I'll be slinging hot dogs at Ace Hardware Customer Appreciation Day

[Chris Allingham]

Here's another post that only applies to a very small number of members...I will be slinging hot dogs, sausages, pie, and other treats at the Sebastopol Ace Hardware Customer Appreciation Day on Saturday, June 29 between 11:00am - 2:00pm at 660 Gravenstein Hwy N in Sebastopol, CA.

Stop by to say hello if you've got nothing else better to do!

 

[Mark Foreman]

Put it on my calendar.

 

[Mark Foreman]

I plan on stopping by to say hi. Any other Bay Area members want to join me?

 

[ChuckO]

Should be a real nice day in Sebastopol. Apparently ACE is the place of the helpful hardware man, and one hell of a cook

 

[Brad Olson]

I hope Ace does the right thing and supplies you with encased meat products of the highest quality!

 

[Mark Foreman]

The wife and I stopped by to say hi. It was really nice to meet Chris in person.
Pineapple sausage was good!

 

[Brett-EDH]

The wife and I stopped by to say hi. It was really nice to meet Chris in person.
Pineapple sausage was good!
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That’s awesome. Hopefully you brought the grill master a cold one to cool down with.

 

[ChuckO]

A couple of studs

 

[Mark Foreman]

Where???

 

[Chris Allingham]

Mark, it was great to meet you and your wife Mary. Thanks for making the effort to drive up from Petaluma for the visit.

We served a whole bunch of Kirkland all-beef hot dogs cooked on a Traeger griddle, and samples of Evergood pineapple sausages grilled on a Napoleon gasser with sauces from Blues Hog, Kinder, and Kosmos Q. Add bags of chips, samples of pies baked on a Traeger pellet grill, and drinks and we had a good Customer Appreciation Day.

And in case you haven’t figured out how I got roped into this, my brother is general manager and a partner in store ownership.

 

[LMichaels]

Brothers seem to cause all kind of trouble

 

[EricV.]

It's always cool to put a face to a voice!

 

[Mark Foreman]

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It's always cool to put a face to a voice!

most definitely.

 

[ChuckO]

And in case you haven’t figured out how I got roped into this, my brother is general manager and a partner in store ownership.

Maybe, but I’m guessing that was a lot of fun even for a master grilled like you: Tell your brother congrats on his partnership. Hopefully he’s an S-Corp and not an LLC. It’s very rewarding being an S-Corp.

 

[Brett-EDH]

@Chris Allingham , sounds like you got voluntold to cook today

 

[Chris Allingham]

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[ChuckO]

Here's the real question: How many BBQ & Smokers did you sell for your brother?

 

[JimK]

Here's the real question: How many BBQ & Smokers did you sell for your brother?

We'll know the answer to that next year when we see if he's invited back.

 

[Brett-EDH]

We'll know the answer to that next year when we see if he's invited back.

At his wage, he’ll be there for the next 10 events.

 

[Chris Allingham]

At his wage, he’ll be there for the next 10 events.

My payment, besides have a good time hobnobbing with customers, was a frozen strawberry rhubarb pie for my wife.

Are you guys aware of hardware store frozen pies? My brother's store sells a ton of them, a real impulse purchase at checkout. “It’s usually one of our top 100 items every day," he says. "It’s a very lucrative, profitable item.”

They're quite good and are sold at many Ace Hardware stores in Sonoma County. The supplier provides the graphics-wrapped chest freezer for free (with clear lid so you can see the pies inside) and keeps it stocked with pies. The hardware store just sells them...actually, they kind of sell themselves.

We gave away samples at the Customer Appreciation Day event, and lots of folks just came for the pie!

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