ok, so more obstacles to the elusive liquour license...we do not have enough parking based on the square footage used by the fire marshal to verify our seating capacity...what a catch-22...if we had less square footage we would need less parking but we could not justify our 100 seats......so now we must petition planning and zoning for a parking variance.....we have more than freddies....but we are in the same boat...downtown we can only count parking we either own or rent...we cannot count on-street parking........i am so frustrated...we also have to pave the alleyspace outside our emergency exit.....because it is dirt and the fire marshall says that nobody can escpae fully through our emergency door onto dirt...they must escape onto concrete.....

on a happier note, we have hired our weekend dishwasher..he is from cameroon and speaks french as a primary language.....he is related to centre's bio-chem instructor and goes to midway during the week......i asked him if he wanted coffee 'en francais' when he came into interview, then commented that jerry was late by saying is est tard,.....which scw says was incorrect...it should have been il est en tard......or that is what i think he said.......anyway, the weekend chef recently took a spanish class to help him speak to immigrant workers, and we hired one who speaks french.......we are working with the weekend chef on his new menu....he has several beef dishes, a veal dish, a marinated pork medallion dish, and red tuna as a seafood offering.....sounds good so far.....after everybody is trained on friday night, saturday lunch and saturday night, i will only have to be there if there is a special event.....like a wedding or extra dinner.......i will believe it when i see it.......