Post #466011 by Bongo Bungalow on Wed, Jul 1, 2009 4:57 AM

On 2009-06-30 14:31, TikiGoddess wrote:
Regardless of whether a place is a tiki establishment or not, I will never understand why a company will spend millions to set up a restaurant/bar and then fail to teach bartenders how to make drinks, fail to train waitstaff and then fail to have decent food. Its like they want the business to be a disaster from the start. I mean, its not hard to tell someone how to make a drink, take an order or tell the cook to try something else. You can do that for free! It would take 5 minutes to tell the bartender how to make a mai tai. I say this after having worked in several restaurants in my day.
The winner is FRANKIES, by the way!!!! Long live Frankies Tiki Room!!!!!

I suspect sometimes they made good drinks and sometimes not... but that's likely not why they failed here. The concept, (a unique, modern, ultra lounge version of the TVics concept), was wrong for the site and for the times. Once it was clear they were not going to attract the sales they needed, the place fell apart until they got to the point of closing it. Long live Frankies!