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Originally Posted by rubicon
goodtimesintv: I agree with your 1st paragraph. I disagree with your comment concerning envy""...envy has nothing to do with the number of businesses VLSI smashed because they carry a monopoly and want to control their little fiefdom. Finally didn't Athens take personal risks of their assets and didn't they sweat to build a successful business here?
I admittedly don't care to eat out much but Athens was one of the better restaurants here. I will miss their deep fried haddock. apparently residents' loss is VLSI gain. Cést la vie
I guess I'll never understand the misguided loyalty residents seem to have with a business entity called VLSI...its not wise to love a corporation because its incapable of loving you back....like golf.
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I think you are reading great respect for a well run business that has nothing to do with love. I think it is extremely wonderful to see the success of a family who has invested their own money, over and over and built a wonderful community.
I grow tired of hearing that every time a restaurant closes here that it is the developer's fault. Some people like family restaurants and some people like chains. I just like decent, good food, prepared, served hot and promptly. People chastise some of us for our admiration for the Morse business and give the same kind of admiration to a restaurant business. It is very hard to keep a restaurant business afloat in Florida with extreme highs and lows in traffic due to tourist seasons. Usually you can tell that a restaurant is peddling as hard as it can when it serves three meals a day, but even that sometimes is not enough to keep it afloat, keep the meals priced where people will buy them with the rising price of food. It is hard work that starts way before the restaurant opens and continues way after it closes. It is some of the hardest work anyone can choose to do, running a successful restaurant. But still doing all things right, sometimes a business closes. None of us know for sure just exactly what the terms were that the two could not agree to, but since the owners are younger, I bet they will continue in another location. Just a guess. I don't know a thing about them other what I have read here.