{"id":25634,"date":"2022-03-10T08:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25634"},"modified":"2022-03-10T08:58:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:58:36","slug":"thursday-update-226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/10\/thursday-update-226\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rizzo&#8217;s by Michael Patrick <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/business\/article\/27516\/rizzos-closing-chef-michael-patrick-covid\">is the latest restaurant victim<\/a> of this post-COVID economy. After 11 years, Chef will close the doors at the end of this month. If he stayed open, he&#8217;d have to raise prices again. He&#8217;ll wind down around the end of this month and is in the process of trying to line up jobs for his employees so they don&#8217;t miss a single paycheck. If you want one last Lobster Pronto Pup, you better get by there soon. Thanks for 11 great years, Chef.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orpheum-memphis.com\/event\/bobby-weir\">Bobby Weir &amp; Wolf Bros<\/a> perform tonight at the Orpheum. The band performs the tunes of the Grateful Dead (of which Weir was a founding member) as well as Weir&#8217;s solo albums. They are backed by The Wolfpack, a string and brass quintent.<\/p>\n<p>The MemphisWeather.net blog has details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisweather.blog\/2022\/03\/winters-last-gasp-snow-is-in-friday.html\">snow<\/a> that is expected to fall Friday night. Long story short: We&#8217;d get a couple inches accumulation between 9 and midnight Friday if the ground wasn&#8217;t so warm. Roads are expected to be fine.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Chandler of the CA has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/2022\/03\/08\/downtown-memphis-the-peanut-shoppe-new-location-hours-opening\/9429164002\/\">a look at the new Peanut Shoppe location<\/a> at 121 S. Main. It will be open this Saturday and Sunday at 11 AM.<\/p>\n<p>Chandler also takes a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/dining\/2022\/03\/08\/calvary-episcopal-church-lenten-waffle-shop-fish-pudding-dates-hours\/6839184001\/\">fish pudding<\/a> sold at the Calvary Waffle Shop. She deems it a must-try. A volunteer at the waffle shop explained to Chandler that &#8220;pudding&#8221; is an English term for casserole.<\/p>\n<p>I heard a guy got jumped after he left a popular Downtown nightspot not far from Beale Street Tuesday night and his wallet and camera were taken.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Tigers collected quite a few American Athletic Conference year-end honors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jalen Duren: Freshman of the Year, All-Conference First Team, All-Freshman Team<\/li>\n<li>DeAndre Williams: All-Conference Second Team<\/li>\n<li>Josh Minott: All-Freshman Team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you want to help people find their way out of homelessness? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospitalityhub.org\/careers\/\">The Hospitality Hub is hiring.<\/a> Open positions include Community Relations Coordinator, Emergency Shelter Manager. Facilities Manager, and shift supervisor for the Hub&#8217;s Work Local program.<\/p>\n<p>An employee of Max&#8217;s Sports Bar told me they will likely open early on Sunday if any of the local teams (Memphis, Arkansas, or Tennessee) is playing in a conference final that day.<\/p>\n<p>South Point Grocery has a special on fresh strawberries &#8211; 99 cents for a 1-pound container.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gotigersgo.com\/news\/2022\/3\/8\/mens-basketball-tigers-to-play-in-2022-espn-events-invitational-in-orlando.aspx\">The Memphis Tigers men&#8217;s basketball team will compete in the ESPN Events Invitational<\/a> November 24-27 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney World in Orlando. Memphis won the invitational tournament in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers&#8217; Lester Quinones <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2022\/03\/10\/lester-quinones-builds-clothing-brand-with-help-memphis-agent\/\">has his own clothing brand<\/a>, which is allowed under the NCAA&#8217;s new name, image, and likeness rules. There was recently a pop-up shop for the brand at Odds Atelier.<\/p>\n<p>Major League Baseball has canceled two more regular-season series, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/10029264-mlb-cancels-2-additional-regular-season-series-opening-day-postponed-to-april-14\">postponing Opening Day<\/a> until at least April 14. Owners continue to lock the players out as the two sides have yet to come to terms on a collective bargaining agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nickkolenda.com\/psychological-pricing-strategies\/?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\">primer on pricing psychology<\/a>. (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningbrew.com\/daily\/r?kid=b392e100\">Morning Brew<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/2cf3389c8b49ab4dcbfd4e887c9c6da3\/national-ranch-day\">National Ranch Day<\/a>. Get some with an order of fries at your favorite restaurant. It&#8217;s vastly superior to ketchup as a dipping condiment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/covidactnow.org\/us\/tennessee-tn\/county\/shelby_county\/?s=30261885\">COVID Act Now<\/a>&#8216;s Risk Levels map of Tennessee shows Shelby County as the ONLY county in Tennessee not rated as a High, Very High, or Severe risk of spread of COVID. Shelby County is rated Medium at 6.5 cases\/day\/100K residents.<\/p>\n<p>Pro angler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1735184993539584\/\">Terry Byrd<\/a> will be in the fishing department at Bass Pro at the Pyramid noon to 5 today to answer all of your fishing questions and help you pick out gear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/647548239820446\">Dillon Carmichael<\/a> plays Tin Roof tonight at 8 as part of the Nashville Hits the Roof concert series.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this post. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/storage.ko-fi.com\/cdn\/widget\/Widget_2.js'><\/script><script type='text\/javascript'>kofiwidget2.init('Tip Jar', '#29abe0', 'B0B57GDFG');kofiwidget2.draw();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rizzo&#8217;s by Michael Patrick is the latest restaurant victim of this post-COVID economy. After 11 years, Chef will close the doors at the end of this month. If he stayed open, he&#8217;d have to raise prices again. He&#8217;ll wind down around the end of this month and is in the process of trying to line &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/10\/thursday-update-226\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday 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\/25634"}],"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=25634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25635,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions\/25635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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