23236 Wed Mar 05 13:40:55 -0800 2003 10 1 San Francisco Bay Area 0 87922 Next Tuesday, March 11, will be the last Tuesday Rosamunde Sausage Grill (Lower Haight) will be serving cheeseburgers. The sign said "game over, we win." I didn't have time to find out why, but I assume that though wildly successful it wasn't profitable enough. Wed Mar 05 13:40:55 -0800 2003 0 heidipie 1 87925 there will be some grieving chowhounds upon reading this.....maybe they can have a wake on the 11th and down a few burgers. Wed Mar 05 14:17:10 -0800 2003 87922 0 gordon wing 1 87926 You know, based on this board, I ordered the burger once. It was okay, nothing special, and paled in comparison to the sausages. Frankly, In-N-Out burgers, although smaller, are just as good. Wed Mar 05 14:55:12 -0800 2003 87922 0 not impressed 1 87936 I'm not surprised. The Tuesday burger day was started as a lark and as a benefit for their regular customers. The pricing was too low for the amount of beef used - they didn't make money on it. Plus, the staff has been complaining for months about the Tuesday crowds (which have evolved from their "regular" sausage customers to people that come only on Tuesday for the burger and who frequently behaved poorly). And the sell-out time has been getting earlier and earlier every week. It used to take until 6:00pm to sell out, but they've been selling out as early as 3:00pm. Can you image how crazed it is there on Tuesdays at lunch? I'm not surprised some people have not been impressed by their burgers, cranking out that volume that quickly has got to impact the quality. My Rosamunde burgers have always been properly prepared to my specifications, medium-rare and nice 'n juicy. They were a great deal and I'll be sad to see the burgers go but it will be good for Rosamunde to have people focus on the fact that its a sausage grill. Wed Mar 05 16:43:04 -0800 2003 87922 0 Rochelle McCune 2 87938 what a weird decision. My dad lived in a small town in NM, and once asked a store why they'd stopped carrying an item. They told him "oh, that was popular. it sold out." He asked why they didn't order more. They said "'cuz it'd just sell out again....and we'd have to keep ordering more." Too much trouble. Let's see, Rosamunde complains of excess demand, selling out early, losing money....so raise the darned prices (and pay the grill guy accordingly)! Duh, no? Demand's the goal, not a nuisance! On the other hand, it's stubborn, different-drummer-marching restaurateurs refusing to hew to standard corporate decision-making that we like around here....sigh.... Wed Mar 05 16:57:02 -0800 2003 87936 0 Jim Leff 3 87958 You don't get it. Demand was not the goal of the Tuesday burger. The owner of Rosamunde's goal is not to make as much money as possible. His goal is to do something really well, make a decent living and have as little stress as possible. (I mean, he left Suppenkuche and opened Rosamunde because Suppenkuche got "too popular" which caused it to become a "factory".) Rosamunde is a sausage grill. That is what they are known for. Some of his friends and really good customers convinced him to do burgers. So he tried it and priced it at minimum prices as a favor to his friends and the neighboorhood. But the burgers were more time consuming to make so he needed more staff on burger day, which cut into his business. Yes, he could raise prices and/or serve them every day, but that was never the purpose of burger day and he didn't want to become a burger joint. Plus no one wanted to work on burger day because, it was stressful and as the word got out, the caliber of clientele when down substantially. Wed Mar 05 20:31:08 -0800 2003 87938 0 Rochelle McCune 4 87965 Actually, I do get it. Perhaps you read my posting a bit too hastily. In any case, sorry they're not doing the burgers anymore. Though I actually prefer their sausages, personally. ciao Wed Mar 05 23:02:31 -0800 2003 87958 0 Jim Leff 2 87939 First. Thank you Rochelle for turning us on to the Tuesday burgers. I agree wholeheatedly with Jim's assessment though. We have always enjoyed the burgers and have never left without a bag of sausages too. I bet if they checked, they'd find their Tuesday sales of sausages to go also increase. Wed Mar 05 17:06:53 -0800 2003 87936 0 jaweino 1 87937 I just got done throwing back a dog at Rosamunde for lunch. While eating, I overheared the grill girl saying that no one wanted to work on Tuesdays. Perhaps staffing was the problem??? She did leave some wiggle room by saying that it could come back though. Personally, I've never had one, so I wasn't too concerned one way or the other. Should I be? Wed Mar 05 16:46:05 -0800 2003 87922 0 JohnnyP 2 87953 nope, you shouldn't be. Wed Mar 05 20:01:31 -0800 2003 87937 0 not impressed 1 88108 I suppose this is another "only in San Francisco" story...sell so many burgers on one day a week you stop because its too popular. They should give lessons to all the poor wretches who lose their butt trying the restaurant scene. Sat Mar 08 14:16:13 -0800 2003 87922 0 Jim H.