[Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

So far my staff have been here nearly every day this week helping to paint
and sort through the trash in the basement for no more than the thought
that maybe we can really change things in this town :)

Maybe that's the advantage in selling jazz?
On Jun 3, 2015 11:56 AM, "Robert Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:

> OMG. You do not know what you are getting into.
>
> I have owned a restaurnnt with 18 employees - 17 of which didn't want to
> do their job. All they wanted to do was steal from the employer, show up
> late, but be there with hand out waiting for their check.
>
> And I didn't even try to sell Jazz.
>
> Employees have no business sense. They don't realize what it cost you to
> operate a business. They see the money come in but they don'tsee it go out.
>
> Employees will kill the goose, that lays the golden egg. They will steal
> the employer blind  and then wonder what happened to their job.
>
> When I worked in night clubs playing music, I always thought I could run a
> club better than what my boss was doing. It wasn't until I was writing the
> checks myself that I found out how much I didn't know.
>
> Now I have a business with 50 vending machines and two part time
> employees. My 50 vending machines work 24 hours a day and seldom break
> down. They don't steal money and don't call in sick.
>
> All I can say is good luck, guard your back and be careful.
>
> BTW- before you plaster the walls with paper, find out what the building
> code is regarding fire proofing.
>
> -Bob Ringwald
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Gary Lawrence Murphy
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 5:51 AM
> To: Bob Ringwald
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] I seem to have accidentally bought a jazz club ...
>
> Greetings gang,
>
> well it is official, as if I didn't have already no free time, universal
> forced beyond my control conspired to hurl me into the role of the owner of
> a stage-equipped 80-seat restaurant in Owen Sound, Ontario of all places,
> with another 80 seats in a rooftop patio under the stars, all of it right
> in the very heart of the downtown, a stone's throw from the main banking
> corner.
>
> Long story short, last January this place defaulted on their lease-to-buy
> and went up for sale way undervalue, I foolishly posted on facebook to say
> "anyone want to start a jazz club" and received offers to help with the
> business plan from as far afield as Kansas City and the UK, I found a
> musician chef who can do New Orleans cooking, an amazing bartender and
> expert servers who are in there right now painting the place in teals and
> golds and there I was, standing in the doorway of my own club when a
> drive-by photo shooting put me up on facebook!  Yikes.
>
> facebook.com/avalonjazz for those of the mind to click through, and it is
> already at 400+ Likes before the paint is dry!
>
> and I have a favour to ask: the current washroom wallpaper is newspaper
> funnies and I have two old beat up Downbeats that I thought I might
> cannibalize to cut up and re-paper the walls, only two won't do it.  Would
> anyone happen to have any old jazz magazines laying about that just never
> made it to the recycle but should have?
>
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