"Jack Schidt®" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Tamara Lim" > wrote in message
> news:J20ac.43735$R27.6312@pd7tw2no...
> > I am designing a website for a local restaurant in Edmonton, Alberta. I
am
> > wondering if any of you have come across any exciting restaurant
websites,
> > if so, what was it that caught your eye? What do you look for when you
> surf
> > for a restaurant online?
> >
> >
>
> I look for an online [food] menu, first and foremost, with some brief
> descriptions of each item. That way I can get the feel for what the
> restaurant is all about. Some pictures of the dining area are helpful
too,
> but not nearly as important to me. A wine/beer list would be handy too,
so
> I'm not jonesing for some local microbrew and find out it's all bud light,
> zima and (ugh) corona. Last but not least, I like to see directions AND a
> map.
>
> Jack Patron
>
>

How about a large notice to the effect that noisy kids, smoking, and cell
phones are NOT PERMITTED!!!!


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"Peter Aitken" > wrote in message
...
> "Jack Schidt®" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > "Tamara Lim" > wrote in message
> > news:J20ac.43735$R27.6312@pd7tw2no...
> > > I am designing a website for a local restaurant in Edmonton, Alberta.
I
> am
> > > wondering if any of you have come across any exciting restaurant
> websites,
> > > if so, what was it that caught your eye? What do you look for when you
> > surf
> > > for a restaurant online?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I look for an online [food] menu, first and foremost, with some brief
> > descriptions of each item. That way I can get the feel for what the
> > restaurant is all about. Some pictures of the dining area are helpful
> too,
> > but not nearly as important to me. A wine/beer list would be handy too,
> so
> > I'm not jonesing for some local microbrew and find out it's all bud
light,
> > zima and (ugh) corona. Last but not least, I like to see directions AND
a
> > map.
> >
> > Jack Patron
> >
> >
>
> How about a large notice to the effect that noisy kids, smoking, and cell
> phones are NOT PERMITTED!!!!
>
>

Noisy kids are fun, because you can traumatize them with tales of ghosts and
snakes under their beds, even tell them that they're butt ugly and will
never be loved.

Smoking...well, that's pretty much a given that there's no smoking in
restaurants. Cell phones...hmmm. Amtrak has recently made one car on each
Acela train a 'quiet' car, where cell phones are verboten. Might catch on
in other places too.

Jack Dinerama

"Jack Schidt®" > wrote in message m>...

> Smoking...well, that's pretty much a given that there's no smoking in
> restaurants. Cell phones...hmmm. Amtrak has recently made one car on each
> Acela train a 'quiet' car, where cell phones are verboten. Might catch on
> in other places too.

Sorry to followup like two weeks later, but...

You must live in Heaven, Jack. Here in Michigan we've got a powerful
tourism lobby that keeps buying off the legislature every time anybody
talks about forbidding smoking in restaurants. They've even got a
state law that says local jurisdictions can't forbid smoking in
restaurants.

On the plus side, several Ann Arbor restaurateurs and bar owners
have voluntarily made their establishments non-smoking. I
preferentially give them my business.

Cindy Hamilton

"Cindy hamilton" > wrote in message
om...
> "Jack Schidt®" > wrote in message
m>...
>
> > Smoking...well, that's pretty much a given that there's no smoking in
> > restaurants. Cell phones...hmmm. Amtrak has recently made one car on
each
> > Acela train a 'quiet' car, where cell phones are verboten. Might catch
on
> > in other places too.
>
> Sorry to followup like two weeks later, but...
>
> You must live in Heaven, Jack. Here in Michigan we've got a powerful
> tourism lobby that keeps buying off the legislature every time anybody
> talks about forbidding smoking in restaurants. They've even got a
> state law that says local jurisdictions can't forbid smoking in
> restaurants.
>
> On the plus side, several Ann Arbor restaurateurs and bar owners
> have voluntarily made their establishments non-smoking. I
> preferentially give them my business.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

I prefer non smoking restaurants, but barrooms are smoky places where people
drink, sometimes excessively. If you don't like that, don't go in there.
Stop legislating my life into a coma....

