[Acct2000]

Maybe we should do an AAAC dinner there. If there are 30 of us, they wouldn't be able to attack our ties.

One for all and all for one!!! Perhaps the editor of Gun Magazine could make sure that our well-dressed members our properly reinforced. (Would there be a dress code for our guards?)

 

[Acct2000]

Power to the well-dressed tie-wearing people!!

(I can already see the news coverage.)

Should we give Patrick a scoop?

 

[Artisan Fan]

Finally a use for some of my old Armani ties. :icon_smile_big:

 

[Phinn]

I see -- they take the old idea of Tie Required and turn it into No Ties Allowed. That's cute. Very Californian.

I think I'm going to open a steakhouse where utensils are forbidden. In fact, no tables, either. The staff just throws the meat onto the floor in a big pile, and you grab what you can and eat it with your hands.

I mean, if we're going to destroy civilization, let's just go all the way.

 

[champ31]

I've actually been to pinnacle peak quite a few times while on work trips to Arizona Cancer care Center. I have to admit for $15 dollars, its a pretty big steak and pretty good and lively atmosphere. They use free range, corn fed cattle. As for the tie cutting, they're too many ties hanging from the rafters to count. The locals come for kid birthday parties. The sctick is that the kid wears a tie, and there's this song and dance with the waiters and then they cut your tie. As for adults on business, they wouldn't dare, but just to be safe we roll it in our pockets.

 

[william76]

It's obvious: Cut their feet off.

:icon_smile_big::icon_smile_big::icon_smile_big:

 

[UntimelyEpiphany]

The Trail Dust Steakhouse locations around DFW practice this policy.

Its all very tongue in cheek,They do allow you to remove the tie if you prefer.

If they spot you wearing it a mob of employees ringing cow bells surrounds you, and if you refuse to remove it they will cut it off and hang it,
(with your name on it), on the wall with hundreds of others.

Most people wear an old tie or buy a really ugly one for the occasion!

p.s. If they cut a tie of yours, they give you a free beverage or desert of your choice.

 

[crs]

I see -- they take the old idea of Tie Required and turn it into No Ties Allowed. That's cute. Very Californian.

I think I'm going to open a steakhouse where utensils are forbidden. In fact, no tables, either. The staff just throws the meat onto the floor in a big pile, and you grab what you can and eat it with your hands.

I mean, if we're going to destroy civilization, let's just go all the way.

It's actually Arizonan, not Californian.

Arizona has changed, but when I lived in Tucson in 1982-84, your basic Arizona Old West steakhouse had a dinner menu consisting of: one-pound steak, two-pound steak, three-pound steak, baked beans, hunks of white bread. That was it. I do not jest. I see on the Pinnacle Peak menu that they have added a few items.

You can find utensils-free restaurants. At Ethiopian restaurants the food is various types of stews, and you use pieces of bread to scoop it up.

I've always felt that buffet restaurants should just put a trough out there. You just push your head through the crowd and have at it.

 

[Wayfarer]

You would not recognize Tucson these days crs. It has changed and grown up immensely just since I arrived in 1998. Steak you say? My two favorite joints in town are #1) Sullivan's and #2) Flemmings. Both chains yes, but good chains. A local long time guy has his own steakhouse too, McMahon's, but that is further from my house than I need drive to #1 or #2 above so I only go for lunch meetings.

There are still the two old time low budgets also, El Coral and Chad's.

 

[PJC in NoVa]

In Germany, during Karneval (similar to Mardi Gras), it's a tradition that the women cut off men's ties as a symbol of "taking over" the power in town for that period. . . . . For Heidi Klum (who enjoys Karneval, because she comes from that region), it might be different.

Holy castration anxiety, Batman!

Actually, if Heidi Klum were wielding the sharp implements, it might change the equation for me as well.

 

[PJC in NoVa]

I think I'm going to open a steakhouse where utensils are forbidden. In fact, no tables, either. The staff just throws the meat onto the floor in a big pile, and you grab what you can and eat it with your hands.

There's an old New York City dining tradition, now sadly defunct, that's very close to this. They were called "beefsteaks" and were thrown as fundraisers for political, civic, and other social groups.

Read Joseph Mitchell's New Yorker essay "All You Can Hold for Five Bucks" in his great collection, Up in the Old Hotel.

 

[septa]

This seems to be a good solution to the overwhelming number of individuals who are overdressed while dining in most of the US. What a joke. Nowdays you can be seated at Le Bec Fin in Philadelphia wearing jeans and a collared shirt.

Now what would be an appropriate consequence for the slobs who attempt to get seated at an upscale resaurant wearing sneakers and jeans???

MrR

I bet in the old days Georges Perrier would have come out with his Champagne sabre and laid the smack down.

 

[oldseed]

I think I'm going to open a steakhouse where utensils are forbidden. In fact, no tables, either. The staff just throws the meat onto the floor in a big pile, and you grab what you can and eat it with your hands.

I mean, if we're going to destroy civilization, let's just go all the way.

except, of course, civilized people do eat with their hands in a big communal pile.:teacha:

edit: woops, point made above.

 

[JLibourel]

p.s. If they cut a tie of yours, they give you a free beverage or desert of your choice.

Hmmm...actually that might make me tempted to sacrifice some of my old ties that are on their last legs. Still, the indignity of all is repellent....

 

[rip]

Maybe we should do an AAAC dinner there. If there are 30 of us, they wouldn't be able to attack our ties.

Might want to rethink your math... seems like that would leave 3970 ill-dressed diners who might want to cut off your ties. You know how hoi poloi are toward the elite.

 

[Howard]

They actually "cut off" your tie?

 

[Laxplayer]

Might want to rethink your math... seems like that would leave 3970 ill-dressed diners who might want to cut off your ties. You know how hoi poloi are toward the elite.

Bring pepper spray.

 

[patbrady2005]

Yeah, the outfit I heard being advertised was the San Dimas, California, Pinnacle Peak steakhouse.

I used to live about 100 yards away from this location. I never ate there because the place looked like a dump from the outside.

 

[dprof]

My folks dined at Pinnacle Peak. I remember the story.
I guess I'd have to steal something from the restaurant if they cut my tie.:devil:

 

[KenCPollock]

Man, how can we trick Ken Pollock into going to one of these? :devil: Forget Diner's Bill of Rights, this might violate his Diner's Geneva Convention!

I have been to one-Texas State Line Barbeque here in Atlanta-since closed. It was a thoroughly classy place-they also served beer by the bucket- about 6 long-neck beer bottles in a rusty bucket filled with ice. I had no need to take my wine basket there.