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Any of it. I am clueless about the restaurant industry and you are my primary expert on the same. Is the "give 'em stuff and lure them back for a third time" a more financially valid strategy than straight advertising? Are the statistics he cites solid or simply convenient for the purposes of his contention?
 
With the family getting bigger, all 35 of us only get together once every 6-8 weeks, but individual families of my sibs always include me, my mom and my unmarried brother in every gathering! So, in the past month the three of us were invited to one brother's party, one sister's party, and tomorrow we are celebrating my oldest sister's birthday with her family. (three February birthdays!)

We're going to Sala 61, which is a "games restaurant"

Games, Sports, Fun | Niagara's Lounge, Restaurant and Bar

Discover Sala Sixty One — Niagara’s go-to spot for pizza, drinks, and play. With games like cornhole, weekly events, and a lively patio, it’s where good times roll. Open to the public!
sala61.ca

I am going to have the Manzo pizza

 
Rigor Mortis said:
definitely some Irish in that background...
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Not on my side, but my sisters all married at-least-in-part Celts.

Two of my nieces did Irish dancing from the age of 4, and advanced pretty high up in the competitive world by their teens.

Here's one of my nieces at the age of 16 when we were visiting Stirling Castle in Scotland

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Rigor Mortis said:
My nephew and his wife welcomed a brand new Canadian citizen a few days ago.
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Congratulations! Great place to be born.
 
That is quite a leap. Irish dancing, done well, can be spectacular. Done poorly, I'm not sure there's anything more ridiculous.

My eldest brother has two Canadian kids. My eldest sister's son lives in Toronto with his Canadian partner and baby and now another sister's son, also in Toronto, has a baby boy with his Canadian wife. I very much liked Canada when we were there, bro's parents-in-law were amongst the coolest people I've met and his aunt-in-law (?) and her partner were the nicest house guests my wife and I ever had. Quite a few of us have had happy expeditions in your fair country, some settling down with deep roots.
 
Years ago, when our daughter was about 10 years old, we went to a show featuring Irish dancing by a bunch of her 10-year-old friends. Her closest friend, god love her, had early growth spurts and was at least twice the size of the rest of the troupe. Not kidding, the others caught up but at this time she was twice as tall and looked like Gulliver amongst the Lilliputans. None of them were particularly talented Irish dancers, very heavy footfall and the friend, stomping at the rear of the group as it traipsed across the stage, looked like she was trying to catch and eat her comrades. It was one of the funniest shows I've ever witnessed, with the girl's poor mother sat beside us doing her best to contain herself, but failing as much as we did.
 
CatrionaGrace said:
Any of it. I am clueless about the restaurant industry and you are my primary expert on the same. Is the "give 'em stuff and lure them back for a third time" a more financially valid strategy than straight advertising? Are the statistics he cites solid or simply convenient for the purposes of his contention?
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Oh yeah, that's 100% how it's done. The stats need context. I live in the most competitive restaurant city in the country, so there are more options. But if you live in area of the country where there's only five restaurants in reasonable driving distance, obviously you have a better shot of retaining business. I have no idea where those numbers come from, though. It would be impossible to verify. I used to have seven restaurants so I had a pretty good data set and could infer from my world what the bigger picture was to some degree of accuracy. I think after I had my second year of data I was able to nail the sales projections to within half a percent. There was one week where I projected something like $324,874 and we hit at $324,812. I know the first four numbers were correct. That's just luck, but I got good at predicting what one store would do based on what the other six were doing.

The last thing I did before I left was project 2026 and handed it off with dire warnings that sales were going to plummet to levels they'd never seen before. According to one of my guys, it's been worse that that so far. And then was before the worst winter in a generation wiped out the month of February.
 
Louanne Learning said:
With the family getting bigger, all 35 of us only get together once every 6-8 weeks, but individual families of my sibs always include me, my mom and my unmarried brother in every gathering! So, in the past month the three of us were invited to one brother's party, one sister's party, and tomorrow we are celebrating my oldest sister's birthday with her family. (three February birthdays!)

We're going to Sala 61, which is a "games restaurant"

Games, Sports, Fun | Niagara's Lounge, Restaurant and Bar

Discover Sala Sixty One — Niagara’s go-to spot for pizza, drinks, and play. With games like cornhole, weekly events, and a lively patio, it’s where good times roll. Open to the public!
sala61.ca

I am going to have the Manzo pizza

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$5 if anyone know what a "tuile" is without googling it.

Wings are pretty cheap ($11 US) but you're next to Buffalo who invented them, so the distribution is probably competitive. Are you closer to Buffalo or Toronto, Louanne?
 
Homer Potvin said:
what a "tuile"
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I have no idea.

Homer Potvin said:
Are you closer to Buffalo or Toronto, Louanne?
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Buffalo. It's about a 35-40 minute drive from here. Toronto is at least an hour - if you hit the right time of day. Otherwise, the traffic will get you, and it can take up to 2 hours. But I only live about 15 minutes from the border, crossing over into Lewiston.

I grew up "going over the river" - in our teens and twenties we regularly went over the river to drink. And get wings. Niagara Falls, NY had a big bar scene back in the 1980s. As kids, every summer, we visited Buffalo Zoo, and for school trips, too. Going shopping over the river was always common, too, but that particular activity has tapered off in the recent political climate.
 
Louanne Learning said:
I have no idea.
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From DuckDuckGo: "A tuile is a delicate, crisp French wafer cookie or biscuit, renowned for its thin, buttery texture and often curved shape, which resembles the roof tiles ("tuile" is French for "tile") of provincial French homes. They are a versatile, popular garnish in both traditional and fine dining, used to add texture to desserts, ice creams, and savory dishes."

Homer Potvin said:
$5 if anyone know what a "tuile" is without googling it.
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I'll forgo my five bucks, even though I didn't google "tuile". ;)
 
Goodness. That's a lot of family. I'd have to include long-lost and once-removed cousins to come up with that number. My immediate family couldn't put together a decent baseball team unless we include the toddlers and our unborn granddaughter.
 
Rath Darkblade said:
From DuckDuckGo: "A tuile is a delicate, crisp French wafer cookie or biscuit, renowned for its thin, buttery texture and often curved shape, which resembles the roof tiles ("tuile" is French for "tile") of provincial French homes. They are a versatile, popular garnish in both traditional and fine dining, used to add texture to desserts, ice creams, and savory dishes."



I'll forgo my five bucks, even though I didn't google "tuile". ;)
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I think it was the penne vodka that had the parmesan tuile at Louanne's restaurant. It also had pancetta, which I've never seen in a vodka sauce before. Nothing wrong with that, but from the menus she's shared, I feel like the Canadians found an Italian cookbook with a broken spine and put the pages back together in a random order. The Osso Buco over pasta is weird too. Again, nothing wrong with it, but I almost always see it over risotto or polenta. Very northern Italian with the German influence. Not unprecedented or anything... but page 17 instead of page 3.
 
Osso Buco was in one of my crossword puzzles this week.

It's strange when one comes across an unfamiliar term only to have it immediately pop up somewhere else.
 
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