Downtown Tulsa Unlimited has issued (//%22http://www.tulsadowntown.org/Newsletters/build.cfm?pageID=4&inc=NL&NLID=30%22) an urgent plea from the Mayor to employers downtown to have employees eat out more often.
DTU is taking names, apparently, and would 'appreciate your confirming your receipt of this and how you intend to let your employees know as well as the number of employees by emailing . . . '
So we are supposed to go eat there to keep them afloat until the arena opens?
It's supply and demand. Free market. If you can't cut it as a pub, bar or restaurant without the arena...downtown employees won't help, especially after dark. I have to take an exception to McNellie's not doing well. I just drove by and it's packed at lunch on a Wednesday.
Great idea.
We talked about this in another thread.
http://www.tulsanow.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6831&SearchTerms=steakfinger
the good restaurants aren't suffering....only the ****ty ones. its called market forces. deal with it.
McNellie's has to be doing well. I spend enough there every week to personally keep it afloat.
I wonder why Subway (closes at 6 p.m.) is listed but Coney Island (closes at 7) isn't listed. Does that mean Coney Island isn't struggling but Subway is?
I'm sure the mayor means well. Maybe she's finally responding to something on the mayor's action hotline.
We should support those local businesses. That's my reason. They're local. Obviously only if you dig them.
If we don't support them now, it'll just take that much longer for downtown to develop a good walkable feel. C'moooooon walkable feeling.
I think everything on 4th or boston is struggling because you can't get around downtown. I ate at green of boulder or whatever today.
I heard KFC in Jenks was strugging so I ate there. I didn't have enough time to make it to 71st & Memorial to see the PETA gals.
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Originally posted by sgrizzle
I ate at green of boulder or whatever today.
The Greens have excellent chicken and dumplings on Thursdays.
Id check that Tulsa Health Dept link before going crazy on some of these downtown eateries.
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Originally posted by sgrizzle
I think everything on 4th or boston is struggling because you can't get around downtown. I ate at green of boulder or whatever today.
To bad all those businesses on Boston didn't allow for wider sidewalks so they could put out a couple of tables and chairs. That immediately grabs attention and lets passers by know there is a restaurant there. Oh, wait a minute, they didnt want that, they wanted people to quickly drive by. Or so the persons who made the change said.
I'm just wondering what the supposed 17 restaurants that are open in evening actually are... I can only think of a handful of restaurants that are open at night, and to me, 6 p.m. is not evening.
Lola's, Caz's Chowhouse, Pomodori's, McNellie's (counting the restaurant part only) and Tsunami...
Am I leaving out any? I'm pretty sure Soranno's is only open until about 6 or 6:30, and KoKoa Kabana is only open until 6, and everything near Bartlett Square closes at 2 p.m., so I'm wondering what other restaurants seem to be struggling at night.
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Originally posted by DScott28604
I'm just wondering what the supposed 17 restaurants that are open in evening actually are... I can only think of a handful of restaurants that are open at night, and to me, 6 p.m. is not evening.
Lola's, Caz's Chowhouse, Pomodori's, McNellie's (counting the restaurant part only) and Tsunami...
Am I leaving out any? I'm pretty sure Soranno's is only open until about 6 or 6:30, and KoKoa Kabana is only open until 6, and everything near Bartlett Square closes at 2 p.m., so I'm wondering what other restaurants seem to be struggling at night.
Of the ones listed on the press release in the first post on this thread, only Soranno's and Subway close early. The rest are open until 10 or so.
I gladly support the businesses that are open late. I'm a night owl and I live and work downtown, so I give none of my business to the places that close at 2 or 3 p.m.
Some of these downtown businesses need to actually be open their posted hours, instead of closing early or not opening at all for every minor holiday and the three days before and after every minor holiday. If you're open until 6 p.m. and the doors are locked when I visit at 5:40 p.m., you're losing my business.
And a final rant, to Quizno's: you're open until 5 p.m. Why do you feel the need to advertise to passers-by that you're closed by putting 90% of the chairs up at 1 p.m.? Whatever manager is allowing that is incredibly short-sighted.
If the Mayor wants me to eat more, I can.
I am a good eater, I have practiced every day.
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Originally posted by Conan71
I heard KFC in Jenks was strugging so I ate there. I didn't have enough time to make it to 71st & Memorial to see the PETA gals.
Ah the PETA folks. The only
worthwile stomach turning thing they do is the day before the Chupinazo of San Fermin...the Running of the Nudes. Far too many hairy armpits and dreadlocks for me....
The best was this Romainian chick who I filmed talking about how they were there to "protect the balls...I mean the bulls"
I applaud the Mayor using the bully pulpit. My only concern is that DTU wants NAMES of who sent what and how many and what not. That sounds like a lot of pressure, and speaks to how desperate things must be.
Also, the Mayor points to the A-ream-a, not street construction, as the culprit.
Following this posting, the initiative has picked up mentions on KTUL, KOTV, and KFAQ. We can all credit Grizz for making an offhand suggestion on the other thread RM alluded to. See, people, your opinion matters!
On the odd day I have a good idea, I should make a shirt or bumper sticker so I can claim credit.
Better be quick about it, otherwise other people will take credit and profit off your T-shirt and bumper sticker ideas, just like Forrest Gump. [;)]
Tell me more about this "Greens" place that has chicken and dumplings on Thursdays. What's the address / building?
East side of boulder, just to the south of the main mall parking garage.
No reasons the restaurants downtown would be worse off now than a few years back. There are actually MORE jobs downtown and the construction discourages people from leaving the area for lunch. Hope they do well but if they fail they fail...
Falls back to DTU's desire to instill life in down town. They should have thought of that years ago prior to all the parking lots replacing historic building. Its too late folks.
Sooooo.... now the mayer can tell us where to eat? That's fine with me if it's on her tab.
Not everyone has a lot of money and eating out a lot is not in the budget.
With the price of gas, groceries, daycare, utilities and huge house and car payments... eeek.
Kathy Taylor might not have to deal with those things in her world - but they are very much present in the real world.
I know she has good intentions - she just needs to get in touch with reality. We don't brown bag it because it's fun and tastes good.
I ate lunch at the Blue Dome Diner (Cafe?) today. It was one of the best luches I have had in quite a while.
I think the mayor's point was to encourage those of us who buy our lunches any way to stay downtown at lunch. I am sure she didn't mean to tell you it is your civic duty to stop taking your lunch to work.
Who wants to eat downtown with some wineo's taking a leak out in front of the restaurant? (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/blandbridenstine/zzduh.gif)
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Who wants to eat downtown with some wineo's taking a leak out in front of the restaurant? (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/blandbridenstine/zzduh.gif)
idiot.
i can't help but snicker at the mayor asking us to "eat downtown"... hmmmm... i know, i'm juvenile...
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Originally posted by brunoflipper
idiot.
fart hat