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Default The Eclipse: The Club Missed a Huge Opportunity!

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:54:55 -0400, jmcquown >
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>On 8/21/2017 7:25 PM, cshenk wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> On 8/21/2017 7:07 PM, cshenk wrote:
>>>> jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/21/2017 6:53 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 12:39:49 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They could have charged upwards of $60 per person and I
>>>>>>> guarantee some people would have bought it. Oh well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The workers didn't want to have to come in on their only day
>>>>>> off.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -sw
>>>>>>
>>>>> Most of them don't work on Tuesday, either. The Club is only open
>>>>> for a couple of hours for lunch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jill
>>>>
>>>> Ah well. I agree, the flks there would have liked a little party
>>>> that time.
>>>>
>>> The eclipse was pretty much a non-event anyway. It rained all
>>> afternoon. It didn't even get dark here. Just looked like another
>>> cloudy day. Of course they still could have turned it into a
>>> money-making event with people watching on the flat screens in the
>>> Pub. Oh well, too late now.
>>>
>>> Jill

>>
>> True but i bet it would have been fun to meet up!
>>

>I know there are a lot of people who would have paid a premium to get
>together for an Eclipse Party at the Pub, rain or shine, inside or out.
> Reservations would have been necessary, which pretty much locks in a
>pre-paid price, menu and the servers automatically get 20%. It's not as
>if the eclipse snuck up on anyone. But, it apparently didn't occur to
>anyone in the marketing department they could have held an eclipse
>party. Oh well.
>
>Jill


Perhaps the drudge workers were not prepared to forgo their day off
for the 'club' people?