Monday, April 30, 2012
Restaurant review: Glatt Bite
I walk in the door for the first time, and the first thing I notice before the food and before the ambiance and decor, is the people. At firstI could hardly beleive I was walking into a restaurant. It was more like a friendly family gathering, where everyone greets you with a smile. A good friend of mine was sitting at a table in the front right corner.He waved at me, and called out for me to come over to his table. In the back left corner a group of bochurim were relaxing after a long day in yeshiva. Some were eating. Some were just "chilling". One of the bochurim who is a customer in my store greeted me warmly. And i began to realize that there was something very different about this place. And yet I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I had been to many restaurants before, where you felt "heimish" and at home. But this was completely different. It was literally like your at home. And by the way, the diversity of people was also striking.There was a older looking African American man who was shmoozing nonchalantly with a young jewish couple about Kosher and other jewish customs. A middle aged chassidic lady was entertaining 9 kids of all different ages, seated around 2 tables who were clearly having the time of their life.
And so, after haveng been greeted now by both strangers and friends alike from tables all across the room, I was now wondering what the actual service would be like. So i walk up to the counter and a young down to earth fellow whom I was later told is the owner greeted me in a warm freindly voice."Can I help you with anything today?" "Yes" I responded. "I will take one chicken matzoball soup, two plain sschnitzel pastrami sandwhiches and a large gingerale to go please."Sure thing !He smiled at me."Youre order is on the way! Anything else we can help you with today?" " Yeah. My mortgage." I quipped. He broke out in a huge grin and started laughing hysterically. I then watched as he quickly told the guys in the back my order. Just then a group of young guys came in and plopped down on a table in middle of the store.The owner walked over and sat down at the table and atarted shmoozing with them. And then it hit me.This place is beyond heimish.This place is litterally a home in of itself! Just then a friendly guy whom I know I've seen once before, came over to me askng if i would like to join him at his table with a few of his friends.
Ok. I think youre getting the picture. Well, let me fast forward now to the food. The chicken soup was just PERFECT! Just the right amount of flavor. Not too spicy.But just enough to make it the best tasting chickensoup I've had in a long time.The sandwhich was so surprisingly good that I was actually tempted to get ar third one! Trust me, I've had many schnitzel sandwhiches before, but this was something else entirely! Anyways, you can bet I'll be coming back here often!! And to summarize I would give this retaurant a 11 out of 10, if that was possible! Superb service. Superb food Superb people. And Superb atmosphere! What more could you possibly want in a restaurant? And i highly reccommend you give it a try! Hearty Appettite!
TECHNOLOGY PREDICTION - 3D PRINTERS
I do believe it likely, that 3d printers may very well soon change the entire world as we know it.
Much as the internet did back in the 90s, 3d printing may completely alter the world of buisness and daily living, to the point, where we will soon wonder how we ever lived our lives before this.
Imagine you're only available pair of good pants splits, and you now have 3 minutes left until the job interview.
Of course there is no need to worry. Because now can just print a new pair of pants.
"Lets see. Green would be nice. 100 Percent wool. Cuffs. No Pleats. Big pockets."
And youre off to the meeting.
Your great aunt Sady just lost her cane and she wants to go for a walk. Oh. Thats no problem. Just press a few buttons. wait 3 minutes, and Presto! Aunt Sadie is up and about going to visit Uncle Morris with her brand new top of the line cane.
Your out of bowls this morning! You've got to be at work in 5 minutes. Good grief! How will you get through the daily grind with out your morning fix of toasty-0s?
No need to fret! Just print out a fresh new bowl.
And all this, is from you, the consumers perspective.
But what about stores that sell these items?
How is this going to impact their buisiness?
Well, on the one hand, they can print out many things on site as opposed to having to wait for new shipments to arrive.
But also, think about this.
Why should I bother going to Walmart if I can now get what ever it is I need printed at home?
True. You can't print everything.
But the things you can print are going to either have to be sold for pennies or at a drastically reduced price.
We may be seeing the price of everything go down a whole lot.
This is good news for us consumers of course. But bad news for retailers.
Another big upside of 3d printers will be designers and inventors of new products not having to go to China to manufacture their product.
Now any thing you come up with, including all the screws and parts, can be printed right here from the comfort of your living room.
All this being said, we still can't know for sure, how big of an impact this new technology will have on our lives just yet.
As a famous man once said "Let's wait and see."
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Introduction
Hi everybody. My name is Dave. And I will be posting some of my observations & opinions on different things going on in my world. if