Checking out the resurrected Mel's

New Mel's: Turns out showing up there in the first week - second day - after their involuntary two year absence a bit of an error, as they are still ~~getting the bugs out~~ have unresolved inefficiencies in their procedures; in particular they needed more staff, it seemed. They sat us as quickly as they could, but that was around 30-40 minutes. The wait for food was similarly long.

The wait staff was friendly and attentive; the delays were beyond their control.

I had the all day breakfast: sausages a little more well done than I like and the pancakes a little less done than I like but tasted good. Sundae was good but I misunderstood what was meant by chocolate sundae. I was expecting for no reason vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce and I got chocolate ice cream with chocolate sauce, which I expect is going to be enough to trigger my usual reaction to too much chocolate[1].

I'd say wait a week for them to ~~get the bugs out~~ resolve the inefficiencies in their procedures and then give it a try.

1: Better than my reaction to too many oranges: one orange makes me energetic, two make me feel like I am being strangled.

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beamjockey

2012-05-09 01:55 pm (UTC)

I had the all day breakfast: sausages...

Are these similar to an all-day sucker? Do they come on a stick? Why would you order more than one? Are you still eating them now?

(Wait... I just noticed the colon after "breakfast," which is really small and faint in the font displayed on my screen.)

Never mind...

kithrup

2012-05-09 03:33 pm (UTC)

I'd say wait a week for them to get the bugs out and then give it a try.

That is a very unfortunate choice of words, you know.

bwross

2012-05-09 03:42 pm (UTC)

I was confused for a moment there until I saw that it was in a new location... I walk by the old location regularly, and it's just started to be redeveloped.

(Anonymous)

2012-05-09 04:01 pm (UTC)

Is there a known motivation for the arson?

-- Graydon

james_nicoll

2012-05-09 04:11 pm (UTC)

However, Campbell and Schneider only meant for the blaze to destroy Tabu when they threw molotov cocktails through the nightclub’s windows. According to an agreed statement of facts, they were hired to eliminate the competition Tabu created when it opened in 2009 by Brent Campbell, the owner of Titanium Nightclub — formerly The Vault — in Uptown Waterloo.

Goodness.

2012-05-09 04:22 pm (UTC)

Even at a half sentence, that's something like 4.5 kCAD/year of prison. Seems remarkably cheap.

I take it the inability to return is the usual mix of insurance companies not wanting to pay and city councilors with developer friends hoping for a nice profit?

-- Graydon

Re: Goodness.

2012-05-09 04:24 pm (UTC)

I do not know.

doc_lemming

2012-05-09 06:49 pm (UTC)

I believe so--at least the former; I don't know enough about the city councilors.

There was also, I think, an ownership question about the land, that fed into the insurance squabbles and problems with rebuilding.

(Or I'm wrong. All of this has a healthy dose of "Maybe I misremember or made it up without realizing".)

viktor_haag

2012-05-09 07:01 pm (UTC)

The tale I heard was either (a) ownership of the land itself changed hands, or (b) the owner of the land wanted to rather take the opportunity to "better develop" it now that the costs to do so had been dramatically reduced, or (c) both a) and b). I rather understood that the new plans called for a four or five story apartment with shops on the basement level, a la Bauer lofts.

But I have no idea if that tale has any substance in actual fact.

2012-05-09 05:43 pm (UTC)

In the letter, Daniel Campbell claims to have found God while in custody.

I wonder what God is in jail for?

2012-05-09 06:47 pm (UTC)

Practicing evolution without a license.

Part of being omnipresent is being in jail and out of jail. At the same time.

scott_sanford

2012-05-10 06:17 am (UTC)

Maybe it's like particle observations. God is in a superposition of being both outside and inside jail until Daniel Campbell observes Him and collapses the state vector.

dbdatvic

2012-05-13 05:04 am (UTC)

See also: Omnipresent Man, in the Basic Instructions webcomic.

--Dave, and one of his enemies as well

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james_nicoll

More Words, Deeper Hole

Goodness.

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