My counter is finished. The plumbing is finished. The unvented water heater
installed with its expansion loop as discussed last week, and that all works
fine. The Plumbco macerator (discussed here a few weeks ago) is a good
quality unit at half the price of the equivalent Saniflo, and works
absolutely hunky dory at shifting the grey water from the prep sink over the
door and round the back room, to the bog. Electrics all sorted, once we
threw the original guy off the job, and got a 'proper' sparks on the case.
Floor done. Extraction installed. Burgers sourced and tested. Chip fryers
wired and working per the way we figured it on here, after a couple of false
starts with the way the labels on the backs implied they should be wired.
Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of a successful launch Monday night.

Can I just express my thanks to all on here who have sent their good wishes
for the success of the place, and for all the invaluable and freely given
help and advice on all the aspects that I have asked for help on. Good to
know that I'm not the last of the helpful people in this world ... :-)

Finally, for those who wanted to see some piccies, the website is not really
finished yet. However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it where you can
see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook stuff, but she
assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go here :

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...52767711462499

There is some fairly good photos of the counter I built. I think it looks
quite impressive, but then, I would, wouldn't I ? :-))

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and shake.
Tell 'em you're a friend of Arfa's on the 'net. Daughter will probably
charge you double for admitting that, though ....

Arfa

Arfa Daily wrote:
My counter is finished. The plumbing is finished. The unvented water
heater installed with its expansion loop as discussed last week, and
that all works fine. The Plumbco macerator (discussed here a few
weeks ago) is a good quality unit at half the price of the equivalent
Saniflo, and works absolutely hunky dory at shifting the grey water
from the prep sink over the door and round the back room, to the bog.
Electrics all sorted, once we threw the original guy off the job, and
got a 'proper' sparks on the case. Floor done. Extraction installed.
Burgers sourced and tested. Chip fryers wired and working per the way
we figured it on here, after a couple of false starts with the way
the labels on the backs implied they should be wired. Much local
buzz, so we're hopeful of a successful launch Monday night.
Can I just express my thanks to all on here who have sent their good
wishes for the success of the place, and for all the invaluable and
freely given help and advice on all the aspects that I have asked for
help on. Good to know that I'm not the last of the helpful people in
this world ... :-)
Finally, for those who wanted to see some piccies, the website is not
really finished yet. However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it
where you can see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook
stuff, but she assures me that you will be able to see it all if you
go here :
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...52767711462499

There is some fairly good photos of the counter I built. I think it
looks quite impressive, but then, I would, wouldn't I ? :-))

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and
shake. Tell 'em you're a friend of Arfa's on the 'net. Daughter will
probably charge you double for admitting that, though ....

If I pass I will have "The Bacon Blue".


--
Adam

"Arfa Daily" wrote in message
news
My counter is finished. The plumbing is finished. The unvented water
heater installed with its expansion loop as discussed last week, and that
all works fine. The Plumbco macerator (discussed here a few weeks ago) is
a good quality unit at half the price of the equivalent Saniflo, and works
absolutely hunky dory at shifting the grey water from the prep sink over
the door and round the back room, to the bog. Electrics all sorted, once
we threw the original guy off the job, and got a 'proper' sparks on the
case. Floor done. Extraction installed. Burgers sourced and tested. Chip
fryers wired and working per the way we figured it on here, after a couple
of false starts with the way the labels on the backs implied they should
be wired. Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of a successful launch Monday
night.

Can I just express my thanks to all on here who have sent their good
wishes for the success of the place, and for all the invaluable and freely
given help and advice on all the aspects that I have asked for help on.
Good to know that I'm not the last of the helpful people in this world ...
:-)

Finally, for those who wanted to see some piccies, the website is not
really finished yet. However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it
where you can see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook
stuff, but she assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go
here :

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...52767711462499

There is some fairly good photos of the counter I built. I think it looks
quite impressive, but then, I would, wouldn't I ? :-))

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and shake.
Tell 'em you're a friend of Arfa's on the 'net. Daughter will probably
charge you double for admitting that, though ....

