As everyone who has an opinion will tell you, January is a bad month for restaurants. They will also tell you that downtown has bad parking, that you aren't advertising enough, that no one knows what Caribbean food is, that you aren't giving enough free food away, that the fries are cold (OK, valid point) and on and on. Got a tepid review in the online press on Monday. Tuesday morning my mom's best friend of 54 years died. Coinciding with those 2 things were the worst 2 days, dollar-wise, at Edgar's. I put up the banana palm tree to an assortment of criticisms from the staff, so much so that, as I've said, I moved it to behind a roof where it seems happy. Or at least, the staff is. I had, also, to look forward to an off-premise restaurant event on Friday night where one stands behind a table and doles out food for free to crowds of, what I was sure would be, critical and complaining freeloaders. In fact, by Friday, restaurant numbers were better customer-wise, and despite some difficulty getting the entire preparation done and over to event, it went very well. No one was critical, in fact, our food was very popular. We had people in line for seconds and thirds with people running up as we were closing down.
When I got back to Edgar's that night business had been good and a man and woman and their daughter were there asking for me. He, it turned out, was the GM for a large restaurant group in town and he and his wife were exceptionally flattering and positive. They loved the interior but were amazed particularly by the quality of the food.
So the week ended well. But now I have to go to a funeral.
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