Comments on: The Restaurant Shuffle http://www.hackbend.com/2010/06/21/the-restaurant-shuffle.php Getting the most out of Bend, Oregon Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:26:48 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mo http://www.hackbend.com/2010/06/21/the-restaurant-shuffle.php/comment-page-1#comment-2548 Mo Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:06:57 +0000 http://www.hackbend.com/?p=1085#comment-2548 I really have to respond to the post left by Scott. Are you serious?!?! A moratorium? Exactly what benefit to the citizens of Bend would be served by allowing the City to decide who gets to make a run at their own business venture? I agree that downtown has been a shifting culinary circus, and should perhaps strive for different kinds of shops than just more restaurants, but come on!! What country do you think we live in? Aren't dollar votes enough here? Are the poor citizens of Bend being harmed by the fluctuating choices in Bend? IMHO, the diners of Bend are way too picky and fussy about restaurants in Bend. True, many restaurants have raised the expectations by positioning themselves as food for city folk, but this place has too many transplants who miss "hating the city" and find it very easy to rag on entrepreneurs who take risks and put it all on the line to try and raise the bar in Bend and hopefully get the satisfaction of pleasing their customers. If we were to tell businesses that they couldn't open until the economy got better, how long do you think we would wait for new businesses to open? I consider myself lucky that someone else is going to take risk at something new and try to please me as a consumer (not to mention keep a few more people employed in Bend). I really have to respond to the post left by Scott. Are you serious?!?! A moratorium? Exactly what benefit to the citizens of Bend would be served by allowing the City to decide who gets to make a run at their own business venture? I agree that downtown has been a shifting culinary circus, and should perhaps strive for different kinds of shops than just more restaurants, but come on!! What country do you think we live in? Aren’t dollar votes enough here? Are the poor citizens of Bend being harmed by the fluctuating choices in Bend?
IMHO, the diners of Bend are way too picky and fussy about restaurants in Bend. True, many restaurants have raised the expectations by positioning themselves as food for city folk, but this place has too many transplants who miss “hating the city” and find it very easy to rag on entrepreneurs who take risks and put it all on the line to try and raise the bar in Bend and hopefully get the satisfaction of pleasing their customers.

If we were to tell businesses that they couldn’t open until the economy got better, how long do you think we would wait for new businesses to open?

I consider myself lucky that someone else is going to take risk at something new and try to please me as a consumer (not to mention keep a few more people employed in Bend).

]]> By: DK Stangeland http://www.hackbend.com/2010/06/21/the-restaurant-shuffle.php/comment-page-1#comment-2533 DK Stangeland Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:22:12 +0000 http://www.hackbend.com/?p=1085#comment-2533 Cuppa Yo ROCKS! It's our family's new favorite hang out. I'm so happy to have fro-yo in Bend again. Cuppa Yo ROCKS! It’s our family’s new favorite hang out. I’m so happy to have fro-yo in Bend again.

]]> By: Scott http://www.hackbend.com/2010/06/21/the-restaurant-shuffle.php/comment-page-1#comment-2523 Scott Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:42:09 +0000 http://www.hackbend.com/?p=1085#comment-2523 There should be a moratorium on new restaurants opening in downtown. In this economy the places in downtown that have struggled through the hard times need to have some kind of loyalty by the city and it's public. Is Bend really in need of the next best thing right now? At the very least the city and it's planners should do some homework on current would be restaurants and there owners, do they have any experience, do they have enough backing to go at least a year if not two without seeing a return, or is it they just have more money than sense. Just because you like to eat food or want a personal watering hole should not be criteria for opening a restaurant. The fact that so many places are closing should be a sign of market saturation, not enough disposable income to go around, or perhaps they just plain sucked. The city may be all too happy to get money via new permits and building owners with super low rent incentives may look good on paper but when is enough, enough? I believe that competition fuels competition but at this rate Bend is becoming an ever shifting culinary circus. Let the few good ones left, hang on to what they built and make due, at least until things get a little better. There should be a moratorium on new restaurants opening in downtown. In this economy the places in downtown that have struggled through the hard times need to have some kind of loyalty by the city and it’s public. Is Bend really in need of the next best thing right now? At the very least the city and it’s planners should do some homework on current would be restaurants and there owners, do they have any experience, do they have enough backing to go at least a year if not two without seeing a return, or is it they just have more money than sense. Just because you like to eat food or want a personal watering hole should not be criteria for opening a restaurant. The fact that so many places are closing should be a sign of market saturation, not enough disposable income to go around, or perhaps they just plain sucked. The city may be all too happy to get money via new permits and building owners with super low rent incentives may look good on paper but when is enough, enough? I believe that competition fuels competition but at this rate Bend is becoming an ever shifting culinary circus. Let the few good ones left, hang on to what they built and make due, at least until things get a little better.

]]> By: Interesting blog post on Bend restaurants http://www.hackbend.com/2010/06/21/the-restaurant-shuffle.php/comment-page-1#comment-2494 Interesting blog post on Bend restaurants Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:21:16 +0000 http://www.hackbend.com/?p=1085#comment-2494 [...] The Restaurant Shuffle – Hack Bend. Posted in Eats | Tags: Bend, cuppa yo, hack, Oregon, restaurants [...] [...] The Restaurant Shuffle – Hack Bend. Posted in Eats | Tags: Bend, cuppa yo, hack, Oregon, restaurants [...]

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