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J008

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  1. Yes and most restaurants make most their money on the 5:30 crowd. I agree with you in many respects, but restaurants are not moving to the heights for the children.
  2. Its been a long time since I waited tables, but I clearly remember loathing tables with children. A four top with two adults and two children is going to get you less than half the tip (or profit) as one full of adults. An adult only table is at least twice more likely to order appetizers, desserts, or an extra round of drinks... the most lavish kids' menu simply can't make up the differnece that is lost. If the restaurant assigns waiters sections and makes them clean their own tables it only gets worse since kids almost always make a bigger mess than a sober adult. I agree that if you can get kids\parents during the lull between lunch and dinner (2-5pm) that it is probably a good thing, but any other time it is certainly nothing to cater to or get excited about. Luckily, I didn't have to clean my own tables or have "sections", a kid table usually wouldn't count as a full turn so we were normally made whole, but there are few waiters or restaurants who wouldn't prefer a couple adults (preferrably smoking and drinking ones) to a table full of kids and parents. The fact that Lupe Tortilla is ditching the sandbox is probably a better sign of the times.
  3. To I think Niche's point. Even if this number increased 400% they are simply replacing lesser affluent familes that on average have more children. So net, the heights has to be losing children not gaining if any of these trends are to be believed.
  4. Little bit of a generalization there Marksmu. I'd take Harvard, Travis, River Oaks, Timbergrove, Kolter, Love or half a dozen others over Spring Branch Elementary. http://www.har.com/school/campus-Spring-Branch-Elementary-School-101920114.html Additionally, if your kid is say 1 years old it. It is really hard to say that the "good" public schools now will be the same ones 5,10,18 years from now. I certainly wouldn't bet the house on it.
  5. I think you are right on. From the before posts you and niche narrowed the relevant kid households to 5-10% I'd say liberty kitchen probably holds 50-75 people and you might see 3 to 7 tables with children. Some see it as kid friendly someone from the woodlands may see it as kid starved. I doubt liberty kitchen has more than 3-7 high chairs so I think all the analysis is pointing to a small minority of kids in any restaurant (Berryhill on friday being an exception). The trend (household income >~$70k w/ kids) is certainly increasing but nowhere near a plurality or majority. Though the time of day may skew your sample. If you go out at 9 or 10 to a restaurant you'll rarely see a kid out, and if you are out at 5pm you may see only kids and families out. I really think you could all be right.
  6. I went there last night as well. I expected to see a whole page of various types of oysters and styles, but there were only raw oysters and a couple chargrilled varieties. Otherwise the menu was huge and had a lot of gastropub style fare. Was fairly busy for a sunday night.
  7. I would be suprised if cronyism isn't codified in there, this just being one of its manifestations.
  8. It does matter. City resources are limited. Diverting resources that would otherwise go to the city's general needs for the benefit of an entity that is arguably over capitalized is wasteful.
  9. by revenue they are #1 http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2011/snapshots/2255.html
  10. Actually, you make quite a few good points in an intellectual and interesting way, though your conclusions are different than mine. I only started chiming in again because I think the name and address and the satellite analysis of their homes is really creepy. I really don't think you are a threat to their cause but to some (me included) listing their addresses implies a threat of a different sort. Especially when your point could be just as easily made without it. Obviously we disagree. On another note: You'd think since corps are people too, that it would be more appropriate to just picket RUDH's charter.
  11. Based primarily on the TX SOS site and google maps? I'd like to think my lifestyle is more interesting than one can deduce from those two sites.
  12. This is just more and more creepy. Why don't you try calling it! I run into RUDH people all the time. They regularly hang out \ shop\ walk\ eat\ drink in the heights and as it has been so un-elegantly pointed out they live there. If you are curious who they are, look for the sign in the yard, the bumper sticker on their car, and the businesses listed on their website. When I had read that a good chunk of River oaks asked google streetview to be excluded, I thought it was pretty snooty, but now I can appreciate how your info so quickly goes to the lowest common denominator and then attached to a 59 pages of discussion about you. I don't know what the internet etiquette is on this kind of thing, but it just really strikes a dissonant chord to take it so personally. Especially from people so capable of making their points with other methods.
  13. Again, the city doesn't have to spend any money if that were of any concern. Second, I thought Texas has a loser pays law that went in to effect this year. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/268436/loser-pays-texas-small-business-wins-stephen-demaura If this applies then again their is none of your money at risk.
  14. The city doesn't have to defend it. They can spend as much or as little as they want (or as you allow them).
  15. True. If only we had the guy who said that deficits don't matter then we'd finally end this hypocrisy. T
  16. I feel it is a bit creepy to list people's addresses whom you don't know to make some point about hypocrisy. I guess the next step is to go dig through their trash tomorrow (since they probably leave their trash on a public street) and see if there are any starbucks cups or receipts from big box stores.
  17. I only hope they finally cut their grass and clean the grafitti off of the check cashing store they are building btw yale and heights.
  18. Completely agree. I really enjoy the byzantine chapel and hate to see it go. The whole chapel is a really great spot.
  19. Went by last night and D'Amicos was closed, must have been a trial run.
  20. Went to tacos a go-go last night and it was pretty good. Tacos al Pastor with Pinapple was a bit of a suprise, but the food was good and it is a neat place. D'Amicos was open last night as well.
  21. Had Christians last night, that place is much bigger than I had imagined. I agree it is a real sports bar, it will be nuts during football season.
  22. Swamplot says 11th St cafe will be a ruggles on Saturday. Sounds good to me http://swamplot.com/the-rugglefication-of-the-heights-11th-street-cafe/2011-06-14/
  23. It is not much consolation that I will inevitably be inconvenienced by something so why not a jackhammer outside your bedroom at 7am (or cement truck). At least the building is progress, the I-10, and 11th street construction is another story. I am convinced that studemont at I-10 is actually worse than before (unless you wanted to get to Chili's and Target from there, which I don't). If I-10 at Studemont looked like 59 at Montrose, that would be an improvement.
  24. Once built I agree. But the construction process can be horribly inconvenient, For the past couple months either a lane of Studemont has been blocked with dump trucks lined up or now 11th 1/2 is backed up with cement trucks making the street impassable at least between 630-730 in the morning. Then there are the wondering front end loaders and trucks that turn on the wrong street then race through till they figure out where they are going. If I lived on 11th 1/2 or 12th I'd go nuts. If they could manage to keep their mess on their property then have at it, but the intrusion on other people's life is real (sunsets and birds notwithstanding)
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