Little Gems
Big box wins again. Just damned bad business.
Office Max closed. Lied about closing, and then went ahead and did it anyway. Like a college football coach saying he’s staying with the team for life and then is gone at the first high offer. Socially acceptable lies, for some reason or other. What’s this about? Staple’s is closing in Delavan. That’s right. There will be no business supply store anywhere within many, many miles of the Lake Geneva area.
Wal-Mart and Best Buy and Target will be the poor stepsisters that have to stand in until America recovers from bigboxitis. The big guys move in, the little businesses can’t compete, and then the big boxes, having ripped every penny they can out of the community, like crumbs from a beggar, move on to greener pastures. This purely sucks, and this demonstration of social irresponsibility is awful to experience up close and personal. Support the small businesses run by small business people who are not small in your life at all. They mean everything if you will just think of them and their businesses that way.
Trick or treat!
What’s going on with organized trick or treating in the City of Lake Geneva this year? It’s actually going to happen on Halloween itself. Amazing! All trick or treating is to take place Monday night, the 31st of October, from four to seven p.m. There will be no other outdoor trick or treating allowed anywhere in Lake Geneva without arrest, waiver of trial and immediate execution. Well not quite. Indoors, the Lake Geneva Museum will have trick or treating on Sunday from noon to one p. m. down their old days Lake Geneva Main Street located inside the building. The Geneva Java Coffee Shop, located at 252 Center Street, will have candy and stuff for all kids who show up on Sunday, Monday or whenever. That’s just the way they are at the Geneva Java. Please do not forget that the Java is housed in a converted mortuary. So “do not”, under any circumstance, accept their offer when they invite you downstairs where they keep the rolling metal beds.
Tattooed, blued and…whatever.
The issue of new tattoo parlors opening all over downtown Lake Geneva got tabled (as in dead for the time being) at the Lake Geneva City Council’s meeting on Monday night. It seems that nobody had bothered to attempt to take into consideration where these new parlors would go, how they would look or how their multiplying across the city landscape would look and effect every other business around them. Tattoos look best under clothing. Maybe the same should be said for the parlors that apply them. Flower, classy flower that she is, got this slippery slope issue tabled.
Noodles. The place opened up!
Noodles is open, hooray! The food quality approaches that of the Geneva Java in downtown Lake Geneva, but what’s really unsurprisingly special is that the place is run by a horde of Badger students. Noodles, like the restaurant did in the movie American Graffiti. The students are just full of it and they would be terribly disappointed if the meal you got wasn’t great. Trust the GSR on that, as the X-Files investigators loaded up and ate their way through the place on Monday. The first day. The parking lot was full. The parking lot is always going to be full. They open at ten-thirty in the morning so get there early and buy lunch for the office. And “Go Badgers,” is something you might want to say when you place your order!
A Grand Person for the Week
Michael Pittenger, the exemplary manager for Noodles and Company, brings out the optimum quality and service in his staff of primarily Badger High School students. His crew is simply superb. Stop in at Noodles and Company and be sure to commend Michael on his training of these fine young men and women. 351 Pellar Road 10:30AM-9PM. The food’s not too shabby either. The Stroganoff!