Arfa

Best of luck with it, maybe Revd will pop in a help a little.

In message om, brass
monkey writes
The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and shake.
Tell 'em you're a friend of Arfa's on the 'net. Daughter will probably
charge you double for admitting that, though ....

Maybe I'm going blind? It might be an idea to say what town it's in on
the website? I could only see a postcode. NN Nottingham? Northampton?
Not Nown?
--
Bill

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:33:57 +0100, Arfa Daily wrote:

My counter is finished. The plumbing is finished. The unvented water
heater installed with its expansion loop as discussed last week, and
that all works fine. The Plumbco macerator (discussed here a few weeks
ago) is a good quality unit at half the price of the equivalent Saniflo,
and works absolutely hunky dory at shifting the grey water from the prep
sink over the door and round the back room, to the bog. Electrics all
sorted, once we threw the original guy off the job, and got a 'proper'
sparks on the case. Floor done. Extraction installed. Burgers sourced
and tested. Chip fryers wired and working per the way we figured it on
here, after a couple of false starts with the way the labels on the
backs implied they should be wired. Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of
a successful launch Monday night.

All the very best...



--
Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
http://www.mirrorservice.org

*lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor

In message , Arfa Daily
wrote

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

Is it the doughnut shop for the local police force?

The customer facing side looks very dated and down market. It doesn't
create a good first impression.
--
Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk


Good luck - but 2 tiny points:

a. the webiste only mentioned "Glasgow salad" as included with
burgers - not good *if* you are minded to attract those looking for
burger + "double salad"; and
b. the PDF of the menu (i) was not searchable (or at least, wasn't
for me in Acrobat Pro 7) and (ii) didn't give the address.


--
Robin
PM may be sent to rbw0{at}hotmail{dot}com

On 26/06/2011 20:44, Alan wrote:
In message , Arfa Daily
wrote

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

Is it the doughnut shop for the local police force?

The customer facing side looks very dated and down market. It doesn't
create a good first impression.

Not sure I agree - I think they're doing for a 'retro' feel,
in which case it's not a bad job.

Don't agree with the current preoccupation with unnecessary glitz on
websites (which only slows the pages down)
- people going there are looking for a burger, not an art gallery.

Adrian

"Arfa Daily" wrote:

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

Nice site. It tells you almost everything.

Except where the place actually is.

Bert

However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it where you can
see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook stuff, but she
assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go here :

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...52767711462499

Just to mention that she is wrong. All I get is a page asking me to log in
to facebook. No thanks.

Robin wrote:
The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk


Good luck - but 2 tiny points:

a. the webiste only mentioned "Glasgow salad" as included with
burgers - not good *if* you are minded to attract those looking for
burger + "double salad"; and



b. the PDF of the menu (i) was not searchable (or at least, wasn't
for me in Acrobat Pro 7)

It's a Burger and Shake PDF menu with 2 pages, not BS 7671. How searchable
do you need it to be:-)


--
Adam

Adrian Brentnall wrote:

In message , Arfa Daily

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

Good luck with it, are you in the left hand unit(s) that were boarded up
when the google car drove by?

Don't agree with the current preoccupation with unnecessary glitz on
websites (which only slows the pages down)
- people going there are looking for a burger, not an art gallery.

Yes, so long as it's got *a* website, it could probably do with having a
better local map than the generic RAC one, and something to point out
the quality of ingredients etc, I'm sure someone's got a few
improvements in hand ...

Robin wrote:
The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk


Good luck - but 2 tiny points:

a. the webiste only mentioned "Glasgow salad" as included with
burgers - not good *if* you are minded to attract those looking for
burger + "double salad"; and
b. the PDF of the menu (i) was not searchable (or at least, wasn't
for me in Acrobat Pro 7) and (ii) didn't give the address.

