This week: Undesirable customers
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I work at a local fine dining restaurant playing at being a late night bar. We’ve become so popular now that douchebags know about us. And by douchebags I mean: the kind of people that used to pack Rapture, 216 and Rivals. Apparently they heard about our free music and now flock to my bar. To my chagrin.
Saturday night most of my converstaions went like this:
Girl yelling at me, ” HEY!”
Me : “Yes?”
Girl: “Can I get six BUD LIGHTS?!!”
Me: I’m sorry, we don’t sell…”
Girl: “You got MILLER LITE??!!!”
Me: ” I’m sorry, we don’t have that. We have…”
Girl: “COORS LIGHT?!!!”
Me (getting frustrated): I’m sorry. We only have good beer. Like…”
Girl: “THEY DON’T HAVE BUD LIGHT?!!!! THIS IS AMERICA! WHO DOESN”T HAVE BUD LIGHT??!!!!” etc
Finally the redneck would settle for a $4.50 Amstel Light( ridiculous price right? hint: we make them pricey to keep you out but it didn’t work) or Jager bomb and return to the dancefloor to resume totally inappropriate dirtydancing/grinding no matter what the song was. To return 10 minutes later and repeat above dialogue.
Shoot me!
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Tagged as: Charlottesville, Gripes, Rants, Restaurants
Why don’t you have a dress code?
Seriously, what is a bar to do?
Haven’t been there to see my worst fears come true, as I’ve been ‘noah’d', but its a shame if you’re right, and the trend continues. Maybe tidalbomb brought his friends from Rivals over? I should have kept my mouth shut (something I tell myself with increasing frequency)
Does this mean we go to Rapture?
ewww. gross. have an ugly charge. is that legal?
Make it invite only? Start charging a cover that you can waive for regulars? Hang up their coats? throw a little foccacia or waffles at em just to say “we know you can go anywhere, thanks for coming here”, incentivize bottled beer (30% serving time) over draft (better beers, price discount) so people don’t wait forever to get drinks (people with nowhere else to go will wait, people with options won’t) call Clark Throckmorton and have him round up all his CPA buddies for next week, use customer e-mail lists I know you’ve been compiling (not) to offer regulars drink specials, etc.. to get your old crowd back?
[some of these are serious, other not so much]
Amstel Light is good beer? Perhaps compared with the crap you cited above, but I would deign to frequent an establishment that serves such poor libation. Never mind jager shots…
would not deign…
best response to the above I ever saw was at South Street one busy night. Packed bar, bartender walking down the line. Guy hollers out “Can I get a Bud?” Bartender yells back “No, we only serve beer” and keeps walking.
How did I know hipster doofus would rope me into this thread
? I’m pretty sure my friends from rivals were busy installing the kits on their F150’s that night…
As much as I can’t stand cover charges, this does seem a situation where you’d end up with a better class of patron WITH one. Combine with hipster-doofus’ suggestion of an email list offering specials to regulars (perhaps even “Free Cover!” coupons) and you pretty much reverse the damage for the type of customer who knows how to behave in public and who doesn’t view a bartender as some sort of lower caste member. Yelling about Bud Light? Good lord.
I’ll bet Spicy Bear could help with that.
serve them white wine. serve them this fine product: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/37389 . make them pet 4-h clark throckmorton’s blind baby goat wearing sunglasses.
Doesn’t R2 charge a cover? How’s that working out for them?
/honestly doesn’t know.
I think nay nay (or a trusted assistant) should stand by the door and wave in the people she likes; everyone else can stand behind a velvet rope. Sure its a sickening new york thing to do, but it’d do the trick.
I might start going back if they did that.
Shah nay nay
Perhaps you could have some subtle but probing entry questions, as follows:
1) Do you wear an XXXXL thong with the Confederate flag on the crotch?
2) If a guy removes a dead deer from the back of his pickup before he nails you on all fours in the truck bed, do you consider it foreplay?
3) Do you have less teeth than my last Halloween pumpkin?
4) On that note, do you pump kin?
5) Do you think that people that live in double-wides are snobs?
An affirmative (most likely expressed as ‘Hay’ll Yeah’) to any of the above means you have a redneck on your hands, and so another member of staff should stand outside and shout “Hey… Kmart just announced 50% off all Martha Stewart lace curtains” and those bitches will disappear faster than a can of cheese whip at a redneck wedding.
i like syrups suggestion.
might want to suggest the DJ cut back on the Molly Hatchet, Skynyrd and Marshall Tucker Band (notthattheresanythingwrongwiththat)
Don’t worry Nay Nay - Deer season ends in a couple of weeks, so their men won’t be out in the woods and will be able to ensure those little gals are in the kitchen where they belong.
