OCCOM FOOLISHNESS Strikes again! New Restaurant opening soon

More pics of the bridge to be found ..... HERE.

There's a bunch of them. Apparently; Brooklyn and I weren't the only ones taken in by it. Too strange.

I read that twice and still didn't get it. From your previous post, with the pictures, you had said you had stood on that bridge over the past couple of days. I smiled and thought to myself how cool is that!

Wasn't until the above post that it sunk in. That bridge is in Cedarburg
Duh! I guess it was the hectic start to my day (Mondays are usually that way) ... and my brain wasn't onboard my body yet.

That bridge is in Cedarburg *HUGE smile*

I can't believe how small the world is sometimes - yet nearly neverending in it's vastness. How bizarre is that! It does make you wonder.. :wink:

I just might have to take a trip to Cedarburg and stand on that bridge again. Close my eyes - take a deep breath - and smile.....at the probably still familiar scent of it's surroundings. Then walk up one side - then down the other...peering over the edge to look down into the water below - much the same as I did when I was a child.

Only this time .....

When I walked off the bridge - I would cross the road and turn left. Go a couple of blocks in search of this giant hug - wondering what it would feel like - and returning the same.





PS - Tico...thank you. :wink:

I'm sure giant hugs will be easy for you to find, darling, particularly in Cedarburg. I'm very much looking forward to it. :wink:

OB
OB, have you considered making the exterior area more accessible during the winter? I would be interested to learn how a grid of hot water piping could be installed under whatever ground surface material you use to melt the snow in the entrance and even the rear area. That would save a lot of back-breaking work shoveling snow and also make it safer for customers. It would also give your suppliers easier access to the building during the winter.

Just curious.

BBB

Interesting idea, BBB but we'll have to see how we do this summer. There is NOTHING in the budget for that kind improvement right now.

So I'm trying to come up with a Logo, letterhead, and a sign for the Front Yard that says "The Cedarburg Bistro"... and I figure why not include the basic lines of the building? Any ideas?

I tried playing with a Photoshop program... and I kind of like the embossed look... but I don't really know how to make it work. Is it possible to just pull the most basic lines out of a photo to make a logo?

Occom: I would take the embossed photo and trace it onto the top left-corner of the letterhead and to the right of the image place the words "The Cedarburg Bistro" in an attractive font.

I like the embossed look too, but I'd take more photos to do it with, getting the building straight up, and so on. I also like the tree branches showing clearly, not leafed out yet... it adds to the "drawing" look of the logo.

Hola all. It's official. I'm nuts. We jumped ahead and took possession on April 1st and I've been running like an idiot since. That first Friday, Saturday and the following week were pretty slow sales-wise compared to historical data and made us a little nervous. Yesterday was the biggest day since last summer and tonight we were only $500 away from repeating the feat. My partner, the Chef is the bomb. He's already mastered the existing menu, improved the presentation (taste was already delicious), streamlined the preparation process while cutting the kitchen staff almost in half... all while cutting some costs and he's just getting started. I'm not doing as well. My front of the house staff is carrying me... and doing a fine job of it too. I've learned how to tend bar but WOW can you ever get hit hard on the service end on a Friday or Saturday Night! I hope my AD in tomorrow's paper brings me a real bartender... though hosting isn't as easy as it looks either. Finding and fixing credit card errors is a super pain for a rookie too... and I've got till Friday to figure out my payroll software. Other than some landscaping, carpentry, AC repair and about a zillion other things, it's gone pretty smooth. If you're not nuts and would like to be; do this.
Brooklyn- I need a hostess on Friday... bad!

WOW!

Talk about a sharp learning curve!

Congratulations!

OB
OB, I see the fun has already started without us.

Congrats!

BBB

OB
Hey, OB, did you hear about this?

BBB

MADISON - A tiny speck of zircon crystal that is barely visible to the eye is believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old.

For the first time ever, the public will have a chance to see the particle today at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where researchers in 2001 made the breakthrough discovery that the early Earth was much cooler than previously believed based on analysis of the crystal.

To create buzz about an otherwise arcane subject, the university is planning a daylong celebration of the ancient stone - capped with "The Rock Concert" by jazz musicians who composed music to try to answer the question: What does 4.4 billion years old sound like?

With the aid of a microscope, anyone will be able to check out the tiny grain, which measures less than two human hairs in diameter.

As part of Saturday's event, Valley will display a brand new, $3 million ion microprobe that he and other researchers will use to analyze tiny samples such as the zircon crystal. The hand-built instrument weighs 11 tons and takes up an entire laboratory.

Valley, who has tried to obtain the equipment for 22 years, had to travel to Scotland and Australia while he analyzed the zircon to use equipment there. A federal grant is paying for most of the new instrument.

After the festivities the object will return to its native Australia with Simon Wilde, professor at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia, who made its discovery in 1984. The sample will eventually be put on display at a natural history museum in that country.

Careful now .... that's a temptation I might find hard to resist. :wink: And once there, I may never want to leave. Especially if I get to go stand on "my bridge." not to mention getting a hug from those sweet arms of yours. :wink:

It sounds to me like you have made alot of headway in the past 9 days! It's easy to see that you are definitely going to not only make this work - but also turn it into something even bigger than the previous owners.

Lots to learn, yes ....... but you are doing that, and in no time at all, you will have it mastered. Though, I am sure that you will always be trying to find ways to improve things.

I had to chuckle about the service end of bartending on Fri and Sat nights. I had a good taste of that when I was in college. I worked in a restaurant as my first job in college, because I was only 17. The tips were good but after my first year, I got a job bartending and the tips were......omg I had two bartending jobs total. The first one was in a small bar close to campus. There was this guy that would come in nightly and sit there chain smoking and blowing smoke rings all night long. When I would walk from one end of the bar to the other, I would have to walk though this cloud of smoke. Eventually I left that one and went to another bar that was bigger and classier. Tips were good at the first one .... but DOUBLED at the second one. And that's pretty much how I put myself through college. That and scholorships - grants and student loans. (Still paying the student loans)

I dug up a couple of pics of me during my bartending days. The first one is at the small bar off campus. It shows the endless cloud of smoke from my chain smoker customer. The second one is from the bigger club that I worked at.


Anyhow - your post brought back a few memories. I am a "people" person which is probably what I loved the most about the jobs I worked at during college. I was lucky enough to always find employers willing to train me and I was a fast learner, so that helped. But in the beginning I had NO experience at bartending. It was a hoot!

And I think you are going to do sooooooooooo awesome at your new venture. Don't let it overwelm you, sweetheart. In no time at all you will be a pro. :wink:

*edited to remove pics :wink: *

BM.
out for lunch, ya making me hungry, dude!

(((((HUGS)))))

Congrats, Bill. If anyone could "make it", you can. Will you still talk to us when you are a millionaire????

Welld one and Good Luck.
Do we all get a free meal?

It looks like you're in it up to your eyeballs, Bill. Good luck for now, it will get easier as it goes forward.

Good luck, Bill!!

What's the menu like?

Oh and congrats and best wishes OBill. I am hoping you do very well.

As for you and our girl, Brooke, I think you two should just put us all out of our misery ... and merge! [tee hee]