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Someone wants me to open a restaurant in Austin Texas. He says it's a booming place w/ a lot of opportunity. Anyone got the skinny on this place? Thanks for any info you got.
Anybody know anything about Austin Texas?
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Big Buck
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Austin is awesome!!! Lots of people...UT is right there. 6th street is a fun place to party.
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dread lord and i lived there for a year for college
we both had terrible experiences left and right there
some people love it, we did not, so we moved
what kind of restaurant? I can tell you, even when we went to the utmost high end restaurants in Austin, we were treated like utter SHIT! complete and total disrespect for the customer, terrible service, we have had many many rude occurances which made us not only never go back, but freely bad mouth the place we went to. ridiculous.
just telling you as we saw it, don't want to surprise you or anything if u get here. I think... Austin is overrated anyway. cool ass place to visit, but living there is shit unless u are downtown or right next to where u work/go to school. There is surprisingly little commerce there as well. By that I mean, you will constantly find yourself driving 45+ minutes just to get to the other side of Austin for something. Too few grocery stores, fast food, everything. It sucked.
we both had terrible experiences left and right there
some people love it, we did not, so we moved
what kind of restaurant? I can tell you, even when we went to the utmost high end restaurants in Austin, we were treated like utter SHIT! complete and total disrespect for the customer, terrible service, we have had many many rude occurances which made us not only never go back, but freely bad mouth the place we went to. ridiculous.
just telling you as we saw it, don't want to surprise you or anything if u get here. I think... Austin is overrated anyway. cool ass place to visit, but living there is shit unless u are downtown or right next to where u work/go to school. There is surprisingly little commerce there as well. By that I mean, you will constantly find yourself driving 45+ minutes just to get to the other side of Austin for something. Too few grocery stores, fast food, everything. It sucked.
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Austin TX is cool as hell!!! Willy Nelson has a studio down there!! Paul Leary from the ButtHole Surfers hangs out there too!!!
I'm in College Station, Texas, where the "better" University is...Texas A&M if you're not from down here.
I am here, instead of in Austin attending the University of Texas (t.u.), because that town has become a LIBERAL BREEDING GROUND...Too many damn freaks and weirdos, and the third highest homosexual population, due to recent studies, in the country.
It all depends on your lifestyle, though...
If you do decide to start a business there, live in a suburd like Round Rock (I lived there from birth until 4th grade, and it's just getting nicer and nicer!) or Pflugerville, which is nice, too, from what I remember.
I am here, instead of in Austin attending the University of Texas (t.u.), because that town has become a LIBERAL BREEDING GROUND...Too many damn freaks and weirdos, and the third highest homosexual population, due to recent studies, in the country.
It all depends on your lifestyle, though...
If you do decide to start a business there, live in a suburd like Round Rock (I lived there from birth until 4th grade, and it's just getting nicer and nicer!) or Pflugerville, which is nice, too, from what I remember.
TxCollegeguy
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Austin is an Ok place depending on where you want to be...The liberals are comming back out into the open since Rick Perry is basically pissing on the republicans who backed him into office with GW
as a city I enjoy going there but having not formally lived there but just south in San Marcos I enjoy my time there. If you were to open up a place anywhere near 6th street or near the capital you can generally bet business would have a good chance to rake in some cash. I'm not sure what taxes are like for business but I would presume not so bad.
as a city I enjoy going there but having not formally lived there but just south in San Marcos I enjoy my time there. If you were to open up a place anywhere near 6th street or near the capital you can generally bet business would have a good chance to rake in some cash. I'm not sure what taxes are like for business but I would presume not so bad.
Longhorn85
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best city
I attended UT there in the 80s and now I live just north of town. It is a great city, with the University and the State Capitol which both bring in a lot of young professional people. Austin also is a hub for tech businesses such as Dell, IBM, Lockheed and many others.
Another great thing about Austin is the beauty of the Lakes and Parks, the amount of outdoor activity and the great weather.
The BEST part though, is the vibrant live music scene, mainly blues. Live bands perform at small clubs every night.
I attended UT there in the 80s and now I live just north of town. It is a great city, with the University and the State Capitol which both bring in a lot of young professional people. Austin also is a hub for tech businesses such as Dell, IBM, Lockheed and many others.
Another great thing about Austin is the beauty of the Lakes and Parks, the amount of outdoor activity and the great weather.
The BEST part though, is the vibrant live music scene, mainly blues. Live bands perform at small clubs every night.
Michael Gigante
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Austin is a great place to live.
Natymike
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Austin is great, but expensive. If you plan on opening a restaurant, also plan on spending an arm and a leg. The real estate has almost doubled over the past 2 years. Everyone wants to move here. People work in Austin that live in Georgetown. With traffic, thats over an hour of a commute to work.
Traffic is terrible, the freeways are designed for a small city. It takes me 30 minutes to go 5 or 6 miles during rush hour. I don't even bother driving across town during the day unless I have to.
Besides all that, Austin is great--live music capital of America, its just getting overcrowded cause its "booming".
Traffic is terrible, the freeways are designed for a small city. It takes me 30 minutes to go 5 or 6 miles during rush hour. I don't even bother driving across town during the day unless I have to.
Besides all that, Austin is great--live music capital of America, its just getting overcrowded cause its "booming".
Longhorn85
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Good point about the traffic. If they get mass transit they will be tops in the USA
Fl.BlackBear
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Looks like there is no shortage of elite people in Austin. The restaurant I have in mind is sort of a laid back, upscale type of place. Lots of seafood, veal, steaks, chops, with a lot of sauces and some chicken for the cheap bastards. JK. It'll be good stuff guaranteed! This will be my 6th place, so I like to believe I know what I'm doing. How 'bout gyms? Got any? Ladies? Gotta have some of them floating around.
