Le Bon Marché goes international Blog #38

Hello fellow readers. I’m on time today. Woo hoo!!!

So the sun is out and the days are warmer. Lunches are picking up and we are slowly getting busier everyday. There are still ppl who don’t know we’re open but the ones that I’m noticing are repeat customers. Some ppl are even coming in for lunch and dinner in the same day. I even had a couple on Sat who said they loved my floors. Bless their hearts.

So back to this past week. The last blog took us to Wednesday so there has been less for me to remember this time.  Hon hon hon. Thursday was a good day and Friday lunch was amazing. Friday night was also very good.  Unfortunately, Sat was a sort of a let down. Not sure why, maybe it was because there was nothing happening at the capital centre? Not sure. But it did give us time to do a thorough cleaning.

There’s a radio show held every year on a local soft rock station call “Keven and Joel’s Longest Morning”. It supports Rotary for kids and the Rotary Club of North Bay. They are on the air for 53 straight hours to help raise money. It would be even cooler if it was 52 hours (hon hon hon but I digress).  They look for pledges so I pledged $100 dollars and they put the challenge out there for another Resto to match it. I didn’t hear if it was matched as I turn the radio off for service. But I did hear them say our name though and they called it “Le Bon March”. Boooo. It is pronounced (Le Bon Marsh-eh) Oh well, there’s no such thing as bad advertising they say. Sat during the day, we entered the International Food Festival, a fund raiser for the student refugee program. Grace headed this one up from beginning to end. She went to hand out samples of our chocolate pate. We had 500 samples and we were out in an hour. She had menus as well. This is the only advertising I can afford at the moment. She did a great job.  We got lots of compliments and I see that the number of “likes” on the Le Bon Marché’s Facebook page has grown exponentially.

Unfortunately, my Absinthe didn’t come in this week L.   Apparently my order (the bottles) got broken in the courier truck. But……………… My crystal head vodka did come in!!!  It’s vodka for a discerning taste and comes in a bottle in the shape of a skull. Very Hawt!! We got a stand, as well, that has a light in it so when you set the bottle on top the stand, the bottle lights up. Very Cool. I no sooner had received it and was pulling it out of the box when a customer asked “what is that?” I explained to him what it was and he responded with  “I’ll take one right now”.

Patrick it sorting out the wine and liquor menu’s and we should have those this coming week.

So that’s where we stand for this week. I’m still working on getting approval from the city for the patio and getting my awning reupholstered. We are going into our second month now and I’m looking forward to that. Also, we’ll start planning the Grand Opening (coming May 14^th) as well.  Everyone is welcome. We’ll also be hosting the Chamber meeting in May. So we just need to make enough of a profit in April to help us pay for these coming events.  With exposure like that we should be off to the races. Then in June it will be time for a new menu. It never stops in the Resto business.

So today, other than inventory imputing and closing off March and opening up April, I’m determined to take the day off. I was so excited to turn my alarm off for this morning only to still wake up at 8:30AM. Booooooo!  But I feel good, refreshed and relaxed. I hope you have a great week and we’ll blog at you next time.

Le Commis

Rusty Chemise

(more on the meaning of that name later.)