Can't say I didn't see this coming

[dbacks fan]

My question is, he say's that he is traing a staff of 125 to serve up to 400 diners at a time. And I know that for the first few months they may get that and more because it is new, but after that is he going to be able to draw enough people on a nightly basis to sustain the business? From the article it speaks of a price range of $10 for a burger to $40 for steaks and seafood. How often are people going out to dinner going to spend that kind of money? The former Mrs. and I might go out every six to eight weeks for steak dinner, but we very rarely spent more than $60 on food and $20 on drinks. About every three months we would go out for something nice.

I'm not trying to knock someone for starting a new business, and I hope that he suceedes, and from what I have read he may get business from across the river from the casino, I just think that this is a very lofty business, in an area where other medium to high end places have started and failed in short order. Maybe the fact that it is on land that is not part of RWC, and it's on private land might help. Just hope he has suppliers of mid to top end for the menu.

[nathanm]

He probably sees the prices at the Melting Pot, which is packed every single time I go (much more rare than it used to be) and wants some of that action.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Great strides have been made.  Twenty years ago, the smell was very noticeably sewage.  That's why I made the comments about the messes getting cleaned up.  It is great to have a river that is fit for use.  I have even been fishing a few times at the pedestrian bridge (about 1 1/2 years ago).  Very nice.  Didn't catch any, but I think I would be tempted to eat them if I did.  The oil discharges were coming from a refinery site right next to the SS sewer plant.

One of the main takeaways that I would like people to get from this is that without the EPA, none of the cleanups would have been done. At least not yet.  Too bad so many want to get rid of it.

Maybe we can get KRMG to restart the raft race??

We are in the third 5 year plan for cleaning up the Sand Springs refinery discharges.  SS off the Superfund list!
http://www.epa.gov/region6/6sf/pdffiles/0601357.pdf

And an older one - Zink smelter.
http://www.epa.gov/region6/6sf/pdffiles/sandspringssuccess2006.pdf

Well, Aqua...I guess you just can't stand to stay away!  Welcome for whatever time you can spend here!

[AquaMan]

Thanks for the links. I recognized the Sinclair pics because I happened to have visited the site about the time they were working on it in 2005. My airboat was stranded on the sand bar south of the site and i was hoping they would help me drag it out. They wouldn't. In fact they didn't even want me on the site. I showed them where the tilting concrete water pickups you see in the one photo were leaking. Good to see they are actively monitoring that area.