I've heard of Monday morning quarterbacking...
This sounds like Tuesday morning barbequeing..........
Why are you complaining now? Paul asks for feedback on the choices throughout the year and especially at the beginning of the year when he is drawing up the list, so we can have the list posted and available for plans ahead of time.
Most of the names come from suggestions and Paul has added or subtracted from time to time in response to suggestions both and negative--- or as has happened, places close their doors mid-season.
In the case of Russell's I (&Paul) haven't heard much criticism in the past-- it has been a great indoor spot and ideal for a cool weather gathering-- we can stay as long as we want and pull tables together unlike most other places. Some people (not me) think that say, Gene& Jude's is great-- but don't think there would be people hanging around for 1 1/2 hours standing on the asphalt outside that place in 50 degree weather- which has no tables & no bathrooms.Many indoor places have fixed booths and would not have accomodated the more than 30 people at Russell's in such a comfortable arrangement. Looked like a real party
I do think it would be fun to incorporate objective ratings into this event-- and provide some useful feedback to Paul (and all of us food fans) - for dogs and circus. Yahoogroups has a polling function-- perhaps this can be done with our forum. A lot of places elicit both strong positive and negative support so getting a good cross section would be important-- Maybe we could give some feedback to the owners.
Maybe a rating questionaire-- of course someone other than Paul would need to handle the tallying-any volunteers?
I think ordinarily Paul contacts the places to let them know we're coming-especially the smaller places.
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