Mayo parking garage

[TheTed]

There's some paperwork for acquiring a 3.2 beer license on the little room in the front of that Mayo parking garage, across Cheyenne from the hotel. It's dated to early August. There's not much room in there. Any ideas what's going on there?

[Townsend]

There's some paperwork for acquiring a 3.2 beer license on the little room in the front of that Mayo parking garage, across Cheyenne from the hotel. It's dated to early August. There's not much room in there. Any ideas what's going on there?

Per the tour, I believe they were looking into opening a small grocery there.

edit - Sorry, "they" being the Mayo Hotel.

[cannon_fodder]

+1.  They were planning on having a small grocery/convenient store.  More of a service to the residents and guests than anything else.  Great idea.

Here's a related idea:  QT needs to do Urban Convenient Stores.  In big cities you see them all over the downtowns.  They sell beer, milk, some food products, fountain drinks . . . everything a QT sells without the gas.  I say it's worth a go and worth starting out in Tulsa!

[Conan71]

+1.  They were planning on having a small grocery/convenient store.  More of a service to the residents and guests than anything else.  Great idea.

Here's a related idea:  QT needs to do Urban Convenient Stores.  In big cities you see them all over the downtowns.  They sell beer, milk, some food products, fountain drinks . . . everything a QT sells without the gas.  I say it's worth a go and worth starting out in Tulsa!

Essentially that's what neighborhood grocers were in the past.  I was amazed when I saw Michael Bates' list of all the Safeway stores scattered around Tulsa in 1957.  QT's business model, from what I know of it, includes gasoline at all locations, though you could always call up Chet and tell him Conan wants them to do this urban concept.

[TUalum0982]

I know (quite) a few people in the QT's Corp office.  I will ask around and see if the idea has even come up.  Surely with the apartments, condos, and now the hotel, there would be a market for it. 

[cannon_fodder]

I want my 10% "finders fee" for the idea.   

[TUalum0982]

I want my 10% "finders fee" for the idea.   

Deal.  I will give you 50% of anything they give me!

[dbacks fan]

If the liquor laws in OK were not so antiquated, it would be an ideal location for a liquor, wine and deli, with a captive audience in the May both guest and residents. The first one I had experience with was across the street from the Hyatt Embacadero in SF. It was either open late or 24hrs. Good selection of wine and liquor, (actually negotiated the price of a bottle of champagne from $125 to $70) good deli food, cheaper than room service.

[carltonplace]

Yes! A package store in Dowtown would be awesome. So would a grocery, clothing, shoes, sporting goods etcetera, etcetera. Come on Downtown...you can do it!

[BKDotCom]

+1.  They were planning on having a small grocery/convenient store.  More of a service to the residents and guests than anything else.  Great idea.

Were?  As in they no longer plan on doing it?

[Red Arrow]

(actually negotiated the price of a bottle of champagne from $125 to $70)

Which shows how much prices can be inflated with a captive audience.  Would you have paid the $125 if you could not have negotiated the price down?  Would such prices cause you to "move to the suburbs"?

[dbacks fan]

Which shows how much prices can be inflated with a captive audience.  Would you have paid the $125 if you could not have negotiated the price down?  Would such prices cause you to "move to the suburbs"?

No, I would not have paid the $125 for a bottle of Dom. It was the challenge of the negotiation in San Fran. It was a one time deal while on a trip with my wife for her company at the time. As for the suburbs, you could say that I live in the suburbs, being that I am 14 miles almost due north from downtown Phoenix, but am still in Phoenix proper. At the time we had our house built it was close to both of our employers. 

[rwarn17588]

Is it me, or did the Mayo also restore the neon lighting on the parking garage next door? I hadn't noticed it being lit before until last night.

[TheTed]

Bump.

Saw people working in there today and some shiny new appliances. Anybody have any idea if the plan is still the same as it was way back when this thread was started?

[tulsascoot]

Since I've never stayed at a hotel in Tulsa, I'd never thought about the availability of liquor in the hotel. It wouldn't make much economic sense to have a completely separate store for guests selling only liquor. However, I've stayed at hotels elsewhere, and most recently at the Hilton in Orlando, and of course there was a shop selling snacks and light meals ans, of course, liquor, albeit way overpriced.

Our alcohol laws are so stupid.