OT - Good Time Charleys has a fire
Not a lot to say about it. I'm kinda with the owner/manager - sucks that the one solution they had during COVID has gone so upside down.
https://www.michigandaily.com/section/news-briefs/good-time-charleys-fire
December 10th, 2020 at 12:54 PM ^
Best of luck to you and everyone who works in the hospitality industry. Looks like a vaccine is coming but not soon enough to prevent a very long tough winter for restaurants and bars and all the people who depend on them for their livelihoods. At least some places have been able to adapt to outdoor dining, and that it's still allowed, unlike places like L.A. where it is 70 degrees outside, lots of outdoor restaurants, and they are all shut down. That is just fucking ridiculous.
December 10th, 2020 at 1:15 PM ^
BTB upstairs set my bowels on fire on more than one occasion.
Great long time staple and establishment, hope everything ends up okay.
December 10th, 2020 at 2:56 PM ^
I remember when it was the Count of Antipasto, absolutely loved their Detroit style pizza slices.
December 10th, 2020 at 1:20 PM ^
Very much looking forward to regularly going out and dining at restaurants--and tipping well--when things open back up.
December 10th, 2020 at 1:24 PM ^
Surprised anyone is still eating outdoors this time of year - even with heaters.
Live in Toledo, where in door dining is still allowed at reduced capacity, yet so strange to see places close by across the border (some literally in walking distance) shut down.
December 10th, 2020 at 7:46 PM ^
And Ohio had twice as many reported cases, 12000, today as Michigan did. So there’s that.
December 10th, 2020 at 1:32 PM ^
open dine-in restaurants at 25-50% capacity
December 10th, 2020 at 2:16 PM ^
Hoping for the best, my friend. The hospitality industry, in particular restaurant workers and owners, got dealt a shit hand this year. Just literally nothing going anyone's way.
Hope you all can hold on long enough for the vaccine to get distributed. I want to see those fish bowls being slung out to the masses.
December 10th, 2020 at 2:32 PM ^
Well, this explains why Goodtime Charley’s got the blues.
December 10th, 2020 at 2:58 PM ^
Sounds like a hot take, just don't fan the flames. And if you can't stand the heat, get out of the....way when the FD gets there.
December 10th, 2020 at 2:59 PM ^
Ah memories of a very successful 21st Birthday in the 80's. Learned to make pizzas there working upstairs. Good times indeed.
December 10th, 2020 at 3:14 PM ^
Charlie's used to have a sandwich called the Chicken St. Croix that once gave me incredible diarrhea that struck me on the walk home half a mile from my apartment. I barely made it and the result was similar to Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber, except my toilet flushed.
Never ordered that again.
December 10th, 2020 at 4:04 PM ^
We were at Good Time Charley's for long island ice tea special night playing pool like we had several tuesdays before, in January 1998. Charles Woodson and a few buddies were there as well, got to shake his hand and congratulate him on his season.
Damn, we were all so lucky to be there for that season as well as two hockey national championships. Those were the days....
December 10th, 2020 at 5:14 PM ^
Woodson was doing an interview at Good Time Charley's the Wednesday before the 97 Ohio State game. He signed a menu for me. My favorite piece of memorabilia.
December 10th, 2020 at 4:27 PM ^
i was once referred to as a Good Time Charlie, by a young ladies father.
December 10th, 2020 at 6:57 PM ^
I'm expecting a lot of restaurants will have fires shortly.
December 10th, 2020 at 7:53 PM ^
Maybe a few floods too.
Water damage can be a bitch.