Monday, June 15, 2009 a visit to the Red Sauce Ristorante in North Adams, Mass.

I drive by "Red Sauce" everyday on the way back to the hotel. Looks like a great building for an Italian Restaurant so I decided to check it out on monday the 15th in the late afternoon. It was closed but the owner was cleaning and setting up for the week.




Maybe it was just a bad day, but when I asked Eddie (proprietor) how things were going, he wasn't too enthused.
"Business is slow, I moved out here about five years ago and began to notice that people around here aren't prone to going out to eat." "Are you from Boston?" he asked me, "I moved out here from Boston".

Eddie was a sous chef at the Ritz C. before making the trek into small business ownership in the northern Berkshires. I hope it picks up for Eddie. There's probably some resistance to the style and medium priced entree's.

The facilities guy where I'm working noted that he had tried Red Sauce with his in-laws and noted that his Italian father-in-law thought the red sauce tasted like "ketch-up". Maybe it was just a bad week.

I think the fg (facilities guy) carries a gene that is common and predominant in the New England area. It's the C^ne type; and manifests as "cynical personality".