Tag Archive: Restaurant


TGIF the price of coffee

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July 26, 2013
Merit of Merritt

Its good that it is friday….

The Merritt Desert Inn was charging $2.09 for a cup of coffee during the short lived HST regime in BC. There was a backlash as restaurants were on a level playing field with the value added tax. The tax is gone and the PST took its place and is not charged on restaurant meals. This morning a coffee cost $2:15 with 10 cents in for the federal value added tax the GST,

Today in history: July 26, 2005

Mumbai India gets 40 inchs of rain in 24 hours stopping the city for 2 days.

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New restaurant

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August 22, 2012

The Travel Lodge on Voght street is under renovation. The area that housed Lads restaurant untill a mildew problem in the basement forced them out is now being made into a combination Japanese and Western cuisine dinning facility.

The young Japanese proprietor says he expects to be running in a month. and its style is Fusion.

On Garcia street there is another pair of young Asian men renovating  a portion of a building  for a Mongolian restaurant. No Building permits are readily seen in the demolition phase of both projects.

Today in History, August 22,1848

The United States annexes New Mexico.

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Japanese Sushi

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October 28, 2011

On the  east end of town the there is a Japenese Shushi restaurant in a nice building that had a joint tenant , a plumbing company. The plumbers recently moved to the center of town and today workmen wer tearing out the flooring to accommodate what a source says will be an expansion of the restaurant a full three page take out menu is available and it is clean and neat  about another thousand feet of expansion may be available for diners in about a months time. The restaurant is called Garden sushi Japanese restaurant and is at 2701 Nicola Avenue. a few blocks away is a renovation of a moderate apartment building in  an improving high density area.

The restaurant has coffee for 2.24 (including tax) cents a cup a large california salad is 14.95; and is closed on Mondays.

There is serious economic activity here at this election time.

Today in history, October 28,97

Emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard, make Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.

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