And what's a Daim Bar milkshake? Dime Bar perhaps?

Good luck Arfa, the serving area looks really solid and professional.

Steve Walker wrote:

what's a Daim Bar milkshake? Dime Bar perhaps?

They *used* to be sold as Dime in the UK, but are now sold as Daim here
the same as RoW, dunno if they're still sold as the original Dajm in
scandahoovia ...

Adrian Brentnall wrote:

On 26/06/2011 20:44, Alan wrote:
In message , Arfa Daily
wrote

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

Is it the doughnut shop for the local police force?

The customer facing side looks very dated and down market. It doesn't
create a good first impression.

Not sure I agree - I think they're doing for a 'retro' feel,
in which case it's not a bad job.

Don't agree with the current preoccupation with unnecessary glitz on
websites (which only slows the pages down)
- people going there are looking for a burger, not an art gallery.

Adrian

Good point - I agree about the "retro" - looks nice...

But re website, it *is* worth noting that more and more people are looking
at this stuff on mobile devices with 320xmumble screens and modem-speed
internet connections...

--
Tim Watts

Bert Coules wrote:

"Arfa Daily" wrote:

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

Nice site. It tells you almost everything.

Except where the place actually is.

Bert

Stick a google map snippet on it...

--
Tim Watts

ARWadsworth wrote:

Robin wrote:
The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk


Good luck - but 2 tiny points:

a. the webiste only mentioned "Glasgow salad" as included with
burgers - not good *if* you are minded to attract those looking for
burger + "double salad"; and



b. the PDF of the menu (i) was not searchable (or at least, wasn't
for me in Acrobat Pro 7)

It's a Burger and Shake PDF menu with 2 pages, not BS 7671. How searchable
do you need it to be:-)



I was holding out for the corrigendum with the enhanced cheeseburger...

--
Tim Watts

On 26/06/2011 19:33, Arfa Daily wrote:
My counter is finished. The plumbing is finished. The unvented water
heater installed with its expansion loop as discussed last week, and
that all works fine. The Plumbco macerator (discussed here a few weeks
ago) is a good quality unit at half the price of the equivalent Saniflo,
and works absolutely hunky dory at shifting the grey water from the prep
sink over the door and round the back room, to the bog. Electrics all
sorted, once we threw the original guy off the job, and got a 'proper'
sparks on the case. Floor done. Extraction installed. Burgers sourced
and tested. Chip fryers wired and working per the way we figured it on
here, after a couple of false starts with the way the labels on the
backs implied they should be wired. Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of
a successful launch Monday night.

Can I just express my thanks to all on here who have sent their good
wishes for the success of the place, and for all the invaluable and
freely given help and advice on all the aspects that I have asked for
help on. Good to know that I'm not the last of the helpful people in
this world ... :-)

Finally, for those who wanted to see some piccies, the website is not
really finished yet. However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it
where you can see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook
stuff, but she assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go
here :

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...52767711462499

Far too much information require on that site.

Dave

It's a Burger and Shake PDF menu with 2 pages, not BS 7671. How
searchable do you need it to be:-)

I thought Google looked inside (searchable) PDFs when doing its thing
but I'm probably wrong (over the hill, fit for nowt but the knackers,
......).


--
Robin
PM may be sent to rbw0{at}hotmail{dot}com

On 26/06/2011 19:33, Arfa Daily wrote:

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and shake.

'bout two hours away. So probably not!

Incidentally Google Maps says that postcode is Domino's Pizza.

Andy

In article ,
Tim Streater writes:
In article ,
"Arfa Daily" wrote:

Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of a successful launch Monday night.

Good luck with that. Yum!

Finally, for those who wanted to see some piccies, the website is not really
finished yet. However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it where you can
see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook stuff, but she
assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go here :

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...15276771146249
9

I have no facebook account so can't see those pix, it would seem.

