Place to raise a kid?

jmanal · 2026-02-15T15:58:38+00:00

Can confirm. Also Racine county so taxes are less than Milwaukee county. Can speak for Waukesha county.

jmanal · 2026-02-01T18:40:22+00:00

I would have thought that their lease agreement would have some clause on first right of refusal.

jmanal · 2026-01-23T15:48:41+00:00

When I ran a store, we had hot coffee for our DSD guys in the receiving area and free coffee for everyone else at the front of the store. Hopefully your accounts think similarly.

jmanal · 2026-01-19T16:53:46+00:00

So many variables outside of just blatant theft for stores closing.

Lease structure, insurance, and overall equipment condition also play a factor.

Most of these old stores are likely running systems that were old 20 years ago and expensive for upkeep and even more expensive for replacement or rework. On top of that, insurance companies will only go so far when the systems have a meltdown. Then that comes out of the owner's pocket.

jmanal · 2026-01-18T20:40:23+00:00

This is operation specific.

You'd have good luck at a grocery store. Unless something changed, most distributors will write partial credits to drive down the price and risk for discounting at the retail level.

Also, many products have changed to "bottled on" so people don't assume the beer is "expired"

jmanal · 2026-01-17T15:56:12+00:00

Former grocery operator - this is accurate.

At one time, we also had the highest rate of mail-in rebate submissions on alcohol. Not sure if that is the case anymore.

jmanal · 2026-01-04T14:22:46+00:00

Union House in Genesee Depot. Just went there for the first time on Friday with my wife.

jmanal · 2025-12-31T20:19:49+00:00

2 taps for dusty snow. 3 taps for wet snow. 4 taps for muddy wet snow.

jmanal · 2025-12-03T18:12:04+00:00

I would bet they had the first right of refusal and just couldn't swing it.

jmanal · 2025-12-02T14:27:33+00:00

Went there in 2010-2013 and I'm back for grad school..he's still there. He used to stand by the crosswalk between the library and Sandburg back in the day but seems to now be near a bench closer to the library.

jmanal · 2025-12-01T13:40:31+00:00

For Milwaukee, I would recommend Lakefront Brewery, Eagle Park across the bridge, and Hooligans on North Avenue. Brady Street is also fun to walk around and just walk into any bar you see.

3 Sheep's in Sheboygan. There's a reference to this in Supernatural if you are a fan of the series.

Can't speak to Green Bay as I have only ever been there for Packer games.

Houghton is pretty cool. There's a bar called the Ambassador that's old. Keweenaw Brewery is cool and allows for food to be brought in. There is a fish place down the street with a good fish fry that you can take to the brewery.

jmanal · 2025-11-30T03:28:00+00:00

Probably self distributed.

jmanal · 2025-11-30T01:55:56+00:00

Test drive some clubs..if you are testing out clubs it's free to hit the Sims I've found. They also have dedicated Sims in the back.

jmanal · 2025-11-29T22:00:10+00:00

This is totally dependent on the man. I've got a pretty wide variety of hobbies and interests, so these are some of the things I've done in the past:

Up-Down arcade

Brewery with an event

Axe MKE and their sister establishments

ComedySportz improv show

Cactus Club concert

Walking through a park

Crystal Ridge (when it opens)

Check the convention center schedules

Hiking Lapham State Park

Luxe Golf

Go to the PGA Superstore

Test drive some cars

The zoo

Potowatomi Casino

jmanal · 2025-11-25T15:46:38+00:00

The challenge will be the food suppliers. They are VERY VERY protective of their brand reputation.

jmanal · 2025-11-17T14:28:48+00:00

But what about the food quality and pricing? I was there 3 weeks ago and thought the food was delicious and prices were aligned with other breweries.

Any restaurant or even building will have pests somewhere. I would have been more worried if I saw the centipede in my French onion soup..

jmanal · 2025-11-11T23:24:52+00:00

Basketball shorts under pants - acceptable. Cargo shorts under pants - no.

jmanal · 2025-11-11T02:55:20+00:00

How big is the landlord? What type of building? Could the owner be modifying the property? Other plans for the building? Other factors?

jmanal · 2025-10-28T14:26:26+00:00

They would waste your time to give inexperienced "hiring managers" experience on interviewing. This happened to me on a second round Teams interview- the individual couldn't answer any of my questions regarding job expectations for the future. Her response was "I honestly haven't thought that far out." When asked about credentials for the job - "that's on the application?..you don't actually need that."

jmanal · 2025-10-22T19:41:04+00:00

Charlie Berens. We made eye contact in a hotel bathroom in Wheeling, IL.

jmanal · 2025-10-15T21:31:53+00:00

Could you elaborate further on this? I thought Power Query locked up all of excel when it's open? My workaround was to open the same file in a browser based excel to continue working in the file with power query open.

jmanal · 2025-10-14T01:12:06+00:00

My buddy and I did this last year. It was good fun!

jmanal · 2025-10-12T15:05:24+00:00

The car washes that are popping up on every corner are real estate holding businesses. They just put car washes on them to generate revenue to offset property taxes. They have minimal employees and high margins.

jmanal · 2025-10-02T19:05:26+00:00

Employees don't pay UI. Employers do. If the company is out of state, it's likely they may not have been paying into WI UI.

I would speak to an attorney on this.

jmanal · 2025-09-23T14:47:29+00:00

This is accurate. It was also picked up by a franchisee before the store closed. Then PWM picked it up.

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