Originally Posted by Gutter Meat
If the owner canīt run it and be there, it will never survive.
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If the owner canīt run it and be there, it will never survive.
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What up with this place ?, the location is absolutely perfect. Why cant they make it work. And I heard their burgers are really good too, and they have happy hour specials too . Very strange.
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I'm amazed that there's still a place named "Pedro McMurphy's". It's been inconsistently run since owner #1.
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I met the owner and had a really good long chat with him. He is and intends to be an absentee owner which means almost 100% the business will fail/close.
IF the owner is not there and running the business himself he has to trust someone to do it for him which is almost as risky and improbable that it would work. The manager has to be trusted and enabled, with authority and money, to run the business and that is a huge risk that almost no one is willing to take but without that it just cannot work IMO....
Too bad too as I really like Ted and the bar/location but until the right owner takes over it's just not going to be a consistent business.
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Ted will land on his feet...he always does!
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Fugly old grannies as the waitress and now Ted. Who do you want to look at when being served? It was working pretty good a few years back when the 2 exceptionally well-endowed and good looking sisters worked there.
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Just as absentee novios...case closed.
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I never cared who owned it, as long as the wings and burgers remain good and those happy hour specials continue......
who cares??? owners come and go there, only the strong few last!
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Ted is a great bartender wherever he works so that is good news that he is at this bar now...
but that one speaking about good wings there is WRONG...
The sauce is just tabasco...they are awful...but anyway if their beers are cold nowadays then I will certainly jump in once soon...
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The wings used to be real good. I ate them almost everyday. That was probably a few owners ago.
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With less than $5,000 anyone can buy any shitty business in Sosua.
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Re: Ted now at Pedro McMurphys
I think you'd find that very difficult to make happen for anything above a basic non-mobile chicken cart.
Define shitty though, please. Be interested to see what you think you could buy for $5000 USD in Sosua.Pedro McM's has been sold a few times and I understand that it was 6 figures each time...
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I think you'd find that very difficult to make happen for anything above a basic non-mobile chicken cart.
Define shitty though, please. Be inteested to see what you think you could buy for $5000 USD in Sosua.
Pedro McM's has been sold a few times and I understand that it was 6 figures each time...
If you donīt know, I am not about to educate you.
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Sunburn making you grumpy this morning?Feel better soon!
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Sunburn making you grumpy this morning?
Feel better soon!
Talk to Mav when you see him. He set up 4 business in Sosua, all under $6,000.
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I have and have seen him and his partner in action since 2005 or so. I understand how tough it is to make a go of starting/running a business in Sosua as do you. I'll probably do it again, just somewhere else!
Buying a biz generally costs a lot more than starting one though...
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I have and have seen him and his partner in action since 2005 or so. I understand how tough it is to make a go of starting/running a business in Sosua as do you. I'll probably do it again, just somewhere else!
Buying a biz generally costs a lot more than starting one though...
99% fail, so good luck with your future plans in Sosua.
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I just heard from Ted. He said the place is closed. Has not seen the owner in a bit.
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That's too bad. This was a great place for happy hour and watching the chicas go by. Hopefully someone will open it up again. I think with some hot chicas behind the bar and waiting tables this could be a great bar with a great location.
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B o D 12/08/2014
I first went there in 2008 just after the then new owners had bought the place. It was a Canadian couple, nice people. Dude's name is Garth and forgot the old ladies. Then, they had a few hot looking chicas working as bartenders and waitresses. The happy hour appetizers were real tasty, the Presidentes always had a layer of frost on the bottle when served to you. The overhead televisions always were tuned to the hockey or NBA playoffs. It was one of my favorite spots for stopping by while there. Probably went in there every other day in the late afternoon. While there, Garth even mentioned to me that he had just made their first payment!
On my next visit several months later, the opening hours were inconsistant and few customers were to be seen. I heard from the old lady who worked the bar (God...what a turnoff!) that the couple who owned it had split up. That basically started the downward spiral that has apparently enveloped that place ever since. Too bad because it was a great place to hang with friends or even bring a chica in for lunch. I did that many times.
I hope it gets cranked up again one day. But, as Jimmy has said many times before, it needs to be an owner who LIVES there and can be onsite whenever possible. That was and is one of the reasons I think the Britannia has done so well. It had and currently has an owner who lives there, has a place at the Palms as a matter of fact. An active owner, rather than an absentee owner, makes all the difference in the world.
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