Y tu, LA Taqueria?

I can no longer afford my weekly Botox treatments.

After reading all the talk about d'vine taste closing , I went over and asked Nellie the owner if the business is closing .She was shocked and said "who is saying these things and no she is not closing" . She asked me to post to dispell the rumor . After chitchatting with the owner she did say all the businesses in the hood was suffering so please shop local. :salut:

lurker 67 wrote: After reading all the talk about d'vine taste closing , I went over and asked Nellie the owner if the business is closing .She was shocked and said

:arrow: :arrow: :idea: :idea: "who is saying these things and no she is not closing" . She asked me to post to dispell the rumor .

After chitchatting with the owner she did say all the businesses in the hood was suffering so please shop local. :salut:

Signs of intelligent life !

belzjm wrote: shocker...caseopele was the one who started the rumor about d'vine taste.

i was at back to the land last night and asked the same question...they said business is a little off, but they are doing fine.

Knock off the shit or I won't invite you to my Checkers Invitational.

the last thing we need are false rumors saying that specific businesses are in trouble when they aren't!!

that might keep people away if they think the place is closing anyway...

Dude, chill. It's not going to keep anyone away. If anything regular customers will frequent more to give the place business. People who never go there wont give a shit either way. And it's just a message board, Don't Believe Everything You Read.

Mrs Why and I have already gone to La Taq based on this thread.

whynot_31 wrote: Mrs Why and I have already gone to La Taq based on this thread.

That's so funny, I always thought you were a woman yourself.

Ah, belzjm. You just can't help yourself, can you? :roll:

As for getting offline and interacting with people, I didn't hear anything about this stuff online. It came from an owner of another business that isn't doing well. My purpose of posting was to let people know that some local stores ARE in trouble. If people want to keep them around then they should support them.

LongTimeSloper wrote:
But, yes, rumors of stores/businesses closing do sometimes make business worse for them Mama.

Well what can I say there's a lot of idiots in the world. I'll personally am going to suck every last burrito down :chef:

(no dirty jokes please)

I'm going to miss them!!!!

pitu wrote: [quote=Mamacita]This thread is making me want a pork burrito so badly! Not because of the content of the thread, as that's getting old and boring, more like the words "La Taqueria" has a Pavlovian effect on me and I instantly begin to droll. It's very unseemly, as I am at work you know.

your sig line is having a similar effect on me; I dislike those dog food meatballs but am now keen to go to IKEA.
:shock:

I'm going on Saturday! Wanna ride? I have plenty of room since Mama has to walk.

Garfunky wrote: [quote=caseopele]Ah, belzjm. You just can't help yourself, can you? :roll:

As for getting offline and interacting with people, I didn't hear anything about this stuff online. It came from an owner of another business that isn't doing well. My purpose of posting was to let people know that some local stores ARE in trouble. If people want to keep them around then they should support them.

im sure you realize i would prefer not to agree with beljzm.

but lemme ask you this,
if i posted how i heard from another business owner that a certain liquor store was actually a drug front or a mob front or was going to be out of business soon and that they also sold to bluehatted babies ,
wouldnt it concern you a little bit ?
wouldnt you wonder why no one bothered to simply ask ?
wouldnt you be a little annoyed someone is spreading lies about your business ?

I haven't gotten any update emails on this thread so I'm responding a little late. I'm pretty sure that posting about a business possibly being in trouble is a hell of a lot different from posting that a business is a drug or mob front. As for spreading lies? Maybe I should go yell at the business owner who told us about the other businesses not doing so well. What I wanted to do was get people to put their money where their mouths are. So many people in PS and on this board claim to be for small businesses, if that's true then go spend your money there if you want them to stick around. Unless people prefer empty storefronts, cell phone stores, and realty offices.

It's been a little over 3 years since I moved out of PS, and even though I still work there, I understand some of the people that live there less and less. Neighborhoods like PS are a bit like bubbles, I am beginning to see why people in the "less desirable" neighborhoods have such a hard time understanding life there. I have a theory that the more comfortable people's lives get, the less they see of the world around them. The more concerned they become about small, and sometimes petty, issues. I love my job, I love most of my customers, and I love the sense of community we have. But recently, when push has come to shove, I've noticed that the people who take the most advantage of the services and benefits of small business are the very same people who refuse to support us.

I dont see how publicly posting anything that is either supposed to be confidential or is completely wrong can possibly benefit the business in question.

if someone wrote a false diatribe about you or your store
and insisted it was true hey they heard it from another owner,

wouldnt you be a little pissed ?

wouldnt you be telling that person they have no right whatsoever talking about your private life or to be making shit up ?

Moreover, you'll note how this board more or less attacks anyone who pops up out of nowhere to support a business as shill, omg what horrible people right ?

someone spreads lies , makes up stories as mentioned (tey are going out of business when it aint true, drug front mob front hey a rapist works here, hey theres cockroaches in my crackers, hey that liquor store sells to minors)

they are hailed a hero!

:arrow: no one stops to consider they might be a vindictive asshole who just lost their job, or whose cab was 2 minutes late or who wasnt allowed to bring their fucking st bernard in to a restaurant, or who lost their res when they coundnt be bothered to call and say theyd be late, or someone who simply hates their neighbor etc etc etc

and that is really ass backwards