Day: March 8, 2009

Restaurant Mar 8, 2009 The Waffle 1 Comment Everyone who knows me knows that I am a very patient man. So I can be very understanding when a place is very crowded and, therefore, the service is a bit slow. However, there are times when it becomes completely ridiculous. Let’s say you are the owner of a Sports Bar in downtown Toronto, and you are located between the Rogers Centre and the Air Canada Centre. Let’s say Saturday nights are usually fairly busy because people do tend to go out on Saturday nights; you know, with the not working tomorrow and all. Let’s say that on one Saturday in particular, Canada would meet USA at 2 pm for their first game of the World Baseball Classic and 40 000 tickets were sold the eve of the game. Let’s say that on the same Saturday, the Oilers are visiting the Maple Leafs,…

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General Mar 8, 2009 The Waffle No Comments On the way back from our World Baseball Classic road trip, we stopped at the A&W in Kingston for lunch.  I love A & W.  Frosty Mugs of Root Beer. Onions rings.  Quality Burgers.  Old-fashioned orange and brown look. During our stop, I learned four things: They sometimes run out of Frosty Mugs. (Or forget they have them.) Their current promotion is 2 Mozza Burgers for 6$. (I happily enjoyed saving $2.40)   If you have an Ultimate Uncle, like the made-of-sirloin Uncle Burger, then you can win a trip to the Fairmont Banff Springs.  (You can also download a coupon!) Either the economic crisis is affecting the quality of service in every restaurant, or I am really unlucky. (It was so slow, the first of our party of four was done by the time the fourth one sat down to eat.)   . 

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