That's the facebook page, not pictures, so you would need an account.
The pictures are in an album, but I don't think you can share a whole
album in one go outside facebook either.
You can share each picture individually, but only the owner gets
told what the URL is to do that, so I can't tell you.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

On 26/06/2011 19:33, Arfa Daily wrote:
My counter is finished. The plumbing is finished. The unvented water
heater installed with its expansion loop as discussed last week, and
that all works fine. The Plumbco macerator (discussed here a few weeks
ago) is a good quality unit at half the price of the equivalent Saniflo,
and works absolutely hunky dory at shifting the grey water from the prep
sink over the door and round the back room, to the bog. Electrics all
sorted, once we threw the original guy off the job, and got a 'proper'
sparks on the case. Floor done. Extraction installed. Burgers sourced
and tested. Chip fryers wired and working per the way we figured it on
here, after a couple of false starts with the way the labels on the
backs implied they should be wired. Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of
a successful launch Monday night.

Can I just express my thanks to all on here who have sent their good
wishes for the success of the place, and for all the invaluable and
freely given help and advice on all the aspects that I have asked for
help on. Good to know that I'm not the last of the helpful people in
this world ... :-)

Finally, for those who wanted to see some piccies, the website is not
really finished yet. However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it
where you can see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook
stuff, but she assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go
here :

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...52767711462499

Unfortunately, not much use to those of us without a facebook account.

There is some fairly good photos of the counter I built. I think it
looks quite impressive, but then, I would, wouldn't I ? :-))

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

A few points:

Using the £ symbol in HTML can give odd results sometimes. £ is
safer.

The fixed table width makes the information a bit small on my screen and
I'm not even using the widescreen monitor.

I would also add Google Webmaster Tools, to track the site useage and to
give you information about the platforms people are using to view it.

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and
shake. Tell 'em you're a friend of Arfa's on the 'net. Daughter will
probably charge you double for admitting that, though ....

From the postcode, probably a bit far. However, as others point out, it
would help to show the town and maybe even the country. The web is a
global medium and, if you do use Google Webmaster Tools, you will be
surprised at where some of the hits come from.

Colin Bignell

On 26/06/2011 19:33, Arfa Daily wrote:
My counter is finished. The plumbing is finished. The unvented water
heater installed with its expansion loop as discussed last week, and
that all works fine. The Plumbco macerator (discussed here a few weeks
ago) is a good quality unit at half the price of the equivalent Saniflo,
and works absolutely hunky dory at shifting the grey water from the prep
sink over the door and round the back room, to the bog. Electrics all
sorted, once we threw the original guy off the job, and got a 'proper'
sparks on the case. Floor done. Extraction installed. Burgers sourced
and tested. Chip fryers wired and working per the way we figured it on
here, after a couple of false starts with the way the labels on the
backs implied they should be wired. Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of
a successful launch Monday night.

Can I just express my thanks to all on here who have sent their good
wishes for the success of the place, and for all the invaluable and
freely given help and advice on all the aspects that I have asked for
help on. Good to know that I'm not the last of the helpful people in
this world ... :-)

Finally, for those who wanted to see some piccies, the website is not
really finished yet. However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it
where you can see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook
stuff, but she assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go
here :

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...52767711462499


There is some fairly good photos of the counter I built. I think it
looks quite impressive, but then, I would, wouldn't I ? :-))

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and
shake. Tell 'em you're a friend of Arfa's on the 'net. Daughter will
probably charge you double for admitting that, though ....

Arfa

Counter looks great, love the 'retro' style & the variety on the menu.
Shame I'm too far away!

Good luck.



--
Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

"Bill" wrote in message
...
In message om, brass
monkey writes
The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and
shake.
Tell 'em you're a friend of Arfa's on the 'net. Daughter will probably
charge you double for admitting that, though ....

Maybe I'm going blind? It might be an idea to say what town it's in on the
website? I could only see a postcode. NN Nottingham? Northampton? Not
Nown?
--
Bill

Well yes, point taken. But really it's a 'local' venture, and everyone round
here knows where the basic little map and road name is. Also, the RAC route
planner on the website will lead you to it being Wellingborough Northants,
if you put your own postcode in ...

