It's back *ON*!!!

After yesterday's disappointing experience at Twin Peaks with the loss
of have the race due to the football programming manager, I thought
Twin Peaks was completely out and we (mostly me) would not bother
darken their tables again.

There used to be another place in Mesquite who used to get most of my
money I earned. The Ker's WingHouse was a fav hangout of mine. I used
to get really good service and okay food. They used to cater to the
needs of their customers and acted like they appreciated your business
and the basic fact you chose to go in there among the MANY other
restaurants in Mesquite. Somewhere along the line, Crawford Ker
managed to end up stuck with a manager who thought in his head this
"football" crowd would be where the money was. Someone like me or the
many others who enjoyed other interests would go in there and want to
watch Speed Channel for the races and just "go fast tv" were refused
access to the tv. It got to the point that you had to wade through
tables and tables of "no tipping" assholes who couldn't afford to get
PPV at their houses and would buy a cola then sit for 4 hours at the
table eating pretzels and getting free refills. Those of us who wanted
to gather up crowds of people and go in there buying dinners and
spending an hour or so watching the races and enjoying fellowshipping
were told we weren't welcome because of the "football crowd" didn't
like it.

Enter Twin Peaks. This is the newest form of burgers, fries and skin
deep service to hit Mesquite. It's a cute place to go and even showed
an effort to make the biker crowd feel welcome. I found this because
one day I wanted to see if WingHouse changed their views and found
they did....they changed to a boarded up building. The last several
times I've been in Twin Peaks I've have good experiences, as I've
remarked on this newsgroup. This last Sunday was a bit different. When
we finally got there, after sitting at the mall for TOO long waiting
on one of the riders, they already had the races on. When we sat down,
and during the middle of one of the races, the menu pops up and the
channel gets changed to football. I looked around and there was no one
else in the joint. There was NO reason to have changed all the tvs to
football. I began to loudly protest and was told by Misty (our pretty
server who was BTW pictured in the pics Bill C posted) that I needed
to protest to the guy in the red shirt. I asked where he was and she
pointed him out...then advised me he wasn't in a good mood. That's
okay by me, because I wasn't either at this point. When a crowd like
that gets gathered up to feast at their place, you don't really want
to piss them off. I went over and let this guy in the red shirt know
what I felt about his channel changing and he advised me the owner
wants the tvs on the football. He said they bought football and that's
what they'd watch. I argued for a few minutes to point out that the
people in his restaurant (me specifically) wanted to watch Speed
Channel and were there just to watch that while we had lunch. As good
of an argument as he made, he still didn't get around the fact of the
customers in this place didn't want to watch a "pre-game" show talking
about some football game by a bunch of has-been old men as they
compare someone's foot twitch to their asshole. *WE WANTED TO WATCH
SOME EXCITEMENT AND SOME SCANTILY CLAD BABES*. He finally changed one
of the tvs to Speed Channel, but not until after most of the race was
already over. Well, as you might imagine, this pissed me off. As much
as I plug for Twin Peaks and even go head to head with Gusto on his
Pig Pet place, this was just bullshit. The manager later caught me and
told me that he was just the messenger and that it's the owner wanting
football. I understand when it's their tvs and their dishes they can
have what they want, but in the end it's who's filling up those
tables.

Now, bikers are a weird bunch. We like all sorts of interests. We
mostly like motorcycles. When we see a motorcycle on a television
going 200mph in a track time run and riding the edge of a wheel rim to
it's extreme, we stop and notice it. We will even go across a
restaurant to see it. When we see a bike show on the television, we
watch it. We will spend all week telling everyone we see about our
disgust with OCC and yet if it's on the tube we look to see what
they're doing to the bike.

All these places trying to cater to bikes and bikers tend to go out of
business because in the end they don't know what we want. Very few
eating places for bikers actually make it successful. Simply putting a
few signs out saying "Motorcycle and Snowmobile Parking Only" is funny
and cute, but needs to be taken seriously. If we see that, don't muck
with it. We think you want our business and we'll give it as long as
you do us right.

Well, I started thinking about all this and didn't want to let it go.
I got on the computer and fired off a couple emails to the owner of
Twin Peaks. It ended up at the GM's computer and I received a reply
this afternoon. Here's the gist of the email:
"At the end of the day it is what our guests want to see. We are
researching different avenues to try and cater to everyone watching
needs. I obviously do not want to lose your business over Sundays
experience. Again I want to apologize for your visit. We will try to
be more accommodating in the future."

As I see it, the head to head challenge for the best biker hangout is
back on!!!

Sunday - Hot Bikes, Speed Channel (MotoGP), Hot Babes, Loud Rock
Music, and Hot Babes!!!

Where? Twin Peaks in Mesquite!

Gather up @ MSF Course 10am and ride over at 11am. From now on, if
you're not at the MSF on time, meet up at Twin Peaks....I ain't
waiting and missing the races!

 

Big Ed will be glad to hear this info.

Redshad

 

This morning I noticed the traffic stopped out on the interstate account
construction. I used the opportunity to take a poll of the drivers that were
just sitting there and welcomed someone to talk to, especially me. 13 out of
100 had heard of twin peaks. 6 out of 100 had visited twin peaks. Out of the
ones that had visited twin peaks, none went there to see what was on TV


....louie

 

I think he is using the TV thing to throw a curve in what his wife
might be thinking he is doing up there...kinda like a playboy
magazine..." I only read the articles..I never look at the pictures
honey." Maybe his wife has suggested that he get cable at home so he
can watch the speed channel there. I bet its ..." Honey now you know
we cant afford cable tv and I am never home to watch it anyway because
I am always on the road." I bet she never thought to check and see how
much he spends at Twin Peaks every week looking at those 16 year olds.
I bet he could have cable in every room plus my house and
Louies....LMAO.

Redshad

 

Right!

I image since he got the CEO straightened out and they are going to be more
accommodating the changes will be:

a. layoff all those gals
b. install more tv's
c. go m/c parking only

I'm buying stock.

...louie

 

Okay, smart-asses....which would you rather watch when glancing
through the restaurant looking at the next skimpy clad chick, MotoGP
or the old guys talking about football players half their ages and
whether they enjoy having some gel rubbed on their feet?

I noticed when those tvs were on MotoGP, you were commenting. When
they went to football pre-game shows you split.

Besides, my wife doesn't have any question why I'm there. I even say
"skimpy clad pretty girls, loud rock and roll music, motogp and more
skimpy clad pretty girls"...in that order!