-Caveat Lector- The RESTAURANT LOBBY TAKE OVER
ABR, Judith. 2004. "Restaurant Lobbies in the USA." Internet: CTRL, MFHR. I can recall these every Friday night expensive French affairs in an exclusive restaurant named "Chez Pierre" in Telluride, Colorado...an upper crust ski resort known to celebrities and wealthy 60s Hippies who never left and tried to make the raucous gold miner town home. The single French curmeudgeon-type of a woman who owned the restaurant there is no doubt still making fantastic Alaskan King Crab legs. Chez Pierre was situated at the back of Telluride, off the beaten path, on a dirt road yet and several blocks off of the 1890 main street. Annie was there to stay and our large tabled rendezvous were known to her well in the mid-1970s. It was the happy memories of Annie's place that hit home when I began to realize that Annie's restaurant scene was not a singular creation. There are as many as 70 or more of these French restaurants, all three and four star cuisine, all very upper crust, highly priced and all located in resort communities, especially ski resorts throughout the U.S. and even in Montreal. Fast forward to 1990 and Hoboken, NJ, next to the Lincoln Tunnel and a stone's throw from Times Square. I discovered the second one, again owned by a single, middle-aged French woman. This delicious place obtained a reputation, especially among Bruce Springsteen's band who frequented it in the early 90s. It was called "Lady Jane." Both restaurants had a similar odd ambience...dark, dank, drearily even...but they were frequented by a dedicated cliental of many years, usually picky Hippie types and people wanting to be happily left alone. The atmosphere spell relax, get better, wait until the next round is served and share your days scenes with the comfortable waitresses and bartenders. The third one I discovered was in 1994 outside of Montreal at Chateau Ver, another resort community. The fourth was in August, 1999 in Sun Valley, Idaho. This place had an outdoor veranda and was not quite as dark and dank as the others. Food was similar though and the shop keeper, as always was a middle-aged single French woman. I realized that I had the same similar places, usually only one per town in Breckenridge, Vail, Aspen, and VT. Mountainous towns seem to draw these women and their very secretive restaurant lobbies. Having identified these French places as a well-orchestrated business endeavors and monopolies. Suddenly a lot more of these organizations became apparent to me - each with very consistent, identifiable decors, ambiences, locations, personnel, etc. Real Mom n' Pop restaurants, family-owned, were a thing of the past and rare throughout the free world. These national and international comglomerates are well hidden, clandestine and highly secretive in their funding, maintenance and training activities. All sport a particular level of creature comforts within them. And if their patronage dies off, their funding base does not, as they have other scenario going on within them. The restaurant lobbies I can identify include the following: 1) French resort town restaurant, women owned, expensive, usually dark-dank places, high brow cuisine, 2) Spanish Grotto family restaurants, located in mid-sized cities (such as Hoboken and Tucson) and sometimes difficult to locate, specialize in home-style cooking and fresh lobsters/seafood at reasonable prices (they employ usually new immigrants from Spain), complete dinners from $12 and up, 3) Chinese Take-out places, dusty and dirty interiors, located throughout major urban areas, known for good food cheap which all use the same bottled sauces, and are run by new Oriental immigrants, 4) Slice Pizza places, situated in every block in major cities, $1 cheap edible pizza slices, run by Italian mob types or thugs, 5) Greek diners, located in cities, cheap greasy egg cooking which includes also some Greek specialities like spinach pie, feta and olive salads, etc., and 6) Irish pubs, usually small, narrow, dark and dank, dirty, but beer is cheap, very cold and clean, they usually have a great jukebox. Even though these places are not known as franchises...this might be an effort to avoid taxes and extra bureauacies, they really are franchises. Through good times and bad these places prevail and stay open. It was clear that these places had trained personnel and trained chiefs, known only- to-the-trade sources for food stuffs, etc. There may even be a very ritzy restaurant lobby in major cities which has the grand-daddy of them all for top brow, five star cuisines and includes the most exclusive places in Manhattan - Le Cirque and Lutice. It can take three months to obtain a lunch date in each of these unless you are a celeb. These places pride themselves in the mainstream by appearing to be family owned and run, and this no doubt encourages business. They may receive added financial help from their main entities to keep going even if they don't make money. They may be fronts for other activities which are funded by local pimps and possibly the feds, mob or syndicates. They may also be fronts for other illegal cult activities too such as maintaining creatures for the local area. It is appropriate to consider the ramifications of these scenes...their spread and influences. Even the highest brow of restaurants may be a part of a larger social scheme -- the ownership of the public from within, their secrecy may not be of benefit to the whole. A great deal more needs to be explored about these businesses' functioning, liaisons, and social importance. E. Murray mfhr.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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