Jeff (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mindgasm) wrote,@ 2006-12-08 17:30:00 |
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the money pit
I note with smug satisfaction the closure of Zenaida Lounge, née Zenaida Chocolate Lounge, the doomed-from-day-one business that occupied space once leased by my former employer, W.G. Grinder's in downtown Ann Arbor. The ground floor retail spaces in that building will continue to serve as a revolving door for any business owner dumb enough to operate anything other than a front for laundering drug money. Say...
Much more upsetting: the same weekly column in the Ann Arbor News from last Friday, reporting that another former employer of mine shuttered its newest store. Tios Stone School never built enough consistency in its business to pay the rent on its mammoth on-site commmissary. The owners' plans to expand the Tios brand through franchising also appear to have died a quiet death.
I note with smug satisfaction the closure of Zenaida Lounge, née Zenaida Chocolate Lounge, the doomed-from-day-one business that occupied space once leased by my former employer, W.G. Grinder's in downtown Ann Arbor. The ground floor retail spaces in that building will continue to serve as a revolving door for any business owner dumb enough to operate anything other than a front for laundering drug money. Say...
Much more upsetting: the same weekly column in the Ann Arbor News from last Friday, reporting that another former employer of mine shuttered its newest store. Tios Stone School never built enough consistency in its business to pay the rent on its mammoth on-site commmissary. The owners' plans to expand the Tios brand through franchising also appear to have died a quiet death.
