Dear TGI Fridays,
I just wanted to take a quick sec and write to you about your restaurant. I should say I am not writing to you about your restaurant exactly, but your new restaurant on wheels! Whoa buddy, what will you guys (and gals) at TGI Fridays think up next? Friday's food that I can cook at home?! Naw, I'm just kidding. I mean, that'd just be silly. There's no way I could recreate the magic of TGI Friday's food at home. Y'all hear me? NO WAY. But that makes me wonder how the heck you're going to recreate that magic in a truck.
I just wanted to take a quick sec and write to you about your restaurant. I should say I am not writing to you about your restaurant exactly, but your new restaurant on wheels! Whoa buddy, what will you guys (and gals) at TGI Fridays think up next? Friday's food that I can cook at home?! Naw, I'm just kidding. I mean, that'd just be silly. There's no way I could recreate the magic of TGI Friday's food at home. Y'all hear me? NO WAY. But that makes me wonder how the heck you're going to recreate that magic in a truck.
Now when I first heard that Fridays was getting into food trucks I thought, "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Why would an amazing restaurant like Fridays downsize to a truck?" So I went to your website and was navigating around and let me just say, I am sorry. This food truck endeavor of yours is terrific! Y'all had me at, "To all the makers of things and appreciators of makers of things." I mean heck THAT IS ME to a "T"! I made a table once in my tool shed. My wife Louise said, "Harold, you're never gonna finish that table." I mean how hard is it to nail together four legs and a table top? I'll tell you what, it's harder than it looks! It's been three years and that goddamn table is still in the tool shed, but it sure has given me an appreciation for handcraftedness! When I saw that y'all were spending the summer, "Celebrating the craft of handcrafting" I thought, "Finally a food truck for the people!" You see them white collar folks just don't get food sometimes; blue collar folks like myself are able to appreciate the handcrafting. It's exactly like y'all said on your website. Us blue collar folk, "Devour food and drink in the name of craft." I saw y'all even got "handcrafted menus;" I was tickled to see a restaurant that makes their menus by hand rather than using a paper cutting machine. It's the paper cutting machines that are taking all the American jobs and sending them over to China. Well the Mexicans too, but hell if y'all got Mexicans that's OK with me. I love Mexico! I can't think of a group of people that celebrates the craft of handcrafting more than Mexicans.
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I love that y'all are doing this during the summer too! I usually only get to eat out of a truck during football season. Anytime The Rebels play them bastards from LSU me and the fellas will drive up to Ole Miss and tailgate all day in a field. It's wonderful! Just the boys, getting drunk, cheering on the Rebels and eating some good down home, handcrafted cooking. I don't actually cook nothing, but the night before the big game I'll ask Louise to whip up some of her famous potato salad and burger patties. I'll say something like, "Hey Louise!...Louise!...Louise?!...Well I'm already sitting down!...If you can hear me why don't you just answer? I'm sorry sweetheart. It's just that I'm really excited for the big game tomorrow and I was thinking it sure would be nice if you could make some them burger patties for us and maybe some of your world famous potato salad for me in the fellas." Now Louise don't know the first thing about football, but she sure can cook. Woowee I'm lucky to have her!
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The one thing I don't understand about your handcrafted food truck is that it's going to be travelling with "Storytellers". What the hell kind of profession is that? A storyteller? My goodness, your food is good enough. Y'all don't need some modern day snake oil salesman weaving tall tales so I eat it. The guys on your website look like children. Who the hell wants to listen to some twenty-five year old say anything? What stories do they have to tell? "I couldn't get a job in the foreign literature industry after college so now I get paid in appetizers?" Hahaha y'all sure are silly sometimes. I love desserts; all I want is one of them handcrafted Oreo Madness desserts; instead I have to babysit some kid that didn't get enough attention as a child? What is that? If I wanted to hear someone talk for the sake of talking I'd just stay home with Louise. Having a "storyteller" is just gonna attract a bunch of lonely people. Now who wants to spend their summer hanging out with people like that? Aside from the storytellers I think y'all are wonderful. Keep on making great Fridays food. Thanks for listening.
Sincerely,
Harold Grissett
Sincerely,
Harold Grissett