To add to Floozy’s list:
6) Does the number of Fs and Ts in someone’s last name mean something to you?
7) Does your last name appear on more than one page of the phone book?
Hmmm, Cvillain talks up upcale late night hot spots, hot spots subsequently overrun by douchebags.
Coincidence, right?
Right?
/Kidding, of course.
Dress Code = Italian Shoes ONLY
I have, on occasion, ordered a Coors light because I don’t want to drink a lot of calories. Not at a place like Blue Light or Escafe though.
Thor,
Every place I ever saw in Charlottesville that has a dress code generally earns the reputation of overly pretentious. After all, that’s one of the cool things about Charlottesville is it’s relaxed attitude about such things. I once even had an “old-money” friend mention to me that you always new when a wanna-be nuvo riche opened a restaurant because it came with a dress code.
If you want upscale clients, then you need a quality upscale product. That goes for just about everything, including bars. You may have the random person wander in and wonder why you don’t have PBR, but they’ll catch on eventually. That said, I remember being amused one day when a guy in pulled up in a pickup at the Bel Aire Market, and asked if they had any bait. “No fishin’ worms or nothin?” he asked. You could see him looking around and thinking to himself “Just what kind of convenience store is this anyway?”
So true about dress codes, Lonnie. My sister was an accessories buyer for an upscale department store that opened in a rust belt city north of here. The store instituted a dress code for customers (no sneakers or baseball caps) amid vociferous complaints from the populous and quickly went out of business.
People ruin everything.
Sorry for the shameless plug, but if its friday night dancy dancy u want… well… escafe has precious few rednecks, drinks as fancy as you could want, and most folks dress, well, rather fabulous without having to be told to. Jus sayin.
/end threadjack.
I KNOW HOW TO FIX IT: Just tell everyone that your bar is now a GAY BAR.. see how many rednecks walk in.
patience: Amstel is 93 calories. About the same as Miller Lite or Bud Select. I’m just going to say it now and get it off my chest: my fridge has European and Mexican beer in it, yes. But I’ll be damned if it goes a day without something from St. Louis MO in the drawer too. God bless Bud Lite.
It’s like that old saying, when a celebrity fails to wear underwear at a nightclub in LA, a redneck in Charlottesville thinks she can order Bud Light at Oxo and not be embarassed.
It makes me miss the bourgeois.
Guinness - 110 calories. 1 more calorie per ounce than Miller Lite, fewer calories than Corona Lite. ‘nuf said
And I’m wearing sweatpants in public today with no intention of working out.
I’m so excited to know that Miller’s now has dancing!!!
I have to laugh- 216 has sooo many farm boys! All very nice ones.
Maybe all the men should start vigorously tapping every trip to the bathroom. Make it sound like Radio City Music Hall.
Rumor has it that OXO now has a “wide stance”, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
And Ed, has millers really jumped on the dance party bandwagon?
Lilith, I’m glad I’m not the only lite beer drinker. 110 calories in a Guinness? Wow.
belmont yo, xyzpdq–your oxo envy is showing again.
A CLUE! A CLUE! Everyone take your digital cameras and photograph every woman(?) you see wearing sweats. One of them has to be Lilith!
My oxo envy is no secret. I want a dancefloor, I want every table filled with dancing feet, and I work hard as hell to try to bring it every time I open my coffin case. I know the type of shit I spin aint for everyone, so I understand the inherant limitations… but I am constantly trying to adjust the set to hit the mean, if you know what I mean. Oxo can have their flirt things, and manufactured exclusivity and whatever. I just want a crowd of people to move. I have not missed a week since March of 2006, I have always had new shit to play, and I have done it all with very little help in the way of strategy (like theme nights), gimmicks (how about a disco ball or a smoke machine or something) or promotion (with the exception of an occasional small ad in the cville and very recently flyers, which I make myself) from anyone that works there. Shit I even bus the tables so I can start on time when need be. Im tryin to earn it and my ‘oxo envy’ stems from the fact that I feel tha oxo is just walking into it (people lined up outside to hear someone play an itunes playlist thru an overblown amp?). But you know what? More power to them. I do not begrudge them their good fortune. I just like it when people dig what Im doing because I put alot into it. Anyway. Thats why Im slightly green. No big deal really. I’ll try to shut up about it.
