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Snow problem
I quite like a bit of snow. But not today, please not today! We’re due to open next Tuesday (12th) after a bit of practice on our friends over the weekend. So it’s not great that we can’t even put our name up above the door because it’s too cold for the vinyl to stick. Our till system is stuck on a van in Crawley and won’t make it today. Tomorrow maybe, but the forecast isn’t promising. Meanwhile our credit card terminals, which were due on Thursday, are stuck up in Glasgow and they don’t envisage sending anything out till Monday. It looks like we’ll have to go old school – triplicate order books, manual swipes for credit cards. Not ideal but it could be worse, and we did want a hint of nostalgia about the place. On the plus front the interior is looking great and we’ve even got lights now. It’s beginning to look like a restaurant-to-be rather than a building site. The kitchen is up and running and producing delicious food which went down well with the team yesterday. And we’re very happy with the wine list which is all sourced through Swig, who came in last night to host a tasting. We’ll be doing a dozen whites and fourteen reds, all by bottle or glass (125 or 175 ml), with a maximum mark-up of £10 on top of their retail prices, so the mid to top end stuff will be fantastic value. More on that later…