Arfa

"Alan" wrote in message
...
In message , Arfa Daily
wrote

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

Is it the doughnut shop for the local police force?

The customer facing side looks very dated and down market. It doesn't
create a good first impression.
--
Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

Oddly, you are the very first person of many who have seen it and been
involved, who thinks that the initial impression is "dated and down market".
Presumably, you don't understand the concept of 'retro American Diner' ?

Still, no problem - if you don't like it, just stay away.

Arfa

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
o.uk...
Adrian Brentnall wrote:

In message , Arfa Daily

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

Good luck with it, are you in the left hand unit(s) that were boarded up
when the google car drove by?

Don't agree with the current preoccupation with unnecessary glitz on
websites (which only slows the pages down)
- people going there are looking for a burger, not an art gallery.

Yes, so long as it's got *a* website, it could probably do with having a
better local map than the generic RAC one, and something to point out
the quality of ingredients etc, I'm sure someone's got a few
improvements in hand ...

Right hand unit - the one under the 'peak'. As far as I know, it was never
'boarded up' as such. All of the units have electric roller shutters,
though. Originally, it was a single 3k sq ft unit that then had 1k sq ft
divided off for another business. The landlord then divided off a further 1k
sq ft for us, leaving now, one remaining unit of 1k sq ft, at the far left
end.

As for the website, as I said, it's by no means done and dusted yet. I'm
sure it will change a lot, before it is properly 'declared' :-)

Arfa

"Tim Watts" wrote in message
...
Adrian Brentnall wrote:

On 26/06/2011 20:44, Alan wrote:
In message , Arfa Daily
wrote

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

Is it the doughnut shop for the local police force?

The customer facing side looks very dated and down market. It doesn't
create a good first impression.

Not sure I agree - I think they're doing for a 'retro' feel,
in which case it's not a bad job.

Don't agree with the current preoccupation with unnecessary glitz on
websites (which only slows the pages down)
- people going there are looking for a burger, not an art gallery.

Adrian

Good point - I agree about the "retro" - looks nice...

But re website, it *is* worth noting that more and more people are looking
at this stuff on mobile devices with 320xmumble screens and modem-speed
internet connections...

--
Tim Watts

It's a valid point, and I will take it up with the person doing it.

Arfa

"Steve Walker" wrote in message
...
Robin wrote:
The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk


Good luck - but 2 tiny points:

a. the webiste only mentioned "Glasgow salad" as included with
burgers - not good *if* you are minded to attract those looking for
burger + "double salad"; and
b. the PDF of the menu (i) was not searchable (or at least, wasn't
for me in Acrobat Pro 7) and (ii) didn't give the address.

And what's a Daim Bar milkshake? Dime Bar perhaps?

Good luck Arfa, the serving area looks really solid and professional.


Thanks for the good wishes, and no, it *is* "Daim". They used to be called
"Dime" bars a few years back, but then the name suddenly changed. Same
product though. A bit like changing Opal Fruits to Starburst and so on. I
suppose it made sense to someone somewhere :-)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daim_bar

The milkshakes are all made using the actual products in their names. Hence
a "Daim Bar Milkshake" is exactly that - a milkshake made with Daim bars in
it ! We served them in the two cafes that we used to have, for years, and
they were very popular.

Arfa

"Bert Coules" wrote in message
o.uk...
"Arfa Daily" wrote:

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

Nice site. It tells you almost everything.

Except where the place actually is.

Bert


As I said to someone else, it's a local place, and all the locals know where
that is ! But yes, point taken. We'll get the town name put in. The website
is by no means 'ready' yet.

Arfa

"Tim Streater" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Arfa Daily" wrote:

Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of a successful launch Monday night.

Good luck with that. Yum!

