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Miami Danny

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  1. Business owners complaining about their customers to each other is a fine and long-standing practice. Doing it in public may draw "criticism". Complaining about a lady who wanted an extra bunny just seemed ungenerous to me. [signed] ass
  2. "It's just retail, Jake", was a reference to the movie Chinatown. Where Jack Nicholson wants to fight a new battle with the guy who just crushed him. And his partner makes him understand that he can not win. "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown." My point was that this doesn't seem to be a customer problem. So the customer who bought your 200th bunny only got one instead of two? How was arguing with this lady productive? Retail is a tough game if you are gonna start letting that one a-hole get you down.
  3. So in the end your lady got her three bunnies anyway. You didn't lose any money, and maybe one customer who otherwise would have gotten a bunny got shut out. Doesn't seem worth the big fuss. It's just retail, Jake.
  4. Never mind that, how about most of our food being deviously mislabeled?
  5. Sorry but I could not find this topic anywhere. Could be me. I am confused as to why the Post would publish another of these, "I can't make this dish, I can't cook, but my neighbor who is also not a cook makes great [...] In this case, matzoh balls. While I really liked the photos of the pyramid-shaped matzoh balls, it seems to me that a lot more actually useful information could be had. So once a year you have a holiday where there is a special dish, and you have one line from a pro, Dean Gold, who cooks [matzoh balls] for a living, and some other random amateur dude who is an architect gets all the ink. I can't wait for the big architecture piece in the Post about some chef who makes skyscrapers in the shape of osso buco.
  6. Hey if Achatz doesn't want people taking photos, recording, etc., he should just prohibit it. It's his place, isn't it?
  7. the balls are formed to order...however I'm not sure that that is the dominant factor in the quality of the finished product--i think their balls are too small, giving the falafel a great crunch but not always much flavor...
  8. It seems that WSJ, by firing Sokolov, is actually digging in for a battle with the Times
  9. I have been asked before and no, I have absolutely no affiliation with yelp. It just seems that there is a lot of misinformation out there about yelp, and a sad tendency for people to jump on the bandwagon of trashing yelp. It seems that often people get it in their heads that a particular business is unworthy of their business and they simply can not stop trashing it. I imagine that is what happened with the Buck's review, where the poster went there maybe last year, but didn't post about it until this year. Things change and evolve, but obviously that poster hadn't been back, and the experience was festering in their mind. However, a simple response form the owner, correcting the facts, would probably go a long way to reach out to customers and potential customers. I have seen restaurant owners who are members here doing that very thing. I happen to think that the yelp community is an extremely important customer base, and a great way to interact with your customers, for free. It has always worked wonders for me.
  10. I am listed as an owner of a business and there is no picture of me. Again, I think a lot of the "problems" business owners have are based on inability to use or understand the site.
  11. The owner comment feature has been up for at least six months-I don't know anything about the motivation. The rest of what you post happens everywhere on the internet, not just yelp. Maybe you should take another look.
  12. Yelp has several ways for the user to list reviews-yelp sort/date/rating/elite...if you go by date you will see a different review at the top. Additionally, as the owner, you can respond directly to any review by clicking on 'add owner comment' on the lower right-hand corner of the review. I suggest you reply to the post and add the correct information-then users will understand that that particular review is inaccurate. As someone who has used yelp to help promote a business (I have never paid for an ad nor have I ever even been contacted by yelp sales staff), I have found that business owners who know how to use yelp can benefit tremendously from it. And it doesn't cost you anything.
  13. Innocent until proven guilty? 15 million plus users and a handful of poorly reviewed businesses decide to sue. Sounds more like sour grapes to me. I suppose City Paper doesn't press for advertising dollars from its endlessly promoted 'best of the year' issue? I suppose none of these businesses have ever been reviewed or publicized by publications that also have paid advertising? I don't see how that's any different.
  14. It's okay if he "sells out", everyone does. Anyway, "just business'" and "selling out" are really the same thing. Sponsorship, product placement, personal fees-what's the difference? Let the man get paid.
  15. Pickle juice as in Irish Whiskey with a pickle juice back here and here
  16. Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman---plenty of techniques and recipes to fire your imagination...
  17. I love the fact that at Dino they sell a quartino of pretty good red for $8. Especially when it seems that wine pours have gotten smaller recently. Decent amount of very good cheese for $4, and the duck scrapple is completely not what I thought it was going to be, but was, incredibly, scrapple. The owner seemed relaxed and the place maintains a really nice energy.
  18. What I said was "...outlived their usefulness as print critics." Getting fired is usually the first step.
  19. (There is a correction online for several Jain-related errors)
  20. The guy's in China and a sign says 'dog meat' and he doesn't mention it? Did it come up elsewhere in the show? That seems like a pretty weird production lapse, no?
  21. I believe you misread the piece-Ozersky talks about Sokolov's extensive culinary background, and compliments Tom on his as well. But that doesn't mean that Sokolov, as well as others, haven't outlived their usefulness as print critics.
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