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Re: “Division Ale House”
My husband and I and numerous friends found the Division Ale House about 8 months ago and have been fairly regular customers, patronizing the place at least once a week. We go there mainly to watch sporting events but sometimes just because it’s a great place to hang. And food and service is great.
This is my first forum/blog type review for anything, and I write this now only because of an absolutely unprofessional experience that I, my husband and 4 friends witnessed on Saturday, June 15, 2013. Sometime after 10 PM the bar area erupted with a guy screaming (and I mean screaming) obscenities at one of the waitresses. The bar basically went quiet as this jerk screamed at the waitress about what appeared to be about a mixed up drink order. We heard this guy (later learned he was a bar manager named Cory) saying things like “you’re f#@*ing stupid” and “you retard”, then told her she was “outta there”. The waitress (later learned her name was Rose) just burst into tears and started to walk away. After witnessing this outrageous event we all left and vowed never the return to the Division Ale House or recommend it to anyone. And that also goes for the other restaurant () that we just learned is owned by the same person. Personally I’ll miss the DAH, but until whoever owns the place deals with the absolutely terrible management personnel problem, my husband and I (and many others) will not be spending a penny in that place. That bar manager should be fired immediately and if the owner can’t or won’t see that, his business is definitely going to suffer.
As a side note, on Sunday I shared this event with a bunch of our other friends that also frequent the DAH. Turns out three of them shared a similar experience that they suffered through just the day before. Those three friends and about seven of their friends went to the DAH Friday (June 14th) afternoon. The place was pretty quiet and rather empty. After their food orders were placed that same bar manager was heard back in the kitchen going ballistic on the kitchen staff. Again using profanity and threatening the cooks’ jobs. Our friends said they had no idea what it was all about but since they were about the only ones in the place at the time, they assumed it had something to do with their food orders. Those three friends I spoke with said that their food was great and served timely so before everyone left one of their friends (Greg) went back to the kitchen area and told one of the kitchen staff that everything was great and not to worry about anything.
Bottom line; management makes or breaks any business. If these two back-to-back events of totally unprofessional behavior aren’t seen as a pattern and immediately corrected by the owner of the DAH, then he is actually the problem.
DO NOT PATRONIZE THE DIVISION ALE HOUSE!!!
Re: “Division Ale House”
Totally Unprofessional Experience
Re: “My husband violated the ground rules I'd set for our threesome”
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Re: “Mayor Rahm channels his inner Herbert Hoover”
I take it from the comments that you've been unfair to Hoover - hilarious! So many more are willing to defend Herbert Hoover than are willing to take Rahm's side.
Re: “Nobody Cheers for Jerry Krause”
Michael Jordan called Krause "crumbs", because of his repulsive table manners.
Re: “VICE magazine tries to find the glamour in suicide”
It is also the honorable thing to do if you are guilty of a crime.
Re: “My husband violated the ground rules I'd set for our threesome”
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Re: “Millions for DePaul, budget cuts for public schools”
Disenchanted Teacher,
How much do you think those lights on Congress cost? Probably less than a million dollars. Certainly far less than two million. My goodness! How about some sense of scale. Is it also a scandal that there are almost always sidewalks on both sides of the streets? We could have saved money by only building and maintaining one sidewalk in every location, after all. Sometimes having good amenities in a city, such as lights, is good for its overall health.
And Abe, up in the second comment in this thread, is correct that the city is not building DePaul a stadium. The city and DePaul are co-financing a stadium that the city would own and would have multiple tenants. DePaul would be one of these tenants, but it will not be their stadium. And there are also other things this would involve besides the stadium. Whether it turns out to be a good idea or not is something that isn't clear to me yet. But it just isn't correct to treat this as if it was about building a stadium for DePaul. The idea is to jump-start economic development in that area. We know that Navy Pier's renovation in the 1990's, without question, turned out to be a big boom for the city. We know that the building of Millennium Park did as well. These things attract lots of visitors and even new residents to the city and has huge positive effects on the tax base. It may well be the case that the arena and everything associated with it also causes positive effects that far more than offset the costs. The reason Chicago is not Detroit (which right now is literally bankrupt and a truly horrendous city where everyone is suffering and public employees are going through much worse situations than Chicago) or Cleveland is because at times its elected leaders have made decisions that thought about the long term.
Re: “A different direction for WBEZ”
I've been listening and mostly loving to WBEZ for 20 years. So I realize that the program has to change every now and then and that the station has to try new things.
Nostalgically, I miss Gretchen Helfrich and Odyssey- she was my absolute favorite for intelligent and lively discussion. Also, was thrilled when Steve Edwards made his brief reappearance on 848 but dashed when he left again.
Tony Serabia is terrific and I admire his music knowledge but he is annoying as the morning host. He is not as sharp on current events and tries to relate every stoyr back to his own experience - even if he doesn't have one.
If WBEZ can't fund the original programs with actual journalists why doesn't it just reschedule
Talk of the Nation which is hands down one of the best programs on NPR? I miss TOTN (but love that Science Friday is still on!)
Tory Malatia is delusional if he thinks original content on WBEZ will continue if the stories are reported by unpaid hacks.. You get what you pay for, people.
