1) So, is that where you're going to take me to eat when I'm in Atlanta? 
2) So, is your husband trying to tell you something? 
*I believe to become a member of the G&LCoC you have to be a "G" or "L" who owns a business. Although, maybe if you're "G&L Friendly"... It's worth a call.
1) No, because I know that your standards for food are much higher! We used to go to this place years ago when it was just a house converted into a restaurant. It merged with the other surrounding restaurants and is now under a bigger corporate umbrella. It completely changed its decor so now it's all style and the food is completely uninspired. I talked to the manager about it because we often go to its brother restaurant next door and it's a nice place to go to dine outdoors. He said that things had changed a lot since their remodeling and they were trying to get the food quality up to the level of the decor. But the grits were cold and a big congealed lump, the eggs were cooked until they were hard, brown and rubbery. We had waited for 30 minutes and paid twice as much as you would at other places, so I expected it to be better than that.
Usually if it's a place I want to go back to, and the manager asks how our meal was, I will be honest with the manager so he can improve things. If it's a place that is a total disaster with no potential, I don't bother.
The manager offered to make it up to us, give us a credit or something, but that usually makes me uncomfortable, because I have been on the road with a producer who used to deliberately complain about the service or food just so he could get something out of it and now I'm hyper-sensitive to this game. So I told him I didn't want him to make it up to me, I would come back at another time and try them again, and we left on very friendly terms.
When we were leaving, a guy came running up to our car, out of breath, and snagged Greg. I was already in the car and couldn't make out their conversation, but I heard "renovation", "restoration" and words like that and thought Greg had been snagged by a preservationist who knew him. It turned out to be an assistant manager who wanted to apologize and give us a card with credit so we would come back. (The manager I talked to was in a wheelchair.) It was completely unnecessary, but I was impressed that they cared enough to make the effort.
But I'm still not taking you there, Jose! We can do better!
2) My husband doesn't want to become a member of *any* Chamber of Commerce, but he likes working with the Atlanta one and we have both benefitted from his meeting some of these bigwigs, when it comes to asking for donations, etc. So maybe the G&L CoC could become a new client for the video producer he works with. And yes, my DH would qualify as being very G&L friendly. It's impossible not to be, in our line of work, because we meet so many creative, brilliant and fun people!
