Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 7:52 pm
are you a woman, or a man?Bklyn wrote:I've been fucking around with 10cane rum for my Summer punches. It's not a bad look.
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Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:43 pm
Do you fuck women?
If you ever have, then you know having the ability to cultivate cocktails that the ladies love is a skill you don't want to talk down to. If you haven't fully enjoyed the company of women without awkward moments defining large swaths of the interaction, then you should expand your game a bit or marry someone who knows no better.
This reminds me of the Bill Burr rant about dudes hesitating on doing anything that hints at anything less than macho for fear of being ridiculed by lesser buddies (4:00 mark)...
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If you ever have, then you know having the ability to cultivate cocktails that the ladies love is a skill you don't want to talk down to. If you haven't fully enjoyed the company of women without awkward moments defining large swaths of the interaction, then you should expand your game a bit or marry someone who knows no better.
This reminds me of the Bill Burr rant about dudes hesitating on doing anything that hints at anything less than macho for fear of being ridiculed by lesser buddies (4:00 mark)...
[youtube]nns0_RR1ct8[/youtube]
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:09 pm
Gator is like The Goat Pens Grandpa. Pay no mind.
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:21 pm
I'm really just busting his balls back. Of course I didn't take him seriously...and I'm pretty sure he's not fucking.
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:24 pm
Bklyn from the top rope.
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:34 pm
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:42 am
"vodka in your mojito, wtf?"
Half vodka, half rum. I ran out of both whilst making a recent batch, so I added gin, tequila and moonshine. It was like a long island iced mojito. One of my best batches ever...
Half vodka, half rum. I ran out of both whilst making a recent batch, so I added gin, tequila and moonshine. It was like a long island iced mojito. One of my best batches ever...
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:00 pm
I've never heard of a man worried about the "look" of his "summer punches." But if you not only need sneaky boozed up punch, but one that looks attractive enough to entice the ladies to get close enough to ya to drink one, then keep on with what's working for ya, playa...Bklyn wrote:I've been fucking around with 10cane rum for my Summer punches. It's not a bad look.
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:09 pm
Heh. "Look" is used as a colloquialism in the above case.
Essentially, what I said wass "I've started experimenting with using the 10cane brand of rum for some Summer cocktails I've been mixing up lately. They have gone over well."
Essentially, what I said wass "I've started experimenting with using the 10cane brand of rum for some Summer cocktails I've been mixing up lately. They have gone over well."
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:29 pm
http://thechive.com/2012/07/27/the-tom- ... ker-video/
It is amazing and such a loss in regards to Heath but damn if that isn't the Joker.
It is amazing and such a loss in regards to Heath but damn if that isn't the Joker.
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 5:00 pm
Wayne County is going worldwide, bitches. I don't see Bill's Hot Dogs moving into Raleigh, much less other continents. Suck on it, Wilson.
Middle East getting its own Hwy 55 burgers
By Steve Herring
Published in News on July 31, 2012 1:46 PM
Full Size
News-Argus/STEVE HERRING
Hwy 55 Burgers, Shakes and Fries founder and owner Kenney Moore makes his international announcement.
MOUNT OLIVE -- "Andy" is headed overseas.
Hwy 55 Burgers, Shakes and Fries founder and owner Kenney Moore Monday afternoon announced that Al Rumaithy, an international company based in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, has committed to 15 restaurants in that country and has an option for another 70 restaurants in the Middle East.
The company also has options for restaurants in North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain.
The restaurants are known for their iconic 1950s theme, wait staff running to open doors for customers and classic American fare of cheeseburgers and fries -- things, that along with the company's business philosophy, attracted Al Rumaithy, Moore said.
"They are actively seeking locations right now," Moore said. "In fact, they have two or three in mind that they are preparing to act on already. If all goes well, this is probably a four-to-six-month process and we will have a restaurant open in the Middle East."
The announcement comes just months after the company's name was changed from Andy's Burgers, Shakes and Fries to avoid a potential legal battle over the federal trademark for the name "Andy's" that arose as the company prepared to expand into other states.
The company will continue to operate out of its headquarters in the Mount Olive Industrial Park just north of town.
"I don't have any desire to go anywhere else," Moore said.
In February, Moore announced the company would add nearly 300 stores and 6,000 employees as it expanded into Virginia, South Carolina and Florida over the next six to seven years.
Moore opened his first restaurant in Berkeley Mall in Goldsboro in 1991, naming it after his son, who was 18 months old at the time. It had grown to 100 restaurants across North Carolina when the expansion was announced.
"We started our expansion over a year ago now moving outside the boundaries of North Carolina," Moore said. "We have been specifically interested in the Southeast. We have been blessed to sign up Florida, Virginia, western North Carolina and South Carolina. Recently we also added Ohio to that mix. We sold the rights to 50 locations in Ohio with the first one hoping to open in Cincinnati by year's end."
