October 28th, 2010
The Corner Bakery Cafe will be opening up in Tyler pretty soon. I have eaten at this restaurant in Irving and Dallas before.
What I take away from eating at this place is that they have good bread and pasta. I only ate at The Corner Bakery a couple times in my life because I’m just not a big bread person.
Many woman in Tyler are bread people and my sister-in-law is a good example of this. When I mentioned that The Corner Bakery cafe was opening up in the old Bennigans building in Tyler her eyes got real big.
Any bread person will probably jump for joy once they here that Corner Bakery will be here.
Although my sister in law likes The Corner Bakery both my wife and her prefer a similar type of restaurant known as Panera Bread.
There is no news of if a Panera Bread will also move into Tyler but it would definitely make for some unwelcome competition next to The Corner Bakery.
The people who own Traditions buffet restaurant are the owners of these particular Corner Bakery franchises. They do a good job managing and owning Traditions and I’m sure The Corner Bakery will be no exception.
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October 27th, 2010
Just heard that BJ’s restaurant will be opening a restaurant here in Tyler Texas near the mall.
The mall could use a nice restaurant like this nearby.
BJ’s restaurant is a place I enjoy eating at when in Dallas or Houston.
This restaurant offers several different beers, gourmet pizza, burgers, and quite a few different varieties of American food.
I would say BJ’s is about 10 times better than Chili’s, Applebees, and Olive Garden.
The best comparison to BJ’s might be The Cheesecake Factory.
All in all I think Tylerites will like BJ’s Restaurant.
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October 22nd, 2010
Sonic Tyler TX
To tip or not to tip? The question of tipping the Sonic car hops has many different opinions and answers. Many people think that they should not tip because it is fast food and you are eating in your car. You probably will have to clean up your own trash out of your car. The car hops do not get paid minimum wage most of the time because they are expected to get tips.
I don’t really know where I stand on the issue. When I have sat in my car and the car hop brought my food out to me I usually give them a small tip like a dollar, I may give more if they actually still wore skates. When you are paying with a card at the drive up, you do not get the choice to tip. So if Sonic made it easy and clearer if you were suppose to tip the car hops, maybe more people would.
I am not a big fan of the Sonic food. There really are two reasons to go to Sonic: sand volleyball, and drinks. Many Sonics in Tyler do not have the sand volleyball court, or the play area. The only thing that those Sonics have going for them is the large selections of Sonic drinks and ice cream treats.
For some reason Sonic ice is the best ice around. The other night I was having a huge craving for a Sonic Snickers Blast. The Sonic was suppose to about an hour and half after I got there, but when I asked for my ice cream treat they had informed me that they already had shut down and cleaned the ice cream machine. This is a really annoying thing that fast food places do.
If the restaurant is not closed I expect them to serve everything on the menu. There really is no reason to go to sonic if they wont serve the menu that they claim they serve the WHOLE menu all day!
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October 20th, 2010
It was a few years ago that we first started to eat at the small Italian restaurant in Tyler TX, Joe’s Italian Grill. We liked the pasta, pizzas, and prices. When I was in high school a big group of us went to Joe’s Italian Grill. One person from our group wanted to order a salad and asked if they had Thousand Island salad dressing, because they did not he asked to the manager, and the waitress said that Joe, himself, was there. He came out and talked to him.
When person told him that he would love to see Joe’s restaurant offer Thousand Island, and if they did he would recommend the restaurant and would give them a lot of his business. Joe promised him that the next time he came to the restaurant he would be able to order his salad the way he wanted it. People through out the restaurant cheered and clapped for the owner. A couple weeks passed and we revisited, when someone once again ordered a salad with Thousand Island, I was surprised that they did not offer the salad dressing.
Even months later, they did not offer the dressing. Having the salad dressing was not the issue in this situation. If an owner promises his costumers to their faces and shake their hands they should keep to their word. Because of the broken promise people did not return to the restaurant.
Recently Joe’s Italian Grill opened a second restaurant just across the road. I do not really understand how they have two restaurants since every time I have gone to the original one there was hardly anyone there. I do like the food at Joe’s grill. I like how you can make your table private by letting down a curtain to exclude you from the rest of the restaurant. The shrimp tortellini is one of Joe’s best dishes, and one of the best tortellini dishes I have ever had.
I do understand why people hold this strange grudge towards Joe’s Italian Grill. If you are not going to keep your promises than do not make a guarantee that you can not keep. I will keep eating there because of the great food and I never felt like they did wrong towards me.
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October 19th, 2010
McDonalds Wedding Tyler TX
If you are tying to find a great wedding idea that is cheap, you may want to consider the new Hong Kong trend and throw your wedding at a local McDonalds. I am not kidding when I say that this has become a Chinese trend. The weddings have become a real McDonalds’ experience with balloon dresses, apple pie tower for a wedding cake, and a toast with soft drinks (since alcohol is not allowed since they still want the family friendly atmosphere).
I am pretty traditional when it comes to weddings so I think that this is pretty crazy idea, but “to each his own”. Hopefully the McDonalds in Hong Kong are cleaner than the ones in Tyler and do not smells so much like dirty feet and bad body deodorant. I would not understand why someone would want their wedding at a fast food restaurant, but I guess the catering would be easy and who expects good catering at a wedding anyway? Especially that they do not allow the wedding party to rent out the whole store.
Weddings Tyler TX
I guess that this would be a really cheap way of having a wedding. Why spent hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars on a wedding dress when you can just get one made from colorful balloons? I mean when are you going to wear it again anyway? McDonalds has become more than just a place for birthday parties. Weddings, anniversary parties, and vowel renewal ceremonies have been thrown at the fast food restaurants in China. China has had some really great ideas in the past and some crazy ones, I think that this idea is going to go on the list of crazy ideas.
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