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meh....IMO LTE is about the only exciting thing going for it but honestly, I"m not going to pay to tether so that speed on a phone isn't much of a need for me. Size of the screen isn't an issue for me either. I want lighter weight first then perhaps a larger screen.

I've worked in NYC and believe me, having a CCW in this situation isn't what you'd want to exercise. There are Police Everywhere and the moment they saw you with a gun draw in this type of situation, you'd be shot and killed just the same. You might save one life but you'll likely pay with yours just the same. I know where you're going with your comment though.

Don't know much about them but was expecting the Viper to fair better.

HaHa! No my flashback was remembering my Hurst 442 vs a buddy in his mom's Chevy Celebrity Eurosport :dumb: Iroc Z's and T Top Mustangs. Those were the days.

Finally a great intro and another product of the 80's member and car. Welcome! Nice ride. I remember when the local mall back home was raffling off a nice GTA like that around Christmas time. Take me back 1987.....

You let us all down dude.....not going to fair well for rep points.

She knows and approves of my internet persona. Just don't tell her about the fun us sales guys have on overnight travels. I've been shielding her from that for years :fuckyeah:

Fixed :gabe:

I agree but it needed to end with some hotel party girls afterwards justifying a NWS caption to be a complete win.

Cat Piss Smell and potential Damage from it; #1 Reason to not have an indoor cat. My daughter said she wanted a cat. Not going to happen, mama can file her own divorce papers, but I won't have a cat. Problem solved by feeding the two neighbor hood strays / outside cats.

Have a friend or family member go into them to adopt him, then when things are complete, turn him over to you. http://www.petfinder.com/pet-search?N=29+46&Ne=20&Ns=shelter_name||animal_type||pet_breed_1||pet_breed_2||identifier&Ntk=shelter_id|record_type|status&Ntt=OH354|pet|A&distance=0 Is this him? http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/20202733

:gabe: I laughed

I've got some really strong connections that are in the industry, especially on the operations and back of house design side. They will be able to give you some really good information on the upcoming brands and who's doing it right and who's not. Dennis would too. He's a straight shooter. I may have to grab a lunch with him and get my login to the Technomic site renewed :masturboy: That's where the real data and finacial info is at. If you want something not around here at all WD Just finished up the very last sale I had there which is an excellent and tasty brand, D'Angelo's. They are from Main believe it or not and invested in our ops and design services to insure they roll out well. http://www.wdpartners.com/casestudies/dangelo.php The ended up using the entire re branding to help sell the company. I'm guilty of working the new Fazoli's look and brand too but don't shoot me. They needed the help.

I just plain came here....

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If you approach a Dunkin Franchise consultant with less than $1M bucks I know you will be in for a very rude awakening. I worked for the local design firm on the roll out of 15 central Ohio locations and the investment company that put up the money and back even in 2008 which was the time I was doing so, they were approaching specific markets and not interested in one offs. It was 15 to get the deal done here in central ohio and the build out costs on their latest foot print is $1.5M using their equipment and kitchen design. You don't have a choice they have one of the most stringent VP of Ops and design I've ever worked with. They all have ego's but theirs is founded on proof as it just plain works. If you seriously are interested in Dunkin feel free to PM me and I'll point you towards some contacts in the franchise dept. Any questions overall, feel free to contact Dennis Lombardi at WD Partners with whom I worked. Dennis is very well known and perhaps the leading authority on Chain brands and is a former VP with Technomic. He's car guy too with several Austin Healey's he's restored.

I wouldn't expect that to be called a Mustang. They have a winner in what they have now and it's far from worn out IMO. I wish the new Fusion had a SPORT model with a powerful V6. I love mine but the new one fails in terms of power IMO. I can respect a turbo 4 obviously but in a sedan like the new one is it needs to be way way more powerful than what it's going to be.

