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"Jay Honeck" wrote:


It wasn't, for reasons that still escape me. They've got the facility
and traffic for a truly good store and restaurant, but have instead
chosen to install a bunch of really bad vending machines, and a tiny
show-room.

You are in the hotel business, not the restaurant business (yet?).
Restaurants have the highest failure rate of any business.
Hal is a shrewed business man and will not put his money where it will
not deliver a sufficent, steady return.

For a company that trumpets its support for GA in every magazine to
offer such a lame fly-in-shopping experience is truly ironic, IMHO.

What's lame about it?
He has better stock than anyone else out there.
You can tryout anything you want to buy before purchasing it. (Well,
there are a few things I can think of that you cannot, maybe not the
everything, but most of them.)