Pursuit wrote:
Well, I think I was pretty clear, but I'll try again. It was inexplicable because the tips and links were good, not great, on my visits as I clearly stated, and the rest of the menu was pretty poor. Good + Pretty Poor = middling in my view. Inexplicable because skill was demonstrated in one product, little skill in others, while other joints with similar approaches, in my experience, achieved far better consistency across their menu.
Is that really so hard for you to understand, or are you just so locked on mocking someone with a different view, that you'd rather post a comment that is virtually fact and content free?
Look, this doesn't make H1 a bad place so I'm not sure why you seem to take a view counter to yours so personally. I've dined at most of Chicago's BBQ joints and if not hundreds, certainly a huge number of BBQ joints across the country. If anything H1's inconsistency is fairly typical of a vast majority of places out there. This, in my view, makes it middling, and serves to explain why it didn't thrive in its current location. I always found the young kid at the counter to be a nice guy, and I wouldn't have assumed in a million years that they'd blame their customers for their middling success. So why are their fans here so insulted by a different view? It certainly doesn't reflect well on H1, or candidly, this board.
Pursuit, you've got me all wrong. If you found something I've written to be mocking you, then I apologize. I'm not sure what it was, but I apologize. I'm also kinda baffled as what you saw as virtually fact and content free in the previous post. You don't have to explain your opinion. I'm pretty sure I get it. I think our fundamental difference in Honey 1 is that as you said:
"Good + Pretty Poor = middling in my view."
In my opinion of Chicago Aqua q joints:
Good tips and links + Pretty Poor rest of menu = SWEET! Let's go get some good tips and links, since that is what Chicago Aqua Q joints are there for.
I think I agree 100% with you on one thing, and I've stated it so many times:
Whenever one of these Chicago Aqua Q joints gets their stuff together, and starts offering better supporting menu items and fantastic sides, it will be a gold mine. The status quo for these joints has always, in my opinion been:
1. Rock a good combo
2. Do decent spares at times
3. Offer fried chicken wings
4. Get a freezer, so you have a place to store your bags of foodservice french fries
5. Serve really gross slaw in little plastic cups for some reason
6. If the customer asks less than three times for sauce on the side, flip a coin to decide whether you put it on the side or not.
I welcome your opinion of Honey 1, and as a whole, I was not their biggest fan - I thought they did really decent tips, but their links just didn't take it to the next level like another place I used to frequent. (A moment, please...)
Let me know of the "other joints with similar approaches, in my experience, achieved far better consistency across their menu." (Please don't read any mockery or sarcasm into this request. I'd like to try 'em out.) I have really enjoyed Barbra Ann's, and Exsenator's, but I'm always on the lookout for more.
Also, if you were a fan of Uncle John's, do you think he would have thrived in H1's location? (Again, don't read any mockery or sarcasm into this question, I truly wonder what ppl think.) And to answer someone else's question - NO DONUTS, just Mack and his tools.
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