Weeks will retool his restaurant in downtown Watkinsville

The Oconee Enterprise website sent out an email Friday announcing the closing of the Shishka-bobby's restaurant in downtown Watkinsville in the Town Center development in a story well written by Blake Giles. While I do not take pleasure the economic hardship of others, this restaurant never had "it" and was doomed from the start, It was Barberitos not on a stick, and it did not garner much of a following. Weeks recent problems with the suggestion of the school board wanting a raise probably did not help keep his restaurant open any
longer, as commenters in the Athens Banner-Herald's onlineathens.com had his restaurant right in the crosshairs.

I hope Weeks new theme is more family focused and a place where you want to come back to again and again. I do not pretend to have the perfect solution for this restaurant lacks or needs. The intangible of finding "it" is as difficult to describe as it is impossible to capture: the perfect flow, great tastes, memorable meals, rewarding experience, gracious hospitality, a catchy concept should try to add to the enhanced dining pleasure, not make it more confusing.

Watkinsville and Oconee County will support a successful restaurant in the space, but I am afraid to imagine what the humble pie might taste like in the wake of the ill-timed Board of Education pay raise debacle combined with two Superintendents and a State Champ softball coach sticking his
Dickens where it did not belong.