Besides, New Years is coming up, and last year was Out. Of. Motherfucking. Control. Another one like that should satisfy me for a while.
could someone please give this guy a pat on the back every weekend or something? how many times are we going to here this stuff? jesus.
welcome to the internet, Magic Rat.
*hear
can I trademark that phrase, evenstar?
not sure i get it…does that mean i am making an obvious observation of something that happens frequently on the internet?
Cool. Sorry, rat. You’re right.
Thor, if you could delete comment 40, please.
I’m out.
If Coach Dennis Green can trademark “they are who we thought they were,” I don’t see why you can’t, Thor.
noooooooooooooo we love you! don’t leave! you are a rocking DJ. haven’t you read my posts before?
I just want credit for the phrase. evenstar you owe me .05 cents everytime you use it.
take it easy, i like welcoming people to the internet too.
Deal. You keep track.
You all do realize you live in Charlottesville. A quick geographic study of the area will show you that it is located in the foothills of Virginia. Believe it or not, this area is highly populated with so called, rednecks. I think you should all tone it down some, and quit pretending you’re better than everyone else. Oh wait, I forgot, this is Charlottesville.
Who’s pretending?
Gobbler, please. Let’s refrain from using such epithets. The preferred terminology is Appalachian American.
Cville Gobbler
..Nice of you to take a break from your busy job to post such a motivational, indeed inspirational observation.
I assume your username is related to your profession.
i thought oxo was upscale, lonnie.
sayin’ you’re a gay bar won’t work either. Look at 216 any night after 2:00am, ton’sa straight country boys pourin’ in.
oh yeah, and gobbler, if you don’t like what you’re reading turn the channel dude.
jeez ….like a pack of wolves!
Floozy wants to talk about usernames and thier probable meanings? Ha. And, Caroline, I usually do like what I read on here, and I’m certain the idea of this site is to encourage ideas, not discouraging return visitors. I’m sure those invested in the future of the site would appreciate you keeping such comments to yourself.
As for me, tonight I’m gonna celebrate with a few BL’s and J-Bombs, and if you serve me one, I’ll tip you very well, cause chances are I make more money than all of you.
Sorry, I got a little carried away, I don’t really make money.
Just keep wearing those knee pads Dude.
D/A pays that well, eh?
Despite my proclivity for username-hopping, Gobbler is NOT me.
how much of this town did you have to fellate before you got promoted from “Gobbler” to “Cville Gobbler”?
slurp slurp!
Can I take a moment here to call out the lovely collective voice this wee community of ours has developed? i’m having a hard time expressing my love for everyone’s reactions to post 51. Sorry Gobbler, you’ve officially branded yourself an uptight, self-hating cville dweller with a serious inferiority complex and a strange attraction to Larry the Cable Guy.
At least I’m just a bitchy snob.
/sunshine and daffodils
Damn! Your ginormous internet penis went all flaccid! I hate it when that happens…
Yo,
You bring your waffle iron down to the cafeteria next time and you know I’ll be there.
hmmm…perhaps I should rethink my identity. You guys win. I’m officially your Huckleberry.
But come on, Larry the Cable guy is funny, I don’t care who you are.
Wow.
I kind of suspected this site had a secret elitist snob wannabe side, and it just reared its ugly head.
Bye y’all. I get enough drama at work.
This site can have any side you want. Just write a post!
Larry, is he the one who didn’t show up promptly at the appointed time, parked that hideous van of his in sight of the golf-course, then proceeded to track mud all over my new turkish rugs? I fail to see the humor. That fat sack of working-class apathy made me miss my wine-guild dinner!
he’s gone thor. he’s gone forever until tomorrow.
All right, if I see a velvet rope in Cville I will ask a train hopper to coat it in feces please. I doubt he would, because I know out-of-towners who come here are better than us.
Seriously, you want a cool crowd, try playing the good tunes. It may not work, but that’s all you’ve got to work with in my opinion. Haven’t been there, so I don’t know what you’re playing.
What about this anti-folk stuff I’ve been hearing all the young whippsnappers flap their gums about? Is the soundtrack to Juno just terminally cute or amazingly retrounretroretrocoolorwhat? It’s like, all Kimya Dawson an stuff. Your Budweiser Lite Clamato crowd would run their breeches dearie!
wow is my only comment
In other words…
If I went over top, pardon please. I was actually playing scrabble you see…
I though you were just protesting OXO’s failure to establish a karaoke night? Starks, you want a sing off with colfer?
next cvillain party: everyone go to OXO and order an Amstel Light at the same time
Wrestling in Strawberry Jello is pretty friggin redneck, sha nay nay.
