This company has been pimpin’ themselves trying to get us to use their service. We’re pretty happy with the folk we use now, but they are persistant! After many phone calls avoided, they badgered me into agreeing to meet with them. They suggested a “lunch meeting”.
Off to the sushi bar!
I doubt that we will ever use their service, but they insisted we go to lunch, so I don’t even feel too bad about it. Afterall, I eat there once a week just about anyway, so its not like I picked someplace that I wouldn’t ordinarily go.
Nothin’ tastes as good as free sushi! (I shoulda taken them up on the offer for a beer, too. But I didn’t want to drink on the job.)
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Of course you realize they’ll just increase the number of calls you have to avoid and will probably show up on your doorstep more often now, because they’ll feel like they have an “in.”
But yeah, gotta love that free sushi. What’d you get?
Well, since I eat there all the time, the sushi chefs know me and just start handing stuff over. Most of it I recognize, but I have a feeling they were trying to impress these dudes I was with and started to whip out some fancy, special stuff. I had no clue, but it was real good!
What I did recognize: spicy tuna roll, San Francisco rool, Crystal shrimp, Mt. Fuji roll. There were a few served that were real stunners, both visually and tasty-wise.
Got to take the left-overs with me for the wife tonight, but I rode my motorcycle to work and am not sure how I’m getting them home. I have a pickup truck at AAMCO transmission and am hoping it will be done by 5 so I can motor home in it and haul the sushi.
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New one for me, too! It seems these guys are sushi lightweights and since the chefs were bringin’ it on we soon had a fine mess o’fish on the bar. These dudes petered out pretty quick and I ate till I nearly burst but there was still plenty left. Life is good!
She told me she loved me like a brother. She was from Arkansas, hence the Joy!
I’m the guy usually paying at the sushi bar, entertaining clients and such.
Between that and golf balls, I hardly work anymore.
People in my business know if they bring me business:
I will treat them and the people they bring me like kings and never embarass them for recommending me
Take them out for sushi
Give them a sleeve of Titleist DT 90s
One time this guy was bringing me business with regularity, and on one occasion I was out of golf balls.
Turns out the guy just landed me about $1,000 in my pocket because he was playing golf that afternoon, and he was kind of put out that I was out of golf balls because he needed him some.
I felt pretty bad about it, and realized after he left that I may have made a business decision by not having the guy’s golf balls ready, so I called ahead to the pro shop to where he was playing and gave them my credit card number and an extra ten dollars to keep a lookout for the guy and give him a full box of 12 when he showed up.
That was one happy guy, and those balls got paid for 100fold in the next month.
But yeah, I’ve made more money sitting in the sushi bar than I have sitting in my office.
Chances are that now you will feel kindly disposed towards these people who bought you sushi. That alone is worth the price.
Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as free sushi. Got taken out for all I could eat sushi the other week. There’s this chain in Silicon Valley called Todai and if you walk away hungry, it’s your own fault.
A few navigation strategies pay off handsomely. First, always walk 90% of the way through the sushi buffet line before you put a speck of fish on your plate. They have all sorts of maki jam packed with strange crud just for the suckers. About half way through, the fish starts appearing. A wide array of sushi nigiri and assorted te-maki hand rolls are available. Since it is a buffet, the rice leaves something to be desired. That’s why you hold off until the end of the line where the whopping heap of maguro and sakesashimi is located. Pile on ramekins of gari and wasabi then head for your table.
The hard part is leaving room for all the fresh cracked Dungeness crab and peeled shrimp you can eat. There’s also a shabu-shabu soup line and Chinese food hot table as well, but only the seafood sings its siren song to my ears. At $22.[sup]00[/sup] per person, it’s pretty hard to beat.
Ended up giving the leftovers to my boss, as I couldn’t cram them in my jacket for the ride home.
Wasn’t an employment agency, but a freight company. They are trying to snag our business from a local company owned by people who also buy me lunch at the same sushi bar!
Zen- The place we go is about $16 for lunch and its all hand-made to order, so its not too bad, especially when someone else is buying!
Oh man Zenster, Todai is absolutely the best thing ever. They have one up in Pleasant Hill too (Sun Valley mall) and I used to go there for lunch once every couple of weeks (it’s only $14 for lunch!). How could you neglect to mention the shrimp tempura, though? And the spicy crawfish? Mmmmm. Of course the best stuff is the sashimi, but that goes without saying. My friend used to get all the salmon and tuna sashimi he could fit on a plate, then eat just the fish and leave the rice, thereby leaving more room for food other than plain old rice.
There was also one right across the street from my ex-girlfriend’s house in LA. She had never heard of it before, so I took her there the first time I visited her down there. We had a good night.
My wife bought me a “sushi kit” and a book on Japanese cooking for my birthday. This was my first attempt (salmon). There’s a few tricks I’m still learning, but it tasted wonderful!