Found this on another site and thought I would post here for those looking for a better understanding. http://www.uscoles.com/fstop.htm

In the end of every budget there's a bottom right corner with a double line under it and it's either positive or negative. This money irregardless of where it's applied is rightfully owed and impacts that bottom line. For arguments sake if the bill was delivered to my home which the fine likely would be if it's not built into some type of court appearance/case that would end up resulting, my wife or very likely the attorney we would have on the case would pay the fine. Too deep of an example as it could go a number of ways, but bottom line, the bill would be paid. No one plans to get hit by a drunk, but if you're properly insured as any responsible person should be, then it's not going to be an issue. If while you're working and not injured you're not saving 6-9 months of emergency money in case you're laid up or fired, then you're not planning. Does that make sense? If your life is so fucked up that you have no one there to pay a bill for you is that the city's issue? If you are faced with huge amounts of medical bills for a life altering experience you should meet with an attorney to discuss options. Again, there are options than just avoiding paying the debt you owe. In most every case medical providers will be more than flexible with your debt and more so if you approach the situation correctly. I was 24 and broke two vertebrae and blew L5S1 in my lower back and made 24 payments to Riverside to cover bills while my wife was in law school and we ate our share of hamburger helper. I still have the final paid bill as a memento. $18,500 roughly. If you own your own insurance and are diagnosed with diabetes you're existing plan will cover you, they aren't going to just drop you. If you're a current diabetic and want to open your own business, then you better make that a focal point of your business plan when it comes to coverage and preparing for future needs. Note the work plan. Step one in either case I would contact the American Diabetes Association. They absolutely have resources and help available. They can put you in touch with an insurance company or other official who can help you get the coverage needed. I know because I currently work in the field of insurance and we often deal with Diabetes. Last time I got a ticket there were phone numbers to call to make arrangements for payment. In the cases we're discussing where LEO's are being sent to collect, it's pretty clear no one owing the money has made arrangements for payment or to discussed things as they wouldn't be in this spot if they had. They have had plenty of alternatives presented. Again, what they chose to do was not pay. Thus what they are faced with is because of them not something happening to them. So what's the role of the deadbeats in this case is it relates to arranging for a payment plan? Do you think its safe to say they didn't follow through? Brother can't spare $10 a week to pay a fine? :dumb: Exactly the system is fucked up, but you can't blame the system except it's built on a bit too much honor and trust. The real point of blame are the deadbeats taking advantage of said system. In terms of payment arrangements, again, what's the role of the guy holding the bill for a handful of parking tickets? You're implying the city needs to reach out to him to make payments? Really? Tell him to put on his Big-Boy-Pants and make that call and stick to the agreed payment plan. The city has no role in that other than collecting. The last time I felt pain whether it was in my foot or my pocketbook, I sought out the source and made arrangements to make that pain go away. I don't recall ignoring it. Doesn't sound like the folks we've been talking about have made any arrangements because if they had they wouldn't be worried about an LEO knocking on their door. That or they did make the arrangements and never held to their side of the agreement. I'm not sure where you find force and dominance injected into an LEO collecting a bill. If they can't pay and the paperwork says take them to jail, then that's their issue. I'd pay the bill. It's all a part of accountability. I believe here it's appropriate to say you have to pay to play. They chose to play, got a fine and now it's time to man-up. Who made that choice....oh yeah.....the deadbeat. You're right, I don't know. Let's just say the next $25 per week taken from whatever their money goes towards should go to pay the fine or the cops will come knocking. 2-3 days without food won't kill the average deadbeat. They'll live. If that shocks you or them, then don't fuck up in traffic. One more time for the masses; Pay the bills you create for yourself. I'm sure you've learned a lot then. Likely that while not everyone plays games, but those same people don't likely plan very well if they end up with a LEO asking them to pay the fine they have had outstanding for quite a long time. If people don't have the money then they need to be extra careful. Ever see that purple mustang with yellow stripes and 4 Mexicans in it driving 34mph in a 35mph zone and never changing lanes. That's because they don't want to come close to being stopped. They are being extra careful. You fill in why. :gabe: It's money owed/expected to be paid just the same. The city is entitled to collect. If you don't agree then don't drive on public roads and put yourself at risk. I never intended to imply ONLY those who plan make it through. However they make it through much easier with a plan. Perhaps those you hang out with don't plan, but I can say with pretty strong assurance the wife and I and most all the folks we are close to plan. We have 401k's investments, savings, HSA, insurance, yadda, yadda.... normal stuff. We pay ourselves first and usually the most all while living below our means to do so. Everyone can do it, it's a choice and for us we may be a little extreme, but I enjoy going on several vacations/trips per year and not worrying about owing money on a car or replacing a furnace if we need to. Then go vote vs post on 10tv.com. It goes farther. My view and opinions on people are based on the situations they are in. I can make cursory opinions on what likely led them there but I look at the facts. Facts don't lie. They aren't paying their bills or taking responsibility for their actions. Trust and respect is earned through a number of things and the above doesn't instill it. Read the book The SPEED of Trust or google the 13 behaviors that build both. I make my judgements based on them. I wouldn't call it looking down, I call it not trusting or respecting them based on their actions or in-actions, nothing more. I understand, but because they can't pay doesn't negate their responsibility to do so. Obviously they aren't trying or even communicating with the the city as they are being chased down for payment. Again, tons and tons of outreach and assistance programs out there. It's up to them to work through them and get their life back on track. I'm sorry, but if you don't have the money to pay a simple fine for a traffic violation, then buy a bike and don't take the risk. Yeah, I"m being serious because that means you don't likely have the required car insurance and we don't need you on the road.