“I think you should all tone it down some, and quit pretending you’re better than everyone else.”
AND “I’ll tip you very well, cause chances are I make more money than all of you.”
(sorry guys I don’t know how to do that fancy copy and paste)
STFU
I think you use “” around what you want in fancy quotes, though I’ve never done it… lets see if it works
wow. people are learning a lesson in irony, huh?
Actually, it’s pretty hot.
Saying “Friggin” is pretty redneck,
my little Myspace stalker.
P.S.
And I made that jello at OXO so you know it was sophisticated.
If you figure out how to post the pictures I’ll post the picture of the blind goat in sunglasses.
Redneck is good, right?
Hey guys, Nancy Grace here! You should totally watch my show tonight. It’s on now. First up, I am going to report on an incident of stalking in Charlottesville. The victim was viciously stalked by an alleged redneck who somehow managed to use a computer. I know, that is pretty crazy! But not only did the redneck use the computer, he was able to access the Internets and somehow download pictures that the victim had posted in a public, albeit esoteric bulletin board system known as “My Space.”
Folks, it pains me to have to tell you that our daughters are no longer safe to post pictures of themselves in various stages of undress in public forums. These infernal REDNECKS (who should FRY, by the way) have figured out how to use computers. They are no longer content simply to pester us in the dining and drinking establishments where we once used to munch focaccia and imbibe the finest Amstel in peace. Now they are menacing us in the once-rarefied realm of cyberspace. “My Space” has become “Their Space,” and there’s only one thing we can do about it: We can blog. But please be sure not to allow your daughters to post any pictures of themselves where the rednecks can find them, lest I have to report on another cruel incident of stalking.
She was joking, peanutbrain. Funny post tho.
I think I love you, Nancy Grace.
See, love is all we need.
i just want to be the 87th poster. this has to be some kind of record for a blog entry about light beer?
hipster-doofus, or rather hipster~doofus (if you are or aren’t the same person), you must have super psychic powers because I’m so amazingly bad at karaoke that I can’t help but slay colfer. That Kimya Dawson-quoting jawn reps anti-folk and obviously ain’t punk enough to handle this energy. THERE AIN’T NO SUCH THING AS HALFWAY CROOKS!
Oh yeah, and OXO needs to keep the hipsters in, whatever they do.
I just had an amazing idea. Why not carry some Bud Light to sell to the people that want it? What’s with all the hating on rednecks? Show them some love.
I was kinda going with the theme of “just carry good beer” (and good drinks), but when all the claws came out it got me thinking. Why do we have to be better then them? Can’t we just play together and be happy?
Just a thought.
Eh tu Brutus…
Sorry… I hated fucking Latin at school.. that should have been Et
Oh and who created a pseudo-keyboard beside my normal keyboard. And where are B-Yo and Oy… life stinks without these dudes.
Starks, all me, the ~ was just an attempt to dress things up a bit with OXO posts being classy and all…
Flooze, I thought for sure you were a B’yo creation, but Oy assures me thats not the fact. Nay-nay claims you were at Zinc for the get-together? That true?
Nay-nay, congrats on stripping me of my comment record, very impressive…
Is it too late for me to join the “my shit don’t stink” party?
Hey Ethan, way to keep this thread going. Otherwise they’ll go back to talking about tasty desserts and touching themselves.
Hipster: Don’t give me any credit. You villains just love to run your yaps is all.
H-D… Sorry, I can’t find that spermy hyphen thing on my non gay keyboard so a straight one will have to do.
I was not at Zinc, and I believe B’yo was, ergo I am not him. My genitals agree.
I had to read through 96 comments, and there’s STILL no sharing of the jello wrestling?
Nay Nay, what hath ye wrought? Nearly 100 posts generated from your simple lament regarding OXO’s patrons’ beverage preferences.
I was going to launch into a discussion of elitism versus exclusivity and how it is endemic not just in Charlottesville, but everywhere. But I’ve lost my muse. Instead, I think I second Brutuses’ comment that the, shall we say, *diverse* crowds at OXO undoubtedly share some common ground. It’s no secret that everyone wants to bask in the glory of the “now” hotspot and will follow the buzz around town. I don’t have a problem with that provided that they remain friendly and considerate of other patrons, respect the staff and tip well.
