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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from shandrew]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Your ideas sound great! I'll try to visit next time i'm around the East Bay.

My main suggestion would be to target either &quot;special occasion&quot; or a &quot;frequent diner&quot; crowds. Looking at the menu offerings, the food seems too pricey for the &quot;frequent diner&quot; crowd--A $15 (!) burger means that someone is paying $22 for a simple lunch of burger, fries, and drink. On the other hand, the food is not fancy or unique enough to be a special occasion restaurant. The only demographic that i think it fits well is the expense-account crowd.

[Ok, macallan 18 for $15? That's a deal!]
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from ccdesan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott, a number of thoughts - first, no fresh news that you think out of the box. I'd love to visit your place, the picture of that seared tuna is enough to make me want to fly out just for lunch.

It seems to be a bad time for most businesses, not just restaurants.  Airlines certainly aren't hiring, the real estate market - at least for realtors - is in the toilet, and most corporations continue to try to find ways of !$%*!$%* the people who keep them in business - their employees and their customers.  So it's most refreshing when someone walks the walk in terms of creating a business where everyone wins, instead of just talking a good story.

On your photo gallery for Stacey's at Waterford, images 8, 11 and 12 have not been properly scaled, they are huge - which although interesting in some way, tends to detract from the browsing  experience.  Perhaps it's on purpose, but I thought I'd mention it in case someone cared.

Good luck, you certainly deserve your enterprises to succeed.  If ever I'm out your way, you can be sure I'll come by for some of that tuna...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from noncomposmentis]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Your new ideas are very creative, Scott. I am sure your business will just keep getting better!

Anyway, in my country there is this cafe franchise that stocks up a wide variety of board games/card games in all its branches, with assistants to teach you how to play different games. Customers just stream in and spend hours sitting down and having fun. There was once when I even spent 10 hours with my friends there! We ended up being the Power Gamers of the month, and we got to pick a free gift. Business is remarkably good at all its branches.

The Networking Lunch and the iPod DJ concepts are brilliant - I'd certainly go for that if not for the fact that I'd have to travel 20 hours on a plane.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from padfoot]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I went to your restaurant all the way from San Jose only to find it closed on Labour day. Restaurants shouldn't be closed on labour day dude...

Had a great meal at Little MadFish instead. At least they ARE open.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from gozar]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott... I just took a look at the Waterford location menu - DON'T LET THEM USE COMIC SANS! UGH UGH UGH. Nothing says, &quot;RANK AMATEUR&quot; like Comic Sans. It is so bad that there is a web site devoted to its eradication: www.bancomicsans.com.

I could forgive my grandma for opening her copy of Microsoft Works and using it on a birthday card, but that's it. Well, I'd let your grandma slide on it too. 

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from alnewberry]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[While the whole idea makes me cringe (very introverted), the networking lunch idea is brilliant.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from SamThornton]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Extra credit idea: Topless Tuesdays.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from relbourn]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ps Dont tell people when you are around the bar! it will get weird. 
pps also liked the witty little comments on the menu too made me quietly chuckle

Rob]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from relbourn]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi, 

You said &quot;What have I missed?&quot; wellll  I would say &quot;appearance on Sat Nav&quot;.  While passing through the area on holiday from the UK (which was the best holiday I have had so far!) I was aiming for your restaurant in Dublin, the problem is although I had an area code, I seemed to forget getting the actual address (ok dumb on my part). 
Anyway the Sat Nav took us to the zip code area which was some random residential area.  Anyway so we looked for &quot;Local Attractions etc..&quot; and found your Pleasantown address and decided to go safe and go for that one (since its our first time in the US! and we were going to Yosemite).  

Anyway so in a few years I am sure it will be on all Sat Navs! So that should help! 

Also I really only came to your restaurant (from the UK) to get me a signed Dilbert doll, the Menu was a bonus and I loved the deep fried octopi things and my wife liked your pasta salad!  The Dilbert presence was minimal and I figured it might have been you and your wife drawn on the wall but wasn't too sure! (well fairly).  The bread with garlic butter was awesome though and the service very good! As it happend you ran out of the little dilberts so I had to get the larger one!  

Anyway I said that to say this! This was one restaurant in a large row of restaurants.  Whats your unique selling point? whats your unique draw? Well the menu is one thing but none of the other restaurants are owned (part or otherwise) by yourself.  so I think you should dilbertize it! That is your unique selling point. People will come just because of dilbert and perhaps not so much the food.  But there is nothing wrong with that!!! Its a business for making money and not a hobby to lure people by the quality of the food like some kind of restaurant pseudonym so you can get famous all over again like Richard Bachmann. (Stephen King). 

I am from the UK, and recently had the best holiday of my life in California!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Merlisk]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On the Stacey's Waterfront site, there's a Photo Gallery.  One of the shots is of this really nice tomato and leafy dish.  However, it's sitting on an ugly, dirty-looking metal countertop.

