New Chicago Trader Vic's TV announcement - Feb. 7 - Other Events

R reedalong Member Chicago, IL Joined: Aug 27, 2004 Posts: 61	R reedalong Posted posted on Wed, Feb 8, 2006 1:24 PM I couldn't get off work to go to the afternoon event yesterday but my wife and I went to Harry Caray's around 5:30 to score a Mai Tai and see what was left of the earlier festivities. The staff was still dressed in aloha shirts and leis and President Richter was still hanging out at the bar and chatting up various guys in suits. Our first Mai Tai was okay but not quite right (I think it was under-shaken), the second was very very very close to the last Mai Tai I had at Trader Vic's in December. So glad to hear that the sports bar influence will be absent from the new T.V.'s, because as the happy hour crowd started to arrive at Harry Caray's it became increasingly difficult to fantasize we were in polynesia... One other thought: the servers seemed to be really pushing the Mai Tais, which made me think that perhaps this little Harry Caray detour will be a good recruiting tool for T.V. - they are definitely reaching a different clientele and this new sports bar clientele was willing to try (and enjoy) a Mai Tai if offered to them by a cute waitress.

I couldn't get off work to go to the afternoon event yesterday but my wife and I went to Harry Caray's around 5:30 to score a Mai Tai and see what was left of the earlier festivities. The staff was still dressed in aloha shirts and leis and President Richter was still hanging out at the bar and chatting up various guys in suits. Our first Mai Tai was okay but not quite right (I think it was under-shaken), the second was very very very close to the last Mai Tai I had at Trader Vic's in December.

So glad to hear that the sports bar influence will be absent from the new T.V.'s, because as the happy hour crowd started to arrive at Harry Caray's it became increasingly difficult to fantasize we were in polynesia...

One other thought: the servers seemed to be really pushing the Mai Tais, which made me think that perhaps this little Harry Caray detour will be a good recruiting tool for T.V. - they are definitely reaching a different clientele and this new sports bar clientele was willing to try (and enjoy) a Mai Tai if offered to them by a cute waitress.

Post #213490 by reedalong on Wed, Feb 8, 2006 1:24 PM