DHH DFW - Growing Pains
28 06 2005
Last Saturday, DHH at Oasis Restaurant went very well – its crowd again as always. We had approximately 200+ during the evening. Lucky someone arrived early and got us nice big private room upstairs with bar. It ended up big full of deaf people drinking and chatting all night long.
As you know we are working hard to make DHH continue strong and successful these days. No questions about it. It’s been one and half year since DHH DFW launched. Same time, its growing pain – I will explain more in this letter.
Basically, we DHH committee set up date and location where everyone can get together once a month. We do not have money or paperwork under DHH organization and we all are doing it for good cause to keep deaf community alive.
The problem we are facing – people didn’t pay their unpaid ticket for foods and/or drinks. They either ran away or simply forgot about it. I was told they lost worth over $500 but I don’t believe it at all.
Unfortunately, we have this challenge that we need to deal with it. Otherwise, it will make our deaf community look really bad. We committee are very much humiliated about this situation very much. It’s been on going problem in the past few months that I know of. It was minor in the past. It was beyond out of our control.
So far as I know, we expect Oasis Restaurant and others restaurant/pub to follow it up with any individuals who did not paid for it just like anybody else. If you know someone who failed to pay, please report it to restaurant. Personally, I think they did bad job collecting the money from people who didn’t pay.
We are willing to improve our procedure. We will contact manager and/or staff (as usual but this time we will mention about security measure) and enforce (nicely) them to do it differently because of thief concerns from the past. I think they should increase restaurant security protocol from their side but I can’t guarantee.
It is same situation when some people bring children, underage, fighting, and other things; DHH is NOT responsible for all of it. We will follow restaurant’s policy and that’s it. We are not responsible for any inconvenience it may cause.
Hopefully, it will help keep it under control. If people continued abuse it, DHH probably should shut down period. It is ridiculous — really. We will have DHH committee meeting in few weeks before our next DHH DFW event. We will work it out and hopefully it will help keep it under control.
See you guys at DHH DFW at Sneaky’s Pete on July 23, 2005.
Grant W. Laird, Jr.
http://blog.grantlairdjr.com
Spread our DPHH Pgh committee about your article. Thanks for sharing your story! I will do the same thing if there’s new problem @ DPHH sometime in future!
$500? hmmmm… that’s alot of money.
i paid only $3.75, but other drinks is free. Friends paid me. ha.
It’s a problem here in New York City too. Many deaf people do not drink much as they’re so busy catching up with their old friends thus they tend forgot that they’re in a drinking establishment. They usually have just one beer or none. A bar is in a business to make money by selling drinks.
In regards to your DHH…… grrr, those *&%$ cheapos!
In the future, the waitstaff should hold on to their customers’ credit cards until they’re ready to leave.