cash register

People only take so much before they begin to push back, and it works both ways...

Yesterday, it was 99 degrees here- so when Punky asked if we could get ice cream at the Baskin-Robbins next to the neighborhood post office where we'd gone to run an errand, I think I said yes before she even got the entire question out of her mouth.

Nashville Restaurants and Food
Fattoush Café
1716 Charlotte Ave.
Nashville

Of course you have, unless you’re biking (or scootering) to work. I burn not quite two gallons going to and from work. (It’s 27 miles each way for me.) And at almost $4 a gallon, it’s painful. It will be a lot worse if the economists’ projections are right.

Actual conversation I overheard today in a convenience store while trying to pay for a cup of coffee. The young woman cashier was enmeshed in what sounded like a quiet, defensive argument with an olive-skinned gentleman, who I took to be her supervisor. The subject had something to do with an earlier transaction by a woman who was paying for lottery tickets with a $100 bill.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 21, 2008

Bloggers and other propeller heads always find a way to sneak in when they first started on the web.
It’s the Al Gore syndrome. “I am now cool because I used the internet when nerdy wasn’t geeky.”
My turn.

Here’s an ethics question: at what point in your retail experience do you call attention to being undercharged (or getting too much change, which is the same thing)?

Well this week we brought in the Aloha P.O.S. (Point of Sale) system to the joint. I purchased it through a re-seller called the Bodnar Group, which also owns Jim-N-Nick's BBQ. My buddy Dave Story, who runs the kitchen at the Smyrna location put me in touch with his Dad, who runs the re-seller. I've known for some time now that this was inevitable.