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lucky67
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6/8/2011 6:07:48 AM
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great news!!!!! GREEN VALLEY MARKET ON HWY 229, will reopen soon as WAHOO GRILL, serving good seafood, steaks, etc. with an experienced chef/owner from Mobile area
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froghog
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eats around the lake
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6/8/2011 6:20:48 AM
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Great News!!!
We really need a good eatery near here. Good Luck to them.
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Samdog
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6/8/2011 9:15:54 AM
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That's very good news. Green Valley will be hard to follow. I loved it!!!
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Pontoonfisher
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6/8/2011 9:55:10 AM
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Good luck to them but I am sure they will suffer the same fate as the other high end places. Locals are what keep places around the lake afloat and they don't frequent the more expensive places. It will closed within 2 years.
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lakngulf
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eats around the lake
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6/8/2011 10:26:19 AM
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PFWA
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Kizma Anuice
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great news
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6/8/2011 11:21:46 AM
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but it is a bad location and not on the water
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lakeweekends
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6/8/2011 12:15:12 PM
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This is great news!
We will surely give them a try. Do you know the opening date?
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John C
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gotta love when
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6/8/2011 12:51:26 PM
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people whine about lack of good restaurants and local businesses and then immediately predict death when there is a new venture. Not speaking about U E McG here, as I personally know he is a great $upporter of a lot of the local restaurants, from the good ones to not so good.
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Ulysses E. McGill
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Howdy doo and believe me,
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6/8/2011 1:22:36 PM (updated 6/8/2011 1:33:38 PM)
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I really really hope they are successful....if they pull it off, It will be very good for the area and it's very close to us. It will take a good chef and strong management, but it can be done. My other comment did sound more negative than I intended, so I trashed it.
And yes, I do like my diners and dives along with the occasional respectable food joint...lol. BTW, Dang Yankee is coming up with some great little local spots (by his account) that I need to try.
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Pontoonfisher
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gotta love when
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6/8/2011 2:07:02 PM
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Hey John C. I have never complained about lack of restaurants. I like to cook my own food b/c restaurant quality is just poor these days. It's all just overpriced cr@p. Just stating the facts. There is not enough local business to support these new restaurants.
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Samdog
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great news
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6/8/2011 3:40:19 PM
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Well I think it's a good location. Close to me. Don't like the drive around the winding Hwy50 to Dadeville. I don't mind paying a fair price for good food. Russell seems to be crowded all the time and it's not on the water.
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muddauber
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gotta love when
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6/8/2011 6:19:59 PM
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Business is all about location. Unless you got the money and operation that you can afford to keep going either year round or limited off season hours and do not need to take anything out to live on, they fail.
John C, nobody is trashing anybody here. But when you see the same type, in this case, restaurant in the same place that others fail in, poor location is a high likelyhood. What are the demagraphics along hwy 229? How many are full time residents?
We wish them all well. Really do. But the reality is most of these mom n pop out of the beaten path restaurants are nothing but thiefs stealing someones dream money. Too often underfunded to start with, need to take a salary to pay personal bills with as they no longer work for someone else. Really, not much hope to make it into October let alone survive the whole winter. Thems just facts. Wishihng won't change that at all.
Do I blame the owners of the buildings? Not really. But alot of people have chased a dream in these places around the lake, only to find heartache and loss of their savings at the end. Somewhere, they did not seek out or did not get good financial advise.
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Little Talisi
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gotta love when
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6/8/2011 6:47:45 PM
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we are glad that someone is opening the location. we drive the winding 50 to eat on hwy 49 once a week. we live a mile and a quarter from this new restaurant. we will dfinitely be regulars if the food is good and the price and service reasonable.
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froghog
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gotta love when
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6/8/2011 7:10:28 PM
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The building has the worst acoustics. It's hard to hear someone talk across the table from you in there.
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Pontoonfisher
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gotta love when
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6/8/2011 8:47:39 PM
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Mud hit the nail so hard on the head it went straight through the board!!!!!
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LakeStone83
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6/8/2011 8:52:29 PM
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Location does have alot to do with the success of a restaurant but more than anything, but I think it's the owners that make or break a place. Their presence in the operation is vital. Someone once told me that to have a successful bar/restaurant another part of your life will fail... more time and energy making a place work means less time and energy making other parts of your life work. I have seen many owners with thriving businesses not any sort of home life whatsoever, the ones who tried to balance the two usually ended up with losses in both, and the ones who let others run things for them had their business run in the ground. Look at Oskars (not one of my favorites, btw), she is there almost every time I have been and that place has held it's own to spite the ups and downs of the economy. The Cove (I actually worked there for a while) on the other hand was managed by someone other than the owner and did poorly. Yes, their prices were high, but they did change the menu a few times (adding more of a range in prices), tried the breakfast and seafood buffet, and tried holiday events, and things still didn't pick up for them. I honestly think that the original management made the place so that it gave many locals a bad taste for them in them from the beginning. Other management along the line were much better but couldn't recover from existing opinions of the place. With that said... I am so glad to see the Green Valley location reopen, I have really missed it, but they need to think about things like that. They are either all in or not.
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I agree. It can be done, but it will take a superior effort; someone will need to make it their life. If they can do it right and impress those of us in the local area, word will travel and so will others from miles around....that will be needed for long term success.
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roswellric
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It's OK...
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6/8/2011 10:40:34 PM
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People have predicted an early death for me lots of times...
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Samdog
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eats around the lake
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8/3/2011 11:00:34 PM
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Whatever happen to this? Any progress?
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