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A Place of one's own

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No, but I know people who did

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yes I owned my own place

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yes I thought about it, but I never did it

53% (15)

no but now that you meantion it...

10% (3)

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A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 12:20:55 PM

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Did you ever toy with or actually own a restaurant or bar? Has it been a dream of yours? What were you/ did you name it?
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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 12:26:55 PM

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I've thought about this but I'm not really a people person so it would fail. I'd call it "Empty bar type restaurant thing that we forgot to print flyers for so nobody knows about it."

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 12:29:37 PM

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When I was in college I thought it would be fun to own a bar called the Laboratory. I used to think of ways I could make it fun: serve drinks in beakers and flasks with dry ice, have distilling columns all behind the bar, use some simple science tricks to make fun drinks, etc. I never did it, but I used to think about it when I was stressed about my job, or when I just needed to NOT think about the pressures of my job. I think I held onto the idea because it was a place I would be in control (oh let's not go there Dr. Freud!).
I still think it would be fun, although the idea of staying up late to own a bar just ............wouldn't do.
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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 12:42:42 PM

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ive always wanted to own and manage a strip club, but then ive always a soft place in my heart for strippers,,lost track of the young ladies ive put through dental hygenist school or how many young unwed mothers ive supported

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 12:44:41 PM

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Yes, in my previous life.

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 12:48:42 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: intenze

When I was in college I thought it would be fun to own a bar called the Laboratory. I used to think of ways I could make it fun: serve drinks in beakers and flasks with dry ice, have distilling columns all behind the bar, use some simple science tricks to make fun drinks, etc. I never did it, but I used to think about it when I was stressed about my job, or when I just needed to NOT think about the pressures of my job. I think I held onto the idea because it was a place I would be in control (oh let's not go there Dr. Freud!).
I still think it would be fun, although the idea of staying up late to own a bar just ............wouldn't do.
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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 12:51:47 PM

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When I was living in Warsaw, Poland I thought about starting up a language school called 'Penny Lane' and having a cafe bar called 'Carnaby Street' both retro 1960's style with original furnishings, decor, music and simple, cheap Anglo-Polish cuisine and dishes together with drinks and stuff.

The music would have been exclusively 1960's - the Beatles, Kinks, Animals, Searchers, Hollies, Loving Spoonful, Mamas and Papas, Elvis, Dave Clark Five, Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich, the Shadows, and so on.

You would have been able to have tea, coffee, beer, wine, together with pancakes with a wide selection of sweet and savoury fillings, sandwiches, pierogi, dumplings, steak and kidney pies, chips, apple pie, and though it was aimed mainly at Anglophiles we were confident about establishing a good client base.

My partner was opening a pizza delivery business at the time which took off and he ended up not having the time or the resources to expand into this idea.

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 1:03:50 PM

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I spent 20 years working as a cook in countless restaurants over the years and lost track of how many times I thought about owning and operating my own eatery. When I started doing serious research into it plus figuring out the initial financial outlay and start up costs; that's when I realized two things. One, I could never do it without going into deep debt and secondly; I'd be taking on too much responsibility by myself. Maybe if I found people who shared my dream I'd seriously consider going into partnership on a restaurant. In the meantime, I will continue being a small business owner by myself.

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 1:07:19 PM

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See? The possibilities are endless!!!
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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 2:37:37 PM

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I was a Barista in the Bohemian area of Las Vegas. I worked at Cafe's a Plenty. From Cafe Copioh where I started before it was fire bombed to, Espresso Roma before it closed it's doors to, Cafe Enigma and Lynnadams Famous Vegitarian Chili, to the more corporate Jitters.

I LOVE Coffee and am very much a coffee snob.

I always wanted to own/run my own Cafe. I always wanted to call it "Elsewhere" the idea is when someone says why don't you guys go elsewhere, they would actually have a place to go.

I loved to invent my own drinks and practiced for professional cuppings, hell when Jitters sent me to the first Professional one I was allowed to practice all week and gave away nearly 300 drinks because I needed the practice The owner of the chain was a good man and really liked that my love was for coffee and not for money or corporate advancement.

Saddly Vegas lost the Bohemian Style Cafe Scene in the late 90's and by 2002 only the Trendy Starbucks remained, and to this day I have never been able to get a decent breve from any of them. Always end up with the taste of burned walnuts and some jack ass saying that they milk was steamed to the right temp to which I inform the idiot that cream keeps heating after you steam it because of how dense it is and then the manager pulls out their little training guide and shows me the "Starbucks" way and I leave with a horribly burned cup of Ass Juice.

If you can't tell I hate Starbucks. Friends don't let friends drink Starbucks.

Anyway maybe one day I will be able to make it happen again but with smoking being an impossible activity inside a building just about anywhere MY KINDA PEOPLE are just too few and far inbetween to actually make a cafe like that work ever again.

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 3:00:07 PM

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What is a professional cupping? Why does this sound kinky to me? Well hell, everything sounds kinky to me.
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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 4:17:15 PM

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intenze - I have had a drink similar to what you were speaking of in Spokane many years ago .... it was called a Giggling Blue Marlin and was served with dry ice. It was awesome.

My other half has a dream of owning a teacher's bar. We are both fabulous in the kitchen (at least that's what we tell each other) and over the many years have tested out a good portion of the menu.

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 4:30:12 PM

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No, but I thought about tending bar. I thought that would be a lot of fun!

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 4:49:31 PM

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a teachers bar? all the teachers I know (including me) would love that as long as no students allowed!!!!! LOL
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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 4:59:30 PM

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quote:

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What is a professional cupping? Why does this sound kinky to me? Well hell, everything sounds kinky to me.
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It is where Barista's from around the world prepare and serve drinks and are judged . Think the Olympics if all that was done was the preparing of drinks with extra points awarded to difficulty and proper proportions and an easy way to fail is to burn the milk.

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/5/2009 6:35:10 PM

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Steel, im with you brother,,,Starbucks shouldnt be allowed by law to call the shit they serve 'coffee'

give me D and D, or 7-11,,or my home brewed folgers dark roast with 1/2 and 1/2

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/6/2009 8:28:23 AM

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French Market coffee and chickory, City Blend. So thick you can stand a spoon in it. Half a cup of steamed cream or soysilk and half a cup of the tar.

Starbucks SUCKS!!

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/6/2009 10:20:45 AM

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LOL I just get upset when people order a "Why Bother?"

Decaf Latte w/ Non-Fat Milk

What is the point in drinking it when you get it with nothing in it?

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/6/2009 10:58:15 AM

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I always wondered about running a kinky brothel that had a nice bar in it.

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RE: A Place of one's own - 4/6/2009 11:06:55 AM

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Alcohol and Sex are RARELY a good mix. After the second or third girl gets attacked because the guy thinks he should get more for his money the Sex and Alcohol idea seems less attractive.

Take it from me there was a reason I only worked at Totally Nude Clubs, There was No Alcohol allowed so it was easy to see the guys who were Plowed and keep and eye on them as well as watch guys drink coffee and get themselves sober to the Full Monty's all Female Review.

Also you wouldn't want the Girls to be Drunk all the time. Alcoholism is common among Sex workers in Nevada which is why many Cat Houses require the girls to agree to not drink while on the property or if they are requested too drink with thier "Date" that they make sure they get watered down drinks.

The Chicken Ranch and Mustang Ranch both have Bars because many of the men who go drink but both of them have rules about the girls drinking. Also Believe it or not although there is a Lot of money in the Legal Sex Trade there is also a LOT of rules...... MANY MANY MANY Rules.

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