You may not want that as a photo of where the food is being prepared.  ;)]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Mackinator]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If I may revel in pedantry for a moment,

&quot;We can even run an embarrassing loop of old photos on our big screen TV&quot;.

I'm figuring it's the photos that are embarassing rather than the way you display them, but what i'm really interested in is whether so many pedants have contacted you about this that you've binned the lot, or whether none of your readers picked up on it (or felt the need to bring it up). I'm guessing it's the former....

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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Walter Guest]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here's the best advice you could get: Make sure the chef can do a good job with every item on the menu.  I hate to see a 20 page menu because I know there must be some items that won't be very good.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from rajeev]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Very innovative....truely enterprising.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Carpe Geekem]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Your menu has a bizarrely high % of dishes with pesto or chipotle; a person (like me) who dislikes those things would have a hard time finding anything to eat at your restaurant...  in fact, once you eliminate everything that's too weird for me to consume, or that has enough fat to cause spontaneous cardiac arrest, there's literally NOTHING on that menu that I could eat.

How about adding a few dishes for non-adventurous eaters?  Remember, when a group of people is deciding where to eat, all it takes is ONE person who doesn't like foo-foo food to veto the idea of eating at your place...  and you just lost the profit from 6 dinners (or however many), plus possible repeat business from those who would've liked your food if they'd eaten it.
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from seasoup]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You could borrow something from the bookstores and do a &quot;What we're eating&quot; section that lists people that works there's favorite foods.  People would probably be especially interested in knowing what you would order, Scott.  Though based on your vegetarian burrito product, Dilberito, not me ;P]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Reluctant Blogger]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just saw the comment on Free Wi-Fi - okay, I'm hooked.  When I get my iPod Touch soon, I'll be roaming through there again.  :-)

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<description><![CDATA[We'll have to wander through there sometime... but I know something that would get more people going to Stacy's - if you got the word out when you'd be hanging around the bar.  It would pack me in and some hungry friends, too!

I love Stacy's and recommend it to anyone in the neighborhood!

deb]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from Muppet]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[With the current economic situation, eating out is about all we can afford to do anymore, so I treasure the night off from cooking. Living in Germany, I won't be in for a visit anytime soon though but I do have family in the area, so someday.
Anyway, when we go out to eat, I like to eat with the adults...please separate the high chair sitting screamers into another room with their parents that aren't shell shocked everytime they open their mouth or bang the table top with their gooey fists. Nothing ruins an appetite more than having an adult coo when their baby starts screaming (even happily) in my ear while I'm trying to eat on my night out!
Thank you. Carry on please.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from AvionicZ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WIFI- Free WIFI.  Not that crap that takes over Iphone or Web Browser with a Pay by Use Homepage before you surf.  Free Internet keeps me coming back to places like Panera.
NTN Trivia is cool and you probably missed the Fantasy Football Draft Party Bus- but they are finishing up before the 3rd if you hurry.

Hope these garner you some cash.

[We do have free WiFi now. I forgot to mention that. -- Scott]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comment  from gargamel9]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WOh!
I dont know if the bussiness is going well of not, but I just checked the restaurant's website and it looks like a great place, wish I could go there sometime! 

It amazes me how many things did you thought to implement there. My father own's a restaurant thats a bit over your price but anyway I think most of the same things apply. I know a bit about the bussiness from hearing him. it reminds me of the things I read in your blog when he talks about his place. 

The trick for him was to get a great cheef and to have a bacth of fixed costumers from bussiness, a local radio and the townhall which luckily for him happen to be door to door, and of course the docen of drunks that come out of the navy's ministry which is also next door(here in spain drinks ofer the real margin, food is only a excuse so people drink, drinks and tobacco are the things that give money to restaurants in my country at least).  But I agree with you that the most important thing is that people fell confortable in it, more than anything else, after all women decide where they want to be taken in the end, and they really dig that short of thing while we men, or at least me, give more important to food. We are more about content than form I guess.

Oh! I would like to congrat you for the bar. Coolest one I've seen.  It looks really really nice.

Sorry for not being more helpful...but I think you have a really nice place. I cant imagine people going to a chain restaurant having that nearby except for the extra bucks, but I must confess I really dont understand how a place can be loaded sometimes and other times be completely empty (happens a lot in my fathers place, when its empty for no reason he blames the economy and whatnot...and when its all full, its because he has such a nice place hehehe...) but I guess it's how that particular bussiness work. I think that the misterious laws that govern it are even more elusive than those of the economy. Here they like to even the odds by giving bribes to people at hotels to send over guest to the restaurant. If youre not doing that already I really recomend it, I think it really works.

Just my two cents...hope I helped
best
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