Pancakes in High Point
Our colleagues over at the Triad Business Journal scoured through the agenda of the somewhat obscure High Point Technical Review Committee and found that the Greensboro pancake institution Tex & Shirley's is planning a High Point location.
Many Greensboro residents have spent a good part of their weekend mornings standing in line waiting for a table at Tex & Shirley's.
And if the cigarette smoke inside put you off, you've been heard. The Friendly Center site has been all non-smoking seating for a while now.
And, an even bigger paradigm shift: the formerly all-cash restaurant is taking credit cards. They say they've been accepting them since fall, but I've been so conditioned to the cash method, I never noticed.
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For more than half my life, this this landmark establishment provided customers with something rare and good: consistency, a great product, and a friendly, customer oriented atmosphere. Now that's a business model you wouldn't want to tinker with.
On any visit, any customer could could expect (and usually got): a waiting line, (good sign), the same waitstaff (another good sign), and the occasional "You want the usual, Hon?" (a great sign). And of course, paying in cash when we were done.
The "We Take Credit Cards" sign puzzles me, So does what seemes to me like a lot of new waitstaff faces. And come to think of it, its been a while since I heard, "You want the usual, Hon?" And while the hosts and hostesses, for whatever reasons, might not show that the're delighted that a customer came to their establishment, I'm sure they are that their credit cards came.
I'm not sure that's the business model I'd want to see duplicated in High Point.
Posted on March 4, 2005 12:13 PM
We're not that picky in High Point. We want it anyway.
Posted on March 4, 2005 6:08 PM