It's not FREE money. That's money that the city collects and goes towards their bottom line that in turn covers the budget overall. That budget is what the residents living their count on the city to use in order to function daily thus when people don't pay their fines they are withholding earned income the city uses. Not sure about you but if you withhold my income because you're not paying me, I'm pretty sure you're going to piss me off. City is pissed off. Be glad it's only a cop showing up to collect. If you owed anyone on CR money and refused to pay, it would likely not be pretty. Not being able to manage ones money especially to a point where you can't pay a fine YOU incurred by wrongdoing does = irrisponsibility. I'm sorry but thier situaiton alone proves that they failed to plan and manage their money effectively when they weren't on hard times. So we can agree to disagree but I stand by the premise that if you fail to plan you plan to fail. These people achieved just what they looked out for....failing. Luck doesn't play into it much. I like the old saying that you strive for perfection and settle for excellence. Thus while I don't realisitcally think we'll rid the world of handouts I do believe in the above and to achieve that goal you don't allow people to do any less. Allowing them to skate on fines and responsibilities won't help them achieve anything. Sure, you can cut people breaks but the city on fines that are outstanding isn't where that happens. There is no welfare bucket for people to dip into to pay traffic tickets. :dumb: You're stunned that there's not a seperate welfare or charity bucket for people to pay their traffic or court violoations with? How about you lead the charge down capital hill with that one. I bet Obama would love it. :dumb: Breaks for that father exist all over but don't expect the city to work with you on paying a fine for being stupid and incurring the fine to begin with. And that's why so many people on welfare and who are milking the system and all the charity programs out work so hard to get off said programs so quickly right? I'll play devils advocate....tell your father of 4 working at McD's to pay his fine and yeah, feel the pain a little bit more. We all do; I don't like paying speeding tickets, it hurts, but I do that before I go tossing them in the trash and going to buy smokes and then I don't go getting all boo-hoo pissed when the city comes looking for their money. It's income owed to the city that they are now out. It's equiv. to the gov't saying oh well we're not paying welfare or unemployement this month because we're out of money. Sorry but tough. That's exactly what these deadbeats are telling the city. Sorry but I just don't have your money that you're expecting. True, but the aftermath is entirely foreseeable and avoidable. People fail to plan and thus plan to fail. As you said, tons of people have bad shit happen to them. The ones who make it through are the ones who planned well while they did have a job. These people skipping out on their fines had money at some point prior to the hardship you're using as their excuse. I'm sorry but it's not the city's fault that they didn't plan to have to pay a speeding ticket. Who's guillty of incurring the fine to begin with? AGain, not the city. Is what they are doing fair to those of us that do pay our fines? Poor analogy. If you don't like the way the Police run their office, then take it to the voting booth or town hall meetings. Write the Mayor, etc.....but so far as how the day to day runs, no, you're not the boss of the Police Chief. I'll only speak for myself and say no I don't want to be treated differently. I pay my debts incurred and I plan for tough times by saving and investing. You can make $8hr and save. It's called paying yourself first and living within or below your means. We live below ours. Well below. Those that do cry and moan as you say are not being accountable and will not earn any trust or respect from the greater population as a whole nor can they go around saying they are accountable or responsible if they bitch. Deadbeats in the making? Very good family growing up but at age 19 worked my ass off in college and bought my first townhome with my sister. At 24 bought my second property with my then girlfriend/wife, lived there on near nothing while she went to law school in the evenings and I worked bell to bell days. The rest is history. WE made our income and what we have today. No hand outs here man. Sorry to hear about the above man and I won't judge and I won't comment further on a situation that's not mine. Too far OT and too personal and not my place. I'll leave it at this given my previous comment. I'm sure there were multiple optoins and roads to go down in your fathers life that could have taken him to perhaps this same place but also many others too. There's never just one and only one path and end results. In the end he ended up where he is. Over a sad beer I'd share mine with one of my family members that the road went a different way and now things are fine. It wasn't easy but it is doable. I firmly believe that people need to begin to accept that while things do happen to us, what you make of them happens because of us. Each of us is absolutely in control of our lives and while yours may end different than mine, you control what it looks like for you. And when the inevitable shit does happen you don't go around avoiding the responsibilities. Back OT...that's what these people are doing. Things don't happen overnight either. I went from 19 to 42 in what seems like a week. I wish I had more time to save more and do more, but as a family the wife and I regroup on a very regular basis to make sure we're on track with our goals, adjust where needed and enjoy things regardless. That's the spirit! :no: There's really only one thing I can say to such a comment ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I hear you on price, but it is good. I'm starving myself to go there for a late lunch/early dinner....YUMMY!

