Woodshed Changes

TheTimeTraveler · 02-01-2025, 05:10 PM

Now that Greg is gone who has now taken over as full or part time Manager of the New Woodshed ?

jeffk · 02-02-2025, 06:14 AM

It sounds like Greg was a brown noser with an additional twist of being dismissive and disrespectful to those he wasn't trying to impress. That seems to be inexcusable for a restaurant that caters to a wide variety of people.

When I bought a house at the lake in 1993, I LOVED the Woodshed. It was my go-to places to bring guests for dinner.

Then I had a couple of bad experiences with food service, the second one ruined an Anniversary dinner, and I was turned off to going there. I dropped in every year or two to see how it was doing but never resumed going there regularly.

After the fire and rebuild, I have been there for after dinner drinks and dessert but have never dined there. It just didn't appeal as much as the old "barn" did. Once when I was there, I observed a group wanting to be seated who got huffy about having to wait so long because there were empty tables. They refused to understand that the gating issue was the number of available servers, a common problem in the area. The bad show was a turn off, even though the problem was with the patrons, not so much the restaurant. However, maybe the Woodshed should have removed or hidden extra tables if this is going to be a common problem.

The issue for me is, for the prices the Woodshed and some other restaurants charge, I expect the BEST from them in all aspects. EVERY issue should be anticipated and managed. I realize that's hard to accomplish but that's why you can charge the big bucks.

It's been quite a few years but maybe I will drop in again to check them out.

mofn · 02-02-2025, 09:23 AM

I just read the replies to my question, and if I was the owner the following facts would scare the hell out of me.
I moderate a Face Book page for a group I volunteer with… around 4K subs.
BUT we have 6 to 7 times that number who follow us regularly, but are not subs. As I’m writing this 17K views on this thread alone…crunch those numbers!
You start putting numbers like that to the amount (in total over time) just in this forum you have a lot of people in a small geographical location that either bad mouth you or gave up on you.
Having never been there it sounds like the Woodshed could be a good semester class in college on how not to run a business…the widget factory example at the back of the chapters!

phoenix · 02-02-2025, 10:21 AM

I also use to go every year going back to the 80’s . I went with another couple a few years back and all of us found the food mediocre and expensive . So had nothing to do with any person and haven't been back and unlikely to go again

VitaBene · 02-05-2025, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by TheTimeTraveler

Now that Greg is gone who has now taken over as full or part time Manager of the New Woodshed ?

Marc Mover is the new GM! Marc was the bar manager from Day 1. We did eat there last week and had a great meal at the bar.
https://www.newwoodshed.com/meet-our-team/

FlyingScot · 02-05-2025, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by VitaBene

Marc Mover is the new GM! Marc was the bar manager from Day 1. We did eat there last week and had a great meal at the bar.
https://www.newwoodshed.com/meet-our-team/

A great guy, and one who appreciates all that's good about the Woodshed. I'm happy--for him and for us

02-02-2025, 10:21 AM	#4
phoenix Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: phoenix and moultonboro Posts: 1,554 Thanks: 61 Thanked 275 Times in 193 Posts	I also use to go every year going back to the 80’s . I went with another couple a few years back and all of us found the food mediocre and expensive . So had nothing to do with any person and haven't been back and unlikely to go again __________________ it's tough to make predictions specially about the future

02-01-2025, 05:10 PM	#1
TheTimeTraveler Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 888 Thanks: 278 Thanked 288 Times in 178 Posts	Now that Greg is gone who has now taken over as full or part time Manager of the New Woodshed ?

02-02-2025, 06:14 AM	#2
jeffk Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Center Harbor Posts: 1,172 Thanks: 206 Thanked 437 Times in 253 Posts	It sounds like Greg was a brown noser with an additional twist of being dismissive and disrespectful to those he wasn't trying to impress. That seems to be inexcusable for a restaurant that caters to a wide variety of people. When I bought a house at the lake in 1993, I LOVED the Woodshed. It was my go-to places to bring guests for dinner. Then I had a couple of bad experiences with food service, the second one ruined an Anniversary dinner, and I was turned off to going there. I dropped in every year or two to see how it was doing but never resumed going there regularly. After the fire and rebuild, I have been there for after dinner drinks and dessert but have never dined there. It just didn't appeal as much as the old "barn" did. Once when I was there, I observed a group wanting to be seated who got huffy about having to wait so long because there were empty tables. They refused to understand that the gating issue was the number of available servers, a common problem in the area. The bad show was a turn off, even though the problem was with the patrons, not so much the restaurant. However, maybe the Woodshed should have removed or hidden extra tables if this is going to be a common problem. The issue for me is, for the prices the Woodshed and some other restaurants charge, I expect the BEST from them in all aspects. EVERY issue should be anticipated and managed. I realize that's hard to accomplish but that's why you can charge the big bucks. It's been quite a few years but maybe I will drop in again to check them out.

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02-02-2025, 09:23 AM	#3
mofn Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2015 Posts: 67 Thanks: 0 Thanked 19 Times in 15 Posts	I just read the replies to my question, and if I was the owner the following facts would scare the hell out of me. I moderate a Face Book page for a group I volunteer with… around 4K subs. BUT we have 6 to 7 times that number who follow us regularly, but are not subs. As I’m writing this 17K views on this thread alone…crunch those numbers! You start putting numbers like that to the amount (in total over time) just in this forum you have a lot of people in a small geographical location that either bad mouth you or gave up on you. Having never been there it sounds like the Woodshed could be a good semester class in college on how not to run a business…the widget factory example at the back of the chapters!

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