Oy and Floozy, can I please make a request that you use your abundant wit and creativity in a less malicious fashion? I found your speculative comments towards CVille Gobbler’s nom de plume rather objectionable.
What are you guys doing up so early?
Will write after caffeine
Damn, I wanted to be #100
OK time for caffeine
blow me
nay nay - I thought *I* was your myspace stalker. Are you cheating on me?
(my apartment is wallpapered with the jello wrasslin’ photo)
ugh. this is one of the reasons i hate the restaurant world in cville. i have been bartending/waiting tables in this town for nearly ten yers now. i have worked at blue light, mas, bizou, zinc, starr hill, OXO, and a few other places. i know most of you ,and you know me. i don’t understand why it is that bartenders in this town consider themselves to be a part of the social elite. as soon as someone gets a little time behind them at some trendy downtown spot, they become rockstars in their own mind.
people come to my bar ALL THE TIME, that i would rather not serve. people that i wouldnt talk to outside of work, but what it comes down to it this: these people pay my bills. these people make my lifestyle possible. and i would rather wait on some “redneck” than some hipster douchebag or charlottesville rockstar wanna be.
check yourself, cville bartenders. you are not that fucking special. i understnd we live in a retardedly pretensious town, but that does not give you license to be a cunt.
Now if that comment doesn’t bring us altogether, nothing will. Kumbaya!
Hee-hee. Happy hooker is funny.
All brought together now, I may have changed my mind. Why can’t a gal from the provinces come to Cville, become fabulous and enjoy it without a coupla washed up semi-townie bar burnouts stepping on her train, eh? I ask you!
Still if I see a velvet rope anywhere in Charlottesville, I’ll be tempted to floss it, if you know what I mean.
hooker: nay nay IS special
People, to varying degrees, like to congregate with people who don’t make their skin crawl or that aren’t assholes or idiots (unless that’s your thing) and so on. It doesn’t mean your anti-diversity or elitist.
Also, while I do appreciate your brazen use of the c-word, nay nay ain’t one.
When did “elitist” become a bad word anyway?
I agree with Silmo, if you’d been working at Mas and showed up one day to be handed a paper hat and pirate costume because they’d decided that Long John Silver’s didn’t have enough competition, you’d be pissed too, or long gone. OXO (not speaking for anyone but myself here) does its late night thing for 6 hours a week. I don’t think they put a well-deserved reputation as one of Cville’s finest restaurants on the line to cater to patrons who want to know when the mechanical-bull is being installed. Do they make money from those guys, yes. Does that create an obligation to change things to accommodate them? Clearly not, and I think they’d be foolish to. If nay-nay wants to blow off a little steam, I think thats her right without you resorting to language like that.
[when the fuck did I become a voice of reasonableness and restraint?]
oy, hello cute stuff…can you teach me to do the cool copy and paste thing??
Dag, Happy Hooker said cunt.
hey baby - you just select the text you want quoted, copy it, paste it in the reply window, then put a less-than sign blockquote greater-than sign before the quoted text and a less-than sign /blockquote greater-than sign after the text.
wanna make out?
I tried to do something similar with less-than and greater-than signs in comment 79, but it erased stuff instead of putting it in fancy quotes. If you read that comment it seems like I’m mocking you caroline, but I didn’t know and was just trying to get it to work.
Thanks, Oy.
Type:
<blockquote>TEXT YOU WANT TO SET APART</blockquote>
HH:
Huh? I was busy rolling around in all the dollar bills my awesome regulars and cool customers tipped me.
(Didn’t you work at OXO for like, ten minutes?
Sorry that it didn’t work out for you.)
Maybe I’ll stop by your bar sometime and get you to make me your signature shot:
1 part bitterness
1 part envy
w/ splash of vulgarity
snn - I hereby give you the award for longest commented post of the year.
first of all, the cunt comment was directed to bar and waitstaffs in general in this town– not one cvillian in particular.
and you’re right, if i had wlked into mas while i was working there and been told to suit up a la pirate, i would have quit. i would not have gone to local blog and bitched about the people who pay my bills. i would not have developed the air of superiority that so many servers and bartenders in this town have perfected. and to be honest, at mas, and at blue light, we got more than our share of rednecks. and i would serve them their beers and pursue polite conversation BECAUSE THATS MY JOB.
i am sure nay nay is wonderfully special and fantastic. that doesn’t change anything here. that doesn’t change the fact that she obviously thinks she is somehow superior to the people that put money in her pocket. perhaps she should consider working at ten, where douchiness, pseudo intellectual superiority, and self importance is the norm.
i have no problem with she nay nay, personally. i think her attitude stinks, but its the same stinky attitude that most of the restaurant folk in cville have. get over yourselves, folks.
and for the record– i hate bud light.
actually, sha nay nay, i worked at OXO for two years. before your time, i’m sure.
you have no clue who i am, dear, so stop pretending you do.
