[penguicon-general] Resturant Report

[Dan DeSloover]

Sorry to anyone recieving this twice. It appears that Yahoo's SMTP server
is also in a lousy mood this morning and is taking it's sweet time
forwarding my emails. Bah! I need a new ISP.

Because I'm in a curmudgeonly mood this morning; p5 had a map, a nice one
which was never utilized for anything.

http://www.zifferent.net/p6/SouvBook/ScribusDoc/Pics/restaurants.pdf

Using that same map this year wouldn't have worked since some of the
restaurants were new or out of business, and frankly I can't find my
original files to edit it. Thankfully there was a list of nearby
restaurants put together by freon for the Souvenir Book on page 13.
Granted there was no map, but I felt that's what Google and the wonderful
Computer Lounge (put together by the apparently tireless GLLUG for the
second (or is it third?) year in a row, thank you for your efforts!) is
for.

http://www.zifferent.net/p6/SouvBook/ScribusDoc/SouvenierBookv11.pdf
(mind you, it's 11 MB.)

If someone wants to volunteer to create a map for next year and export
that PDF for me to place in the program book for next year, I will be
absolutely grateful. (This assumes quite a bit, as I haven't been formally
ordained as the Program Book Pontiff for next year.)

Just my 1/50th of a dollar.

Garry Stahl wrote:
> Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
>> I agree with Craig for the most part; it is more than a kindness to list
>> the
>> nearby restaurants for the out-of-town/area/state fen.  It also frees
>> the
>> hotel staff a bit to handle tasks other than giving restaurant advice.
>>
>> An on-line map is less useful because deploying it takes advance
>> planning (you
>> have to either print out the map or be sure you have your laptop with
>> you on
>> the food run).
>>
>> The only thing I disagree with is that you need only list everything
>> within a
>> one-mile radius of the hotel.  In Michigan, that may not be very many
>> places,
>> depending upon the area.  I'd recommend listing everything within a
>> five-mile
>> radius, unless there's a whole *lot* of restaurants (say, more than 30)
>> near
>> the convention site.
>>
>>
>
> For that area, Five miles, and what is in the local mauls.  The airport
> itself is too much hassle and outside of Meriman Road itself by the
> Hotels there isn't much restaurant business in the area.
>
> A map, if the attach goes through, of the area with a five mile radius
> circle around the Crown Plaza.  Most of the restaurants will be along
> Michigan Ave within that range.
>
>
>
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Dan DeSloover