it are teh fryday!
Originally Posted by N600
honestly, i was less than impressed...
my boss gave my wife & i a gift cert for there for our anniversary.
for all the hype, they sure don't take the extra evffort to make it "over the top" like everyone says...
for instance...
the menus...they're printed on 8.5x11 paper and glue sticked to the inside covers of nice menu jackets...mine even had a fat food stain on it...
the "live" flowers on the tables were that only in name. most were wilted and some were even brown and flat out DEAD!
the wine list cards on the table were printed on a home printer and hand cut out and folded in an awkward triangle tent that were mostly falling over and ragged.
the food selection wasn't huge and the dishes all had a similar theme, so there was not a large amount of variety.
the food we did get was good, not great and nothing spectacular like i've heard people rave, but i wasn't dogfood.
presentation was decent, but there were attentions to detail that were just flat out overlooked.
i think we only got decent service (once she came) cus my wife went to school w/ our waitress, cus they took almost a half hour to take our orders and i could see other tables around us looking around for their server or waiting extremely long for things...
just not done to the extent that it should for the reputation that place has.
i guess it cuts it for "upscale" in pville...but 90% of this crap wouldn't fly in SF or anywhere else that has real class or society...
my boss gave my wife & i a gift cert for there for our anniversary.
for all the hype, they sure don't take the extra evffort to make it "over the top" like everyone says...
for instance...
the menus...they're printed on 8.5x11 paper and glue sticked to the inside covers of nice menu jackets...mine even had a fat food stain on it...
the "live" flowers on the tables were that only in name. most were wilted and some were even brown and flat out DEAD!
the wine list cards on the table were printed on a home printer and hand cut out and folded in an awkward triangle tent that were mostly falling over and ragged.
the food selection wasn't huge and the dishes all had a similar theme, so there was not a large amount of variety.
the food we did get was good, not great and nothing spectacular like i've heard people rave, but i wasn't dogfood.
presentation was decent, but there were attentions to detail that were just flat out overlooked.
i think we only got decent service (once she came) cus my wife went to school w/ our waitress, cus they took almost a half hour to take our orders and i could see other tables around us looking around for their server or waiting extremely long for things...
just not done to the extent that it should for the reputation that place has.
i guess it cuts it for "upscale" in pville...but 90% of this crap wouldn't fly in SF or anywhere else that has real class or society...
Agreed, really. If they dropped the pretense of being 'upscale', I think it would be better recieved. Its a decent place, trying to be bigger and better then it really is.
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Originally Posted by sonicsuby
At my company? People making 6 figures and above 
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Originally Posted by nKoan
word to school.
I'll looking at heading back for an MBA too.
MBA + CS hopefully equals teh win!
I'll looking at heading back for an MBA too.
MBA + CS hopefully equals teh win!
Originally Posted by nKoan
word to school.
I'll looking at heading back for an MBA too.
MBA + CS hopefully equals teh win!
I'll looking at heading back for an MBA too.
MBA + CS hopefully equals teh win!
As a related point, I was recently in southeast Asia and toured some of their high tech computer facillities where college graduates are getting paid about $20/day, PhDs a little more but still far less than what equivalent positions here would yield in an hour. Basically, people that get paid well are computer scientists with MBAs. I forgot which CEO stated that he would rather hire English majors that picked up programming as a hobby than computer science majors that cannot communicate.
I would not quite agree with this statement but the globalization trend as of lately supports the idea: Why should some global company (say Intel) hire an BSEng from the USA and pay him 70k+ when they can get an equivalent production out fo a Filipino or Indian MSEng for 10 times less money?
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Originally Posted by nKoan
word to school.
I'll looking at heading back for an MBA too.
MBA + CS hopefully equals teh win!
I'll looking at heading back for an MBA too.
MBA + CS hopefully equals teh win!
Originally Posted by sonicsuby
At my company? People making 6 figures and above .
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Originally Posted by kidatari
And what's funnier is that people with a Bachelors' in Underwater Basket Weaving are among those with useful degrees making six figures. I wish college instilled some common sense into people.
Off topic, but at last nights NIN concert, we found your twin Matt. MattR will be able to verify this finding (sperry too, but I know he will never enter this daily thread 
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Originally Posted by nKoan
Off topic, but at last nights NIN concert, we found your twin Matt. MattR will be able to verify this finding (sperry too, but I know he will never enter this daily thread )
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Originally Posted by sonicsuby
My twin is having way more fun than I am. Any possibility it's the same guy from Egans picture a week or so ago?
