Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Your Passion Cafe is making a go of it in the Mid-Market.
Proof of that is today’s LivingSocial deal: Pay $10 now to get $20 worth of food and drink.
See?
Here’s the bar upstairs, from when I snuck up there during a weekend morning political fundraiser back in the day.
Imagine yourself having suds on the roof.
And if you don’t want to do this deal, ask about their Theatre Specials – the current one involves Billy Elliot at the Orpheum
All right, see you on 6th Street, right near Taco’s Sandwiches.
Tags: 2011, 28 6th street, 6th, bay area, BILLY ELLIOT, california, groupon, living social, LivingSocial, market, mid market, midmarket, orpheum, passion cafe, San Francisco, specials, street, theatre, Torch
Posted in food and drink | No Comments »
Monday, January 25th, 2010
California Attorney General Jerry Brown can’t abide car repair shop owners who rip you off for unnecessary work. News comes this morning about a judge in Alameda County who signed off on a:
“$1.8 million settlement that prevents Maurice Irving Glad (aka Mike Glad), owner of 22 Midas auto shops throughout California, from owning or operating an auto repair shop in the state, after the franchisee “deceptively lured” customers with cheap brake specials and then charged hundreds of dollars for unnecessary repairs.”
Now what do you suppose Mike did with some of that ill-gotten booty? Well, he traveled the world, natch, but he also produced an Academy Award-nominated documentary (narrated by Edward James Olmos!) called Recycled Life. (So all those people in the East Bay and the South Bay who thought they were just fixing their cars actually were financing the Hollywood dream factory by paying an average of $268 more than they should have….)
Anyway, get the deets below to see how our California Bureau of Automotive Repair does sting operations. And get the other side of the story from Mike’s mouthpiece via Henry K. Lee right here.
El Protector De La Gente, Jerry Brown:
Read all about it, after the jump
(more…)
Tags: 17200, 17207, 17500, 17535.5, 1989, Abbott, Academy Award, Academy Awards, ag, agents, Alameda County, attorney general, auton shops, bait-and-switch, bar, Be Glad, brake, brake adjustments, brake-cleaning, brake-drum repairs, brake-rotor resurfacings, Bureau of Automotive Repair, Business and Professions Code, california, California Attorney General, Campbell, class, Clovis, Concord, county, deceptively lured, Department of Consumer Affairs, District Attorney, documentary, Dublin, Edmund G. Brown, Elizabeth A. Egan, Elizabeth Egan, franchisee, fremont, fresno, Governor, hayward, inc, jerry brown, Jerry Brown Throws Down, Jr, M.I. Glad, Manteca, Maurice Glad, Maurice Irving Glad, Merced, Midas, Midas International Corporation, Mike Glad, modesto, nominated, office, operations, Recycled Life, San Francisco, san jose, san leandro, scam, section, settlement, So Glad, specials, sting, Tom Orloff, Turlock, undercover, Walnut Creek
Posted in crime, government | No Comments »
