There are many blogs that you can read that are straight marketing tools, an advertisement.
There are just as many anonymous blogs that are some one's daily complaints and they are to embarrassed to let life know you they really are.
Then there's mine..... I'm not PC..... I'm going to tell you how I feel.... about everything. I'm 41 years old, a husband, father, son, business owner, and general pain in the ass. When life gives me lemons I don't make lemonade, I make a ceviche and tell life what I really think.
I wrote a post named "Why do i get so fucking angry"--there was only one reason to write that post, to stop me from telling a customer what I really thought of them. The post is short and angry(much like me) and from what my wife tells me it doesn't do a good job of explaining my anger. It wasn't meant to. It was meant to calm me down, at the very least to stop me from verbalizing to my guest's face what I really thought of their 'rude at best' comment.
Then I got this comment after the first post.
"Love your place. We eat there whenever we can." Thank You, that's why I cook. "However, I just read your blog and the one paragraph about the emails was distasteful. I think it should be removed because it is unprofessional. Sorry." |
Why, just because I'm not afraid to hide who I am. Why do people feel they have the right to tell me how to act. I'm sorry if that post offended you or you think it's unprofessional. You can ask my mom if I listened to her about things I felt strongly about... the answer would probably be, she could only calm me down but not change what I thought.
I could go in to depth about all the stupid comments that I had leading up to the one's that inspired this post but those weren't the important ones. The one that sent me over the edge was.
Everybody gets rudeness thrust upon them everyday. And a lot people just take it and then go home and kick the dog or ignore the family. I've had days like that, where I just shut myself off and hide from life rather then enjoy it with the ones I love.
Well I can't do it anymore, I've missed too much of life.
If you can't take my honesty you shouldn't read my blog.
If my blog offends you, you might not want to eat at my restaurant. But I think you'll be missing out on some great food.
But don't think that your opinion as a guest in my restaurant gives you the right to tell me how to act.
Everybody needs an outlet, a stress release and boy do I have stress. This just so happens to be mine.
Sometimes you'll get the good-- upcoming events and menus that excite me.
Sometimes you'll get the bad-- rude comments made to me or my staff that we shouldn't have to take.
Sometimes you'll get the ugly-- me venting my anger in words because nobody wants me doing in person.
But at Elements and from me, you'll get honesty-- the good, the bad, and the ugly.
I have a saying and I may have said it to you "I did good today? Thanks. I'll do better tomorrow"
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