Posted on 02/20/2024 1:24:06 AM PST by CFW
Most books are liberal
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What? So we shouldn’t read?
(semi-satire)
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
Thomas Sowell
C.S. Lewis
Milton Friedman
Walter Williams
Peggy Noonan
Larry Schweikart
Dinesh D’Souza
etc...
“The odd thing is that for generations, booksellers were courteous to all patrons and deliberately stocked a wide range of books, including controversial ones and titles they personally disfavored. A pleasant and obliging manner toward customers and a love of books and ideas were foundational principles of retail bookselling. The Left gradually killed that off, retail bookstores declined, and the Left then whined that corporate greed had done bookstores in — even as they held the smoking gun in their own hands.”
Isn’t it odd. Surveys show that it is more likely that a leftists would break of a long-timed friendship should they discover the friend had decided to vote Republican than vice versa. And anecdotal stories bear that out. than But WE are the ones that are called “intolerant.
Well, there is always porn.
The place in Virginia, I think it was called Red Hen, also went out of business. I like the pattern.
Gianni is such a nice guy...you really have to be a hater to ask him to leave. But they call US haters.
They harassed someone based on politics but screamed they were a victim when people harassed them back.
I always want to just tell these pinheads, “You had one job to do. One job! And you just couldn’t do it.”
The owner could cater to a different clientele, such as Trotskyites at National Review. Then rename the restaurant “$$$ For Zelenskyy.”
Do these top notch booksellers have a name?
did he properly punch the fag in the face and turn over a few tables before leaving?
Essentially, what happened was the business was turning into something different than the owners wanted it to be. This paragraph from their statement provides further details.
Nevertheless, a valuable lesson we have learned is that in trying to juggle everything, nothing gets the attention it’s due. While it’s been fun and sometimes successful to try to do it all, the reality is that we’ve had trouble giving every aspect equal time and work. These unbalanced scales were always exacerbated by Miami’s shockingly high demand for food and the pressure put on us to operate as a restaurant. While we’ve filled paradis with our favorite books and wines, most people really just wanted the pizza. Our food program completely eclipsed every other aspect of the place both in what people usually wanted from the space and in what we had to spend most of our time doing. One of the opening visions of paradis was an attempt to open a food establishment of sorts that shifted the usual rules of service, in which the customer is certainly not always right, and food service workers are treated with their due respect. We genuinely envisioned our food program to be an addendum to the space, where someone who was reading or sharing a bottle with friends could also eat something filling, yummy, and affordable. Despite our intentions, it became increasingly clear that our customers primarily wanted a food-centered experience, and we watched fewer people support us day-to-day as we limited our menu to be more in line with our capacities. In tandem with this demand, came an unacceptable amount of disrespect, all-too-familiar to any seasoned service worker, but ultimately at odds with the alternative project we were proposing. This is not to downplay or disregard all of the wonderful folks who came in for everything paradis had to offer, or to say that we don’t appreciate the love people had for our bread and other food, but rather to clairfy that we never wanted to be the kind of food-service establishment we had become, and to acknowledge that the kind of third space we envisioned may not be fully possible in this place and time.
Good point.
Miami’s conservative in most ways... I’m guessing folks stopped going to the restaurant and that’s why it failed.
Yes
Every business must adapt to its market. Some are much better at that than others. Those several paragraphs are quite a different story from the synopsis I thought I saw.
You are exactly right. It wasn’t so much that they couldn’t adapt to their market, they absolutely did not want to adapt. As they said in their statement, their vision was to shift the usual rules of service so that the customer is certainly not always right. It’s a difficult read full of angst and self justification, but the full statement is at the link below.
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