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[brigid.livejournal.com]

i feel horrible, but i would love to see mr crepe come back

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Your horoscope for tomorrow:

You will wake to find an unruly mob of birkenstock-wearing crunchies in front of your house directing negative chakras at your karma.

[ceo]

Oh no, not again.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

I know, huh? The neighbors are getting tweaked out by this.

[autumnsshadow.livejournal.com]

i think it would be karma at your chakras...

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Ordinarily, yes. That's what makes this horoscope especially frightening.

[autumnsshadow.livejournal.com]

likely. i hear chakras will take the paint off your car.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Don't feel horrible. I want a hybrid of Someday and crepes. Someday's food was horrid but it's atmosphere was cool. I wish crepes and cool could be interfaced.

[brianbeck.livejournal.com]

I spoke to Peter Creyf after the meeting on Sunday and he fully intends to run the Crepe Store as an informal eatery and coffee place. He said he wants to have art on the walls (he did in the old place). He said he wants to serve great coffee. He said he will hire great staff (he did in the old place). He said the music will be cool (it was in the old place). He regretted not getting that point accross.

I think it may be possible to have the best of both worlds:
A great eatery with a reliable lineage, a welcoming coffee shop with wireless and great pastries and a well maintained and clean addition to Davis Square.

The only price to pay is the loss of the Someday location and heritage, dirty carpets and sofas and more likely, the need to spend a bit more during your stay.

The Someday as a co-op can come back to the Square if we want it to, and it will take determination but I think Mr. Crepe is here to stay.
It may be time to welcome him back.

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

I feel so bad for Mr. Crepe, stepping unknowingly into that situation.

[watchamacallit.livejournal.com]

No kidding. It's his place of business now. Why can't people just let it go already? Obviously the owner of Someday doesn't give a damn.

[loxocele.livejournal.com]

yes, and it's that "not giving a damn" that's created this mess in the first place.

"the owner of the someday" has only been such for five years; some of us have had the someday in our lives longer (and some *much* longer!) than that.

[loxocele.livejournal.com]

no one's asking mr. crepe not to come to davis square; most of the people at the sunday meeting were all for crepes in davis again.

we just don't want crepes to also mean no someday. :(

[brigid.livejournal.com]

i'd also like deli haus to come back :/
and maybe a pony.

for whatever odd reason, i am mostly lacking in the coffee house appreciating gene...i like them in theory but aside from curious liquids i've never really been totally won over by a coffee house. is mr crepe a chain?

[loxocele.livejournal.com]

is mr crepe a chain?

not yet.

the guy who owns it has one chain already - something about waffle houses in ski chalets, or something like that; he was very open and outspoken about his desire to turn mr. crepe into a franchise.


damn i loved curious liquids.
and i'd give a kidney to get deli haus back. :P

[ron_newman]

I actually don't remember him saying anything about a Mr. Crepe chain. I thought he was just talking about adding more Waffle Haus locations through franchising.

[loxocele.livejournal.com]

no, he was definitely talking about expanding mr. crepe through franchising. that was part of his whole deal about having to reopen mr. crepe ASAP instead of waiting until (say) spring.

he was convinced people were going to try and copy his idea, in which case he could offer them franchising opportunities if he had mr. crepe up and running; else, if he *didn't* have mr. crepe back in business, his competitors would be able to take over the crepe market.

[mattdm [typekey.com] (from livejournal.com)]

I didn't take that from what he was saying about his schedule. I thought he was saying he had to stay one step ahead in his *other* business, where he currently enjoys a defacto monopoly in a niche he created. (Hence the going on about the NYT (or was it WSJ?) article.)

But it may be true nonetheless.

[brigid.livejournal.com]

gotcha.

is this coop idea even feasible if the mr crepe guy already has a lease on the space?

[sasha-bee.livejournal.com]

the font is unreadable on my computer. can someone tell me what it says?

[ron_newman]

It's a black-and-white image, not text, so it should display the same on every computer. If it is displaying less than full size, click on this link to see it all by itself.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

It'd probably display better if the background "white" wasn't actually transparent. :)

[ron_newman]

Ahh. That explains why it looks fine in my browser, but terrible if I save it to a .gif file and then look at it with the Mac's Preview program.

loxocele, can you fix that?

[loxocele.livejournal.com]

drat drat drat.

the .pdf i posted to the list is functional....


ok. try now. (or go here: http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e5/loxocele/someday-flier.gif)

[loxocele.livejournal.com]

...ooops.

my bad. :P

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

It's a large picture, not actual text. If it were actual text, people would be able to cut-and-paste from it.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

You have posted a large picture with images of characters on it. It takes time to load, cannot be cut-and-pasted from, and will not be found and indexed by search engines. And as a large picture, it should properly be behind an lj-cut.

You would more effectively serve your cause if you made the efort to transcribe the text appearing in this large picture, and posted the actual text instead.

[neversent.livejournal.com]

don't forget to tip your barista!

[penny-chase.livejournal.com]

Obviously the Buck-a-Book space is now vacant. Of course it's too big for Someday. But what about something like a bookstore/cafe along the lines of Porter Square Bookstore (except with a first-class coffee house) in that space?