Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Business No beer today at Porter's Jazz Cafe
Posted by Max Brantley on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:15 PM
The state Alcoholic Beverage Control Division has picked up the alcoholic beverage permit of Porter's Jazz Cafe, which opened in September, because the cafe had never obtained a state sales tax permit, ABC Director Michael Langley confirms. The alcohol permit can be returned when the sales tax permit issue is resolved, an ABC spokesman said.
Add this to other woes reported here yesterday for the development, not to mention a report this morning in Democrat-Gazette over complaints from the neighboring Rose Law Firm about grease being spattered on their cars by a restaurant exhaust fan.
UPDATE: The Little Rock Bureau of Conventions and Visitors says Porter's is also delinquent on the restaurant tax. It paid $382 on $19,168 in sales in September and reported owing $349.56 on $14,945 in sales in October, but never paid it. It has filed no reports for November and December.
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I'm heading to Porter's to order the biggest batch of chicken wings ever.
Any word on how this will affect Natural Blue PAC event there tonight?
With as much city involvement as there has been in this project - Dean Kumpuris gave them the building for goodness sakes - you think the city would have been on top of this and from day one told Porter the procedures and policies. Sounds like they overlooked it. Makes me wonder if they overlooked it on purpose.
The next thing you will hear is non-payment of employee salary tax with holdings.
One of the owners, Augusta Farver, was disbarred in Louisiana for being a crook. This does not surprise me.
He's also the VP at Pulaski Tech. Which also doesn't surprise me.
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Oh No, maybe Obama can give them a Stimulus package (Paid for by the Hard working Taxpayers) to bail them out. Then they can run a TV ad giving gratitude to Obama.
You know its not their fault that they are bad business people. It's society's fault. They took classes in Liberal Arts during college, good God how would one expect them to be good busienss people. It's the Governments fault for not including business classes along with their liberal arts classes. They need to sue the Government or the University they attended for not preparing them to run a business. Maybe they can also through in some racial undertones to it. Probably get millions.
Porter's is -- or at least was -- open 7 days a week. Sales figures for October average $482 a day. That revenue model does not a sustainable business make. Hate it for them, and hate it for downtown, but these latest events (or lack thereof) suggest Porter's is going down.
Offal, you want a "government mandate" to require specific government-approved courses. Turning liberal on us? Most business people turn out to be ReTHUGlicans like you so they are probably behind on taxes to the state and feds also.
You don't like saving 2 million jobs that could have been lost in the Cheney/Bush recession. That would have added to the 3,500,000 Bush/Cheney lost in the last 6 months of their term. And Bush or Cheney (whichever was acting as president that day) started the auto companies stimulus which you seem to forget and it was Cheney/Bush/Paulson that bailed out the banks without any requirements they do anything specific to help the economy. Thank God, Bush ran his presidency like a business-unfortunately it was like every other business Bush touched and it failed also.
And you guys think you can run a country with the klowns you have in the klown kar?
couldn't be better - Bush got elected twice, if the stimulus saved jobs, why does our debt keep climbing. Kinda like Porter's taking in $450 a day with expenses at $1000 a day. In you point of view if they stay open another day, thats just one more job saved. Do the math dumbass! The Stinulus did not work!
I would say the Jazz Cafe is starting to sound more like a Blues Song.
Some things just won't survive without beer.
Pizza Joints
Sports Bars
Jazz Cafes
Post is about a Jazz bar that didn't make a very good go of it but somehow that morphed into some rightwing wacko,
Obama is a fail President!
Stimulus failed!
Bush got elected twice!
Dumbass!
Do the math!
I geuss Jazz is the problem. My Grandma warned my dad that no good was going to come from that unstructed music.
Orville gives us the proof.
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