We all should all poop in buckets!
To be fair, she really is, though.
just sayin’
Whaaaaat??? I am laughing my ass off at your delightfully idiotic yet absolutely perfect non sequitur. Well put.
wow, I passed this thread up earlier thinking I wont even touch it, but even i have limits. happy, i have so much respect for you, as a long time industry type myself, few people have the ability to look at their job as you. also your comments are all dead on, we all hate “undesirable customers” but going into a public forum and bitching about it is weak, and bud light is horrible.
Sha nay nay get used to it, that is the industry and dropping comments “we only have good beer”….. if i owned a restaurant and heard you flip the c’ville attitude on anybody you would be done, crying in the alley posting about what an asshole the owner of bar z is. if I had saw that you wrote the post you would be done. My owner has already commented that you crossed the line. you havent been bartending long enough to be truly jaded. the local bar scene is hard enough, i thing due to the excessive douche bag/trophy wife ratio, but training everybody to be that way in every bar fucks it up for the rest of us.
I dont know if the rumor has broke yet but OXO is going to be VIP invite only according to the kitchen/restaurant rumor mill. read: no county, ghetto, non-armani exchange foriegn born clads (unless they tip well), mexicans/hondourans/central americans at all (you can work here but cant drink),thoes who are not “downtown enough”, downtown posers, tourists, eskimo’s or as i like to call them “snow mexicans”, midgets, thoes with deviant lifestyles, we can go on. I am dying to see this play out.
I met my quota for the next six months
-enabler out
yes.
and thank you too stan and hipdoof
w00T!!
it worked! I love you guys/girls.
VIP baby!!
So “poop in buckets” may refer to a famous “aktion” in Berlin in the 1970’s. The cool neighborhood in the Western zone was getting gentrified, sort of like Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I think. In Germany, middle class youth go all out on the slumming phase, or they did then anyway. Angry at the gentrification, an action was organized against one of the restaurants that had become too snazzy. It was actually a very socially conscious restaurant, run by good owners, etc. But the radicals decided to bring in steaming buckets during a peak hour, Friday night or something. That was the bucket aktion. I think the New Yorker covered it! It’s hard to say it was a good idea, but it is hard to forget.
The more posts I read by self-confessed “jaded” bar hacks, the more I see room for advocating interesting qualities in restaurants. Your burn-out restaurants aren’t as good as you think. I’d rather go to Rev Soup where at least the workers own their casualness! And the food is not yet another cville-generic, walnut oiled, rich feast. I’m all for restaurants with personality and I’ll go to the ones I have the scratch for and where price is not too much above value + workers’ rights.
Please come back B-Yo! Or I’ll poop you good.
Oxo late night, VIP by invite only:
I think that’s a great idea!
unless I’m not invited in which case you’re all a bunch of elitists jerks
COLFER: Thanks for the scoop on the poop
Hey Haters…guess what?
1. You don’t pay my bills. That’s what my day job is for.
2. Generalizing that C-ville servers and bartenders are stuck-up assholes is lame.
3. I am happy serving anyone who isn’t acting like a retard.
4. 98% of the people who put $$ in my pocket are cool people and regulars.
5. Ten: I like their food and their bartenders have always been very nice.
6. I’ve worked at OXO off and on for the last 5 years. I didn’t just start bartending last week.
7. And P.E.: That’s why I don’t work for your uptight owner. I work for cool people. Who can spell.
Ha!
Much love to the intelligent posters and supporters. Let’s lay this thing to rest already. Start your own damn post.
I was going to throw in my $.02 one last time, but you beat me to it nay-nay.
