Ah. Yes, I guess I would agree, then. Thanks, Dom.

Dmnkly wrote:I believe that's the post Gary is referring to.

Dom,

Actually, no, but that's not that point. This thread is over 100 posts and, along with Kuma's music and boxing machine, Paul the Waiter and a few other notable threads, went straight from mildly interesting to Internet Kudzu of the finest order.

Enjoy,
Gary

wino66 wrote:

jesteinf wrote:The reservation process at Schwa annoys some people, and not others.

Some people think it must be fixed, others don't.

The food rocks. Michael is a nice guy when you meet him in person.

Can we be done now?

Hallelujah and pass the foie!

Personally, I'm tired of everyone griping about Michael's reservation skills, or lack thereof. His food is great, the ambiance is minimal but pleasant (I do applaud his music choices tho), and for those wanting to dine at his restaurant we will do what it takes to get there. It's a tiny restaurant with a minuscule staff...so for those bitching about not getting call-backs or finding their full voice mail, just keep trying and GET OVER YOURSELVES ALREADY! If you aren't having a happy experience prior to going, then just go somewhere else...there are a gazillion great restaurants in our fair city that deserve your business just as much as Schwa does.

Just venting, sorry if this rubs any of you the wrong way...well, not super sorry.

Will do. I'll go to a restaurant that respects their patrons enough to call them back or to make sure that they can, at the very least, leave a message. This action alone makes Schwa, for me, unable to be considered amongst the city's best.

Mike G wrote:

If you don't like it then lock it?

I wouldn't mind if the thread gets locked, because it has become ridiculously circular. But at what point do the thread-haters come to realize that it is their own sarcastic complaints that have created the monster they now seek to destroy? This thread was mostly about legitimate issues with the restaurant until certain people - most of whom have current or former affiliation with LTHForum in an official capacity - decided they didn't like what was being said about this GNR winner. I suspect that the thread would have died long ago if those folks had just let the discussion take its course.

Let me reiterate that I admire and respect the Moderators and all others who volunteer their time for this terrific forum. In this unrepresentative case, however, I think many of them have handled it poorly.

Sarcastic they may be, but they have an entirely serious point.

The most active threads at LTHForum at the moment are about reservations (and the personal psychology of a restaurant owner), a fast food Italian beef (which only one person, last time I'd checked, had actually tasted), a TV show, and allergies.

Hmm, what's missing on this "culinary chat site"?

Fundamentally, the site's about eating. Eating out, eating in, what you ordered, what you cooked. Yeah, it's flashlight focused to take in all that other stuff, but when that stuff so completely takes over, something's rotten in the state of Denny's.

I speak only for myself when I say that, and if the current management feels otherwise, by all means listen to them instead, but I can only say that it is a bit disheartening to post lengthy dead-on-target material (as I did quite recently) and to watch it turn brown and curl around the edges while these other extraneous discussions set the Internets a-humming.

Kennyz wrote:Let me reiterate that I admire and respect the Moderators and all others who volunteer their time for this terrific forum. In this unrepresentative case, however, I think many of them have handled it poorly.

On that happy note, we now lock the thread and put this topic to sleep.

Regards,
Cathy2 for the moderators