JWs Not Obeying FDS re food at convention evidently

by blondie 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  blondie

  http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/02/downtown_coffee_shop_adds_sand.html

  Downtown coffee shop adds sandwiches

  Posted by Mary L. Lawrence | The Saginaw News February 21, 2008 08:31AM

  The owner of a downtown Saginaw coffee shop plans to fill a void -- and a few stomachs -- with the addition of a lunch menu.

  Dawn M. Goodrow Morrell, owner of dawn of a new day coffeehouse, 126 N. Franklin in the Bearinger Building, has added soups, salads and sandwiches to her venue.

  "My customers have been requesting food for some time and I kept putting it off," Goodrow Morrell said. "When the Jehovah's Witnesses convention was in town for three weeks last summer we served a light lunch menu, so I knew what was needed to do this."

  Several weeks ago, Goodrow Morrell and two friends pushed a sandwich cooler down the street to her coffee house to launch her new menu. She bought the refrigerator from the owner of the shuttered Wally's Sandwich Shop on South Washington.

  "When Wally's and McDonald's closed, that gave me the incentive to think about it more seriously," she said. "You have to spend money to make money. To pull this off I needed a refrigerator unit, a panini grill and other things that add to the start-up cost."

  McDonald's restaurant, 321 N. Washington in downtown Saginaw across from TheDow Event Center, closed in early January. The building was demolished and the property is up for sale. Wally's Old Fashion Sandwich Shop, 216 S. Washington, shut its doors a few weeks later. That property also is up for sale.

  Goodrow Morrell plans to incorporate local food products into the lunch menu. She already uses Hausbeck pickles as well as some ethnic foods and condiments from Yasmeen's Mediterranean Foods, a Saginaw Township grocery store.

  "I'm just trying to do my part. I want to be a part of the rebirth of downtown," she said. "I'll use produce from the Downtown Saginaw Farmers Market when it reopens. I want to keep the menu as fresh as possible."

  Her shop's line already included organic coffee, a full espresso bar, Italian sodas and fruit smoothies. She added soups starting at $3 and sandwiches from $5 to $6.
  The coffeehouse is open from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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  snowbird

  Good for them.

  I remember the puzzled look on the face of the ice cream vendor at the last assembly I attended. He couldn't figure out why no one was lining up to buy ice cream as in previous times.

  The congregations had been instructed not to buy from him even though he was on the street outside the arena!

  I thought then how ridiculous we must have seemed.

  Sylvia
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  Outaservice

  When the District Converntions were held at the Stadium in South Bend, Indiana, I would go across the street to the Catholic college (Notre Dame) and eat with the nuns at their cafeteria. The food was much better, cheaper, and a more relaxed atmosphere. There were a few other JW's there too.

  Outaservice (No Shasta Cola and Hockey Puck Burritos, and rotten fruit for me)
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  Hope4Others

  That's the last thing I wanted to do was get the kids ready, stay at a hotel and make lunch's. It was a stressful time of life. Who needs that extra pressure.

  Eating out was the way to go. Wt needs to get real.

  Hope4Others
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  Bobbi

  Nothing like being away from home staying in crappy hotel room with no fridge hoping the food doesn't spoil.
  Or trying to find a grocery store in a strange city with cranky kids.
  
  However I hated the lunches the society provided. I never got in line fast enough and always ended up with
  rye bread (which i hated) or vanilla pudding and an over ripe piece of fruit. I kind of thought that if I
  spent hours the night before slicing my arms open on the plastic wrap cutter I should at least get a decent
  lunch the next day. Don't even get me started about needing a hot cup of coffee/tea and watching all the other
  "weak" ones waltz in with steaming cups of hot wonderful coffee and really hating everything about my life at
  that moment.
  
  Bobbi
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  RULES & REGULATIONS

  Blondie

  Do you know the real reason why they stopped serving the deli sandwhich's,shasta soda,pudding,and the fresh bags of fruit? Did they need a vendor license? Was refridgeration a problem with health inspectors?
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  B_Deserter

  LOL, that's MY convention!
  
  I remember last year we all took off down the street and just massively overloaded that place. There was a line all the way down the block. It was the same way at the McDonald's across the street. In fact, I had a "sugar attack" during the last part before the intermission one day, and I walked across the street to find about a dozen witnesses already in line! The society can bitch and moan all they want, but there is always a core group of witnesses that frankly just don't give a crap, and they're going to do what they want. It's funny how easily it is to get witnesses to completely change their understanding of a major religious doctrine, but tell them they can't go out for coffee and fast food at lunch time, they'll blow it off like nothing.
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  chickpea

  i think that the first real chink in the armor for me was that ridiculous directive to not leave the auditorium for lunch!! and posting snitches to take your name if they "caught" ya in the food court!!

  jesus tap-dancing christ!!! i had 4 kids to feed breakfast, dress in their meeting clothes, plus getting me ready ( oh the joys when 2 were in diapers!)

  THEN make them a bluddy lunch to boot!! after having carted the crappy lunch meat and squashed loaf of bread the 6 hour drive to the convention?!?!?

  leave it to childless, clueless control freaks!
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  dinah

  Jesus-tap-dancing-Christ.

  Priceless.
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  WTWizard

  I would like to give the hounders that are enforcing the rules a King James version of the Bible (updated English) and challenge them to find these rules in that book. Where in the Bible does it tell people that they are not supposed to eat out for lunch, or go to another church and buy better food there at a better price? Where does it tell people that they cannot have their coffee in Starbucks' cups? Show me where in the Bible it tells people that (and without taking snippets of scriptures out of contect), and I will obey it.

  The same goes for their other rules. Where does the Bible tell people to only use one towel (they are sized that way for a reason--so that children with small hands do not waste 3/4 of an adult sized towel) or two sheets of toilet paper per use? Where does the Bible tell us that using vending machines is off limits? Where does the Bible tell people to keep quiet or keep moving? Where does the Bible tell us that we need to sit in the lower areas when the upper areas are usually cooler?

  OK, so the Bible does say that we should be in submission to those taking the lead. The same Bible also lambastes those who abuse that power. Remember Jesus' attitude toward those who abuse their power to make stupid rules? I do. I could just imagine Jesus trying to get to Starbucks and bringing the coffee in the cup it came in, and then having the attendants ordering him to put the coffee in a plain cup. Jesus would have usurped the program on the spot, and announced that these stupid rules are not found anywhere in the Bible, and that those taking the lead need to be reasonable (which they are not being). Maybe that should be grounds to not go at all--you can go to another church, or go online, or just take a regular vacation.