Post #322578 by TikiJosh on Wed, Aug 1, 2007 12:16 PM

I would echo the sentiment that any criticism has to reach the right people. The management have posted here on TC, and I think that they're trying pretty hard to take anyone's suggestion under consideration. They've even offered to play exotica if you bring them a CD with your music on it! Some of our favorite recordings are out of print, and impossible to find, so maybe we can improve the music selection by offering up some of what we'd like to listen to.
I haven't experienced the hip-hop night, but sometimes that's what it takes to keep a place open-- the owners are in the restaurant business after all and you can't make any money with no customers. I mean, think about old Sam's. It was a great tiki temple, but almost always empty.
If we want more tikis and exotica, then we need to patronize establishments like Sam's and make our requests known. But no one in the restaurant business will pay for a ton of tikis and play exotica all the time for TC patrons that might show up once a month or whatever. They'll do things to satisfy the customers that show up every week. If that's a big screen TV and hip-hop for the 20-something regulars, that's what they'll do.
Sam's will only be as good as we help it become.