1 October 2012

Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and coffee

Lunch: at KFC for chicken, mashed potatoes and desert plus a "Diet Coke"

Snack: some dark chocolate at home

Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant and I had:

• salad and a roll
• most of a rib eye steak
• most of a baked potatoe
• some veggies
• two bottles of Bud

Comments on the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant and my initial report on it.

We had an obvious college kid for a waiter; I doubt we'll see him back there the next time we go.

The on tap beer selection sucked and consisted of "light", "lite", "light", "lite", something non-"light" that I don't like and "Michelob piss" -er- "Ultra".  

My wife asked "do you have Michelob in the bottle?"

"Yes, we do."

That sounded too good to be true so I asked "Is that Mic Ultra?"

The waiter gave me a "dud, no shit" look and said "yes".

I replied "I can't stand 'Ultra' and like Michelob Lager." "We don't have that."

I ordered a Bud. Later, I walked over and asked the bar tender if the other bar had "LandShark".  She said they had just replaced it with a pumpkin beer. I didn't try it; I would have drank a "LandShark" on tap.

The hot dog stand was gone.

6 September 2012

_____Breakfast:  A McDonald's "Big Breakfast" of

• scrambled eggs
• sausage diskette
• coffee
• I didn't eat the potatoe thingie; it is in the refer

              Lunch: A Healthy Choice meatloaf meal and cold water

_______Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino where I hoped for a small fillet. Instead, it was buffet and I had:

• a small amount of salmon
• a slice of roast beef
• a small amount of potato chunks
• several scrimp
• roll
• ice creamme with fudge sauce
• iced water

The service was fine but then, how much service is needed at a buffet? Anyway, our waitress kept the water glasses filled and there was not too much of a wait before the bar runner brought Kathie's glass of wine.

Pre-Bed Snack:  gin-n-tonic in a coffee cup

Update on my Boot Hill Casino diatribe:

Plus: They have opened up extra money losing opportunities slot machines

Negative: Just a couple...

• They renamed "Miss Kitty's Saloon" to "Wild Bill's Beer Bar"
• Sadly, "Bill's Bar" was not open (not that I would have ordered a LandShark on tap as I was designated driver)
• The apparently one-shot hot dog stand sits empty and unused at the entrance to the Casino. It was probably a promotion or a failed experiment. They should cart the poor damned thing off or use it. As it is, it just makes the place look a bit run down...
• They had "upgraded" the machines and we had to "get a star" on our user cards to use said cards. We also got free lanyards (whoopee!)

They had not done much to improve the place since the last time I commented on them; it has not gone down much. We had a new and fine waitress last night and the time before. The waiter who gave bad service in the past is still there. Maybe he needs the job? (I'm not rich either...)

This is an update to my first evaluation of the Boot Hill Casino Restaurant.

   Blood: AM 80  PM 150
Exercise: 30 minutes on the treadmill

Boot Hill Casino, an evaluation of

I am sad to report that Boot Hill Casino has a number of problems:

The Casino appears to operate as four different businesses; originally, it was six. In Vegas, the Casinos are true multifunction places that support each other. Sadly, this is not the case at the Boot Hill Casino.

The Casino operates the games but keeps the money for itself.

The restaurant originally did breakfast. In fact, they had a breakfast club and when you had a breakfast, they checked off your card. Have eight meals and you get a breakfast for free. They no longer serve breakfast and my last breakfast card merely takes up space in my wallet.

They seem to have gone to buffet vice off the menu for lunch. They put in a hot dog stand at the entrance but it was shut down last night. This suggests the hot dog stand did not appeal to the hungry or the gamblers and so they have “cut their losses” and have stopped supporting it. This is a pity.

Anthony Bourdain wrote that restaurants need managers with “nervous feet”. That is, a manager who is watching his floor and is going around asking customers how they like the dining experience, who see problems with the waitresses/waiters and the food before the customers can bitch.

It is better for the irate customers to tell the manager about problems than for the pissed off customers to tell their friends. They don’t have such a restaurant manager and folks like me must bitch, verbally and in blogs.

They originally had a bar and a Saloon. The bar used to have a fine selection of tap beers and now it is “lite” or “light”beers. (Do you remember when this was a country of Real Beer Drinkers?) They have a very limited selection of bottle beers. (Why don’t they carry Michelob Lager and why do they always assume that you want that watered down piss beer, “Michelob Ultra”, when you ask for a “Mic” or “Michelob Lager”?)

They had a Salon, which served LandShark on tap and other fine real beers. It was supposed to be open last night but was not. Several months ago, the Salon bar tender was serving the runners as much as the other bar was.