Finally, for those who wanted to see some piccies, the website is not
really finished yet. However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it
where you can see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook
stuff, but she assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go
here :

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...15276771146249
9

I have no facebook account so can't see those pix, it would seem.

There is some fairly good photos of the counter I built. I think it looks
quite impressive, but then, I would, wouldn't I ? :-))

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

This is very good and I look forward to seeing feedback posted by some
denizens of this ng. Could I suggest adding the opening hours to the home
page (I see they're on the menu).

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and shake.
Tell 'em you're a friend of Arfa's on the 'net. Daughter will probably
charge you double for admitting that, though ....

Unfortunately you're a long way from Canterbury :-( But then many places
are and I'll see if SWMBO can be persuaded to take it in some time.

--
Tim


Cheers Tim

Arfa

"Tahi" wrote in message
o.uk...
However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it where you can
see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook stuff, but she
assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go here :

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...52767711462499

Just to mention that she is wrong. All I get is a page asking me to log in
to facebook. No thanks.


Understood. I think it is just accepted that everyone has a FaceAche account
these days, so she was just assuming that people wanting to look, would
have. I've got one that I use for no purpose other than being able to look
at stuff like this. She's always on at me to put up 'profile' (??) stuff and
to look for old schoolfriends and so on, but I have to admit that I have
absolutely no interest in that aspect of it, at all.

Arfa

"Zapp Brannigan" wrote in message
...
Arfa Daily wrote:
My counter is finished. The plumbing is finished. The unvented water
heater
installed with its expansion loop as discussed last week, and that all
works
fine. The Plumbco macerator (discussed here a few weeks ago) is a good
quality unit at half the price of the equivalent Saniflo, and works
absolutely hunky dory at shifting the grey water from the prep sink over
the
door and round the back room, to the bog. Electrics all sorted, once we
threw the original guy off the job, and got a 'proper' sparks on the
case.
Floor done. Extraction installed. Burgers sourced and tested. Chip fryers
wired and working per the way we figured it on here, after a couple of
false
starts with the way the labels on the backs implied they should be wired.
Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of a successful launch Monday night.

Good luck, Arfa - fingers crossed for you.


Thanks - appreciated :-)

Arfa

"Andy Champ" wrote in message
. uk...
On 26/06/2011 19:33, Arfa Daily wrote:

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and shake.

'bout two hours away. So probably not!

Incidentally Google Maps says that postcode is Domino's Pizza.

Andy

Yep -there is a Dom's on the same parade of shops !

Arfa

"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote in message
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On 26/06/2011 19:33, Arfa Daily wrote:
My counter is finished. The plumbing is finished. The unvented water
heater installed with its expansion loop as discussed last week, and
that all works fine. The Plumbco macerator (discussed here a few weeks
ago) is a good quality unit at half the price of the equivalent Saniflo,
and works absolutely hunky dory at shifting the grey water from the prep
sink over the door and round the back room, to the bog. Electrics all
sorted, once we threw the original guy off the job, and got a 'proper'
sparks on the case. Floor done. Extraction installed. Burgers sourced
and tested. Chip fryers wired and working per the way we figured it on
here, after a couple of false starts with the way the labels on the
backs implied they should be wired. Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of
a successful launch Monday night.

Can I just express my thanks to all on here who have sent their good
wishes for the success of the place, and for all the invaluable and
freely given help and advice on all the aspects that I have asked for
help on. Good to know that I'm not the last of the helpful people in
this world ... :-)

Finally, for those who wanted to see some piccies, the website is not
really finished yet. However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it
where you can see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook
stuff, but she assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go
here :

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...52767711462499

Unfortunately, not much use to those of us without a facebook account.

There is some fairly good photos of the counter I built. I think it
looks quite impressive, but then, I would, wouldn't I ? :-))

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

A few points:

Using the £ symbol in HTML can give odd results sometimes. £ is
safer.

The fixed table width makes the information a bit small on my screen and
I'm not even using the widescreen monitor.

