Location, Location, uhm...

In thinking about a venue, the most important point (to my thinking) is that it has a private room. Obviously, I can’t take up half of Chili’s and tell everybody else not to look. I’ve eaten in most of the restaurants in this area, and it seems to me that almost all of the ones that have private dining areas are the buffet/smorgasbord type eateries.

This brings up another point. With a wait-staff, I could probably arrange to have the tables cleared or a final course served at an appropriate time, and then seal the room, so to speak. With buffet dining, I have no control over someone who wants to get up and get another dish of ice cream. It draws attention and loses the mental/emotional inertia we’ve been building, and if it happens at an inopportune moment, could completely lose the climax.

But I’m dependant on what’s available. To my memory, only the East Ridge Shoney’s has a partitioning wall. The fare offers a choice of menu or buffet, so I still have the same issue.

There is a Chinese place I was in a while back, that is menu only, with a serviceable back room. I don’t remember the name, but I drive past it several times a week. I should go check that out.

Time for some field work! :)

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Addendum - 23:25:04

Added a couple Google gadgets for time and date; it's a fixation of mine.

Just got back home from dinner.  The name of that Chinese restaurant with the cool back room is Mandarin Garden.  Very nice.  That goes on my list.

Made a couple see-through change bags using freezer sized zipper seal plastic bags.  They look pretty good, but I have only the vaguest notion of what will be done with these.

Thanks to a home-schooling friend, I have an almost limitless supply of little pieces of card stock in various colors, just about business card size but obviously different.  Some of these may get symbols drawn on them for use with the bags.

Now where’s that book with the fifty card picture deck?!?