The new stores out of state are doing extremely well and the company has received numerous inquiries, he said.
"Well, we started getting these emails," Moore said. "We have received a bunch from international individuals and most, of course, we haven't responded to. But this company out of Abu Dhabi continued to not only email us, but call us.
"So Guy Gutherie, who is the head off my franchise sales, came in the office and said, 'Kenney, what do you want me to do about this?' I said, 'Call them back and just see who they are and what they are interested in.' Long story short, they were very interested in our concept. They really, really loved the fact that we are an all-American concept -- burgers, shakes, fries. It is '50s-themed. It just captivated their idea of what America was all about in a sense."
Huseyin Sevket, a consultant for Al Rumaithy, traveled 27 hours to get to Mount Olive to meet with Moore and company officials, and to visit the Crabtree Valley Mall restaurant in Raleigh.
"He left here hopefully impressed with what he saw because within a day or two of getting back to Abu Dhabi, he sent us a memorandum of intent which basically said they wanted to do business with us," Moore said. "There have been more discussion since then and they have committed to 15 stores in the United Arab Emirates.
"They also have an option to be the master franchisee in the rest of the Middle East for an additional 70 locations that they have identified that they can do. It was kind of interesting when I asked them why they didn't want to commit to the full 85 upfront, he said, 'Well with what is going on in Egypt right now, for instance, we are not sure what direction that country is going to go whether it is going to continue to move forward in sort of a western sense or move backward.'"
The company is still addressing the issue of logistics and finding sources for products to use, he said.
The menu and taste will be the same, although Moore joked that he might have to share his burger seasoning recipe.
"It is not quite Col. Sanders, but I hold onto it," Moore said. "The only menu difficulty we have identified to this point other than logistically sourcing products over there, is obviously no pork -- no bacon, no ham and cheese in the Middle East but everything else translates."
There is even a sense of camaraderie from the business side, Moore added.
"As businessmen they are a lot like I am in the sense we shook hands. If they trust you, just like me, if I trust somebody, a handshake is really all I need. I don't need it wrapped up in a thousand pages of documents to do what I say I am going to do. They do the business very much the same way. It matters to them, character matters and being in business with people they trust matters as much as anything drawn up by the attorneys."
Moore said Sevket was hired by the company to develop Hwy 55 for the Middle East.
"He has done this before. It not his first American concept taken to the Middle East," Moore said. "It was very flattering that he said that after looking at our back-of-the-house stuff and our controls and stuff, he said that he had seen many concepts through the years that have pieces of what we have, but he had never seen one, especially one our size, to have all of the pieces in place.
"That is a real testament to my team here and the folks that I get to work with on a daily basis. They have done a wonderful job."
Opening a store in the Middle East is a long way from that first Andy's and there is a long way to go, too, Moore said.
"This could be a stepping stone into even more international type business as well," Moore said. "When I look back, I remember when we opened the Mount Olive store here in 1994. I didn't know how we would ever get to 20. Physically I thought I would collapse before we ever opened up our 20th restaurant.
"So, yeah, now the vision is a little different. I guess it is as big as your mind can conceive and believe you can do it and that is kind of where we are at. We want to figure this one out. We want to make sure that we can do it internationally and do it well and then the sky is the limit."
Middle East getting its own Hwy 55 burgers
By Steve Herring
Published in News on July 31, 2012 1:46 PM
Full Size
News-Argus/STEVE HERRING
Hwy 55 Burgers, Shakes and Fries founder and owner Kenney Moore makes his international announcement.
MOUNT OLIVE -- "Andy" is headed overseas.
Hwy 55 Burgers, Shakes and Fries founder and owner Kenney Moore Monday afternoon announced that Al Rumaithy, an international company based in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, has committed to 15 restaurants in that country and has an option for another 70 restaurants in the Middle East.
The company also has options for restaurants in North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain.
The restaurants are known for their iconic 1950s theme, wait staff running to open doors for customers and classic American fare of cheeseburgers and fries -- things, that along with the company's business philosophy, attracted Al Rumaithy, Moore said.
"They are actively seeking locations right now," Moore said. "In fact, they have two or three in mind that they are preparing to act on already. If all goes well, this is probably a four-to-six-month process and we will have a restaurant open in the Middle East."
The announcement comes just months after the company's name was changed from Andy's Burgers, Shakes and Fries to avoid a potential legal battle over the federal trademark for the name "Andy's" that arose as the company prepared to expand into other states.
The company will continue to operate out of its headquarters in the Mount Olive Industrial Park just north of town.
"I don't have any desire to go anywhere else," Moore said.
In February, Moore announced the company would add nearly 300 stores and 6,000 employees as it expanded into Virginia, South Carolina and Florida over the next six to seven years.