Re: “The lessons of UNOgate—don't let Mihalopoulos catch you!”
Mr. Lee, I have a child with an IEP that is getting a better shake at a charter school. I believe the charters also must follow state law to protect these students. I can only speak for the charter school my son attends. I can say the case manager at the charter school is better than the case manager at the "real public school" who acted as though she didn't like children. And I can also say that I know of CPS teachers who don't or didn't send their children to the "real public schools." They send them to real private schools.
Re: “The TIF wash—et tu, Bright One?”
The day that Ms. Prewinckle announces she's running, I'm volunteering for her campaign.
Re: “The black power Burzum: A Gchat about Kanye West's Yeezus”
Sounds like cheap plugins and emotions
Re: “VICE magazine tries to find the glamour in suicide”
I don't think it's offensive. These stories have been told many times and with vast commercial purposes (Nicole Kidman anyone?).
Re: “Did you read about Brazil, Jimmy Hoffa, and Chief Keef?”
All this Hoffa talk reminds me of another Detroit badass. Just read BAD LIKE JESSE JAMES, a book about a guy who in the 1970s committed armed robbery, who trafficked in international heroin sales and ran Detroit's heroin market, who was involved in fraud, extortion and other assorted violent crimes. He not only plotted to rob a Brinks truck, he even threatened to blow up Detroit Airport unless he was paid $1,000,000! Bad? Yeah. The guy was also A FEDERAL ATF AGENT!
Re: “Jeremy Scahill on Dirty Wars and the global battlefield”
interesting tape on an interesting film.
Re: “The TIF wash—et tu, Bright One?”
"Over the last 30 years, we, the taxpayers, have paid roughly $5 billion in TIF taxes. Of which about 54 percent—or $2.7 billion—was taken in the name of CPS. Of that $2.7 billion, Mayors Daley or Emanuel have spent $920 million on various school-construction projects, according to CPS...which means the schools lost about $1.78 billion in the process."
That's over 30 years, which comes out to just under $60 million per year. When you consider the fact that CPS had a budget last year of $5.1 billion and a projected budget deficit next year of about $1 billion it really is a drop in the bucket. I'm not saying that TIF programs shouldn't be reformed. But many of your readers like to think of TIFs as an excuse for why financial belt-tightening at CPS isn't necessary. That just doesn't work. CPS continues to face real financial problems year after year, which severely limits the progress it can make towards getting the necessary programs in place so that children can succeed. Even if you believe that every dollar that TIFs take away from CPS is wasted and doesn't result in additional tax revenue in the future these numbers are still only a tiny proportion of the financial trouble the district always faces. So there need to be changes in other areas. Lots of Reader readers think that simply mentioning TIFs provides them an out and means this is not so.
"Here's another stat you might want to consider. At the moment, CPS says its per pupil expenditure is about $13,600. In contrast, the great private schools in the city—Latin, Parker, Lab School—charge upwards of $30,000 in tuition."
And yet, you mentioned several weeks ago that the lab school only has a 10% higher salary for its top paid teachers compared with the top paid teachers at CPS. But you didn't use the word "only" and actually thought that was something that showed that the lab school treats their teachers better than CPS. And no doubt, that number is lower for the average salary or salary plus benefits or else you likely would have used those numbers. So you have to look at whether that is one thing causing the district's constant financial predicaments. Despite actually charging high tuition and in addition having large donations and the wallet of a major university behind it, the U of C lab school provides a very similar salary to teachers as CPS. I think that's extraordinary.
Re: “MK”
Hard to believe, but I hadn’t been to mk in over a decade. I liked it then, and it’s only gotten since. The space is sleek and restrainedly dramatic, yet very comfortable -- great for business, visiting or romance. The menu entices. Service was very warm and attentive -- everyone was intent on connecting with us and making our meal special. Music was well-chosen and not too loud. And most importantly, the food hit all the right notes for us. I rated mk 4* then -- this time it was 4.5*…
A lobster salad set the tone for the meal: fresh ingredients, nicely combined and presented. I splurged for a wagyu ribeye, and loved the flavors & texture (it was a shade rarer than I ordered, but within acceptable limits). A snapper entrée was similarly superb and graced with an engaging variety of veggie décor. For dessert, “cuckoo for cocoa-nuts” won our hearts with its great flavors and fine wit. Cappuccino was very good.
OK, it’s a splurge. Everything’s a little pricey at mk, but the quality is commensurate. Even though it’s not conveniently located for me, I’ll make a point to get back sooner.
Re: “The TIF wash—et tu, Bright One?”
This is crooked for sure. But throwing money at schools full of no-class kids with turds for parents wouldn't improve anything.
Re: “The TIF wash—et tu, Bright One?”
Thanks again, Ben. Only you have made this ongoing travesty clear to regular folks like us.
So much good writing, too: what the new young teachers have to look forward to; whoever fed it to the Sun-Times; a hosing not a wash; a dream team of CPA's to find out; billions to gazillionaires...on and on.
Re: “Where are the editorial cartoonists who take the side of the NSA?”
"Here come the Edward Snowden truthers"
"Some think he's a CIA plant, others say he's a useful idiot. But they all agree: Something stinks to high heaven!"
http://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/here_come_…