Brian

  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 2,154
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    ^ An interesting concept.

    We always paid higher than chilis, Applebees and all the other outfits in town, including steakhouses and the rest of the restaurants.
    This brought us the best employees, in the food service sect, to our restaurant/bar.
    When someone gave us a two week notice of moving on we didn’t get the opening into the newspaper before we had dozens of people bringing in resumes, along with saying heard you have an opening coming up.

    One very important aspect of the restaurant/bar business is consistency.
    Consistency in food quality, consistency in service and consistency in how customers are treated.

    Great example of this….
    Chef Dave, would get so pissed at this one customer. She would always return Dave’s homemade chicken tenders saying something different each time in her complaint, Dave was absolutely correct that they were perfect, I instructed our staff to comp if there were issues.
    Chef Dave, our Manager Sunny and I had several meetings about Ms Brenda.
    The hard thing to make our employees understand was that we had their back. It’s totss as Lu a business decision.

    Funny thing about Ms Brenda… she would bring parties of 6 plus people into our place, every week, bragging how great it was.
    Once those friends came in we had added loyal customers.

    So tell me, was it worth swallowing our pride for Ms Brenda to have our gross sales increase @ 12% in our slowest growing year?
    All years our growth was above 19% except for that one 12% growth year.

    Everyone that has ever wanted to own a bar or restaurant I say please do it.
    There’s a different mindset when it come to one’s own business as to what may be the right decision when dealing with customers in a real time environment.

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  • daddyjt
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    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 3,053
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    Viking64 wrote: »
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    Drink red-rum, it's the tasty one
    Viking64 wrote: »
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    I may live in the city, but I know what redneck is....
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    daddyjt wrote: »
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    But I don't see a single mud shark.
  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 3,053
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    SCompRacer wrote: »
    This was on a mat by the laundry tub downstairs. Tried wiping it up. It was sunlight shining through a hole in the basement window security bars.

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    LMAO...this belongs in the "You know you're old when...."

    I've made this mistake myselfe....a time or two :D
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 20,360
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    Simply put? I wouldn't eat there. Tips are earned, not required. They are also dependent on the amount of service one gets.

    If it's mandatory, then just raise your prices and YOU give YOUR employees a 25% tip. I 'm not gonna bail out your employees just because your a cheapskate. ....and I 'll tip and amount I choose, based upon service, thank you. Not because you seemingly demand it, as a condition that I choose to spend my hard earned money at your establishment.

    That's all I gotta say about that.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    Admittedly, I tend towards the loquacious :# -- but, as shown below, many men are much more taciturn. Laconic, even.
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    (ASR)
  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,748
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    I will never tip above 20%

    Just me though
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 3,053
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    OleBoot wrote: »
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    Yeah man, cow girls are the best
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  • Viking64
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    Geoff4rfc wrote: »
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    I may live in the city, but I know what redneck is....

    I'll just say that I don't believe "redneck" is the word you are looking for and leave it at that. :p
  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 3,053
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    Geoff4rfc wrote: »
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    I may live in the city, but I know what redneck is....

    I'll just say that I don't believe "redneck" is the word you are looking for and leave it at that. :p

    You don't know me......okay, maybe you do :D
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 8,263
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    Y'all still don't realize, that Caddy is an homage to the Duke's car in Escape from New York. John Carpenter's classic which was really the first Big Screen role for Kurt Russell. That Plissken is one bad mo-fo.
  • Milito
    Milito Posts: 2,003
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    More Cars:

    Here is an old picture of my 1967 Camaro that I ordered from Jones Motor Company in Bremen GA that was a Chevrolet dealership. I ordered it about the time I graduated from college.

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    I still have the original invoice and I think the total was about $3000. I should look for it to verify.

    I remember black wall tires became the "hot" thing in the mid 60's, and the first thing I did was reverse all four tires from whitewalls to blackwalls. The Camaro had a 327 engine and a Hurst shifter.

    As a kid, I always went to town with my Dad on Saturdays; mainly to the grocery store across the street from Jones Motor Company. We always ventured over to look at the Chevys especially when the new models arrived. My dad always liked to talk cars with Buell Jones a relative.


    Here is a pic of one of the Jones Motor Company giveaway yard sticks of yesteryear.
    Note the 4-digit telephone number.
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    I paid $3,190 for my 68 Z/28 which was $50.00 over invoice from a country dealer so that sounds close to me. Yea, white wall tires were "out" then. Funny you would see cars with the white walls mounted inside on the rims.
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  • Milito
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    bcwsrt wrote: »
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    Steak by Peterbilt, LOL.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 52,406
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    Geoff4rfc wrote: »
    Viking64 wrote: »
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    Drink red-rum, it's the tasty one
    Viking64 wrote: »
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    I may live in the city, but I know what redneck is....

    There's not a redneck on earth that would be caught dead in that abomination.
  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 52,406
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    billbillw wrote: »
    Y'all still don't realize, that Caddy is an homage to the Duke's car in Escape from New York. John Carpenter's classic which was really the first Big Screen role for Kurt Russell. That Plissken is one bad mo-fo.

    You really don't have a clue.
  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,813
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    F1nut wrote: »
    There's not a redneck on earth that would be caught dead in that abomination.

    That's it!

    It belongs to the abominable ho-man! :p
  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 20,360
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    Hey, WOW man......the lights are psychotropic man......

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    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~