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Originally Posted by cc
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Originally Posted by rdm
it used to be crowded? how come business has slowed?
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Probably because there are so many other options there now. It is like Old Original Bookbinders once having been popular because it was one of a few options in that part of town and then closing when OC blossomed.
Speaking of which, has anyone tried out the "New Old" Original Bookbinders? |
cc: we've been talking friendly for the past several days . . . so please forgive me on this one.
Bookbinders never, at least in my fifteen years in OC, competed with the other restaurants in Old City. In fact, until John Taxin became president of Old City District, he hardly ever acknowledged that his restaurant was in OC - he preferred Society Hill, where he lived.
Bookbinders died not because of competition but because it was an overpriced, underperforming restaurant - where the food sucked despite the high prices.
Then they stripped all the cash out of Old Original and reinvested it in Richmond and trying to find other outlets (Savanah and Charleston were considered). And they sold off the canned food line (Bookbinder's soup is made in Iowa or Utah or some such place).
Then they cried wolf and got city monies to help rebuild.
If the food is the same as it was, this will be another failure . . . and should be.