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Post by demelza on Oct 25, 2023 14:53:41 GMT
The small family business angle they keep putting it is ignoring the fact the Theatre Cafe and Diner are owned by a ticketing agency. Someone on twitter looked the owner up and apparently there's a pattern of businesses mysteriously being dissolved |
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Post by andys on Oct 25, 2023 16:59:21 GMT
The small family business angle they keep putting it is ignoring the fact the Theatre Cafe and Diner are owned by a ticketing agency. It is a family owned ticketing business though. They are apparently not the nicest people to work for, and have a few dubious people on their staff. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 25, 2023 17:03:39 GMT
Let’s leave that there please, it sounds like idle gossip.
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 25, 2023 17:48:03 GMT
I saw on Twitter a photograph where people had left flowers outside in cominseration.
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Post by anxiousoctopus on Oct 25, 2023 21:35:21 GMT
A person on Twitter is still digging into the theatre on companies house - allegedly it looks like they weren’t licensed to sell alcohol (SIC code 56102, which apparently means you can only serve soft drinks) but they had cocktails on the menu
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 25, 2023 22:22:45 GMT
Companies House wouldn't hold that sort of information
So take that with a large pinch of salt
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Post by lilgirlbigcity on Oct 25, 2023 22:38:31 GMT
Companies House wouldn't hold that sort of information So take that with a large pinch of salt No, but Westminster Councils website does and it's a rather interesting read! However, looks like they only read the 37 page subcommittee document and not the final committee decision as they did agree to alcohol sales but with a lot of conditions attached |
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Post by jaqs on Oct 27, 2023 21:34:52 GMT
I liked it when it was on Shaftesbury ave.
But they didn’t want my custom when it moved. Not that my two coffees would have made a difference to them making their rent payments. But if they’d served me on either visit id likely have been back.
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Post by anthony40 on Oct 28, 2023 14:52:16 GMT
I walked past it today. I was just part of the route that I was taking.
It looks very sad and forlorn.
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Post by erik24601 on Oct 29, 2023 11:11:15 GMT
I liked it when it was on Shaftesbury ave. But they didn’t want my custom when it moved. Not that my two coffees would have made a difference to them making their rent payments. But if they’d served me on either visit id likely have been back. ……didn’t want your custom how? |
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Post by apubleed on Oct 29, 2023 12:53:23 GMT
I went once and the coffee was terrible so I never went back. Sorry.
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Post by danb on Nov 1, 2023 13:16:26 GMT
I went in once on my own and the conversations going on around me were like something from the bad behaviour thread. I later went in with my son when we had half an hour to kill and it was a lot more chilled out. I think its atmosphere is created by the other customers rather than the shop itself. Do they encourage hysteria?
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Post by longinthetooth on Nov 1, 2023 14:05:41 GMT
I went once and felt really out of place. Never went back.
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Post by BVM on Nov 1, 2023 14:27:24 GMT
Never went, but got the impression from all the pics and social media posts I'd have felt out of place if I had. Seemed to be very much fan girl crowds and wasn't somewhere I really fancied as a late 40's gay man. Usually flying solo before a show.
On which topic - where DO single late 40's gays hang out pre show lol? I am too old (and sober) for the Duke of Wellington now....