I would also add Google Webmaster Tools, to track the site useage and to
give you information about the platforms people are using to view it.

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and
shake. Tell 'em you're a friend of Arfa's on the 'net. Daughter will
probably charge you double for admitting that, though ....

From the postcode, probably a bit far. However, as others point out, it
would help to show the town and maybe even the country. The web is a
global medium and, if you do use Google Webmaster Tools, you will be
surprised at where some of the hits come from.

Colin Bignell

Thanks Colin - all noted. I'll pass it on.

Arfa

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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On 26/06/2011 19:33, Arfa Daily wrote:
My counter is finished. The plumbing is finished. The unvented water
heater installed with its expansion loop as discussed last week, and
that all works fine. The Plumbco macerator (discussed here a few weeks
ago) is a good quality unit at half the price of the equivalent Saniflo,
and works absolutely hunky dory at shifting the grey water from the prep
sink over the door and round the back room, to the bog. Electrics all
sorted, once we threw the original guy off the job, and got a 'proper'
sparks on the case. Floor done. Extraction installed. Burgers sourced
and tested. Chip fryers wired and working per the way we figured it on
here, after a couple of false starts with the way the labels on the
backs implied they should be wired. Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of
a successful launch Monday night.

Can I just express my thanks to all on here who have sent their good
wishes for the success of the place, and for all the invaluable and
freely given help and advice on all the aspects that I have asked for
help on. Good to know that I'm not the last of the helpful people in
this world ... :-)

Finally, for those who wanted to see some piccies, the website is not
really finished yet. However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it
where you can see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook
stuff, but she assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go
here :

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/...52767711462499


There is some fairly good photos of the counter I built. I think it
looks quite impressive, but then, I would, wouldn't I ? :-))

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and
shake. Tell 'em you're a friend of Arfa's on the 'net. Daughter will
probably charge you double for admitting that, though ....

Arfa

Counter looks great, love the 'retro' style & the variety on the menu.
Shame I'm too far away!

Good luck.



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Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Thanks Dave. Your comments are appreciated !

Arfa

"Arfa Daily" wrote:

But yes, point taken. We'll get the town name put in. The website is by no
means 'ready' yet.

It's something you see on a lot of websites: because the owner of the site
knows where his business is, it's awfully easy to overlook the fact that
other people don't!

That apart, best of luck with the enterprise.

Bert

On 27/06/11 01:39, Arfa Daily wrote:

The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

As for the website, as I said, it's by no means done and dusted yet. I'm
sure it will change a lot, before it is properly 'declared' :-)

The one thing I would change on the website is too add more text. At
present, looking at the HTML source it is all script and images. Without
text Google wont index it, and many people these days use Google as a
substitute for domain name lookup, so if people cant find you by typing
your business name (or some half remembered version of it) into Google
your are lost.


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djc

djc wrote:

Without
text Google wont index it, and many people these days use Google as a
substitute for domain name lookup, so if people cant find you by typing
your business name (or some half remembered version of it) into Google
your are lost.

I suspect the success of failure of a burger joint is more likely to be
determined by the quality of the nosh and the location, than by its
findability on a search engine

ARWadsworth wrote:

Robin wrote:
The website is www.ljsburgerandshakes.co.uk

Good luck - but 2 tiny points:

a. the webiste only mentioned "Glasgow salad" as included with
burgers - not good *if* you are minded to attract those looking for
burger + "double salad"; and

b. the PDF of the menu (i) was not searchable (or at least, wasn't
for me in Acrobat Pro 7)

It's a Burger and Shake PDF menu with 2 pages, not BS 7671. How searchable
do you need it to be:-)

If you don't mind my saying, lose the pdf and make the menu a web page
- people don't like waiting for a separate app to open.



TF

Terry Fields wrote:

If you don't mind my saying, lose the pdf and make the menu a web page
- people don't like waiting for a separate app to open.

Apologies, I forgot to add my good wishes for your venture.

TF