Stewart's Place

Love this place, great decor, service, food and drink.  Nice little dive bar, thats also very clean and has clean bathrooms.  Prices are really good, and there burgers were awesome.  I highly recommend this places, If has darts, two pool tables and a shuffle board table.

I love this place!! Always great food! Their burgers and meat loaf are the best!! The servers are awesome and the new owners are doing a really great job!

Well, all good things must come to and end, or at least be downgraded.

New owners took over recently, and within a week had cut portions and raised prices on the daily specials , which had admittedly been STUPID cheap , and obvious "loss leaders" designed to get you in there buying drinks. OK fine...raise prices.....but DON'T fix what ain't broken, which is the plate of food your inherited customers have been coming in for years to enjoy.  This is exactly what Stewart's new owners have done , at least with the specials.  The nice big hunk of prime rib that used to be served in the Sunday special has morphed overnight into a dinky, 1/2" thin slice ..... serious portion cut here. Oh, and the price went up . Double disappointment !!

I don't pretend to be a restaurateur , but I will float the suggestion that if the typical American enjoys a particular meal...let's say the Sunday prime rib special at Stewart's Place, for instance...they might be willing to pay a couple bucks more for it , if necessary. Hell, maybe five bucks more, if it came down to it. We want what we like, dammit !! But if you CHANGE the meal, by cutting the portion down , they will likely be very disappointed  , even if the price stays the same or even goes down a bit.

To reiterate, if you cut portions AND raise the price  , it's over, baby.

Now, I have a sneaking suspicion that the real profit generator in a bar like Stewart's is the ALCOHOL , so squeezing the "dime" that is food profits , by cutting portions and raising prices, could risk the "dollar" that is all the alcohol that people buy when they come in for a stupid deal on a big slab of prime rib , right ?

Maybe the bar's P&L statement is shaping up great now, and the place was hemorrhaging money before , what do I know ?  All I know for sure is that my twice-weekly visits to Stewart's for a meal and beers have completely stopped . It used to be worth the 10 minute drive, and now it isn't .....(insert sniffling, puppy-like sounds)