What irritates you the most at restaurants?

#951
#951
I think the Deepwater Horizon created a negative image for gulf oysters. Apalachicola used to command a premium and then a lot of places stopped using it. May require some rebranding.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I think the Deepwater Horizon created a negative image for gulf oysters. Apalachicola used to command a premium and then a lot of places stopped using it. May require some rebranding.
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Where did you get that info? I only ask because this area stopped using them because they weren't available. It was a while before they were available again but when they were, me and everyone I knew in the business bought as much as we could and had little to no negative response as to where they were harvested from.
 
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Behr said:
You're high. Lol. Unless you're eating Kumamoto, Olympias or Belons, oysters from Apalachicola over to the West Texas "bays" have as much flavor as any. If you're a big fan of Blue Points, I understand.
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I like blue points alright. I just like the sharp salinated zing of sweet jesus, umamis, or pickle points.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
I've spent about an hour on research and hit a dead end. If I could down a Parisi's tea and stumble up to Forsyth Street, I might get a flashback. Looks like the only other option is to find a Macon phone book circa 1992-3ish.
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Was it Hoot n Toots or something like that?
 
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Behr said:
Where did you get that info? I only ask because this area stopped using them because they weren't available. It was a while before they were available again but when they were, me and everyone I knew in the business bought as much as we could and had little to no negative response as to where they were harvested from.
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Just seemed to be the p.r. up here. I have trouble recalling specific places, although Jefferson and South Street are venues where it's possible that I heard this. Up here, there was just a conventional wisdom going around to avoid gulf seafood and some people may still have that in their heads.
 
#960
#960
You guys are making me miss my Tomales Bay Oysters. Marshall is a tiny town on Tomales Bay that has a couple of good spots to get oysters and the BBQ oysters are terrific. Hog Island Oyster Co. has their farm there and have oyster bars in San Francisco and Napa. The spot on the bay is cool. They have a picnic area with grills you can reserve and they also have clams and mussels. We would take our cookware and have quite a spread. This is hog island in the middle of Tomales Bay, a good spot to hike and kayak also.

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NorCalVol67 said:
You guys are making me miss my Tomales Bay Oysters. Marshall is a tiny town on Tomales Bay that has a couple of good spots to get oysters and the BBQ oysters are terrific. Hog Island Oyster Co. has their farm there and have oyster bars in San Francisco and Napa. The spot on the bay is cool. They have a picnic area with grills you can reserve and they also have clams and mussels. We would take our cookware and have quite a spread. This is hog island in the middle of Tomales Bay, a good spot to hike and kayak also.

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If you can't get those get these:whistling::shades:

How to Prepare Rocky Mountain Oysters - YouTube
 
#963
#963
Here's an article about celebs and others wanting to put an end to tipping:

John Stossel: Are looney liberals and smug celebrities about to put an end to tipping?

Thought it was interesting, especially this part:

Every time a minimum is raised, somebody loses something. “In the (San Francisco) Bay Area, you’ve got a 14 percent increase in restaurant closures for each dollar increase in the minimum wage,” says Michael Saltsman of the Employment Policy Institute.

There are always unintended consequences but for those in the restaurant industry what would messing with the current system of $2.15 and hour (or whatever the current rate is) do to the industry?
 
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Boca Vol said:
Here's an article about celebs and others wanting to put an end to tipping:

John Stossel: Are looney liberals and smug celebrities about to put an end to tipping?

Thought it was interesting, especially this part:

Every time a minimum is raised, somebody loses something. “In the (San Francisco) Bay Area, you’ve got a 14 percent increase in restaurant closures for each dollar increase in the minimum wage,” says Michael Saltsman of the Employment Policy Institute.

There are always unintended consequences but for those in the restaurant industry what would messing with the current system of $2.15 and hour (or whatever the current rate is) do to the industry?
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The looney John Stossel aside, I would not want to open a restaurant in San Francisco unless I knew it would be successful while charging prices like these. A number of chefs opened across the Bay in Oakland when SF became nonviable, but now Oakland is expensive as hell.

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DancingOutlaw said:
One of those articles interviewed a guy that opened a restaurant near some tech HQ’s assuming with so many people he’d get a lot of business. He didn’t look into the fact many offer free cafeterias. So now he’s bitching about the lack of traffic. Maybe you should have done your homework?
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Bingo, and what next, ban bringing your own lunch?
 
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bigdaddy said:
San Francisco Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at tech companies — here’s why that’s a good idea, according to a startup cofounder

Dumb
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If I'm being honest I think both perspectives are dumb. Disallowing a cafeteria at a workplace isn't going to boost the economy for local restaurants, they'll just pack their own food and put it in the fridges. At the same time, building a cafeteria to give everyone at a company 3 free meals a day is also crazy. Apparently only in California do you get free food all day at your work.
 
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Coug said:
If I'm being honest I think both perspectives are dumb. Disallowing a cafeteria at a workplace isn't going to boost the economy for local restaurants, they'll just pack their own food and put it in the fridges. At the same time, building a cafeteria to give everyone at a company 3 free meals a day is also crazy. Apparently only in California do you get free food all day at your work.
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It is a perk, and one that should be included as wages for income tax purposes. It almost certainty is not. The major perk that many people get is health insurance. An employee does not have the employers share of the payment included in wages. OTOH, an individual spends after tax money to buy health insurance.
 
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Man's 'cheap and rude' tipping method goes viral

He explained that at the beginning of the meal, he placed five single dollar bills on the table for the server to see. “Don’t say anything to them,” he wrote. “If they mess up, you take a dollar away and so on. At the end of the dinner, however much is left, is their tip.”
 
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