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sounds sung and strung between heavy rainfall and sunny drought.
Truth is mine. Interpretation is yours.
I was finally able to put down my amplifier and the 2 guitars I was carrying for what felt like half a marathon. A sleepwalker in a strange place. Having just played a small show at a jam-packed wasbar in Gent, tiredness had kicked in and even though I've been in Gent before, it was nighttime and in the dark everything feels foreign to me. Granted, that's why I prefer it over the daytime though. I figured while my hands were free I'd try to pay my parking fee and call up the elevator. Somehow I started feeling a glimpse of pride for my newfound multitasking abilities.Apparently -2 to 0 is a considerable distance to travel for an elevator so I started pacing up and down inside the glass cage marked "P", the only indication of a massive, two-story parking garage housing beneath.While I'm waiting I could take a snapshot to throw on my trusty ol' instagram page. Always a nice reminder of where I was at a particular time and space. I whopped out my phone and started framing like a pro (…). At the instant I flipped the switch in my head from "Nan Goldin-esque" to "Ansel Adam-ish" the door of the elevator opened without the courtesy of warning me with some sort of indicative sound. Maybe it's just my own fault for assuming this type of aid for the visually impaired would have been installed. Then again… Blind people aren't the best chauffeurs to begin with, I guess.Anyway, a woman walked out of the elevator and totally surprised me. In a pathetic attempt to not look like a dork photographing an empty public square with the slightest hint of a reflection of a tired twenty-something as an overlay, I turned away having already snapped the shot. Oh and yes, I turned away to the most illogical side (elevator on my right, absolutely nothing on my left). So all in all it probably looked even more stupid than if I'd just kept my cool/geek on.After thinking the damage was done I put my phone away, picked my amp and guitars up and tried to squeeze into the elevator. I didn't bother looking if the woman had already left the glass booth. I just pushed and banged against the aluminium door and walls of the ridiculously tiny vessel to the underground. Finally made it in and then of course I saw the woman had left the glass cage but was smoking a cigarette outside, just staring at me in what would have looked like one of my most apelike moments. As the door elevator door closes a small speaker on the inside makes a fucking sound to indicate it's closing… Well, at least the woman was smiling instead of pointing and laughing so I shyly raised my hand and waved to gesture this was my final performance for that night.
But yeah… That's why the picture's blurry.
Home again after a great show w/ some lovely folks @ Wasbar (Antwerp).
My song: "To Find Something" on TV! (in: De Beste Singer-Songwriter van Vlaanderen (loosely translated as: The Best Singer-Songwriter of Flanders).I've had some really nice responses. Thank you all!
I had the privilege to open for "Mister & Mississippi". They make music that I can only describe as musical dreamscapes. Enchanting vocals, floating melodies, crazy dynamics, etc. It wasn't just a performance. It was an experience.(Photo by Carolien - http://instagram.com/p/ff8uRqjabV/)
On a hot summer's day, on a rooftop…
1's and 0's and ink and…


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Everytime Jonathan thinks he's done with the Edelman story, something else crops up. While he may have the occasonal second thought, I, for one, am proud that he wrote that first letter to Jim and Luara and opened the blogger flood gates that got this story rolling.
Last night Jeff Jarvis waded in and Edelman posted this comment:
Jeff, I accept your criticism on behalf of the firm. I can tell you that our determination to be leaders in the blogosphere is undiminished. We are taking this as an important lesson, that we have not done sufficient education of our team on the proper way to interact with new media. Our Me2Revolution team is doing three company wide mandatory training sessions next week to ensure that the WOMMA guidelines are strictly applied. We are establishing a 24/7 social media hotline which will vet programs before they are presented to clients. We will participate in development of best practices outside of the US and will comply with the rules in each country. We will do better. Count on it. We are listening.
Edelman's second sentance says it all: he's determined to be a leader in the blogsophere. He just doesn't get it. There are no leaders. The blogosphere isn't a top-down organization. No one is in charge. No one leads. Individuals can choose to be examples; both good and bad. But they have no authority to say follow me.
Bloggers will choose to follow, or lead, based on their criteria, not the criteria of any code Of ethics or list of best practices.


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Are you looking to start a chocolate business? Want to talk to others who've been there or done that - or have you been there and done it and want to share with others? This is the place to discuss it.
Location: Worldwide
Members: 659
Latest Activity: 16 hours ago
Do you make great chocolates? Know everything there is to know about tempering chocolate and cooking the perfect caramel? Able to turn out thousands of finished chocolates without blinking any eye?
Does the thought of using Quickbooks or writing a business plan sends you screaming into the walk-in begging for mercy?
This group is for you. When you join, please introduce yourself to the group in a comment on this page. Yes, I know you have a profile page, but it would be great to have you add a few words about you and your business in the context of this group. If you have a website, feel free to post a link to it. Please don't post a link to your profile page, people can just click on your profile photo to visit that.
PS. Below is the full picture I used for the Group photo. It's a chocolate store/cafe in Mexico. Those are stone mills (the kind Taza uses) to the right of the guy with his back to you in the blue shirt and notice that they are selling beans. The stone mills suggest that this store is located in Oaxaca.
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Hi everyone,
I am new to the chocolate business. I own a company called Sweet Servings we design candy & dessert stations . I just got into making chocolate party favors about 2 months ago. I must tell you I love it. I do need some pointers as to where to find the products I am interested. I saw this chocolate printer. It prints on chocolate lollipops. Its so much money so I bought my own edible printer that I hope will do the same thing. What is your take on it? Also I am in the hunt for the clamshell packaging for the lollipops and the business card holders. I found the location outside of the US but shipping is going to kill me. Anyone have any US wholesalers that you can point me in the direction of?
Also any wholesale companies besides the ones like CK products, Lucks etc..
Thank you for you time and I hope to gain great knowledge on this site
Hi all, I have purchased a used JKV30 machine but it came with no instructions. Does anyone have instructions for this machine that they can scan and e'mail me?
hey Yall! i am just starting to produce in our store and we were told by pros that using a wheel tempering machine for callebaut was not a good idea because it makes the chocolate very thick. any thoughts on this? Thanks! you can email me @ email@example.com
Could someone tell me how to temper raw cocoa butter? I would like to use it for coloring in my molds, but I haven't been able to find out what temperatures to bring it to, or if it's even possible. Thanks!
Thankyou so much Andal, I have emailed you
I have a slide presentation that we typically use when we give seminars on bean-to-bar that I can share with you. Please email me your contact information to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Andal Balu
Hi from northern NSW! (hello fudge 'n stuff!).
I make and sell my chocolates at local farmer's markets and am venturing into agricultural shows now! Hitting the big time :)
This weekend I'll be doing a little chocolate tasting at a really small town show. I thought I'd talk a bit about how raw cacao choccies are made and explain bean to bar etc I will give out some samples of my chocolate but I will not be set up to do demos. This will serve as a run through for a bigger show I will do a choc making demo next month.
Any hints on other things I could do/say that would be interesting to a choc loving crowd?
I started making chocolate bonbons at home, and gave all of them to friends and the family as gifts.
The typical amount of chocolate an average hobby chocolate maker intends to process is between 200 grms and 1500 grms.. usually 200-500 grms.
Available tempering appliances are designed to process kilograms of chocolate at a time, so they're not suitable for small amounts. The cost is also prohibitive, from USD 1000 to several thousands of dollars for a tempering machine.
Then came the idea: a small, easy- to- operate appliance with automatic temperature control that won't cost a fortune but able to make even small amounts of chocolates. I designed a small appliance from steel, and used a standard GN /GastroNorm/ form factor stainless steel pot as a melting pot.
Now i would like to start the manufacturing of these devices, if KickStarter will accept the project.
Hello from Sacramento,
I'm super excited to have found this group! I think I'll spend the rest of the day reading everything I can in this forum. :)
Two years ago I would have never guessed I would be diving into the chocolatiering community. At that point, I was finishing up MBA studies and fed up with my engineering job. Since then, I've been on my own in a split world of entrepreneurship and chocolatiering - both have been harsh mistresses.
I'm currently polishing up my financial models and business plan and hoping for small-scale commercialization by the end of this year.
Excited to dive in!
Hi i have a question that I need help with. I will soon be selling my chocolates at teh local Farmers Market but am undecided on the name. I have a cpl names I have narrowed it down to but I need an opinion regarding one of them. The name in question is
"Matthew Black Couvertures" My goal was to keep the name simple but at the same time a little different from others. My question is - All of my chocolates are made using Couverture Chocolate but would I be misusing the term Couvertures or misrepresenting myself by using that word to describe my Chocolates?? All opinions are welcome and I look forward to reading them. Thank you.
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Holy cow, I wrote a book!
A few years ago,
Larry Osterman
explained the famous
beeping death.
Windows 95 had its own noise-related death, what nobody has
called ticking death, but that's what I'm going to call it.
(Let's see how long before somebody decide to add it to Wikipedia.)
When your machine fell into ticking death,
each time you moved the mouse or pressed a key,
it was acknowledged with nothing more than a tiny click
from the speaker.
What was the cause of ticking death?
When the hardware drivers report a mouse or keyboard event
on Windows 95,
they call the mouse_input
or keybd_input function.
Since this happens at hardware input time, those functions are
very limited in what they can do.
All they do is
appends the new input to a queue of "input that arrived while
I was busy doing something else."
When the window manager reaches a stable state,
it takes the input from the "input waiting to be processed"
queue and farms them out to the appropriate application input queues.
The window manager needs to be stable, since mouse input gets
routed depending on which window is under the mouse pointer when the
pointer moves,
and you don't want to do this while some other part of the window
manager is in the process of rearranging the windows (and the
window tree is consequently unstable).
For compatibility reasons, the window manager promises not to
change anything while 16-bit code is running,
so that a 16-bit application doesn't see, for example,
a window becoming destroyed behind its back.
(Recall that 16-bit Windows is a co-operatively multi-tasked system,
which means that applications have control of the CPU until they
voluntarily relinquish it.)
If a 16-bit application hangs,
then the buffer for holding all of these
"distribute this input to application queues as soon as it is safe
to do so" fills up and can't accept any more input.
If new input arrives and there's nowhere to save it,
the window manager emits a little tick sound as a mini-error message.
Of course, as the end user, you probably knew something was up
because the screen hasn't changed in a long time.
Some 16-bit application is not responding and is preventing the
window manager from doing anything.
To get out of this situation, you can hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and try to kill
the hung application.
Nick asks
why Explorer doesn't have UI for creating hard links.
Heck, while you're at it, why not ask
"Why doesn't Explorer have a UI for hex-editing a file?"
Remember, all features start out with
minus 100 points.
Explorer is not under any obligation to expose every last NTFS
and it's certainly not going to help to expose an NTFS feature
that even technical people don't understand.
Just look at all the people who ask questions like
"How can I tell if a file name is a hard link instead of a normal file?"
or online explanations of hard links which claim that
"A hard link is only a reference to the original file, not a copy of the file.
If the original file is deleted, the information will be lost."
I mean, if even a techno-geek doesn't understand hard links,
how is your average user supposed to have a chance?
First, let's see how you would explain a hard link to an end user.
When you create a hard link, you give the item an additional name.
The file can be accessed by either its old name or its new name;
they are equivalent.
A file is not deleted until all its names are deleted.
If you open a file by one name, make changes, and then save the file,
the update is made to the file, and accessing the file by a second name
will show the updated file, because the data for a file is separate
from its name.
Actually, that paragraph above is only true if the application which
saves the file does so by writing directly to the name you used when
you opened the file.
If the application updates the file by creating a temporary file,
then renaming the original to a backup name and renaming the temporary file,
then updating a file by one name will sever its connection with other
names for the file.
The other names will continue to refer to the unmodified file;
the name you used for the update will refer to the updated file.
Different applications handle this situation differently;
consult your application documentation for information on how it
treats hard links.
Note also that some backup programs have difficulty with hard links.
Consult the documentation for your backup program for information
on how it behaves when faced with hard links.
If a file has multiple names, editing the file by
using different names simultaneously may result in data corruption.
If a file has multiple names, all the names must exist on the same drive.
If you open a file by one name, make changes, and then save the file,
the update is made to the file, and accessing the file by a second name
will show the updated file, because the data for a file is separate
from its name.
Actually, that paragraph above is only true if the application which
saves the file does so by writing directly to the name you used when
you opened the file.
If the application updates the file by creating a temporary file,
then renaming the original to a backup name and renaming the temporary file,
then updating a file by one name will sever its connection with other
names for the file.
The other names will continue to refer to the unmodified file;
the name you used for the update will refer to the updated file.
Different applications handle this situation differently;
consult your application documentation for information on how it
treats hard links.
Note also that some backup programs have difficulty with hard links.
Consult the documentation for your backup program for information
on how it behaves when faced with hard links.
If a file has multiple names, editing the file by
using different names simultaneously may result in data corruption.
If a file has multiple names, all the names must exist on the same drive.
Most users clicked Cancel
at about the time you said, "When you create a hard link..."
You'll probably lose the rest of them while you are busy warning about
the potential problems with hard links,
and the brave few who managed to stick it out to the end
will be completely confused and hit Cancel.
(The ones who hit Cancel early on were the smart ones.)
The problem with backup programs is particularly nasty.
A backup program that is not hard-link-aware will miscalculate
the necessary size of the backup volume,
and when it attempts to restore the files,
it will not restore the hard links.
There was a Windows XP PowerToy for creating hard links,
but the backup team recommended that it not be released
because so many third party backup programs exploded
when they stumbled across files that had multiple names
in the file system.
A customer wanted to know if there was a way to execute
privileged instructions without having to write a driver.
"I just need to execute a few instructions,
and writing a driver would be overkill since it's only
three instructions.
Is there a way I can execute these privileged instructions
without a driver?"
The whole point of having a class of modules called drivers is to prevent
somebody from doing exactly what you're asking for.
Only drivers can execute privileged instructions;
that's why they're called privileged instructions.
"Yeah, but I just need three instructions.
Do I have to write a whole driver just for those three
"Maybe there's a driver somebody has already written that
I can give the instructions to, and it'll execute them for me?"
If somebody has written a driver which is designed to execute
arbitrary instructions handed to it from user-mode,
that person needs to be taken outside and beaten.
It's one thing to have a bug that permits arbitrary code execution,
but to have it as the purpose of your driver?
Think of writing a driver as having access to the secure area
of a nuclear power plant.
People have to be granted the appropriate security clearance before
they are allowed into enter the control room.
If you want to get into the control room of the nuclear power plant,
you'll have to apply for security clearance.
"But that's so much work.
I just need to go in and change a few settings on the control panel."
Dude, that's why you're not allowed in,
so you won't change those settings!
Your options are either to get security clearance yourself,
or convince somebody with security clearance to change the
settings for you.
"Well, do you know somebody who does have security clearance
who will change any settings I tell him to?"
I sure hope not.
Many years ago, my manager told me about a recruiting trip he made.
In response to a large number of job applications submitted from
a city where a major competing software company had its offices,
a small group of Microsofties travelled to that city to interview
those applicants and hold a mini-job fair, so that other interested
parties could also show up and interview for positions.
When the company learned that Microsoft was coming
to interview people,
they called an emergency meeting which all their top
programmers were required to attend,
timing it to coincide with the job fair.
The theory must have been
that if their top programmers are at the emergency meeting,
then they can't go to the job fair.
Problem solved.
Well, except that the plan backfired.
Sure, all the good programmers didn't come to the job fair,
but it also told the interviewers which of the applicants
were the good ones:
They were the ones who didn't show up for their interviews!
Sad but true:
Once you document a file format, it becomes a de facto API.
The Windows 95 team learned this the hard way when they
set out to replace Program Manager with Explorer.
Not only were
the settings in the PROGMAN.INI file documented,
so too was the binary file format of *.GRP files.
The binary file format was included for diagnostic purposes:
If you have a corrupted GRP file,
you can use the binary file format documentation to try to
recover what you can out of it.
But many people treated this documentation not as a FYI,
but as a backdoor API.
Instead of using the formal DDE interface for creating program
groups and icons,
they just directly edited the PROGMAN.INI file
and the applicable GRP files to get the icons and groups
they wanted.
Oh wait, and then you need to reboot in order for the backdoor API
to take effect,
because all you did was modify the on-disk files,
not the in-memory copy held by PROGMAN.EXE.
Of course,
when Windows 95 replaced Program Manager with Explorer,
these programs found themselves modifying the data files
of a program that no longer was running.
Special code had to be added to Explorer
to read settings from PROGMAN.INI
and even detect that a new GRP file was added
and convert it into shortcuts on the Start menu.
I wouldn't be surprised if that code is still lying around,
just in case somebody pulls out an
old application from 1994 and installs it.
The only thread message you can meaningfully post
to a thread displaying UI is WM_NULL,
and even then, it's only because you want to wake up the message
loop for some reason.
A common problem I see is people who use PostThreadMessage
to talk to a thread that is displaying UI and then wonder why
the message never arrives.
Oh, the message arrived all right.
It arrived and then was thrown away.
This is actually a repeat of
an earlier entry with the title
Thread messages are eaten by modal loops,
but I'm repeating it with a better subject line to help search engines.
But since I'm here, I may as well augment the existing article.
Obvious places where you have modal loops on a UI thread are functions
that are explicitly modal like DialogBox
or MessageBox or
TrackPopupMenuEx(TPM_RETURNCMD) or
But there are less obvious modal loops, like the modal loop that runs
when you click on the caption bar and hold the button
or the modal loop that runs when COM is waiting for a cross-thread call
to complete.
And since you don't control those modal loops, when they call
DispatchMessage, your thread message will simply be
thrown away.
If you need to communicate reliably with a thread that also displays UI,
then create a hidden window and send or post messages to that window.
A question was sent to an internal discussion list for users of
the XYZ tool:
From: Q
To: XYZ Users
The GHI function in the JKL tool doesn't work for me.
«description of problem deleted»
The GHI function in the JKL tool doesn't work for me.
«description of problem deleted»
I responded with this message:
To: Q, XYZ Users
The JKL tool is not part of XYZ.
You should contact the author of the JKL tool.
The JKL tool is not part of XYZ.
You should contact the author of the JKL tool.
The reason why people were amused by this is that
the author of the JKL tool is me.
(Says so right there in the online help.)
As a final punch line, the person never did contact me.
Sadly, I get to add another entry to
The ways people mess up IUnknown::QueryInterface:
Some people are just too eager to please.
HRESULT CSomething::QueryInterface(REFIID riid, void **ppvObj)
*ppvObj = this;
return S_OK;
No matter what the interface is, they say,
"Sure, we do that!"
no matter what you ask for, they always return the same interface.
Even if it's not what you asked for.
Some people say that
"these problems wouldn't be there if Microsoft Windows
had enforced correct behavior to begin with."
My exercise to you, commenter "foo", is to come up with
a list of all bugs in IUnknown::QueryInterface
which Windows should enforce and describe how to enforce it.
(If your response is "You should have designed it differently
so these bugs are impossible to write", please outline that
alternate bug-resistant design.
Remember that your design must be language-independent,
while still supporting things like tear-offs,
aggregation, and remote objects.
and it needs to work on typical PC-class computers of the early 1990's,
which ran at 25MHz with 4MB of memory.)
Commenter Dave jokingly remarked,
"I've grown used to handling characters with ASCII.
(If it was good enough to represent every
character in the US Constitution, it's good enough for me.)"
But there's a double-joke in there.
You see, not every character in the United States Constitution
can be represented in ASCII!
If you
take a close look,
you'll see that some words appear to be "misspelled":
At the end of the second line, it says
"Bleſsings of Liberty",
and Article 1 Section 1 declares that
"All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested
in a Congreſs of the United States."
That f-like character is actually a
long S,
a character which has fallen into disuse in modern English.
It also doesn't exist in ASCII.
My friend
The Knitty Professor
told me a story of a class she taught many years ago.
A student emailed a question:
When I want to quote an excerpt from
Locke in my paper,
should I fix the spelling?
Some words use f instead of s, and others are
incorrectly capitalized.
Today is
Constitution Day,
a United States holiday celebrating the United States Constitution.
Since 2005, all educational institutions which receive federal funds
must teach about the United States Constitution on this day,
even hairdresser schools.
Some time ago I joined a family for dinner, and they had
a two-year-old.
During dinner, the two-year-old accidentally knocked over her
glass, and liquid quickly spread across the table.
The adults at the table sprang into action,
containing the spill on the table,
wiping it up,
and checking for leakage onto the floor.
After all the excitement died down,
the two-year-old looked down, saw the empty glass,
and threw her hands up in the air, proudly announcing,
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"I don't know what it is about your clouds, but theyre almost Titian in their beauty. And the sun was setting, and I had a bottle of hot sauce in one hand, and I was hiding behind my pillow some caramels that I got from Leah Chases niece at Dooky Chases. I was eating some leftovers from John Beshs restaurant while I was reading Petite Rouge Riding Hood in a Cajun accent to my daughter. And I thought, this is what New Orleans is about. It's about a beautiful sunset, children and family, hot and sweet." The Top Chef host, who just finished filming the latest season, dares to suggest there's much more to the city than Sazeracs, jazz, and eating oyster po'boys. [Times-Picayune]
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General Studies on the Loyalists
o Wilber H. Siebert. The Flight of American Loyalists to the British Isles
o W. Stewart Wallace. The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration
o Daniel Parker Coke. The Royal commission on the losses and services of American loyalists, 1783 to 1785, being the notes of Mr. Daniel Parker Coke, M.P., one of the commissioners during that period
Loyalist Media
o Loyalist Songs of the American Revolution
o Winthrop Sargent. The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution
o Camps and Firesides of the Revolution, selected and annotated by Albert Bushnell Hart with the collaboration of Mabel Hill
o Tamara `Meezer' Clarke. Loyalty & Liberty, a webcomic on the American Revolution
Black Loyalist Sites
There are currently a number of useful sites on the history of black Loyalists and slaves, many of which utilize primary sources.
o Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People
o Black Loyalists in New Brunswick, 1783-1854
o Black Loyalist Heritage Society
Aboriginals and Loyalists
o Contested Terrain: Aboriginal land petitions from colonial New Brunswick
Loyalist Military History
o James Phinney Baxter ed. The British invasion from the north. The campaigns of Generals Carleton and Burgoyne, from Canada, 1776-1777, with the journal of Liet. William Digby, of the 53d, or Shropshire regiment of foot
o Stephen Jarvis. An American's Experience in the British Army. Manuscript of Colonel Stephen Jarvis, Born in 1756, Revealing the Life of the Loyalists who Refused to Renounce their Allegiance to the King and Fought to Save the Western Continent to the British Empire
o Anthony Allaire. Diary of Lieut. Anthony Allaire, of Ferguson's Corp. Memorandum of Occurrences During the Campaign of 1780
o David Fanning. The narrative of Colonel David Fanning (a Tory in the revolutionary war with Great Britain): giving an account of his adventures in North Carolina, from 1775 to 1783
o William Scudder Stryker. A Journal of the Operations of The Queen's Rangers from the End of the Year 1777 to the Conclusion of the Late American War


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The art of decision making should be quite simple. Gather the evidence, outline the options, provide an assessment of possible outcomes. Decide. But in business it is always murkier.
There is a fascinating account in the journal Long Range Planning of Nokia's decision to stay in mobile phones back in the early 1990s. When it did so it decided also to get out of computing and rubber. They went on to become the worlds leading mobile device maker. What does this set of decisions illustrate? The authors of the report had unique access to Nokia's Nokia's board meeting and they give some fascinating insights.
- There was no expectation of mobile as a super-growth market.
- In fact rubber, as an independent business, went onto be as successful as Nokia's mobile businesses, based on expansion of the rubber tire market in the liberated Soviet Union.
- Nokia's choices did not actually get taken until the company faced bankruptcy and the CEO and President were asked to leave.
That might remind you of something more recent!
In essence Nokia had only twelve years of unhindered glory in mobile – from 1996 to 2008 – before it had to make a put up or shut up decision once more. It will exit devices in the early part of 2014, after five years of decline. That time-span alone is a lesson to everyone about the importance of crisp decision-making.
Business decision-making then is a rare game. Here you see rationality of a sort – Nokia already had a high reputation in mobile in the mid-1990s and that was one motivation for its choices. But you also see a whole lot of luck. It could by now be the premier supplier of rubber to the Russian tire industry.
So how do you make critical decisions in business and what kind of decision maker are you?
I've been studying that problem lately, along with Bryan Kirschner of the Apigee Institute (who met my costs on the project). We came up with a brief and simple classification of decision-making based on a company's relationship to traditional business planning tools like ROI and NPV (you can read the paper here. Please critique it – there's not enough peer review out there and I am actively seeking critics).
1. Aggregators
In this category companies typically have a strong orientation towards the stock markets and the demand for predictable growth. They are typically AGGREGATING companies, drawing in new acquisitions so that the growth story remains strong. That in turn leads them to focus strategic decision-making away from transformation.
The problem arises when there are transformational opportunities that they are too hidebound to take. They see transformation as a risk to their strategy for creating (at least the impression of) internal unity. They do not deny the need for transformation, and indeed do initiate transformation projects, but they are more preoccupied than their peers with what the markets demand now. They tend to maintain strong, conventional, financial KPIs and have a strong narrative around the core business. Taken together all that means their decision-making leads them to under-invest in innovations that have a transformational effect.
This kind of company uses the power and influence of others (analysts, institutional investors) to justify conservative decisions to employees. And its decisions are mostly conservative in nature, outside of it's M&A program.
So, does that happen in your company? Maybe in your personal life you have that tendency – to make decisions based on what you expect others will approve of, or even to seek out excuses before you make a decision?
2. Brand-Centric Core companies.
This category of company takes a very traditional approach to decision making and is very bound by financial KPIs. They have a very strong narrative around core competencies, rather than core business, and have quite static or traditional brand values.
In the hospitality industry and in banking, in particular, they seek customer trust from an overarching narrative based around corporate traditions. Companies in this category believe the brand, rather than any specific decision that they can take now or in future, is the North Star.
There is nothing necessarily negative about that. And typically their "transformation" efforts will be in the direction of greater customer-centricity, which is good. But the idea of building an innovative ecosystem is threatening because it might dilute the brand or have a Trojan horse effect on intangible value. This type of decision maker sees change as a cultural challenge rather than one that has fundamental technological or process solutions and, given that the brand is the culture, they will always frame the discussion in terms of improvement rather than transition.
Companies like this work really well when they have a great CEO – Apple Apple is a classic example. But there aren't many stellar CEOs around and the practice of top-down innovation that they bring to the table is going out of fashion. Being brand-centric and core competency-led is an innovation handicap for companies outside of innovative sectors like tech.
There's a question or two in there for all of us. Does your firm have a knee jerk reaction to what is perceives as threats to the brand from innovation? Are you personally reactive in that sense too? If someone questions your core competency do your pick a fight with them rather than ask what you can do to change?
3. Multifocal strategists
We called the third category multifocal. In this category companies grow a second strategic focus away from, but strongly related to, their core business.
These secondary foci allow them to experiment with new idea generation techniques and non-financial KPIs. In most cases, like Google Google, the bifocal become multifocal and the link with the core becomes harder to discern. But companies with such high innovation reputation can pick and choose how they address the markets.
Other companies tend not to experiment for long. They have a strong sense of respect for the core business and the people there who are serving up an opportunity to expand and grow in new areas. Although they may experiment, they revert to strict business disciplines quickly.
Nonetheless they also bifurcate culturally. They talk about a commitment to core competency even though they
are expanding core competency and developing into new areas. They very definitely move away from
conventional financial KPIs.
So here is the personal level question. Are you developing new competencies? Are you making sure you stay relevant in changing times? And when you make decisions do you or your company consider your personal capabilities as a decision maker? You and they should. We found companies in general are unwilling or unaware of the need to invest in the human side of decision making – raising the maturity and sensibility of their people, making them more able to make great decisions. They don't see the RIO in that.
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Performance tools can allow the client to:
1. Develop key performance indicators (KPIs) at the launch of a search
2. Apply those KPIs as screens during the search
3. Check after 90 days of placement to assure the new recruit is on the right track (Full disclosure: My search firm has developed one such tool.)
3. Aligning with values
Some companies choose to align the company's purpose (also referred to as mission, vision and/or values) in their recruiting of all staff.
Sustainability recruiting exists when sustainability is built into the company's purpose and that purpose is tied to recruiting. Two companies apply sustainability recruiting to all their employees are IKEA and VanCity.
"We recruit based on our values and expect everyone to take responsibility and learn on the job," says Mikael Ohlsson, president and chief executive officer of the IKEA Group, in IKEA's 2012 Sustainability Report.
Ellen Pekeles, VanCity's senior vice president of operations, puts it succinctly: "We screen for skills and hire for fit with our values and vision."
4. Using sustainability as a recruiting tool
The most oft overlooked value of a sustainability program may be the value of that program to its employees. Beyond employee engagement, a company's sustainability commitment is a draw to new recruits.
Take PepsiCo, for example, and their "Performance with Purpose" initiative. PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi says this initiative is the strongest recruiting tool they have:
"It is the most important and exciting factor," she says. "It's unbelievable. Sometimes people are sitting on the fence, a highly regarded person, and they agree to come to us for one reason. They say, 'We want to be part of the Performance with Purpose agenda,' and that's been the single biggest recruiting tool we have in Pepsico today."
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Ottawa, ON (SportsNetwork.com) - The Ottawa RedBlacks selected quarterbacks Kevin Glenn of Calgary and Thomas DeMarco of British Columbia with their first two picks in the expansion draft.
The RedBlacks will begin play in 2014 and were able to choose eight players each in three rounds to begin stockpiling a roster. Each of the established eight teams could lose just one player per round.
Glenn, a 13-year CFL veteran, spent the past two seasons in Calgary and in 2013 threw for 2,710 yards with 18 touchdowns and seven interceptions. He had a career-best 100.5 quarterback rating in 15 games, helping the Stampeders reach the West Division Final.
The 34-year-old Illinois State product has also played for Saskatchewan, Winnipeg and Hamilton. He has 222 career TD passes and 151 interceptions with 39,418 yards.
DeMarco gives the RedBlacks a young quarterback, as the 24-year-old Old Dominion grad has just two years of experience. He saw his most extensive playing time this year, completing 53.9 percent of his throws for 1,325 yards with 10 touchdowns and eight interceptions.
The RedBlacks completed the first round by selecting Hamilton running back Chevon Walker, wide receivers Wallace Miles of Winnipeg and Carlton Mitchell of Edmonton, defensive linemen Moton Hopkins of Montreal and Jon Williams of Toronto and offensive lineman James Lee of Saskatchewan.
Second-round choices were for non-import players.
Montreal fullback Patrick Lavoie went first in the second round and was followed by Winnipeg linebacker James Green, Saskatchewan defensive lineman Keith Shologan, Toronto offensive lineman Joe Eppele, Hamilton fullback John Delahunt, Edmonton fullback Alex Krausnick, Calgary offensive lineman J'Michael Deane and BC offensive lineman Matt Albright.
The third round was also for non-import players and started with Hamilton lineman Marwan Hage. Calgary safety Eric Fraser went next and was followed by Toronto linebacker Jason Pottinger, Winnipeg receiver Rory Kohlert, Edmonton defensive end Justin Capicciotti, Saskatchewan defensive tackle Zack Evans, BC defensive lineman Andrew Marshall and Montreal linebacker Jordan Verdone.
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Mother's Day, it's a beautiful thought, but it's somebody's hurtin' conscience that thought of the idea. It was someone who had neglected their mother for years, and then they figured out: I got to do something about Momma. And knowing Momma was that easy, they figured, "we'll give her a day, and it will be all right with Momma." Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364. See?
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican and social conservative, has been refused a speaking spot at the Conservative Political Action Conference to be held this week just outside Washington.
CPAC, as it is known, is the Ames Straw Poll without the fun.
The Ames Straw Poll held in Iowa has free drinks, free eats, free face painting and free country music followed by a bunch of speeches and a meaningless presidential straw poll.
CPAC has a bunch of speeches and a meaningless presidential straw poll.
Previous CPAC straw poll winners have included President Jack Kemp (three times), President Phil Gramm, President Steve Forbes, President Gary Bauer, President Rudy Giuliani, President George Allen, President Ron Paul (twice) and President Mitt Romney (four times.)
Winning the CPAC straw poll would be a kiss of death except that two winners - Ronald Reagan (three times) and George W. Bush (once) - actually survived it and went on to the Oval Office.
Statistically, it is far better to lose the straw poll than to win it, which may be why Christie says he is not upset by being snubbed. "It's not like I'm lacking for invitations to speak around the country," he said.
Christie is being punished because he appeared in public with President Barack Obama to thank him for Hurricane Sandy relief for New Jersey and also because Christie later berated Republicans in Congress because they held up that relief.
But that is only part of it: Christie is being snubbed because he is a winner in a party that embraces losing as a sign of faith and purity.
Two of the major speakers at CPAC will be - drum roll, please - Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney.
The CPAC 2013 official motto is: "America's Future: The Next Generation of Conservatives."
It is a little hard to see, however, how either Palin or Romney represents America's future or the next generation of conservatives.
Palin can't hold onto a job even at Fox News. And while I know a number of people who would like Romney to run again in 2016, they all happen to be Democrats.
Romney went on TV recently to disprove rumors that he has been spending the past few months in a hotel suite in Vegas shuffling around with Kleenex boxes on his feet.
Romney spoke to Chris Wallace on Fox News about something Romney has just discovered: There was a "passion gap" in the last election between Republicans and Democrats.
Anybody who watched the Republican and the Democratic conventions last year saw a big difference in enthusiasm. As I also wrote last year, at campaign speech after campaign speech, people would shout out, "We love you!" to Barack Obama, but I never heard anybody shout that out to Mitt Romney.
This caught Romney totally by surprise on Election Day. "You know, we certainly had the passion coming from our side, and I don't think we were as aware of the passion that was coming from the other side," Romney said. "I think we were a little blindsided by that."
So what can CPAC and the Republican Party learn from this? It might learn that passion counts. It might also learn, as I have written repeatedly, that the more likable candidate almost always wins the presidency.
So who has CPAC lined up to speak besides Palin and Romney? Rand Paul, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal and Jeb Bush.
That is a pretty broad field ranging from wacky to serious, so why is Chris Christie barred from it? Because he is a Republican governor in a Democratic state and has an approval rating of 74 percent, that's why.
As a Republican actually attracting Democrats and independents, he is suspect in the eyes of conservatives.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that CPAC was showing a "suicidal death wish" by snubbing Christie and that it "writes off CPAC as a serious force."
"If you can't accept Chris Christie as a conservative, then you're really just asking for another election loss in 2016," King said. "And it makes us look crazy in the eyes of the American people."
But King misreads his party. To many hard-core Republicans, the party has wasted nomination after nomination on wishy-washy mock conservatives who are not true believers and who are not willing to drink the Kool-Aid.
Crazy? Crazy is what a lot of Republicans yearn for.
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ABC's kitchen talk show The Chew has hired another chef to join the already overcrowded team. Aussie chef Jason Roberts has signed on as a correspondent, joining Mario Batali, Carla Hall, Michael Symon, Clinton Kelly, and Daphne Oz on the daytime show.
Luckily, Roberts won't be in the kitchen all the time. According to a press release, "As a correspondent, he will travel and share food-related stories from around the country. He will also appear in-studio on occasion." So, he gets to be Anthony Bourdain while everyone else is chatting about healthy eating and cooking in the kitchen.
Check out what Roberts is like on camera here. He seems like a laid-back surfer charmer, which means he'll get along great with the rest of the smiley team.
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For what it's worth, Jason Roberts appears to be merely replacing Danny Boone. You also forgot to mention Evette Rios, who also serves as a correspondent for The Chew.


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The San Diego Chargers released their injury report for the Kansas City Chiefs this week and offensive tackle King Dunlap has been ruled out for this game. Outside linebacker Jarret Johnson is listed as doubtful, but hopes to play with a broken hand. Considering the amount of pressure the Chiefs have been able to put on opponents this year with the notable exception being last week against the Denver Broncos, this is not good news for Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers.
The next man up for the left tackle spot appears to be Mike Remmers, a second year player from Oregon State who has already been on three NFL rosters. He is being given a huge opportunity to make an impact, but has a huge challenge in facing Tamba Hali and Justin Houston, who have combined for 20 sacks this season. The Chargers find themselves at 4-6 and trying to dig themselves out of this hole is difficult enough, but having to get a win against the 9-1 Chiefs without their starting left tackle is going to make that a much more difficult task.
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"…and I think the president is going to continue doing that." Remarks by Stephanie Cutter. Translation: "Our guy, the leader of the free world, is not very bright. He can't formulate a coherent thought without a teleprompter. And so, while the country is going down the tubes, Barry will concentrate his remarks on his favorite Mexican food. He will continue to fiddle while Rome burns because, you see, he doesn't have a clue on how to run a lemonade stand, much less run what was once the greatest country on earth."
and by 'talks', you mean lies. as a matter of course, readers should simply do a mental global change of any verb used by the press implying that obozo is speaking, uttering, etc, to lying.
is running hot.
He only reads…from the teleprompter, you know like how hollywood actors read from their scripts.
Right now we are watching Obama "being Presidential" for us, with a press conference. Depending on opportunities, in the next few days, we will probably be able to view other personnae like mourner in chief, best buddy in chief, procurer(pimp) in chief, Negro Mick Jagger in chief, professor and preacher in chief. In short, he can be whatever circumstances require, in pursuit of no coherent agenda aside from reinstatement. He will say or do anything to achieve that purpose.
for him to tell us what he thinks about stupid police and special olympics.
about shovel ready.
yes indeed, like many other megalomaniacal sociopaths, he is clever chameleon who can adopt a demeanor suitable to hiding from his predators yet devouring his prey.
When Obama has to answer Congressional questions behind closed doors with Joe Biden sitting next to him for comfort, I'll believe Obama is scared or out of his depth.
That, for those who've forgotten, was Bush's MO.
So Obama doesn't talk to the White House press corps while Romney won't release his tax returns to that same bunch. Two sides of the same milk toast coin.
I'm old I guess. Obama metamorphasizes while Romeny ignores. Both have as much zing and excitement as sawdust. Reagan's outbursts at his debate with Bush and at locals complaining loudly at him in Harlem ("I can't do a damn thing for you if you don't vote for me!", classic) let voters see his real self and caused this former Southern Dem to vote for him twice. Leaders today? My two Labs have a better idea of leadership than any of these candidates.
With all due respect to local market media outlets, they're chosen over the MSM'ls because they haven't the depth, nor courage to interview Obama like they should….exactly why he runs to them as he knows it.
That's also being kind to the MSM's given how they overwhelming trip over his every word despite how he increasingly ignores them…it's like they're victims of abuse who can't see what the real problem is…Obama.
I'm a Fox man. And Nascar. Fox and Nascar, all the way. This blog is distributed across the south, right?
2:15 romney has released 2 years of his tax returns. that's the conventional procedure. if you don't think that the irs has been given instructions to find anythings that looks suspicious, then you live in another solar system, but they have found nothing and the silence from the irs and barack obama's campaign is deafening. they enlist the support of fellow mormon harry reid to throw out totally unfounded innuendo, a tactic that not even the sleaziest of reporters would use, to make noise about a complete falsehood, hoping it would jave legs. that is what the democrat party has become: hoods, losers, and sleazebags.
ummmm … Obama is still well ahead of "W's" record for press conferences … and that of course was because bushie didn't want to talk to the "lame stream media" … so now all of a sudden the WSJ is hounding Obama about this? Where were you and the rest of the MSM 8 years ago? Just sayin.
Still blaming Bush Cassel, lol!
Fact is Obama ran on a claim that he would have the most transparent administration in history and yet, he has now for all intense purposes, all but abolished press conferences and basically stopped taking a few general questions from reporters at cabinet meetings and when he makes statements with foreign dignitaries.
Local reporters do not have a grasp and depth of national issues, exactly why they rely on their national network affiliates to provide that news to them. Few would dare push any president on tough issues as they're happy enough to just beat their local competition with the interview, nor do individual newsreaders want to do anything that would stand in the way of them moving up to a national role.
All of which explains why Obama seeks them out as he needs their cover as it's just like hiding out in plain sight.
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Maggiano's - Hackensack
- Address:
70 Riverside Square
Hackensack, NJ 07601Neighborhood:
- Cuisine:
ItalianPrice: $30 and under
Maggiano's - Hackensack
- Dining Style: Casual Dining
- Website: http://www.maggianos.com/
- Phone: 2012212030x
- Hours of Operation:
Lunch: Monday - Saturday 11:30am - 3:00pm
Dinner: Monday - Thursday 3:00pm - 10:00pm, Friday - Saturday 3:00pm - 11:00pm, Sunday 12:00pm - 9:00pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Carte Blanche,Diners Club,Discover,JCB,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: American, Italian, Comfort Food
- Executive Chef: Marcelo Dutra
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Delivery, Full Bar, Gluten-free Menu, Happy Hour, Late Night, Non-Smoking Area, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Smoking Area, Takeout, Wheelchair Access, Wine, Wine Bar
- Catering: Maggiano's delivers! Just place your order, and we'll take care of the rest. All delivery orders include: table coverings, plates & utensils, a complete setup to keep the food warm throughout your event, party-sized pans providing generous portions for all of your guests. Please call 201-221-2045 to schedule your delivery. Orders must be placed by 7 p.m. for next-day delivery. Minimum order required. Delivery fee applies.
- Entertainment: We feature monthly special events in our banquet rooms such as wine tastings, murder mysteries, dueling pianos, live bands, and more!
- Special Events: We feature unique specials from Executive Chef Marcelo Dutra and frequently host exclusive wine dinners & special entertainment events in our beautiful private banquet rooms which hold from 20 to 200 guests. Call us for more details.
Getting there
- Cross Street: Hackensack Avenue & NJ Route 4
- Public Transit: The New Jersey Transit buses 756 and 762 both stop at The Shops at Riverside. The New Jersey Transit Train - Pascack Valley Line stops at the North Hackensack New Bridge Landing station which is only 1 block (about a 1o minute walk) from us as well.
- Parking: Public Lot
- Parking Details: Our Guests may use our complimentary 5 deck covered parking garage, surface parking lot, or valet parking (available Thursday & Friday evenings and all day Saturday)
A word from Maggiano's - Hackensack
Welcome to Maggiano's in Hackensack. We are conveniently located in The Shops at Riverside just minutes from Manhattan, Garden State Parkway & Route 4. Our 300 seat dining room is ideal for your next social or business event. Maggiano's blends the tradition of family, the celebration of friends, & the cuisine of authentic Italy in an atmosphere often said to be reminiscent of pre-World War II Little Italy. We offer an exciting menu full of Old & New World Southern Italian recipes, popular house specialties, irresistible desserts, & a large selection of unique wines. The seasonal outdoor patio seats 25 & has an old-world feel of dining on the streets of Tuscany. The daily Happy Hour is perfect to unwind after a full day of work or shopping. Look for upcoming special events in our beautiful fully private banquet rooms such as our wine dinners or murder mysteries. Our popular curbside carryout & delivery services make getting a great meal effortless. We look forward to seeing you soon!Continued
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Maggiano's - Hackensack reviews from OpenTable diners
175 reviews since June 28, 2014
- Food4.3Service4.4
- Ambiance4.1Noise LevelModerate
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- On the lighter sideOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 10/23/2014Nice to see the restaurant consider less calorie but good food. Delicious.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- It's marvelous!!!GingiDined on 10/18/2014Maggiano's is the place to go to for good food. The service staff is friendly and very knowledge not only about the menu but also helped in choosing a wonderful red wine. You are never rushed out so you can actually sit and enjoy the ambiance and the great music by Mr. Frank Sinatra.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A Absolute Must!!!!KKLuvzDined on 10/18/2014I love love love Maggiano's! !! Staff is friendly and professional. Set up of restaurant was great! ! Food is always great!!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Perfect NightWhataniteDined on 10/17/2014I would highly recommend this restaurant to anybody. I like the fact that you can make reservations. The service was great and the good was great also. And believe it or not but the prices aren't too ridiculous at all and that's what I loved about it because I spent a reasonable amount on the dinner and also got a free meal to take home in the end which was lovely. I enjoyed myself!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Maggiaon's, better than most!1414Dined on 10/17/2014First time a little nervous because Maggiaon's reccomdation came from a friend who can't pick a good movie. The Chicken Marsala was excellent. Also the Solman was even tastier! The service was good, dedicated servers runs in and out of the kitchen while your server attends to you. A very large restaurant but with social area's for gatherings. The pricing for two, no alcohol was, I didn't have to do a double take, it was acceptable, very nice portions. Go and enjoy!Special Features:
- Good dinnerEveyDined on 10/11/2014Food and service were very good. The only problem was the wait. We had a reservation for but had to wait20 minutes to be seated.Special Features:
- Have a Reservation . . . .?BernadetteFDined on 10/11/2014. . . still be prepared to wait. The place was PACKED although we got a seat at the bar, which allowed us to have a drink while we waited for our table. We did snag a nice booth, which kept us away from the constant comings and goings from the kitchen. Overall, we had a lovely meal -- the food continues to be delicious and satisfying. One thing I was surprised by was how expensive our dinner was -- the days of the $26 meal WAY over. The plan, next time is to go back at an off-time (late-lunch/early dinner?) to enjoy a less frenetic experience.Special Features:
- DisappointedDined on 10/11/2014Very enjoyable evening, all staff was very professionalSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great place to celebrateFirerose37Dined on 10/7/2014I went to celebrate my birthday, and my twin brother's, with our father. We made a reservation and we were promptly seated. Our server was very friendly and very intuitive to our needs. We had a great time, and they even put candles on our dessert. It was a great dinner. Everything was delicious.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A step above in a Mall settingSportsFanDined on 10/7/2014... had a birthday celebration, with my mother and daughter. the early arrival meant less crowd and therefore less noise. the food was expected italian, with all dishes well-prepared and presented. there wasn't a "wow"-factor, but there was no disappointment. the service was stellar and the little touches in observance of the special day were unexpected and greatly appreciated. maggiano's is a solid choice for a cut above italian.Special Features:
- Great experienceYearandhalfanniversaryDined on 10/5/2014Loved the food to the service . It was my anniversary and the staff was very prompt with everything making my dinning experience special . The food was more then amazing as wellSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- good eats & drinks time$ well spentwmnofknowledgeDined on 10/4/2014Great place to dine just a lil noisey on expected high traffic timesSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- wait is too longwith reservationlongwaitDined on 10/4/2014why do I have to wait 25 minutes ........after my reservation time.........for my table? why does this always happen? Likely because they OVERBOOK! It is no mistake. At least try to comply with the reservation time. Telling me that you "can't kick people out" is no excuse for not having reserved tables ready. You planned this....stop making believe that you have no control over it!Special Features:
- Complete disappointmentAthenaVIPDined on 10/4/2014I felt I was in a warehouse with tables and chairs. The food was delivered super fast, the plates were not served but thrown on the table. As for the food was fast salty food. We left everything on our plates. Not worth $130.00 for dinner for two. Completely disappointed.Special Features:
- nice returnOpenTable Diner Since 2008Dined on 9/30/2014I have been to many Maggianos.. Last night was a nice return.. The chopped salad should never be altered, so amazing.. Thank you!! Dessert was my favorite Nonnas pound cake.. just as delish as i remember.. I will be back for Jeff Mann's chick/ricotta meat ball and country pasta, I will be asking for Tara as server.. She was great!!!.. Kudos to the hostess too who gave us our favorite kind of table upon request..Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Magnificent Maggiano'sjazz2dineDined on 9/27/2014The food was superb. The new "lite" menu was delicious without feeling stuffed. Excellent drinks. A very nice atmosphere.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- HelenVIPDined on 9/26/2014My husband Howard & friend Mary Jane both had the 'Salmon Oscar' which is not on the new menu. I had my favorite, Rigatoni D. Always a delicious experience.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Lite menu optionItalialiteDined on 9/19/2014Th litel option menu option was tasty and satisfying.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- TedTedB1Dined on 9/18/2014Food was fantastic on our anniversary meal - great place to come back to and the food selection and taste of same is always simply scrumptious. They go out of their way to make your meal and you as a customer special. Thanks. Maggianos.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great placeAshPDined on 9/16/2014This was my first time going to Maggiano's and I had a great experience. The food was delicious and the service was excellent as well.Special Features:
- great experience82bHapiDined on 9/14/2014loved the cozy ambiance, food was satisfying, loved the portions. total experience was fantasticSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- So busyeater7Dined on 9/13/20148pm reservation turned into 9 as no tables were ready. Food was delicious but they didn't give is our take home pasta.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- RESERVATIONS MEAN NOTHING HERE.BruceNJDined on 9/13/2014Had a 7:30 reservation and had to wait half hour to be seated. Not a good sign when the first thing your waitress says is the kitchen is "a bit backed up". When I asked "how backed up" she didn't know. 40 minutes later we get our food. Tilapia was warm, not hot with an ok taste. Thiswas the best meal at the ttable Eggplant parmesan..mushy.Couldn't tell what was sauce and what was eggplant. Spaghetti was CRUNCHY. Baked zit....not hot and cheese was not melted. Lasagna. .over cooked or left under the headlamps too long. I never saw lasagna so dark colored before. This is a great restaurant for people who don't know what good Italian food should be. Will never return again.
- Rough experienceBirthdayDinerDined on 9/13/2014Having dined at other Maggiano's in the past, we expected better. The gist of our experience was the length it took for our entrees to come to the table. It probably took an hour and when they did, not all of the entrees made it to the table. Some of the dishes were also cold and could tell had been sitting in the kitchen window. One guest had to wait even longer for their entree and then the side dishes took even more time until we were already finished eating our entrees. Management did take care of the issues on the check, but never approached the table to apologize especially after the entrees arrived one-short. We had a good time because of who we were with at the table, but would've loved a better dining experience.
- Friends getting togetherfamilyoutingVIPDined on 9/12/2014Food was horrible. Cold stuffed mushrooms, over cooked chicken, way over seasoned meat!! Wine and beer very over pricedSpecial Features:
- What fun3rdxsthecharmDined on 9/10/2014Our waitress Sheila was awesome! She was attentive and fun. The food (as always) was amazing!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- DennyDined on 8/31/2014Pleasantly surprised with the food. Can't wait to go back with other friendsSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- GoodandiDined on 8/29/2014We had a great time with a party of 6. We did individual meals and placed the kids order with the appetizers, everything came out really quick. Service was great, the food wss average but not super good. I tried a little bit of my son's flat bread pizza but it was really bad, burnt and tough to chew. I had the gnochi with sausage and didn't like it it was way to spicy. Everyone else's food was ok. They order chicken francaise and linguini carbonara with lobster.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- 1st complaint everKenJVIPDined on 8/28/2014My 12 yr. old daughter come there every few mos. per my previous reviews. We were seated immediately in a nice booth, as the restaurant was near empty & 100% empty on our side. We knew what we were ordering, but it didn't matter as no one came by our table for a solid 15-20 mins. after we were seated! I actually flagged down a female server who graciously offered to take our order. The food was excellent as usual, but our server, Mathias, was completely inattentive until it came time for the check. He did find time to have a 10 min. loud, animated conversation w/ people in the next booth while we were dining 3 ft. away. It was the 1st time in a very long time that I left a minimal 15% gratuity. Will be back but never w/ him, Jeanna only!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great for any occasion!PickyeaterDined on 8/25/2014From the moment we arrived at Maggiano's the experience was a great one. The spacious restaurant was only a third full when we arrived, but still felt lively. We were greeted at the table by the Sous-chef who brought us a free appetiser plate 'since it was our first visit to Maggiano's'. The waitress was prompt, friendly and had great recommendations. The food was good and arrived quickly. Dessert was amazing and we were given an extra slice of cheese cake for my friend from the UK who can not had a chance to try New York cheese cake yet. This Maggianos is even better than the one we liked in Las Vegas. My friends who I had brought there for a farewell dinner before they flew back home were delighted with the whole experience.Special Features:
- Dinner at Maggiano'sFamily2getherDined on 8/24/2014We made reservations and were seated promptly. The food was plentiful, and delicious, but we felt two of the entree dishes should have had more sauce. The service was great, but we had requested lemons for our waters when we asked for water and never received them. It was more noisy than usual and I felt that I had to ask my other guests to repeat cause I had trouble hearing them. It appeared to have many birthday gatherings. We would definitely recommend others to go to Maggiano's for dinner or lunch.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- old Italian restaurant feelAllyCDined on 8/24/2014Just bigger. Cute decorations. Sinatra playing. Checkered table clothes. Fun family restaurant.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great Food/Better ServicegwapnitskyDined on 8/23/2014The food was excellent. Unfortunately, they tried to put 5 large guys in a booth capable of holding 3 regular-sized people. When we asked for a regular table, they gave us some attitude and after 10 minutes finally seated us at a larger round table.Special Features:
- Birthday dinnerGoodVIPDined on 8/23/2014Great service. Way too much food. Family style. Italian foodSpecial Features:
- Extended menuFRENCHYBVIPDined on 8/22/2014Very good food, great ambiance, good desserts. Very good experienceSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Large PartyBirthdayGirlDined on 8/19/2014We had 7 people in our party, and did the "classic" family style dinner. There was so much food, that we took almost as much home as we ate at the restaurant. Delicious though!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Another great timeGBTDWWMYDined on 8/18/2014As always we had another great time at Maggiano's of Hackensack. This visit was special tho because we were saying goodbye to a great friend that we have made there. My family and I always feel so welcomed ans wanted when we are there. Its our favorite place to dine out.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Generous to First TimersJCRedDined on 8/16/2014Service was a little slow getting our drinks out, but then picked up and became rewarding. Our server asked if it was our first time at Maggiano's, which it was. After this, the Sous Chef, Manuel Linares came out to introduce himself and gave us two free appetizers (bruschetta and fresh tomato & mozzarella). My 4 year old niece was with us too and got a kids dinner that had a choice of ice cream or lemon cookies for dessert. She chose the ice cream which our server brought out and decided to throw in two free servings of the lemon cookies for all of us anyways. Food was very good, and the service was very generous. I recommend the pasta dishes since its practically a two for one deal.Special Features:
- Feels like homeApollo77VIPDined on 8/16/2014Maggiano's Hackensack isn't just a restaurant. It feels like you're dining in a family home among friends. Our experience was made even better by our server, Anthony Romeo. Anthony recommended various dishes that he thought we would enjoy, and he was right! From Salmon Oscar, to Beef Tenderloin, to Crab Cakes, to a great assortment of desserts, Anthony truly made us feel at home and enjoy the entire experience. The food is well prepared, and there is a HUGE variety for every taste. Prices are very reasonable for what you get, and the service is second to none. For any occasion, you will enjoy a dinner outing here.Special Features:
- Outstanding!ad415Dined on 8/9/2014As my first time dining at Maggianos I didn't know what to expect but was thrilled. Food was wonderful! We were a party of 8 and chose the Family Style all you could eat. Menu options were abundant and the food was plentiful! My family is already asking when we can go back!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.