Let’s call it the tax rebate effect…

Let’s call it the tax rebate effect…

I’m at Pestos talking with Esse around 11:35am. I state “I bet it will be a slow day due to wind, heat and humidity/rain.”. I was wrong. Usually his rush shows about 11:55am. At 11:50, no tables left. 11:55 crowd was in a long line! When I left at 12:30, still a 10-15 person wait. I thought this was a bit odd till coworkers said the same about places they went. I was talking with a friend later and he was scheduled to get his tax rebate yesterday. He thinks, as do I now, it was the stimulus package check and people are eating out more with the added cash in their pockets.

Anyone seen this recently?

I dont know if it is the tax rebate but on Westport Road...places like Chedders...O Charlys...On the Border and even Bob Evans seem to have full lots every evening and at some places you will have to wait to be seated....

Is there any sort of large convention in town?

[Robin Garr]

I dont know if it is the tax rebate but on Westport Road...places like Chedders...O Charlys...On the Border and even Bob Evans seem to have full lots every evening and at some places you will have to wait to be seated....

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." (H.L. Mencken)

We actually had to wait in a short line for a table at Pesto's last Friday. I was at Jack's Lounge last night ($5 burger night) and they were busy but not swamped like a Friday or Saturday.

[Robin Garr]

Anyone seen this recently?

Funny, Mary and I strolled past Pesto's a little past noon and were amazed by the crowd - looked like there was even a line. We went next door to check out Blue Nile and found it fairly crowded, with maybe a few tables open. (And, for what it's worth, the new Queen of Sheba was slammed on a week night last week, every table full.)

I'm usually there M-W-F 11:30-12:xx...

Would enjoy the company (table by the wine rack on the first turn),

We ate at Bourbon Bistro tonite (half price wine night), and there wasn't an empty table! Don't know how many turns they had, but sure crowded . . . and took some time to find a parking space in the area.

Havana Rumba was packed when i was there Monday.

It was nice to see a restaurant almost at capacity on a Monday night.


Oh! The food was amazing as always.

I dont know if it is the tax rebate but on Westport Road...places like Chedders...O Charlys...On the Border and even Bob Evans seem to have full lots every evening and at some places you will have to wait to be seated....

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." (H.L. Mencken)

brilliant. I love Mencken quotes.

I am glad he is not my investment person...Outlook would be very poor....

I am glad he is not my investment person...Outlook would be very poor....

"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. "

H. L. Mencken

And any Man that has poor investments will not have a very good future........

And any Man that has poor investments will not have a very good future........

Nice...got shoes??LOL

And any Man that has poor investments will not have a very good future........

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked ... HL Mencken