The soon-to-open restaurant at 2610 Main St. (at 11th) that was to be called Fast Food Disco has been forced to change its name prior to opening by the liquor licensing nabobs. Why? Because it would “mislead” prospective diners into assuming they would be getting alcohol with fast food, even though the restaurant doesn’t serve fast food. Wait, what? There’s something on the books that says only slow food restaurants can serve alcohol? No there isn’t? Oh…I think I get it. Nope. No I don’t. If you need a smidgen of evidence to shore up your belief in the fact that restaurateurs must daily climb mountains of shit, there you go.
I spoke to resigned co-owner David Duprey (see also The Narrow) last night, who is already over a month behind schedule, and he sort of sounded like he’d had the wind kicked out of him, albeit in an “but what can you do?” kind of way. Such is business in Vancouver.
It’s funny to think that there’s some lady sitting in a little office somewhere who thinks she’s an arbiter of what is and what isn’t an appropriate name for a restaurant. Duprey and his partner, Rachel Zottenberg, sent in a letter of protest, citing irony and the like, but their complaint fell on deaf ears. It turns out that we, the public, are irredeemably stupid and we need a nanny to help navigate us away from self-slaughter and such. Sigh. The new name is The Rumpus Room, which isn’t nearly as wickedly obtuse as the original. Personally, I would have named it after the lady…
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“Casual Fine Dining Disco” was taken?
“The Rumpus Room”… Is this a nail salon of some sort?
oh for crying out loud!! PLEASE can we – and by ‘we’ i mean all restaurateurs, pubs, liquor stores, manufacturers and consumers – come together and present a united front for reform of the archaic and arbritrary liquor licensing and distribution?
The restaurant doesn’t serve fast food, yet the owner wanted it to be named “Fast Food Disco”? I think the liquor board did the owner a favour and forcing him to rename it.
Off topic, I know; the name change is a definite improvement.
I can’t believe that we pay taxes to pay bureaucrats for such ridiculousness.
This is completely insane. Whether or not it’s a good name is not the issue.
I’ve been to the Cactus Club and they have niether Cacti nor are they a club. Somehow they continue to serve liquor. This travesty needs to be investigated. The Cactus Club I mean.
The only place I can think of that deserves to have a license is Meat and Bread because they do indeed have Meat and Bread. Food for thought.
but will it still be a disco!?!? also, just me but i think drugs rather than alcohol when i hear disco …?
This is grade-A baloney.