. I never used teh word scumbag. I said deadbeats. I can appreciate what you're trying to say but as much as you don't like police collecting money for the city, I'm 100x that in terms of not wanting my municipality to inject the drama of other peoples hard times and situations when it comes to collecting fines they owe and brought upon themselves. No one is kicking them when they are down, The kick they are feeling in terms of a fine being collected was brought upon by their own actions as is any situation they are in financially. Until people face that and OWN IT, this world will continue to expect handouts. Time to rid the world of expectations like that. . There are zillions of programs out there to help people. This country is fucking filled with them. However, dragging out their responsibility to pay a fine isn't one of them. If you really want to help someone in a bad situation, make them take the first step and help themselves. Start by being accountable and responsible. If you aren't either one or both of those, you're done as no one will employ you. . Yes, both different situations with one common theme, they are skipping out on fines, so one is just as bad as the other in that respect. Just because someone doesn't do crack doesn't earn them a brownie point. The world has enough "at leasters". "At least he doesn't do crack like the other side of the spectrum"......again, not a good starting point. No because most collectoin agecies are just filled with drones on a phone playing tough guy. However, talk to a repo man and I bet they carry. . No trying to change your view on who is collecting. Perhaps though you'll begin to see the need for accountability and responsibility and the lack there of in society that's responsible for situations like this where cities need to actually employ such a tactic. Who's ultimately responsible for this? The deadbeats not paying..... They have muscle, just need to flex it. Time for the deadbeats to pay up and stop treating the city like they treat their own personal finances....something they can just ignore and hope goes away. Me too and we've all likely had hard times, but that doesn't mean the rest of the world should pay for those hard times or simple forgo any of the financial hardships that people brought upon themselves. In this case the city is using an existing available resources to solve a problem that other resources aren't able to achieve. They aren't asking for your opinion or permission nor should they have to. The majority of responsible citizens just want the deadbeats delt with and will likely fully support that. Those that don't usually have a reason why and it's clearly sided more in favor of supporting those not paying than the majority that do.

