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	Name:	AnchorbayDon -
	Subject:	Restaurants and Lake Martin
	Date:	5/2/2007 8:55:07 PM

I struggled fro 8 years to run a restaurant at Anchor Bay. After Memorial Day, business is brisk and all is well in the Summer. Then, when they tee up the first football in August, people stay home and business drops off like a rock regardless of the water level.

After the crowds go away, there's not enough business to keep everybody employed. By Thanksgiving, you are so far in the red that all of the profits of the Summer are gone and you are really hurting, so you close down for December and January.

You have to start all over again with a completely new crew in the Spring and you spend all the training time, etc to get ready for the season.

Until there are more full timers around Lake Martin, I would not expect to see many decent or half decent restaurants, unless they are subsidized by RL (like Sinclairs or WP)

The only person who was reasonably succesful at that gig was Greg Cecil, before his place burned. He was able to thrive because he had the place in AC and on the Lake and he could move staff back & forth with the seasons.

I don't know why Dockside is not opening this year, but I'd bet they couldn't find a decent manager interested in a 4-5 month job.