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<DIV>> <BR>> > Hey Saradwen, <BR>> > <BR>> > Did they try investigating just how the contract issues got <BR>> sticky? :-) <BR>> > Were there any crumbs? <BR>> <BR>> Yeah, see, what Sodexho wanted out of us is a $180,000 "guarantee" <BR>> payment; in other words, before they'd set up shop running a café in <BR>> our library, they wanted us to pay that sum up front as a guarantee <BR>> that they wouldn't lose their shirts running such an etablishment in a <BR>> library, and the library, already having spent $7 million over the <BR>> original projected cost of the Main Library, is short of that kind of <BR>> cash to pay such a sum, so....therein lay the dilemma. <BR>> <BR>> So I guess they've been in contract negotiations ever since that first <BR>> demand of "guaraantee" money. <BR>> <BR>> Sounds like blackmail to me.... :-\ <BR>> <BR>> ~Saradwen <BR>> </DIV>
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<DIV>Did y'all tell them that in a Free Enterprise System they take their shot just like every other business and it is up to them to make it a success?</DIV>
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