Bad economy?
May 12th, 2008, 9:40 am · Post a Comment · posted by aubreywoods
A recent outing to Indianapolis proved to me the economy is not in near as a bad a shape as we’ve been led to believe by the media.
My family and I traveled to Greenwood to have dinner with my mother and father and some of my siblings on Mother’s Day. We had decided before hand to meet at 4 p.m. and thought we would have little trouble finding a place to eat at that time.
So imagine my surprise when I’m told by the hostess at one fine establishment that it would be a three to three and a half hour wait for a table of eight.
We quickly checked another restaurant and my wife was told it would be four hours before the could rustle up a table.
We were told it would be two to two and half hours at another restaurant.
I don’t know about you, but with the high gas prices dining out at the more expensive restaurants since last it would be the first thing to go. We finally settled on a cafeteria-style restaurant were the wait wasn’t near as bad.
For one thing, you have to buy gas no matter what else you do because if you can’t get to work you won’t be able to afford anything else - period.
If the economy is as bad as we’re being told, where is everybody finding the money to eat out.
As a side note, if those Indianapolis restaurants are that busy maybe they need to consider opening up restaurants out here in the sticks.
It will, however, be a long time before I visit any restaurant that tells me I’m going to have to wait more than a hour to be seated. It’s just not good service and the one thing people want and expect is good service. In an economy that is supposedly so bad, good service is often the only thing that sets one business above another.
