Posts Tagged ‘resturants’

A great example of what I’m talking about…

Posted: October 14, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff, oddities
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…happened here in town about 20 years ago.

A pal of mine before he re-trained as a systems guy used to work in a French Restaurant that used to be next door to City Hall. (The food wasn’t bad but it wasn’t really my cup of tea).

There is an open air park there now, but at the time there was a very long wide staircase as the restaurant was on the top floor and these were the days before mandatory access laws so that staircase was the way in. People would make their fortunes falling down those stairs and suing the owners insurance.

Finally the owner had enough. He dropped the insurance and put a sign to that effect on the staircase saying that anyone who wanted to sue was welcome to the restaurant if they won.

I’m sure it was a coincidence that those steps, steep though they were, were suddenly navigable by the people who climbed them.

If you want to understand the Zachary Christie case and many others like them, this is what you really need to know.

Resturant Review: Texas Road House

Posted: March 22, 2009 by datechguy in local stuff, personal
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Our family had planned a large combined birthday dinner for my wife and my Aunt (she turns 88 tomorrow) for Thursday but due to various sicknesses in the family we had to reschedule to tomorrow. So instead the 4 of us went to the newly opened Texas Road House in Leominster… (more…)

Eat Drink and be merry for tomorrow is Lent

Posted: February 24, 2009 by datechguy in catholic
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Fat Tuesday is upon us. The last day before Lent begins.

So have a good time and feast, there is a special buffet at the Boarder Bar and Grille today party hearty!

Idiocy on a more local scale

Posted: January 30, 2009 by datechguy in fun, local stuff, opinion/news
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At the same time that the federal government is making a dumb move here in Massachusetts Gov Patrick, (David Axelrod’s dry run for President Obama) is doing it as well on a smaller scale:

The good news is that Deval Patrick has been declared “America’s Best Governor” by the state’s taxpayers and small business owners.

The bad news? That state is New Hampshire.

If you own a convenience store, restaurant or packie north of Massachusetts, you’ve got to have a man crush on Patrick. Just months after packing your store with Bay State smokers saving $20 a carton on cigs, Patrick wants higher state taxes on beer, booze, candy bars and soda, too. Not to mention meals and hotel rooms.

Now Massachusetts is a small state physically. No part of it is more than 40 min from the border of another state, and no part of it is more than 90 minutes from New Hampshire.

But lets say you don’t smoke or drink very little as I do. I’m not likely to take a 20 min drive to save 4 bucks on a fill-up. So instead lets make a day of it:

After Mass we’ll stop at Parker’s Maple Barn (they re-open Feb 11th) and have a big breakfast, maybe pick up a Yankee Candle or a hat at the shop there. Once done we can hit a mall and the wife can do some shopping. My boys are into Comics, games and Doctor Who. There are some really good hobby shops in Nashua, we can catch a movie once we are done or in warmer weather play some mini golf and perhaps we’ll even hit a restaurant before filling up the tank and heading home.

Now instead of just the gas station , coffee shop, the local mall, comic store, movie theater and maybe the restaurant have all lost my business. Multiply this by hundreds and it adds up.

Well they never learn?

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