[Aberlour10]

Even hijackers make the holidays, we will be back later..

[gwnn]

yawn

[jjbrr]

Thoughts about root beer? I was craving one last night.

I like A&W.


I also really like cream soda.

[Hanoi5]

I love root beer.

[helene_t]

Since they introduced a free pint of beer with a meal ordered at the pup next to the bridge club, my play has deteriorated

[gwnn]

I really hate root beer. It tastes a little bit like beer but then goes downhill a long long long way.

[Hanoi5]

For the lack of alcohol I guess, but it's great anyway. Maybe not so much in a cold weather, but served cold is great down here in the tropics.

[jjbrr]

really? like beer? you dont have the super sugary syrupy stuff that we have here, perhaps.

it is fabulous with ice cream+whipped cream+cherry.

[jjbrr]

I would like to open a pub here in the states. Pub food is fantastic.

[NickRW]

jjbrr, on Jul 1 2010, 03:01 PM, said:

I would like to open a pub here in the states. Pub food is fantastic.

Yeah - I have a couple of British born, now American aunts that married USAF men. A while back they were over here for a visit and I took them to see my sister - we took them to a pub for lunch - I asked how much to uproot this place and put it back down brick for brick somewhere in America - "you'd make a killing boy" was their general response.

[NickRW]

jjbrr, on Jul 1 2010, 03:01 PM, said:

I would like to open a pub here in the states. Pub food is fantastic.

In fact, if you're serious, I have a son, trained chef - similar sort of age group to you I think - plays reasonable bridge too (possibly not quite to your standard) - and somehow you know how to get hold of some start up capital. Dunno - the idea just came into my head - dunno what he would say. Anyway - there's an idea...

[jjbrr]

Excellent fish and chips are very difficult to find in the states. I would like to see this changed.

[matmat]

Mole + Tequila FTW.

[jjbrr]

NickRW, on Jul 1 2010, 09:35 AM, said:

jjbrr, on Jul 1 2010, 03:01 PM, said:

I would like to open a pub here in the states. Pub food is fantastic.

In fact, if you're serious, I have a son, trained chef - similar sort of age group to you I think - plays reasonable bridge too (possibly not quite to your standard) - and somehow you know how to get hold of some start up capital. Dunno - the idea just came into my head - dunno what he would say. Anyway - there's an idea...

I am serious, but I believe something like that is a few years down the road for me. I still have more school to attend and I don't think I'm ready to commit to living in this city for long enough to grow a dining establishment.

I can say, though, that a microbrewery with a wide selection of homebrews and good food would be an interesting contrast to all the dime-a-dozen, generic, traditional bars popular in Dallas. I think it could be successful.

[NickRW]

jjbrr, on Jul 1 2010, 03:43 PM, said:

I am serious, but I believe something like that is a few years down the road for me. I still have more school to attend and I don't think I'm ready to commit to living in this city for long enough to grow a dining establishment.

OK - you're possibly a wee bit younger than my son then - he just turned 21.

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I can say, though, that a microbrewery with a wide selection of homebrews and good food would be an interesting contrast to all the dime-a-dozen, generic, traditional bars popular in Dallas. I think it could be successful.

I'm sure of it. Pub hours are not that compatible with playing much Bridge is the only downside!

[jjbrr]

NickRW, on Jul 1 2010, 09:56 AM, said:

jjbrr, on Jul 1 2010, 03:43 PM, said:

I am serious, but I believe something like that is a few years down the road for me. I still have more school to attend and I don't think I'm ready to commit to living in this city for long enough to grow a dining establishment.

OK - you're possibly a wee bit younger than my son then - he just turned 21.

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I can say, though, that a microbrewery with a wide selection of homebrews and good food would be an interesting contrast to all the dime-a-dozen, generic, traditional bars popular in Dallas. I think it could be successful.

I'm sure of it. Pub hours are not that compatible with playing much Bridge is the only downside!

I'm 23. I got a degree in business but still plan to get a Masters.

Hopefully the education will put me in a better position to manage a restaurant

[NickRW]

jjbrr, on Jul 1 2010, 04:00 PM, said:

I'm 23. I got a degree in business but still plan to get a Masters.

OK. I see. A question of language... "School" here usually means up to 18.

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Hopefully the education will put me in a better position to manage a restaurant

Certainly make you more employable by a reputable chain - they like paper qualifications - and you'd get some useful experience while doing it - which is no bad thing. But I'm old enough and wise enough to see past paper - you seem to have the purpose - you can't train that - and it is a lot more important.

On the beers thing - if you really want a British theme to your pub - with the likes of fish and chips, and roast beef and potatoes with yorkshire pud and gravy on the menu - guess you'd really need a British theme to the beers you serve too - given the difference I've tasted between American imported beers and the typical beers served here, I think you'd need to come over here and taste some of the stuff we produce - many of them are a lot more bitter than what I think is typical in America. In other words you'd need to do your market research properly... Don't want to either import half a truck load of stuff and your customers don't like it - or brew up something locally that is similar tasting with similar results. But not all British beers are bitter anyway....

Nick

[Hanoi5]

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Hopefully the education will put me in a better position to manage a restaurant wink.gif

Someone hasn't read Rich Father, Poor Father...

[jjbrr]

Hanoi5, on Jul 1 2010, 10:27 AM, said:

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Hopefully the education will put me in a better position to manage a restaurant wink.gif

Someone hasn't read Rich Father, Poor Father...

It's on my bookshelf. I was researching duplexes instead.

The Art of the Deal is also in my queue.

[hrothgar]

jjbrr, on Jul 1 2010, 07:00 PM, said:

I'm 23. I got a degree in business but still plan to get a Masters.

Hopefully the education will put me in a better position to manage a restaurant

90% of all restuarants fail in the first year.
Of the ones that survive, about two thirds fail in the next three years.

My gut says that practical experience in the business is MUCH MUCH MUCH more important than an MBA. You need to understand

How a kitchen really works
Where diswasher's come from
All the myriad ways your suppliers can screw you over
How to handle legions of overstressed, underpaid speed freaks with knives

Abby used to work serious food service and opened a few restuarants.
Her stories are terrifying