Recruitment

I am sure there is mention of this or something similiar so please bear with me.Most posts seem to be from the area of Chicago,Oak Park,Skokie and Evanston.What do you think can be done to get more input from other areas,both Illinois and elsewhere?Thanks in advance.

Gee, here you go ignoring us far west suburban types. Are you working with that anti-suburban bigot, MikeG??? (I know this is not the case, but I had to get in the dig at Mike).

There develop natural groupings of posters from different areas. The concentration is greatest in the downtown area because that is where most people are, and most chow-worthy places can be found, but cells pop up naturally all over the place. There are half a dozen far west posters, and ongoing dialogs about Lombard, Downers, and Westmont, for instance.

I do not know of any way to recruit by specific areas, and I think we just need to let it develop naturally.

dicksond wrote:I do not know of any way to recruit by specific areas, and I think we just need to let it develop naturally.

Butch, where you been?

Okay, here's my marketing strategy: sandwich boards (get it?!). At select suburban shopping malls (and I know there's a lot of them out there in the suburbs, outside the city where all the good restaurants are) you and select other suburbanites can walk around the franchises endemic to your area with a sandwich board that on one side says "Just Because You Live in Suburbia Doesn't Mean You Have No Taste," and on other the other a blurb about LTH (just a few paragraphs). What do you think? Do you love it?

Hammond

It's difficult to give good input on dining places when one lives in the cullinarily destitute suburban wasteland.

When we moved to town I asked a neighbor where the best restaurant in town was. He directed me to the local McDonald's. I thought it was a joke, but now I'm thinking he was right.

Eat You LOok So Thin!

Geez, don't give in to popular prejudice. There are pockets of interesting food everywhere you go.

Do you seriously believe there is food excellence all over Chicago? Ha! There is quite a bit of mediocre you have to weed through to find the jewels. There simply happen to be more people beating the bushes in Chicago than the suburbs.

Regards,

We lived in Chicago many years. There was always a mom and pop pizza parlor on every block. When we moved to the Schaumburg area I asked many neighbors who has the best pizza, I was shocked that they all had the same answer: DOMINOES ! . I learned a very important lesson, always ask the main important questions before you move.

Kim wrote:We lived in Chicago many years. There was always a mom and pop pizza parlor on every block. When we moved to the Schaumburg area I asked many neighbors who has the best pizza, I was shocked that they all had the same answer: DOMINOES ! . I learned a very important lesson, always ask the main important questions before you move.

I remember when I was in Akron OH. for training. I asked the same question about the best pizza in town, and I go the same answer. The worst part of it was, they were right. I was there for 2 weeks and tried 3 or 4 local places. I know it's hard to believe anything could be worse than Dominos, but it was.

No, you don't have to go into Chicago to get a decent meal. Reading these boards gives you the impression that it does. That is probably because most of the participants live in the city and hang around in the city. There is also a critical mass of restaurants in the city.

I have had some good meals in the city and some terrible ones. I have found that some of the recommendations have NOT been as good as some of the places that I have stumbled into. I have found some places that certain people do NOT like that I have really enjoyed.

Personally, Midas, I lived in the Cleveland area for five years and after the first, we generally ate at home because the quality of the restaurants in the under $25 range was pretty bad (but there were some good pizza places) and not anywhere near what I could produce at home.

But personally, I would rather head to Woodman's and get a frozen pizza before heading to Gino's East again. And if I see another bottom round (oops, I mean Italian Beef) sandwich, ...