It can also be a thing of torture.
Archer's Place, Marietta Ga...??
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This could be re-imagined as poetic verse. I kinda like it.
“one thing our place has more things of fun in it”???
Matter of fact, if I were to open a pool room and/or bar, I'd happily call it The Place of Things of Fun.
Hey now, 3 of the 8 sentences were grammatically correct and roughly made sense! Whaddya expect, perfection?
From JA’s fb post, he’s blaming all his staff. Assuming that’s really true for arguments sake, it probably means he was never there. I have a lot of pizza shop owners in my extended family. If the owners were not on site daily, the staff would rob them blind.
I’ve also seen it in pool halls. The houseman would pocket all the cash transactions.
I’ve also seen it in pool halls. The houseman would pocket all the cash transactions.
He may have been one of the very best 9-ball players on the planet (along with Earl, Efren, Mike and Buddy) for well more than a decade. However, one would have to had not done their due diligence research to even consider investing in a similar type establishment with him again, considering his track record as a businessman.
A thief can take on any form and I try to not judge, but the bar staff there certainly fit the prototypical profile.
On the flip side, Chattanooga Billiards Club(s) are really nice joints that have been in business for a long time. I believe Varner has or had a role in it
Are referring to MBC or the latest Archer's?
AFAIK Varner never had a part in CBC.
From what i was told he wasn't there often and when he was he just drank and jacked with the staff.
I was talking about the original MBC that was a few blocks from the big chicken.
The theme seems to have applied to both places. Bad management.
Archers is the new spot that has failed. A small spot...mostly a bar and not many tables.
MBC is the old one that also met the same fate. A big spot.....a lot of tables.
In this thread they have got mixed up a few times.
So based on the FB post, it looks like Archer is planning on trying again? I wonder if he lost the tables to the landlord. His room was the only GCc table room I've ever heard of. I wanted to get out there to play on them, but life got in the way...
Judging by that Facebook post it’s going to be a rough go interviewing for that small business loan.
Even ignoring the assault on the English language:
“So, you’re saying you foreclosed on your last place because of staff, but you can do better with new staff? Why didn’t you try swapping out key managers before you were driven to foreclosure?”
Revelations of a misspent youth.
Always had a hidden security camera over my bar and counter area. The employees did not know it was there. Also made sure to review the computer readings on a regular basis and compare it with what I am seeing on tape.
I found it particularly interesting that if I was gone on any weekend night our pool business was always off about 10%. My night manager would tell me, "Boss, it was just not as busy as normal." I caught him failing to enter on the computer two pool tables at the back of the room and doing all the other normal things; handing out the ball tray and taking a drivers license or credit card and putting it in the correct slot for that table. He would commit to memory the time they started and when they were finished he would charge them accordingly (at $10/hour). He would open the register and put the money he collected inside. He would go through the motions on the computer, but nothing got entered. All looks good on camera.
Later on the next time he made a transaction for food or drink sales, or pool time (on any other table) for that matter, he would remove the extra money he had put in the register earlier. He would just grab the twenty or thirty dollars and stuff it in his pocket when he walked away. He did this all night with two pool tables, and on a busy night like Friday or Saturday that might mean $60-80 on each table. So maybe about $125-150 he was pocketing on that night. He got away with this for a few months as I rarely took a weekend night off. But once in a while there would be an event that I wanted to attend or maybe a poker tournament I wanted to play in locally.
After I had heard this story (slow night for pool boss) a few times I began to review my camera recordings against the computer readings. I correlated what I was seeing on my outside cameras that showed all eighteen tables in the room, against what I was reading on the computer. All the tables were being played on but I was not collecting money on two of them. Bingo! It took me a couple of hours to figure out what was happening but I caught him. The next day I took him in my office and confronted him. He denied everything. I told him I would show him on camera what he was doing and began to cue it up to the exact place where he was stealing. He stopped me, and then began to apologize.
Long story short. He got fired and I did not get a dime back that he had stolen from me. The funny thing is that I would see him from time to time at local pool tournaments and he would be all friendly to me, as if nothing had ever happened. He acted like we were still best buddies. Sometimes real life is very interesting don't you think.
I don't even want to get started telling stories about people I've loaned money too
. All I will say is that the best way to lose a friend is to loan them money. In the end though I would rather be on my end of it then theirs!
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