Look HH and P.E., I’ve spent more time at OXO late night than probably all but 3 or 4 people, and I’ve never seen nay-nay act in any way unprofessional. The original post was probably a bit of an exaggeration to make a point, and from there this thread has gone off the rails a little. The purpose I believe was to try to keep late-night the vibrant weekend hot-spot that has worked on so many levels, not how bartenders can demean or degrade customers who don’t fall within a preferred demographic. The people who spend time there or work there want to keep it fun, consistent, and classy, if there’s a way to do that I think everyone is happy.
i’d say that at the end of the day, whether you like what she said or not, you’ve got to give it up for shanay’s huge brass balls. how many of us would stand up, show our identity, and bitch about our local customers on a local blog…that they all read? i bet not many.
It seems sha nay nay’s whole point in writing this was to denigrate a group of people (”douchebags”) and other bars (Rapture). Too bad everyone can’t display the same amount of grace as she does to his or her social inferiors…
Bud Light’s one thing. But do you have to serve REPUBLICANS, too?
OK…so… sha nay nay; your pettiness is shadowed by your “obvious” rock star status. Hello….and… All y’all seem a might exclusive for my tastes. With exceptions here and there. Enjoyable read any so. I walked past the bus cafe wanting badly to get free coffee, yet I’m not one of your crowd, so I though I’d post a bit and become inclusive. I will NOT poop in a bucket. Though the mother of my children pee’d in a yogurt container whilst pregnant. well then…. I’m not even drinking, mind you. (well ok, a tweed bit). anywhy, I say to you all “hoopla” and stuff. s’all.
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This page should be read by everyone who enters Charlottesville. The only thing missing in this melange of Cville stereotypes and prejudice is the viewpoint of the liberal Cville mom-in-a-Volvo. But she doesn’t go to OXO because there are no toys or diapers or organic baby food in there.
The convo the bartender had could’ve been had with anybody of any stereotype category, but some of yall got all “kill the rednecks!” a little too readily.
Just what are “the kind of people that used to pack 216, Rivals and Rapture”? Judging from what yall’ve written above, some of you don’t like fat people (”XXXXL thong”), black people (”ghetto”), poor people (”we keep them pricey to keep you out”) or Southern people (”Appalachian Americans”). Can you see why offense is taken? All this is taken from an incident the bartender had with a stranger, who, for all we know, could’ve been the daughter of the US Ambassador to France. This girl was loud and unfamiliar with beer not sold in Kroger next to giant displays…big deal. That justifies yall’s explosion of plans to exclude anyone who’s different from you? In fact, if you really examine what caused the bartender ire, it was the loud woman’s sense of entitlement: “If you don’t have what I want, there’s something wrong with you!” Well, many of the posters have committed the same sin.
laGrape….that’s the first time I have ever seen:
“yall’ve”
LaGrape, I like it when you stop by. It’s always insightful. I find this to be the case with Ethan, too.
*Ethan’s comment linkypoo*
I love language. Yall’ve. Linky”poo”. yummm
From my experience bartending, there are a lot of people out there that like bud light. It doesn’t make you poor or a redneck. So if your goal is to keep these “undesireable customers” out of your bar, just sell bud light for the same price as premium beers. Unless of course you’re allergic to increase profit margains. And I love jager bombs as much as the next Staten Island Turbo, but I don’t have a blow-out or sexually abuse myself with tanning oil nightly. Also, a dress code won’t keep people out, it will just make it impossible to differentiate your ballers from your brawlers.
Interesting! I ordered light American beer this weekend. It’s easy to forget, even if the bottles are on the wall.
There’s a reason lots of people like bud light. Some say it’s because it’s smooth or easy to drink. I think it’s because of their amazing super bowl commercials. Either angle is debatable, at the very least. I happen to work with a classy gentleman who is very upset at their inability to satisfy his desire for a cold bud light.
Having tasted bud light, I’d have to go with the commercials as the reason the masses of sheep like it. And they do like it - top selling “beers” of 2007:
1 Bud Light
2 Miller Lite
3 Budweiser
4 Coors Light
5 Corona Extra
6 Heineken
7 Natural Light
8 Michelob Ultra Light
9 Busch Light
10 Miller High Life
i was just thinking today how great it would be if this thread got dredged up again… for like the fourth or fifth time… just to remind everybody what a crazy time it was to be alive way back on the 11th of christmastime, and how we can never allow the terrorists to win again.
i’m not sure where it happened, but that kind of got away from me. bud light.
parlie, I’m in.
Parlie,
I am with you… I too just read through it all, and felt moved deeply from within…. but that may possibly be all the excess gas from my New Year high fiber healthy eating regime.
