{"id":29227,"date":"2025-10-29T12:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=29227"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:25:51","slug":"wednesday-update-314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/29\/wednesday-update-314\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week The Majestic Grille announced the launch of Majestic Catering. On 24 hours notice they can deliver hot and cold boxed lunches, sandwich and salad platters, and hot entree platters to your office or house. Their service is drop &amp; go and makes the process seamless. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majesticgrille.com\/catering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check them out!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the Majestic, guess who&#8217;s going there for lunch tomorrow? It&#8217;s been more than a year and I&#8217;m super excited. I&#8217;ve got my eye on that mushroom flatbread with tomato onion jam, garlic olive oil, and goat cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis Chess Club now has Pub Quiz trivia at 6:30 and 7:30 PM Thursdays. The games are part of Sporcle&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sporcle.com\/events\/the-globe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Globe League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe is back at Bardog after a couple months off to heal his back. If the schedule remains the same &#8211; and I think it will &#8211; he&#8217;ll be behind the bar Thursday-Friday morning and lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Choose901 has a look at JEM Fine Dining&#8217;s creative new <a href=\"https:\/\/choose901.com\/jems-new-cocktail-menu-mixes-creativity-community-and-a-whole-lot-of-memphis-flavor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cocktail list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flying Fish head honcho Shannon Wynne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2025\/10\/29\/flying-fish-owner-backtracks-civic-unrest-statement-following-closing-downtown-location\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said he misspoke<\/a> when he blamed his recently-closed restaurant&#8217;s decline in sales on civil unrest. Shannon. You need to put a PR firm on retainer.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldaycalendar.com\/national-day\/national-cat-day-october-29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Cat Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies are on the road vs. the Phoenix Suns tonight. 9 PM tip. TV: FanDuel Sports<\/p>\n<p>WalletHub named <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-cities-for-halloween\/7785?ck_subscriber_id=3201412392&amp;utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=The%20first-known%20hoofed%20reptile%20%20-%201950378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the best U.S. cities for Halloween<\/a>. Topping the list were New York, Jersey City, and L.A. Memphis came in 100th.<\/p>\n<p>From the Memphis Flyer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/how-memphis-found-a-breakout-rookie-in-cedric-coward-efficient-confident-ready?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=Latest%20in%20Crime%20Stats%20%28Numbers%20are%20Down%29&amp;utm_campaign=10-28-2025%20Around%20Town&amp;vgo_ee=JirBO9nG3Dz6Pu5xerpmIHmzzsqHd2gWD29hd41JZzjLYew%3D%3Aa0Ik2ZLHLEohN2UM8FAQhHl7So23lHmc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Grizzlies found a breakout rookie in Cedric Coward<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week The Majestic Grille announced the launch of Majestic Catering. On 24 hours notice they can deliver hot and cold boxed lunches, sandwich and salad platters, and hot entree platters to your office or house. Their service is drop &amp; go and makes the process seamless. Check them out! Speaking of the Majestic, guess &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/29\/wednesday-update-314\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday 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\/29227"}],"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=29227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29230,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29227\/revisions\/29230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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