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Ha.
Do they know how few of us in the city have any space for any outdoor furniture beyond a couple of plastic chairs on a fire escape? The vast majority of us inner-city folk will have to enjoy the patio furniture in the store before returning to our cramped, indoors-only apartments. It would be nice if they put some lounge chairs, tables, and a few grills around the perimeter of the building since there's a lot of land. Then we could all pretend we have those rare, penthouse outdoor spaces and grill an occasional kabab.
There's a reason why they
There's a reason why they have the money to invest in a store in the Back Bay and you don't. Check out their web site, and then slink away.
Hardware Habit
Why would a hardware store build an accompanying hotel? Is it a theme hotel? Do you have to put your bed together before you can go to sleep?
All Restoration Hardware does
All Restoration Hardware does is take items form other stores and manufacturers, take on a layer of pretentious snobbery, and charge 2000% the original price.
Virtually everything in their catalog can be purchased elsewhere or directly from the manufacturer at much lower prices.
They survive gouging clueless rich people and being shamelessly smug about it.
.... The Aristocrats!
.... The Aristocrats!
Bummed
Bummed that I won't be able to get a beer or glass of wine at the Channel Cafe anymore. But I hope they made a killing on the license sale.
Did they give it up totally?
Or are they going to a full liquor license?
Can't really tell from their website.
Ugh...
We don't have enough licenses in our fucked-up system of alcohol licensing...but let's give one to a hardware/furniture store.
Because the $300,000+ threshold to buy some failure's
bid to stay solventlicense doesn't already make it hard enough to open a restaurant in the city.There are liquor licenses and there are liquor licenses
The all-alcohol licenses are the really hard ones to get, with the high prices (although they've come down, possibly because license holders at Logan Airport have been selling theirs off thanks to some legislative deal under which Logan gets a single master license that covers all restaurants and bars there).
The city has a lot more beer and wine licenses. The number's finite, obviously, but their prices are a lot lower.