Tilt

I have a rule about where I'll spend my money for beer or burgers...I avoid places that are based on a gimmick.

Nike, before the shoes.

And that is why I have no personal experience at the Tilted Kilt Pub and Eatery, except that one of their franchised locations was featured on "Undercover Boss" once.  The deal is, they had women servers strutting around in tiny plaid kilts and cropped tops that hoisted their breasts to the same angle as a Nike missile.

Very classy. But you can see the appeal to those who find such apparel enchanting. Like Hooters, you're not going there for the gourmet fare.

Eat and drink where you will, but now we find that the proprietors of the TK at The Avenue at White Marsh, the jampacked outdoor mall near us, raked in the long green on St Patrick's Day last Saturday - probably the biggest night of the year for saloonkeepers - and then locked the doors forever.

Staff arriving for their shifts on Sunday found a notice on the door to the joint saying they are closed for good.

Sorry, staff. No notice.  Look for your pay in the mail, right after the Val-Pak.


“Most of us worked 12-19+ [hour] shifts yesterday and we had no idea this was going to happen,” said Sarah Davis, a bartender and assistant manager on the restaurant's Facebook page. "We spent 8 years on the Avenue. We were loved by many, and shunned by a few that didn’t like us. But we loved everyone of our guests, everyone of our regulars everyone that supported us. We are all jobless and heartbroken,”
she continued.

The owner posted, anonymously, that “We do plan to seek another location and will be actively looking in the local market. We are very sorry for all those who woke up today to find out they no longer had a job.. While we greatly respect all of the hard working employees who have given us their dedicated services, some for years, others just a short time, our hands were tied and all avenues were exhausted to keep the doors open..”

So, in other words, sorry that you lost your jobs with absolutely no notice, but his (I guess the owner was a he; few women would be so callous) mealymouthed pablum reminded me of "Godfather" turncoat Tessio asking Tom Hagen to tell Michael Corleone that "it was only business" and he always liked him.

The sad part of capitalism, to me, is how one-way the street is in many cases. These people run businesses and demand total fealty from their staff, work them for 19 hours on Saturday, fold their tents and steal away under cover of dark Sunday morning, and then bleat that they have "respect" for their people.

Nope. Respect means, you tell them, we lost our lease, our franchise is up, we're hemorrhaging money, whatever it is, and give them some heads up that they will need a new job.

I got mine, sorry about you. The new American credo.

I hope this person opens up a new place and no one goes. But, if the skirts are short and the beer is cold, they will, sad to say.