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I thought Sharif, a magnificent Chef, had moved on to his own place. Rise, doing great souffles.

I hope they will also teach the basic food costing and finances of running a kitchen. Labor costs and p&l break down.

Finally ....I get to critique Dotty.

Truly a Dallas culinary institution and a great losses for our city and profession. My prayers and thoughts go out to his family, he will be missed.

There are a lot of things going on at Sullivan's. They are hosting Kevin Burnett, a Dallas Cowboy, Fund raiser on November 17th that benefits Literacy and education. Along with Kevin Burnett look for Brady James behind the bar and Marc Colombo and his band on stage. There we be food, drinks, dominos and a casino night. Following that will be Micheal Irvins ESPN radio show the next day,November the 18th for Lunch with a Legend.

It's kinda like ANYTHING else in this world, it boils down to YOU get what YOU put into it. If your positive and upbeat so goes your staff, so goes your sales, so goes your life.....

Some things to consider.First and foremost it benefits 2 very worthy charities. The North Texas Food Bank and the Lena Pope home. Secondly, before RW these were some of the slowest weeks in the biz, now a least everyone in the restaurant gets to work their full shifts and make money to pay their bills and finally it prepares the restaurants for the upcoming party season. Hopefully lets you work the kinks out. Also has anyone noticed how many places are closing these days? A small profit is better than no job. Take a look at how unbusy all the places that don't participate in RW are. It's kinda like Community Service, you may not want to do it but you should feel good about it. Just my thoughts....

Isn't this a little to BIG BROTHER, come on if your hiring people that have to be forced to take a break whats next forced restroom breaks, record keeping on what kind of breaks ( smoke, bathroom, phone) Ridicules!! Gotto go its time for my "break".....

One of the things I've learned in my 47 years is that bad times befall us all, at sometime in our lives. The true mark of a gentleman is how he handles such times. Davidwatts, I only hope that when the day comes that everything you have sacrificed for crumbles around you due to things beyond your control that you maintain that cool, damn the torpeados full speed ahead, only the strong survive, cavalear attitude. We shall see. But don't expect us to shed a tear.