{"id":24303,"date":"2020-11-01T08:34:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T14:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24303"},"modified":"2020-11-01T08:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T14:34:54","slug":"sunday-update-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/01\/sunday-update-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/experience-downtown\/events\/downtown-dining-week\/\">Downtown Dining Week<\/a> has arrived! Today through Saturday, November 7, 66 restaurants are participating, offering some amazing deals and enticing you to get out and try new things. I&#8217;m going to repeat my yearly comments here, with an additional sense of urgency because of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please, please, PLEASE don&#8217;t make reservations for the same time, same night at multiple restaurants because your group hasn&#8217;t decided where to go yet &#8211; and then no-show all the restaurants but one. Even in the best of times, this is rude to other diners who miss out on a table, and to the restaurants who miss out on revenue. This is magnified by social distancing restrictions that cut the total number of guests to half or less.<\/li>\n<li>Please be understanding of your servers. They are going to be very busy. Try to let them know everything your table needs all at once and don&#8217;t run them back and forth to the kitchen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>30% tip.<\/strong> In previous years I suggested this as &#8220;a nice thing to do.&#8221; In pandemic times I suggest this as &#8220;ought to be mandatory.&#8221; Your servers had their restaurants closed for at least a month and a half this year, and since then have tried to survive waiting on social distanced tables. Recognize that you&#8217;re getting a deal on your food and take care of your servers very well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m still digging through the DDW menus trying to figure out if and where I want to dine&#8230; those fried ribs with two sides, a drink, and dessert at Chef Tam&#8217;s Underground Cafe sure sound tempting. I might have to hit that place later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like DDW is my only piece of news for today&#8230; it&#8217;s a heck of a piece of news though. Back tomorrow with more.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com\/1.0.0\/button.prod.min.js\" data-name=\"bmc-button\" data-slug=\"paulryburn\" data-color=\"#FF813F\" data-emoji=\"\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-text=\"Buy me a coffee\" data-outline-color=\"#000\" data-font-color=\"#fff\" data-coffee-color=\"#fd0\" ><\/script><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Dining Week has arrived! Today through Saturday, November 7, 66 restaurants are participating, offering some amazing deals and enticing you to get out and try new things. I&#8217;m going to repeat my yearly comments here, with an additional sense of urgency because of COVID-19. Please, please, PLEASE don&#8217;t make reservations for the same time, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/01\/sunday-update-89\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunday update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24304,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24303\/revisions\/24304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->