Maybe the bar and Saloon were not doing enough business so they laid off the Saloon keeper (bar tender) and cut the available product line. Maybe they dropped the available selection and that resulted in reduced demand?

They used to have a gift shop. This was shut down and that room turned into a room of high stakes slot machines. They didn’t get many customers at the gift show probably because the prices were too high!

There is a display of souvenirs in the snack bar. The prices seem much more reasonable.
An aside: the Casino was going to have vans going from the Casino around town. I live just off one major road and 30 feet from a semi-major road. If they drove down these streets, I would be willing to drink at the casino.

If I knew I didn’t need to drive home, I will be willing to drink at the Casino (I am normally the designated driver). If I drank at the Casino, I would be willing to gamble more as I get a “what the hell” attitude after several drinks. Then, I could be in trouble.

Thus, the Casino protects me from me and loses money. This strikes me as a win (for me) lose (for them) situation. I like it…

They need a complaint desk for all aspects of the Casino. If you go to the Players Desk, you just get to talk about gaming. They don’t talk about drinking or food. Nor will these "complaint people" direct you to the correct restaurant or bar mangers...

An update on 7 September 2012 that isn't real good news.

20 August 2012

This is my second try at writing this entry. The fucking blog simply ate the first try and I guess tghe "save" routine didn't do any good...

Breakfast: creamme of wheat and coffee
     Lunch: We went to King's Buffet and I had a variety of chicken and beef dishes, rice, ice creamme and "Diet Pepsi"
    Dinner: We went to the Boot Hill Casino for dinner. There, I had:

• small amount of chili from a little cup of chili
• salad
• 9 oz prime rib
• slightly undercooked baked potatoe "fully loaded" (unfortunately, with those little rocks called "bacon bits"
• iced water and
• two Bud (the Saloon was closed and the other bar didn't have LandShark beer)

I am sad to report that Boot Hill Casino has a number of problems:

The Casino appears to operate as four different businesses; originally, it was six. In Vegas, the Casinos are true multifunction places that support each other. Sadly, this is not the case at the Boot Hill Casino.

The Casino operates the games but keeps the money for itself.

The restaurant originally did breakfast. In fact, they had a breakfast club and when you had a breakfast, they checked off your card. Have eight meals and you get a breakfast for free. They no longer serve breakfast and my last breakfast card merely takes up space in my wallet.

They seem to have gone to buffet vice off the menu for lunch. They put in a hot dog stand at the entrance but it was shut down last night. This suggests the hot dog stand did not appeal to the hungry or the gamblers and so they have “cut their losses” and have stopped supporting it. This is a pity.

Anthony Bourdain wrote that restaurants need managers with “nervous feet”. That is, a manager who is watching his floor and is going around asking customers how they like the dining experience, who see problems with the waitresses/waiters and the food before the customers can bitch.

It is better for the irate customers to tell the manager about problems than for the pissed off customers to tell their friends. They don’t have such a restaurant manager and folks like me must bitch, verbally and in blogs.

They originally had a bar and a Saloon. The bar used to have a fine selection of tap beers and now it is “lite” or “light” beers.  (Do you remember when this was a country of Real Beer Drinkers?)  They have a very limited selection of bottle beers. (Why don’t they carry Michelob Lager and why do they always assume that you want that watered down piss beer, “Michelob Ultra”, when you ask for a “Mic” or “Michelob Lager”?)

They had a Salon, which served LandShark on tap and other fine real beers. It was supposed to be open last night but was not.  Several months ago, the Salon bar tender was serving the runners as much as the other bar was.

Maybe the bar and Saloon were not doing enough business so they laid off the Saloon keeper (bar tender) and cut the available product line. Maybe they dropped the available selection and that resulted in reduced demand?

They used to have a gift shop. This was shut down and that room turned into a room of high stakes slot machines. They didn’t get many customers at the gift show probably because the prices were too high!

There is a display of souvenirs in the snack bar.  The prices seem much more reasonable.

An aside: the Casino was going to have vans going from the Casino around town. I live just off one major road and 30 feet from a semi-major road. If they drove down these streets, I would be willing to drink at the casino.

If I knew I didn’t need to drive home, I will be willing to drink at the Casino (I am normally the designated driver). If I drank at the Casino, I would be willing to gamble more as I get a “what the hell” attitude after several drinks. Then, I could be in trouble.

Thus, the Casino protects me from me and loses money. This strikes me as a win (for me) lose (for them) situation.  I like it…

They need a complaint desk for all aspects of the Casino. If you go to the Players Desk, you just get to talk about gaming. They don’t talk about drinking or food. Nor will these "complaint people" direct you to the correct restaurant or bar mangers...