Big Dan,
I respectively disagree with you. However, please allow me to explain why. First, i don't absolve myself from any responsibilty (except paying my friends & family back). i'm here at this restaurant pretty much every evening, including my days off. Like all the managers here, i keep the "Aggressive beach vendors" out of our place everytime is see them walk in; this includes the shoe shine boys, beggars, jewelry salesmen, the massage girls, the hair braiders, the mentally handicapped people--of which there are numerous--including Chupa, my friends & family, and some religious fanatics. The managers here (three of us) do a very good job at keeping these people at bay, however, the religious fanatics and my family somehow have found a way to penetrate this wall of defense.
My reason for starting this thread was more as a response to another thread with almost the same title as this one, but being it was my first day, i didn't know how to find that thread so, being the idiot that i am, i started a new one with almost the same title. I apologize. for people who know me, they'll confirm the assessment that i am not very bright and i suffer from a disease that renders me clueless, but has enabled me to speak in a secret language that only autistic children and donkeys comprehend.
Another reason i started this thread was because i really do believe we--all of the restaurants on the beach here in Cabarete, have a problem with the beach vendors (Nikki beach is the only exception i've seen), and although, yes, we have the vendors trying to come into the restaurant to sell their stuff, i feel, perhaps naivelly, that we're doing a pretty good job at keeping them out, but it's time consuming. and, as i said, some days i want to pull out what little hair i have left on the top of my head because its so time consuming and energy draining keeping your eye on all these people which, may i add, number in the dozens.
Big Dan, you seem like a very intelligent man, may i ask, where in this thread did i make excuses for me or our place, other than pointing out the obvious, which was that with 28 full time employees, live entertainment, 8 satellite dishes, and every sports package available for purchase, including PPV, we have a lot more overhead than someone smaller who is operating with a staff of 8 or 9 people and no live entertainment or satellites. So again, yes, we are more expensive, but were also offering a lot more stuff, and that stuff costs a lot of money. For people who don't want to come to our place and pay more for a drink or food, i understand that completely, and i would never critisize that, nor would the owner. The managers sit down and speak to everyone here, whether their just walking thru the restaurant--on their way to some other bar, or whether they want to tell you how Christ died for your sins--and then go on for 45 minutes explaining why. i never judge anyone. but i think it's unfair to suggest that me or any other manager, is absolving ourselves from responsibility. we're doing the best we can, and were keeping the vendors out, it just that, they never, ever give up trying to come inside the restaurant. Who wouldn't get frustrated by that?
Frank
Well, then you have absolved yourself of any responsibility since you don't own the place, so there is really no point in the thread at all, and no excuse for it either. It is an issue to take up with the owner, who knows exactly what he needs to do to stop people from bothering his clientele. I'm sure he has an excuse, too.
So, your options are to suck it up or find employment elsewhere, eh? Everything else, is, well, an excuse, or whining. I don't know which one is more appropriate.
No offense. This just isn't your issue to resolve.
Sorry.