Let us not forget, we are now living in a “post-naynay’s budlight post world”. That kinda “pre-naynay’s budlight post” thinking could get you all jihadded and shit. Gah! We do not want the smokling gun to come in the form of an empty budlight bottle in the recycling bin at OXO. Next thing you know, the rednecks will be drinking bud light for communion!
/Why do they hate our freedoms.
I’m more attracted to you everyday flooze.
Yo, are you asking that question of the neocons?
What the fuck is a neocon?
C… is it the gas or just my health conscious outlook on life?
B Yo… I went to Beer Run today and they told me I sat in the same seat as you did. Does that count as an arse autograph from a celebrity? I also nearly came with excitement. Does that mean we are going steady or did it mean nothing to you.
On the subject of Beer Run… does anyone else find their bar stools scary? I kind of leaned (leant?sp) back and had that terrifying feeling I sometimes get in dreams where I fall off a cliff or step off the roof of a high rise.
Just my take…. bullshit as usual.
neocon = neo-conservative = bush + cheney + rumsfeld + satan
Oh… I can’t vote so have zero interest in anything of a political nature whatsoever. Nada. Zip. Squat.
Satan sounds like my kind of Dude out of that bunch… did you hear that Heaven is you in a room with:
1) A drinks cabinet full of your fave booze
2) Library full of fave authors and periodicals
3) Bose stereo playing your fave tunes
4) Choice of nightly companions for dinner and….. bed.
Hell being the opposite.
What is your hell?
so saucy!
Heaven is me in a room with you… Is that what you just said
Naughty minx
WoooooooooHooooooo… Sil you made me blush Baby!
I meant ‘you’ as in everyones personal heaven or hell… but could be convinced otherwise………
GrrrrrrrrrYow
Digressing from this utter flirtfest for one second, this report just came out and I did a Lazy Dave half way through due to too many % statistics or perhaps too many glasses of Sauv Blanc… can somebody sober read it and tell me if I can have another glass pliz?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7177506.stm
Crap, I poured one anyway.. my bad.
duh, of course if it came from the BBC.
What do they mean by “a liitle”? Does three shots of Jack qualify? Because I need three just to get out of bed in the morning
oh silm….
Silmo.. you sound like you need some soup…
Oh you’re too kind sweetie. I’ll be waiting
break it up, i get soup first
come on. share the love, caroline
NO! NO SOUP FOR YOU!
i’m sorry, i don’t know what came over me….tired, so tired.
dear god - please tell me one of the ladies I’ve been flirting with here is the girl at South Street tonight that I was drooling over - blonde, horizontal black stripes on white shirt. Friggin’ goddess!
helloooooo….back to being elitist and hating on rednecks and the poor. focus, people!
In all likelyhood, Sarah and Shannon’s schoolgirl night at Oxo…
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/37389
Holy nasty-ass beer, Batman! Sounds like Budweiser and VD…
And it’s okay to hate on rednecks, but the poor? C’mon…
If you go to a certain bar I know in Waybo, the Chelada beer (Bud + Clamato = beer + clam juice + tomato) has a special marketing display stand provided by Budweiser. It has three beers on a stand, all similarly virtuous. The bathroom is outside and the lock on the door does not work. Know the place?
The food is actually excellent and costs less than $4.
neocon is code for jew
It allows anti-semites on the left to vent their hatreds with a patina of respectability.
not when i use it, but you do hear it used that way, no doubt.
Man “the con” has been going on for so long there’s no way that it can be considered “neo”.
The term “neo-con” is NOT code for Jew. It is a term that describes a political philosophy that is radical (see tax cuts at the expense of fiscal responsibility, and an aggressively interventionist foreign policy). It is its radical nature that differentiates itself from traditional conservatism. Yes, some of the more prominent leaders of the movements are Jewish and they have cynically accused those who oppose them of anti-Semitism. But this accusation is without merit.
neocon has nothing to do with religion, but a political philosophy. Sure, many prominent jews are neocons, but there are plenty of jewish liberals as well. Neoconservative policies include:
1) Cutting taxes
2) Not worrying about budget deficits in balance against economic growth
3) unlike traditional conservatives, neocons like big government
4) “traditional moral values”
5) expansionist foreign policy
6) defending and expanding foreign democracies
Yeah, I’m with Silmo on this one - I don’t think the New Yorker or the WSJ would use the term with such frequency if it had any legitimate antisemitic underpinnings.
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