Moore opened his first restaurant in Berkeley Mall in Goldsboro in 1991, naming it after his son, who was 18 months old at the time. It had grown to 100 restaurants across North Carolina when the expansion was announced.
"We started our expansion over a year ago now moving outside the boundaries of North Carolina," Moore said. "We have been specifically interested in the Southeast. We have been blessed to sign up Florida, Virginia, western North Carolina and South Carolina. Recently we also added Ohio to that mix. We sold the rights to 50 locations in Ohio with the first one hoping to open in Cincinnati by year's end."
The new stores out of state are doing extremely well and the company has received numerous inquiries, he said.
"Well, we started getting these emails," Moore said. "We have received a bunch from international individuals and most, of course, we haven't responded to. But this company out of Abu Dhabi continued to not only email us, but call us.
"So Guy Gutherie, who is the head off my franchise sales, came in the office and said, 'Kenney, what do you want me to do about this?' I said, 'Call them back and just see who they are and what they are interested in.' Long story short, they were very interested in our concept. They really, really loved the fact that we are an all-American concept -- burgers, shakes, fries. It is '50s-themed. It just captivated their idea of what America was all about in a sense."
Huseyin Sevket, a consultant for Al Rumaithy, traveled 27 hours to get to Mount Olive to meet with Moore and company officials, and to visit the Crabtree Valley Mall restaurant in Raleigh.
"He left here hopefully impressed with what he saw because within a day or two of getting back to Abu Dhabi, he sent us a memorandum of intent which basically said they wanted to do business with us," Moore said. "There have been more discussion since then and they have committed to 15 stores in the United Arab Emirates.
"They also have an option to be the master franchisee in the rest of the Middle East for an additional 70 locations that they have identified that they can do. It was kind of interesting when I asked them why they didn't want to commit to the full 85 upfront, he said, 'Well with what is going on in Egypt right now, for instance, we are not sure what direction that country is going to go whether it is going to continue to move forward in sort of a western sense or move backward.'"
The company is still addressing the issue of logistics and finding sources for products to use, he said.
The menu and taste will be the same, although Moore joked that he might have to share his burger seasoning recipe.
"It is not quite Col. Sanders, but I hold onto it," Moore said. "The only menu difficulty we have identified to this point other than logistically sourcing products over there, is obviously no pork -- no bacon, no ham and cheese in the Middle East but everything else translates."
There is even a sense of camaraderie from the business side, Moore added.
"As businessmen they are a lot like I am in the sense we shook hands. If they trust you, just like me, if I trust somebody, a handshake is really all I need. I don't need it wrapped up in a thousand pages of documents to do what I say I am going to do. They do the business very much the same way. It matters to them, character matters and being in business with people they trust matters as much as anything drawn up by the attorneys."
Moore said Sevket was hired by the company to develop Hwy 55 for the Middle East.
"He has done this before. It not his first American concept taken to the Middle East," Moore said. "It was very flattering that he said that after looking at our back-of-the-house stuff and our controls and stuff, he said that he had seen many concepts through the years that have pieces of what we have, but he had never seen one, especially one our size, to have all of the pieces in place.
"That is a real testament to my team here and the folks that I get to work with on a daily basis. They have done a wonderful job."
Opening a store in the Middle East is a long way from that first Andy's and there is a long way to go, too, Moore said.
"This could be a stepping stone into even more international type business as well," Moore said. "When I look back, I remember when we opened the Mount Olive store here in 1994. I didn't know how we would ever get to 20. Physically I thought I would collapse before we ever opened up our 20th restaurant.
"So, yeah, now the vision is a little different. I guess it is as big as your mind can conceive and believe you can do it and that is kind of where we are at. We want to figure this one out. We want to make sure that we can do it internationally and do it well and then the sky is the limit."
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:30 pm
Hizzy would be so upset at how this place followed him to heaven. Sad.
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 11:43 pm
Props to AA for his Alabama Mexican touts...the El Camino Real in Guntersville served us the best meal we had there all week...
The fajitas are highly recommended...fajitas for 2 if you are BRM or Doc...
The fajitas are highly recommended...fajitas for 2 if you are BRM or Doc...
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:42 pm
lol - I had the fajitas for two just last night!!
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:22 pm
Yesterday I woke up to this for the 16th straight day.
Suck it!
Suck it!
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:26 pm
Sea Pines?
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:31 pm
Very nice guess Doc. Just off a bit. South Forest Beach. Ocean Club. Close to Coligny. You know the Piggly Wiggly right?
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:34 pm
Nice area - havent been in a couple of years - seeing that picture made me think may need to plan a fall visit.
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:43 pm
My place is nowhere near a buffet so don't even ask.Dr. Nostron wrote:Nice area - havent been in a couple of years - seeing that picture made me think may need to plan a fall visit.
Re: Uncle Bud
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:04 pm
You must be close to Steamers however?