On COGIC (The Saints Go Marching Out )
As the Church of God in Christ wraps up its annual convocation and leaves its ancestral home of Memphis for good (perhaps), will we finally get into the depths of how this city lost its biggest and most lucrative annual event?
It surely goes beyond the incessant (and seemingly unjustified) complaints about tipping from wait-staffs at local restaurants.
Maybe, we need to revisit our convention center as well as consider luring in more hotels downtown.
Isn't that what the previous city administration tried to do? How will Mayor A C Wharton respond to this?
*Thomas: Go and see.
*WREG. EyeNews.
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3 comments:
It's not just the tips. It's like some kind of rule that every time someone from COGIC places their order, everything has to be needlessly complicated by a seemingly unending series of substitutions and additions and extra this and hold that so that by the time you've actually got the order written down correctly, you don't even know what the hell it is anymore.
Then when the food arrives, you're constantly shuttling back and forth to get a hundred little things one at a time, as if your only job in the whole restaurant is to service this one COGIC table.
Then we come to the tips. Every now and again you get stiffed, it's no big deal. That's part of the job. Sometimes it's your fault and you deserve to get stiffed. But we're talking about every table, every time, no tip from the sweet ladies with the big hats. One time I got a dollar from a COGIC table. A whole dollar! This was on a group of eight who dominated my entire section for two and a half hours. Not only was I not getting any tips from COGIC, but my other tables weren't getting the service they expected, either. I've never worked so hard for a dollar in my life.
You can call it unjustified if you want, but I'll swear on the Holy Bible that every COGIC table I have ever waited on was exactly the same: loud people with big hats, very fancy clothes, incessant demands, and no appreciation whatsoever when you bend over backwards to give them what they want. I'm not one to buy into stereotypes, but I have "gone the second mile" with COGIC every time I have served them, and it's never once been a good experience. Nice people, terrible diners. The only thing worse is a table full of theater majors.
I haven't waited tables in years, thank God, but I still can't say I'm sorry to see them go. Experiences like these are what made the job such a grind.
Sir Richard:
You almost sound like Sidney Schlencker or "city slicker" as I used to call him.
A new convention center? WTF? Have you been in Peabody Place lately? Have you checked the occupancy load of any of the hotels downtown lately? Checked the tax retail intake at any of the downtown retail shops? Been to an event lately at the Pyramid, The Coliseum, Overton Square? Shopped along the "Mid America Mall?"
You are infected with that same old "if you build it they will come" fantasy mentality. Do you seriously want to leave your daughter with that legacy of abandoned buildings and closed shops being paid for/maintained with tax payer money?
There is a fatal flaw to every fantasy...it's called reality!
AG. Thanks for commenting.
The so-call plight of the waitstaff doesn't ring true to me. I'm just sayin, are COGIC folks any more demanding than any other customer? No. But moving on...
9.53. Thanks for commenting.
There is a danger in standing pat and not offering your own residents some new amenities. We talk about the Pyramid and so forth but those facilities were, and are, not up to par with more modern peers. Cities constantly need to improve upon their amenities--regardless of whether tourists come to visit or not.
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