Jack Angst

"Jack Schidt®" wrote:

> I prefer non smoking restaurants, but barrooms are smoky places where people
> drink, sometimes excessively. If you don't like that, don't go in there.
> Stop legislating my life into a coma....

I eat in bars pretty often, used to be all the time ... smokers only
bothered me a couple of times. Even though they were ridiculously
rude, those two people, I wouldn't think to ask them to not smoke.
I'm in a BAR. I know people disagree, but I really feel that if you
hang out in a bar, be prepared for drinking and smoking.

I'm not wild about going out with the crowd on Friday night and
coming home reeking of smoke. But ... I wasn't in a daycare center,
I was in a bar.

nancy

>Dog3 wrote:
>
>"Jack Schidt®" wrote:
>> "Cindy hamilton" wrote:
>>> "Jack Schidt®" >>> > <jack-schidt> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Smoking...well, that's pretty much a given that there's no smoking
>>> > in restaurants.
>>>
>>> Sorry to followup like two weeks later, but...
>>>
>>> You must live in Heaven, Jack. Here in Michigan we've got a powerful
>>> tourism lobby that keeps buying off the legislature every time
>>> anybody talks about forbidding smoking in restaurants. They've even
>>> got a state law that says local jurisdictions can't forbid smoking in
>>> restaurants.

>> I prefer non smoking restaurants, but barrooms are smoky places where
>> people drink, sometimes excessively. If you don't like that, don't go
>> in there. Stop legislating my life into a coma....
>>
>> Jack Angst
>
>I agree. I sill smoke and am trying to kick it.

Then you'll need to exert a bit more effort than typing the words on your
keyboard. Just STOP, now, not later, RIGHT NOW... there really is no other
way... but of course any honest smoker knows that. If you think agonizing over
your next smoke is difficult then you haven't a clue about difficulty until you
agonize over your every breath. Tobacco is not your friend. If you don't stop
right now then you are a far greater asshole than even I can describe... hey,
if you have an oral fixation suck tubesteak.

Really, STOP!

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On 16 Apr 2004 23:11:49 GMT, (PENMART01)
wrote:

> >I agree. I sill smoke and am trying to kick it.
>
> Then you'll need to exert a bit more effort than typing the words on your
> keyboard. Just STOP, now, not later, RIGHT NOW... there really is no other
> way... but of course any honest smoker knows that.

It's usually not that easy. I only know two people who
stopped cold turkey.

> If you think agonizing over
> your next smoke is difficult then you haven't a clue about difficulty until you
> agonize over your every breath. Tobacco is not your friend.

True.

> If you don't stop
> right now then you are a far greater asshole than even I can describe...

I don't second that opinion.
Nicotine is a powerful master.



Practice safe eating - always use condiments

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:18:01 GMT, "Jack Schidt®"
> wrote:

>
> I prefer non smoking restaurants, but barrooms are smoky places where people
> drink, sometimes excessively. If you don't like that, don't go in there.
> Stop legislating my life into a coma....
>
> Jack Angst
>
<sob> Put away the tiny violin and resolve not to be a
slave of the tobacco industry.

Thankfully, bars in my city/area are non smoking, yet they
still do a bang up business. Lack of the "freedom to smoke"
doesn't stop anyone.

The worst experience of my life was being stuck on a fully
booked airplane in the last row of the non-smoking section
with two men in the row behind me smoking cigars. I left
the airplane sick (barfing sick and a migraine). I stayed
sick for over 24 hours due to smoke inhalation.


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sf wrote:

> The worst experience of my life was being stuck on a fully
> booked airplane in the last row of the non-smoking section
> with two men in the row behind me smoking cigars.

That's just friggin ridiculous of them. What jerks.

nancy

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 23:46:07 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

> sf wrote:
>
> > The worst experience of my life was being stuck on a fully
> > booked airplane in the last row of the non-smoking section
> > with two men in the row behind me smoking cigars.
>
> That's just friggin ridiculous of them. What jerks.
>

They were in the "smoking section", I wasn't and that was
the thinking in those days. Thank goodness times have
changed!



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