Live music capitol of the world is the way they bill the town, South by Southwest music festival, lived there about a month and a half. Won't do it a again......Nice to visit, sucks to live there no hills, no forrests to speak of and just plain flat......RAINS LIKE HELL IN SPRING, FRY IN SUMMER, FREEZE IN WINTER....Fall might be good but not worth it.........BBQ is real good though... Rudy's is a good place if you can get in. Lunch hour is JAMMED UP big time every where for lunch.......You might do OKAY depending on your fair.....Best wishes Bro.....
Checkmatebloated
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Big business is moving into Austin. It is a fast growing city with a great deal of upside. My mother and her husband moved there last year from Mesquite. JOB
john937
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Fl BlackBear - take a look at the property where Enfield runs into Lake Austin Blvd.
One of the restraunts moved across the street to lakeside, and their older bldg is vacant.
But it has a cool view of the lake from a little higher up. Has potential.
Actually lots of the upscale restraunts are built either with lake view or mountain top view.
All the old houses on West Fifth are going commercial, a possibility.
Most of the big money lives west of Lamar to either the northwest(NorthWest Hills), west (WestLake) or southwest(Mopac/SouthWest ParkWay).
There's a killer new prestigious "shopping center" opening
on Capital of Texas Hwy (route 1) just south of where it crosses over Lake Austin.
In the near future there is a lot of upscale development planned for the intersection of Hwy 1 at 2222 but they haven't broke ground yet.
One of the restraunts moved across the street to lakeside, and their older bldg is vacant.
But it has a cool view of the lake from a little higher up. Has potential.
Actually lots of the upscale restraunts are built either with lake view or mountain top view.
All the old houses on West Fifth are going commercial, a possibility.
Most of the big money lives west of Lamar to either the northwest(NorthWest Hills), west (WestLake) or southwest(Mopac/SouthWest ParkWay).
There's a killer new prestigious "shopping center" opening
on Capital of Texas Hwy (route 1) just south of where it crosses over Lake Austin.
In the near future there is a lot of upscale development planned for the intersection of Hwy 1 at 2222 but they haven't broke ground yet.
runner
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austin is much hillier than other parts of texas (houston, for example).
lived there almost ten years before moving here. loved it...but i always lived close to UT (where i was a looooong term student) so i didn't have to deal w/the traffic much. i've heard it's a total bitch nowadays.
lived there almost ten years before moving here. loved it...but i always lived close to UT (where i was a looooong term student) so i didn't have to deal w/the traffic much. i've heard it's a total bitch nowadays.
Natymike
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Laserdude said:
what the hell, just plain flat?? no hills or forests???????? There are a bunch of mountain biking forests, and TONS, I MEAN TONS OF HILLS. A lot of them HUGE. I'm not sure if you have ever been to Austin judging by that statement.
BlackBear--There are 7 world Gym locations all 15 minutes from each other. There are a couple of other gyms, but Worlds has a stranglehold on the town. And YES, there are TONS of ladies. UT has some of the hottest girls in Texas, if they are too dumb to get in, they go to South West (j/k TxCollege). My point is, all the HOT southwest girls come to Austin to party. Just go to 6th street on a Friday or Saturday night, every weekend is like Mardi Gras, all the clubs are right next to each other, spend a weekend on 6th and you will want to be a part of Austin.
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Fl.BlackBear
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I just found out the name of the area we will be going to is called Lake Travis. Spicewood is another place my partner mentioned. Anyone know these areas? Good, bad, indifferent? Thanks for your input bros.
Natymike
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Not sure I've been in the Spicewood area, but the Lake Travis area is NICE.
West Austin==Really Nice--(Westlake), Lake Travis, most of the Hills, lakes, forests. West Austin is awesome.
North Austin==Also very nice. (Spicewood is Northwest, I think)
South Austin==sorta nice
East Austin==shitty
Lake Travis is WAY west Austin, about 25-30 mins from the center of town. The lake is nice also.
West Austin==Really Nice--(Westlake), Lake Travis, most of the Hills, lakes, forests. West Austin is awesome.
North Austin==Also very nice. (Spicewood is Northwest, I think)
South Austin==sorta nice
East Austin==shitty
Lake Travis is WAY west Austin, about 25-30 mins from the center of town. The lake is nice also.
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Hey e mail me. I have over 100 named after me and am here working on more as well as developing some in Houston. I will tell ya this Austin is satuarted with restaurants and many are closing doors. Many folks are unemployeed so if you think you ahve legs to amke it in a otherwise horrible amrket go for it. Real estate is not cheap and a restaurant here could cost ya as little as 12,000 on up. We pay $24,000 right now. The concepts I am developing in Houston are florida and carribbean with influences of Nuevo Lationo. The other is a cajun concept mid scale. Here in Austin the one I am working out of is very well known and very noisy. The others are a mid scale chain.
Fl.BlackBear
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Bumpin for a bit more info
Jacked Johnson
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Austin is just plain awesome! I used to frequent there while I was in the Army stationed at Fort Hood. Sixth street is the best! Tons of bars, women and people having a great time. Being a native New Yorker, I was awe struck at just how nice and polite the people of Austin were. If it wasn't for the fact that I stayed a New York resident and thus couldn't get UT in-state tuition, I would have stayed there upon getting out of the army in 96.