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Post by james1969 on Nov 1, 2023 16:02:11 GMT
Never went, but got the impression from all the pics and social media posts I'd have felt out of place if I had. Seemed to be very much fan girl crowds and wasn't somewhere I really fancied as a late 40's gay man. Usually flying solo before a show. On which topic - where DO single late 40's gays hang out pre show lol? I am too old (and sober) for the Duke of Wellington now.... Well as an over 50 gay guy I usually hang out in the theatre bar before the show and Halfway to Heaven afterwards |
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Post by alece10 on Nov 1, 2023 16:07:49 GMT
And as an over 60s gay man I stopped hanging out anywhere years ago, far too depressing 😀
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Post by BVM on Nov 1, 2023 16:28:00 GMT
Never went, but got the impression from all the pics and social media posts I'd have felt out of place if I had. Seemed to be very much fan girl crowds and wasn't somewhere I really fancied as a late 40's gay man. Usually flying solo before a show. On which topic - where DO single late 40's gays hang out pre show lol? I am too old (and sober) for the Duke of Wellington now.... Well as an over 50 gay guy I usually hang out in the theatre bar before the show and Halfway to Heaven afterwards Ahhh that's a good shout. Not been Halfway for ages! In fact the last time I went was probably after Made In Dagenham one time.... Rose Garden was on in the basement and did a stirring rendition of Oom-Pah-Pah! |
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Post by sph on Nov 2, 2023 0:30:51 GMT
Never went, but got the impression from all the pics and social media posts I'd have felt out of place if I had. Seemed to be very much fan girl crowds and wasn't somewhere I really fancied as a late 40's gay man. Usually flying solo before a show. On which topic - where DO single late 40's gays hang out pre show lol? I am too old (and sober) for the Duke of Wellington now.... The Duke of Wellington literally always looks like it's full of late 40's gay men to me? |
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Post by n1david on Nov 13, 2023 16:15:28 GMT
Sounds hideous.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Nov 13, 2023 16:18:50 GMT
🤢🤢🤢
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Post by anthony40 on Nov 13, 2023 16:42:09 GMT
This is a little confusing, is it not? Firstly, although I'm not sure how this is all works but my extremely basic understanding that the Theatre Diner opened on the back of the success of The Theatre Cafe. Are they not all the same umbrella company? It seems strange that once could be forced to closed whilst the other remains open. I had only ever walked past the Theatre Cafe and went in about 2 weeks ago for the Theatre Quiz which was located downstairs. I didn't even know there was a downstairs. The above statement sounds like a fusion of the two venues and they want the best of both. |
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Post by erik24601 on Nov 13, 2023 18:52:22 GMT
This is a little confusing, is it not? Firstly, although I'm not sure how this is all works but my extremely basic understanding that the Theatre Diner opened on the back of the success of The Theatre Cafe. Are they not all the same umbrella company? It seems strange that once could be forced to closed whilst the other remains open. Guessing there are two different landlords involved - it was reportedly rental arrears on the Theatre Cafe that closed it. |
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Post by eliza on Nov 13, 2023 20:09:40 GMT
Never went, but got the impression from all the pics and social media posts I'd have felt out of place if I had. Seemed to be very much fan girl crowds and wasn't somewhere I really fancied as a late 40's gay man. Usually flying solo before a show. On which topic - where DO single late 40's gays hang out pre show lol? I am too old (and sober) for the Duke of Wellington now.... Yes I got that impression the one time I went there. I was sat by myself on a table and a woman and her daughter came and sat there too because there was nowhere else left, and they seemed to know everyone else going in from their various repeated visits to the same show. It felt a bit cliquey and it made me feel uncomfortable that they'd taken over my table, like I wasn't supposed to be there and was being pushed out, so I left quite quickly after that. I was 100% overthinking the situation, I know, but I didn't enjoy the visit. |
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Post by sph on Nov 13, 2023 23:09:17 GMT
So basically they're just doing cafe-style service in the mornings/early afternoons without singing waiters? I mean that's not really bringing the theatre cafe back. It's just slightly changing up the service of an existing venue during the daytime, which many other restaurants do anyway.
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Post by BVM on Nov 14, 2023 9:00:35 GMT
Never went, but got the impression from all the pics and social media posts I'd have felt out of place if I had. Seemed to be very much fan girl crowds and wasn't somewhere I really fancied as a late 40's gay man. Usually flying solo before a show. On which topic - where DO single late 40's gays hang out pre show lol? I am too old (and sober) for the Duke of Wellington now.... Yes I got that impression the one time I went there. I was sat by myself on a table and a woman and her daughter came and sat there too because there was nowhere else left, and they seemed to know everyone else going in from their various repeated visits to the same show. It felt a bit cliquey and it made me feel uncomfortable that they'd taken over my table, like I wasn't supposed to be there and was being pushed out, so I left quite quickly after that. I was 100% overthinking the situation, I know, but I didn't enjoy the visit. Ahhh I don't think it's overthinking, I'd have been exactly the same and I'd also have found that a bit awkward. It just felt like it would have that kinda vibe from social media posts I'd seen and possibly not the easiest place to fly solo! |
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