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DalTxHornFan

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  1. 1 hour ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Yeah but it ain’t a complete parking lot yet, barely.

    Don’t forget Wally’s!

    Of course, Wally's was just the Dairy Queen back in my early Fine Trojan days.  We had a friend that worked there who convinced us to never order one of those frosty's!  Made of pretty nasty stuff.

  2. 23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    We live near Conan’s, and it’s a fave. As is Top Notch.
    I dig our green belts, we live on one now. Hike it, hunt for fossils and arrowheads, listen to the water running.
    The Little Longhorn has changed, but it’s still a damned fine beer joint.
    The Asian food scene in this town has EXPLODED since we moved here 35 years ago, lots of great places now.
    Taco trailers on N. Lamar. And my old school barber shop, Bob’s, is up there too.

    There’s plenty to love in this town. Still…it ain’t paradise.

    Top Notch and Conan's are still haunts that I go to with my now ancient HS friends.  Go Trojans!

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

    Buda EDC offered several hundred thousand in incentives (I've seen $288-512k) for Valentina's to open in that big building.  That sounds like a bunch of money until its not.  I doubt Valentina's made all of the metrics to get all of the incentives.  I wouldn't be surprised if Valentina's hired and staffed more employees than were required just to try to make the requirements. 

    I have a hunch that you are on to something there.  Crazy that Buda EDC did that when there is already a pretty vibrant food and drink culture on Main Street.

  4. I have some pretty close ties to a restaurant that for years only did 5-10 pm service 7 days a week.  Then their demographics changed and they decided to add lunch service M-F and do full service 11-10 on Saturday and Sunday.  It really changed their operations a bunch.  Additional managers and employees.  Not always easy to find people that can wave the flag as well the originals.

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  5. 26 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said:

    Long overdue.

    The new place was a disaster nearly from the get-go, and whoever was running it nearly destroyed that brand. They certainly harmed its reputation.

    I was rooting for it living in the area and having known the food truck well for years. But the food and service here was routinely slower even than the food truck, or absurdly late (like 1 hour for two tacos in our experience) or never available -- that's not unusual for BBQ but if you have a big brick and mortar open 6 days a week you need to figure that out.

    Staff looked confused or idle or disinterested a lot.

    And old man thoughts, but the music was way too loud. Had to yell to have a conversation. 

    Hope they turn it around.

    I drank free bourbon there one afternoon because they were short-staffed and didn't have anyone capable of operating the POS system.  Not that I am complaining about that afternoon!

  6. 20 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Yeah, I'm too old for XXX.  I'm XX all the way.

    This reminds me, I need dinner.

    One of my frat brothers came in for a football game and ordered the habanero chili.  It was a near-death experience.

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  7. 5 hours ago, C-Man said:

    Good luck! Downtown still seems pretty sleepy to me but I'm only down there one or two days per week these days.

    Don't forget that After Irth is moving from Lufkin!  Downtown Dallas will seem absolutely buzzy in comparison.

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  8. 9 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    imagine that your direct supervisor at your job tells you that you and one of your coworkers are going to be competing for a promotion, and that the winner of said promotion would be whoever made the most sales. 

    you continue to come into work every single day with your head down, consistently doing your job and making sales. meanwhile, your coworker has stopped coming into work altogether, other than to take his morning dump and steal the newspaper on his way back out the door. your direct supervisor is now repeatedly reprimanding your coworker for this frankly unbelievable behavior while you continue to do your job every day making sales.

    they day of the promotion comes, you are excited to receive the promotion, when suddenly, your boss’s boss- a man who has gone out of his way to be a total POS to you on multiple occasions, a man who wears his personal hatred of you with pride- shows up and says, “your coworker is getting the promotion, and i have some new rules for you to follow, and if you don’t follow these new rules you’re fired.” are you seriously trying to tell me that you would just take all of this stride, shrug your shoulders, and accept it as if it was just some totally reasonable and simple request? i don’t think so. not even a little bit.

    It could have been a lot worse.

     

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