Most all of the top 10 will require $1M plus per store up front just for the brand and you won't be buying just one. McD's BK, Dunkin's all require $2m per location and Dunkin here in Ohio sold a batch of 15 as their minimum. Panera is like that too. The guy who owns the 75 here in Ohio is one of their most successful owners. Typical build-out costs on a 1,500 sqft. wings and rings or like is about $750k and that's just the hardware/building. The CEO there is a car guy from Sweeden. Like's Audi's though. Came to our meeting and as he drove in the was doing like 60mph and did some crazy as spin to park his car and make an entrance. We were all like WTF? but he's not arrogant, just crazy fun in a kid like way. It's risky and for the lower costs ones like subway, they don't rake in what you think. The avg. Subway pulls in about $400k per year. Franchises are good ideas filled with lots of risks and potentials for failures. Papa Murphy's is a decent one and the build out costs are slightly less as are the labor and ops costs given their model. They however have only the dinner portion to really go after so income again is low. A good friend from IBM opened a firehouse sub doing exactly what you said and he's survived fro 4 years now. Not rich and works a ton of hours and found out the hard way, labor managmeent and paper costs are what can make or break your success. If you've never managed this type of place, good luck. Even owners who hire ops managers often pay a lot of money only to find those guys are going to open their own. Another good guy to talk with is the owner at Skyline on Sawmill. I called on him back when he worked for corporate. His struggle is location sucks but his rent is dirt cheap and that's what's getting him by.

Our definitions of the real world are likely the same, it just seems your expectations including some kind of exception for people who don't pay their bills but have a great story to tell. Sorry, but we all have baggage that impacts our lives, I just happen to not try and use that baggage as an excuse not to pay money I own on traffic related violations. My wife saw it all the time and more baggage than you know as she practiced for years in bankruptcy and familiy law. The two consistent things even the poorest bastard down to the shitty parents will always budget for are Cell Phone and Cable TV. But hey, fuck the city and their parking fines. People CHOOSE not to pay these fines. No sympathy. That horse is dead. Again, their issues over the past 10 years have Zero bearing on not paying a traffic violation. Please stop trying to justify their position. People make choices and they need to own up to them. No one cares if they are sick or lost a job. Then drive within the law and do what needs done to pay the bills you own. it won't kill them to skip a few meals to pay a traffic ticket. Fuck, most people in this country are fat anyway. It just might just be the best thing that happens to them. ^^ great story, but I doubt they were forced to move, they chose to and that doing so wasn't going to stop "the harassment". Certainly more to this story that isn't likely show in his post. Colorful though. Credibility is in the facts and details, none of which is present thus the viability or lack of this story can't be proven. To say it's a true story as told isn't feasible. Until then, it's just a random story on the internet. Good reads though. My point is the cops don't need to go through any red tape. Johnny Crack Head hasn't paid 14 parking violations; Here's his home addy and his workplace addy. Go collect payment or arrest him. Pretty simple. I agree...my point was these aren't such big deals, time consuming events or anything that would warrant more than an officer driving to a place of residence or employment. Simple stuff. The skill set of professionally approaching a situation whereby a citizen is in violation of a law and payment of a city mandated fine; a situation that could turn ugly. I think they are well skilled to deal with that. "sir, we are here at your home on behalf of the courts to collect these fines for 14 overdue tickets. Fines that you have repeatedly avoided paying. That or we are going to take you to our fine facility downtown and lock you up. How would you like to proceed?" Not much debt collection training needed at this point. I don't think too many people are expecting a LEO to come knocking so yes, it's just the muscle the city needs when letters and phone calls aren't doing the trick. Kudos to to those who put the idea in motion. My world is one where I am a normal accountable and responsible person that pays the bills I incur, including any parking or speed violations. That's my world. Why should we make exceptions and lower our expectations for those that can't do that? Dumb. Contrast that with a life where where people take their parking tickets and court ordered fines and toss them in the trash with the expectation that some collection agency no one gives a shit about will just simply continue to annoy them? I say rock their world and send an LEO after them to not only collect but send a message that deadbeats aren't allowed in their community.

I ignore the invoices they send me for my parking and speeding tickets :gabe: