Hi all,
About the Native Restaurant post — I wanted to apologize and say that it lacked foresight on my part. It was in no way intended to create conflict or slander the establishment; it was a poor method of trying to gather more information.
Here’s an update: I tried to contact the person who’d originally e-mailed, but haven’t received a response. I just got off the phone with Brian at Native. He laughed, and had this to say about the e-mail.
“It’s completely ridiculous. What does happen is our summer season is busiest, cutting from May until August. After that, September hits and we start slowing down. We hire people for the summer season. There’s a staff changeover at the end of summer. We let people go, yes, but people go back to school, they pursue other careers. Everyone hasn’t been fired. They were hired for the summer. Most people understand that it’s just for the summer.
Our staff has always been very mixed. We actively recruit people of color. We’ve always had black people on our staff.”
As for the e-mail itself, Brian says, “I’m surprised that someone has put it out in that way. It’s one of those things that’s just annoying. I don’t particularly care.”
Hopefully, that clears things up. I’m only one person back here, and in this instance, I made a mistake in posting the e-mail. I appreciate you guys calling me out on it. Thanks for being such a vibrant readership.
Helin
Anonymous
September 24, 2007
Thanks for clearing that up. Responsible reporting lives on!
anon22
September 24, 2007
So don’t go. I’ve had great experiences there, and some have been average like MOST restaurants in this city! Sette Pani has horrible service, as does society and melbas or overpriced mediocre food like amy ruths or ginger. We have some options uptown and I support them all.When I want something different I just haul my ass downtown. All these places survive because clearly there are people who ENJOY them. I have my own business and its not easy, so my suggestion always is try doing it yourself because in the 9 years I lived up here I’ve noticed there is not a big rush by the so called downtown operators to come up here…
Noname
September 23, 2007
Okay, fine. Native as a place to go to still sucks. It survives by default, there is no place to go. I’ve been there 7 times and have had 6 bad experiences, 1 average, no good experiences.
Very common to go there, order something, only to learn they don’t have what’s on the menu or a key ingredient, like Spinach, etc.
I’ve been once since the new ownership. Skimpy drinks, understaffed, etc.
anon
September 21, 2007
I think it’s very cool of you to have followed up in this way. Thanks for the update from Brian. I think i’ll have to go to Native tonight for dinner now that we’ve been talking about it all day.
bwp
September 21, 2007
As of last Monday you could walk into Native at any given time and find some random combination of:
1 black from africa
4 blacks from here
1 guy we think is black but he could be dominican
1 guy who is light skinned dominican but the domincans think he is puerto rican
1 guy who looks arabic but we assume hes latino–(his wife is black…)
3 whites (one with a dominican girlfriend)
2 brazilians fair skinned–(does this mean they are white??)
and of course one asian (who’s girlfriend is puerto rican..)
as the motto says: Native– cuz we’re all from somewhere…
service should have no color.