Topic: restaurant

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a similar post, but from the opposite side: Hiring a Community Manager. This week, I've received emails from several people asking about how they can become an online community manager. I thought it would be a good idea to write this post for people who want to be hired into their first community manager job. Start by reading the Hiring a Community Manager post. It...in existing online communities as a user. Find something that you are passionate about (restaurant reviews, happy hours, guitars, under...

Those who live in Lents know far better than I, but it seems that the Lents URA is making headway. This article from The Oregonian gives clear indication that the town center is changing, and shows how strong demand is for local goods and services. The article describes how plans for a coffee shop grew into a full restaurant because of demand by residents. Now that restaurant has a line out the...

Blogger Ms Bitchcakes does some simple nutrition math to realize that Starbucks can't possibly be telling the truth on their peach tart nutrition information. Do you think the chain's peach tarts are only 120 calories? (hint, one gram of fat is 9 calories) Follow her adventures to find out what the real caloric count is. What other foods been notably wrong with their nutritional...of the chain's "Guiltless Grill" salmon contained 35 grams of fat - 2.5 times as much fat as the restaurant claimed - 14 grams - accord...

As a general rule, I am obnoxiously over-polite to anyone who prepares food for me, say at a restaurant, buffet or diner. I also extend such kindness to custodians, because I know they have secret power over the lives of us office-frequenting drones and our refuse, garbage and trash. So listen carefully now when I tell you a cautionary tale regarding the heroic exploits of my janitor friend Mr....

It sure has been hot lately! I don’t know about where you live, but here in Southern Oregon, it is HOT. Not only is it hot, but the smoke from the California Wildfires is blowing in, and we’ve been having occasional thunderstorms, so it’s been humid as well. During times like these, my family spends a lot of time indoors with the air conditioner running (we have a wall...a bookstore (if I’m fairly confident I can leave without buying something), or head to a restaurant to buy a cold drink. On a Tue...

It doesn't happen very often when you meet someone who makes such an impression on you as these two did on me. Two separate retired guys from two separate lifestyles. And then to have them pass away a month apart. I feel so honored to have known them both and so sad to not have their presence around anymore. "Dud" Lemke was the first. I met Dud shortly after I began to move Jake's over to its new...I began working on our new building, I was out back looking over the old appliances that the last restaurant had left behind. A man rod...

Sometimes, the sheer enormity of the problems in the world can make you feel that your efforts to help out are a bit trifling. How can small changes on an individual level possibly make a dent? Michael Pollan, journalist, author, and localvore, takes this mindset to task in a recent article that argues that little steps, individual actions and yes, even changing your light bulbs, really can...one can yield from very small spaces. During the workshop, the teacher mentioned that a local restaurant called Rocket grows the major...

Jennifer at Culinaria Eugenius had a great post recently about doing up some little green potstickers. I couldn't have come across it at a better time. With a fridge full of yummy CSA produce, I was nonetheless feeling a bit of a cooking doldrum. Then I remembered that we had a bunch of spring roll wrappers in the freezer. Left over from a "roll your own" egg roll party we did for my birthday,...to blot oil. Repeat, repeat, repeat until are fried a lovely golden brown, and your local Chinese restaurant delivery guy is asking if...

I'm at the point in my life where I question everything. I question who is in my life, what I am doing with my life, where I want to go in my life, what I want to do with my life. I just don't have answers. Sometimes I sit and ask why. Why am I the way I am? Why do I like the people I do? What are things happening the way they are? I wish I could let things go and accept that I don't...am working with. I don't know what to say to people. I don't know where things are located in the restaurant. I just don't have a clue...

Here in Southern Oregon we were rooting for the "other" Cook in American Idol Christy Lee Cook, rather than American Idol winner David Cook. On the way home from California Sunday we dropped in to the Country Folks restaurant of Selma, Oregon. My wife and daughter had been there before but I hadn't. In addition to being "Christy Lee Central" for local fans who would watch the show from...