Rum Monkey closed
Yes, we have no bananas.
Rum Monkey restaurant, open on Battleground Avenue in Greensboro for less than a year, has closed. Owner Kotis Properties hopes to re-lease the space to another restaurant but has no immediate plans.
Look for more in tomorrow's News & Record.
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That location borders the inner city as well as some industrial type businesses. In addition it's at the low end of Battleground and not convenient to it's targeted market.
After three quality restaurants have failed to thrive, I would think twice about investing at that location.
Posted on August 9, 2006 8:32 AM
We were very excited about Rum Monkeys in Greensboro. We visit in Charlotte and enjoy the menu and service.Nice place for kids. My daughter went for her birthday(Greensboro location..food & service ok) so we decided to take an out of town guest there. After being seated by a disinterested hostess we sat among 3 dirty, smelly tables for over 15 minutes without notice. Busy you might ask? Rum Monkeys had 2 4 tops and a duce. Staff was quite noisy in the kitchen. Spoke to the manager who seemed disinterested also. Bad location maybe...Bad everything else absolutely.. What a shame.
Posted on August 10, 2006 12:40 PM
We went to rum monkey with some friends .
and the service was kind of slow.
but the food was real good .
sorry to see it go.
the location was in a purfact spot right near the movies . So i dont know what this persons porblum was as far as the location was concerned.
anyway have a great day. Lisa
Posted on August 17, 2006 5:34 PM
My name is Maggie. I used to be a be a bartender and server. I used to work at rum monkey a couple months before We had great food and excelent drinks (because i was the bartender) haha. I was very upset to hear it was closing. We had a great staff aani hope all the best to the owners on finding a new bar/resturant. I would definently work for them again!
Posted on August 29, 2006 9:31 AM
I used to work at Rum Monkey as well, and agreed the place could have used a little help, but overall it was a wonderful place to work, a very fun menu, and I enjoyed my experience there. I will have to say that they could have gotten rid of some of the bad/negative employees a little sooner, and the place could have survived. I think a combonation of bad publicity decisions, lack of marketing, and failure in complete customer satisfaction played a huge part in the restaurant not making it. We had customers...just had a hard time keeping them. Ironically, I miss working there but life goes on!
Posted on September 29, 2006 5:28 PM