The Bennigan’s near Chapel Hill Mall closed down. There pretty much gone from this area, so I think it had something to do with Corporate miss-management. The building sat vacant for some time, until they put in a new restaurant to take its place. The new restaurant is called “The Brick House Tavern & Tap”. Not knowing anything about it, me and Allie decided to give it a try. We took the kids and looked forward to trying the place out.

When we got there, Allie sent me in ahead so that I could get us on the list while she got the kids out of the car. The waitresses were dressed in slutty little hooter-like outfits; short shorts and tops so tight and low cut that they were about to burst. Their little catch line for their buzzers are that they say “here’s your “vibrator””; and the thing says something about “This is for your hand, not for your …”.

Bottom line, The Brick House is not for your kiddies and it’s not a family restaurant. Don’t take your kids unless you feel like explaining what the girls have balloons shoved down their shirts. I feel sick for the children proudly displayed with the half-neckid girls on their Facebook page. As a resident of Cuyahoga Falls, I’m sad that they would approve an establishment like this. Especially given how much they touted being responsible for bringing O’Charlie’s to the area. I will be emailing the mayor about this one.

We ended up going to Applebee’s instead. The place was sadly bare on a Saturday night. It looks like the Brick House is taking a lot of their business.

Corporate purchasing relies on things like SSI’s or Strategic Sourcing Initiatives, where they enter into a contract to purchasing items, such as computers from a single vendor. In the business world its, more often than not, a Dell, HP, or IBM. I have a word of warning to you if you purchase Dell products. I’m not a friend of Dell, I’ve aired my own complaints about their consumer customer service here before.

Let me put this plainly; Dell doesn’t care about you, they only care about their bottom line. A friend of mine recently forwarded this article from the register. Dell knowingly provided customers with defective capacitors in their Optiplex product line. They knew that 95% would fail within 3 years. What’s more, they instructed their tech support to obfuscate the issue and not acknowledge the problem. Following this, they then knowingly provided defective replacement parts, hoping that eventually their customers warrantee would expire before they died again.

I urge you, as an IT professional to say no to Dell. I recently had a bad support experience where it took over a month to get, not a product, but a promise that the product would be on the way for a mission critical server replacement. I’m appalled by what they consider service.

Sources:

Secret docs reveal Dell knew PCs were faulty