LOTI is for sale

[wully]

Your chance to grab yourself a nice wee earner propping up the wrong side of the bar while gazing longingly at your boatie mouldering away due to lack of use while you work 16 hour days...

£650k

Allegedly

[claymore]

35 years too late for me....

[BlowingOldBoots]

Crazy times. You can eat inside from the inside menu but you can't eat outside from the inside menu. The outside menu is unappetising. The inside menu covers are limited to the table booking numbers, hence there is zero flexibility. They have had to shut due to staff shortages, which is not their fault. It needs a local owner, local staff (by local, I mean people who can commit to get to work easily, every day) and better menus.

Good luck with their sale, it can't be an easy business to run at the moment. Winter trade risks being impacted by further lockdowns if excrement gets out of hand again.

Both the water sports eatery at Craobh and Lucy's at Ardfern is our go to place for food. I can drink my socks off on the boat, in glorious isolation.

As a sign if the times, I used to always eat in there when at the boat, since Covid and its reopening, there has always been an issue from them that has stopped me eating there. I just don't bother going, or even shopping, as it is easier to go to Adfern.

[stevepick]

Hmm, OK this is going to sound a bit harsh, but I am not surprised. For years the front of house was at the awful end of the "Basil Fawlty" scale of hospitality. We used it irregularly, it could have been a whole lot better. It has a walk in customer base from holiday lets and boats that should make it viable.
Croabh watersports and Lucy's have shown what a bit of flair and imagination can do. They were routinely full on weekdays throughout this summer.
I understand that many of this years issues have been beyond the control of the management, but I hope someone with a bit of imagination can run it properly and successfully in the future.

[BlowingOldBoots]

It's for sale with Christie and CO. Right move listing https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=COM_BUY £600k

[wully]

Hmm, OK this is going to sound a bit harsh, but I am not surprised. For years the front of house was at the awful end of the "Basil Fawlty" scale of hospitality. We used it irregularly,

Huh? You must have been doing something wrong then - if that’s the welcome you got..

[stevepick]

Huh? You must have been doing something wrong then - if that’s the welcome you got..

She really wasn't pleased to be told that she had got a bill wrong one night, and had undercharged us. Friends showing up for their table as booked at 2030, to be told they were too late to order. I wasn't the only one who wound her up.

[DaveS]

I must say I never had any bother with Sebhon & co.

[DaveS]

Hmm, OK this is going to sound a bit harsh, but I am not surprised. For years the front of house was at the awful end of the "Basil Fawlty" scale of hospitality. We used it irregularly, it could have been a whole lot better. It has a walk in customer base from holiday lets and boats that should make it viable.
Croabh watersports and Lucy's have shown what a bit of flair and imagination can do. They were routinely full on weekdays throughout this summer.
I understand that many of this years issues have been beyond the control of the management, but I hope someone with a bit of imagination can run it properly and successfully in the future.

Currently no food at the LOTI because of a lack of a chef. Pints (greatly reduced selection) available at £5 a go, and Scampi Fries at £1.50 a packet (!) - which I reckon works out at just over 1p per kilo-calorie. I went round to the Watersports place on Friday to be advised that food sales had stopped for the season.

[Gardenshed]

"I went round to the Watersports place on Friday to be advised that food sales had stopped for the season."

the same place that shut at the weekends during the summer and at 4pm each day. Wonder if they complain about the difficulties of making a living in the Wild West of Scotland?

[wully]

"I went round to the Watersports place on Friday to be advised that food sales had stopped for the season."

the same place that shut at the weekends during the summer and at 4pm each day. Wonder if they complain about the difficulties of making a living in the Wild West of Scotland?

You should maybe find out why before spouting off on here...

[Gardenshed]

@wully: hardly "spouting off"
I'm not out to bash local businesses but we wandered round a few times in the summer to see if we could try a paddle board or use the cafe, but the place was always shut. seems strange, especially at the weekends when there were a lot of people around and LOTI was struggling to keep up with demand.
Interested to know why so do let us know

[BlowingOldBoots]

There has been a lot of staff shortages and staff working full on just to keep up, with no slack in the system, thats not an exaggeration. Both LOTI and Craobh water sports have expressed concern in conversation and on Facebook. The Watersports centre has been running with family called in to help who are not employees. Over at Ardfern Lucy's closes at 4pm and 3pm depending on the day of the week. There is also a thought that if you own your own business, why should you not run it at hours that suit you, if the income level is acceptable. It doesn't have to be open all hours.

After this summer, my expectations are changing on a lot of things. The service now, convenience culture may very well have stretched to the limit and is not ending, where it is not just about the customer. Jobs are a plenty and wages are good at the moment, food prices are increasing and I think Brexit and Covid have still to play out e.g. the excrement over Northern Ireland, if not resolved, which it looks as if it won't be, will damage the UK imports of materials and people even more. Add on energy prices rocketing and the convenience of a night out may become inconveniently expensive. I expect more self catering and less eating out as might just become an expensive hassle.

Just idle musings on the matter.

[claymore]

I share your pain.
We are off to Danelandia tomorrow - Hull Rotterdam then the 600 mile rumble up to see the Daughter, the Grandchildren and old Feckless.
So we can't take food containing dairy produce - as veggies that somewhat limits the butty choice.
We will no doubt queue at the quaint little tent on the Danish German border and I just cannot wait to see how much they have got done on the roadworks around Hamburg in the past 12 months
Makes rest and be thankful seem like a walk in the park

How exciting

[wully]

I share your pain.
We are off to Danelandia tomorrow - Hull Rotterdam then the 600 mile rumble up to see the Daughter, the Grandchildren and old Feckless.
So we can't take food containing dairy produce - as veggies that somewhat limits the butty choice.
We will no doubt queue at the quaint little tent on the Danish German border and I just cannot wait to see how much they have got done on the roadworks around Hamburg in the past 12 months
Makes rest and be thankful seem like a walk in the park

How exciting

I miss Denmark... don’t miss the Hamburg road works but hopefully they are complete by now. How long are you staying in the land of the happiest people? (Your presence will no doubt knock the happiness index down a fair bit while your there..) Until Xmas beer day hopefully?

BTW, is vegetarianism even legal in Denmark?