Grand Opening On Wed Jan 7th, 2009

Green Tango Announces Grand Opening of Newest Location
--Salads and Wraps Just $5 to Celebrate--

Green Tango, the area's premiere fresh chopped salad restaurant, has opened its newest location at 2608 Erwin Road in the Lakeview at Pavilion East complex. Just steps from Duke University Medical Center and Duke's west campus, Green Tango's newest location is open from 11am-9pm Monday through Saturday and 12-9pm on Sundays.

To mark to occasion, all salads and wraps will be just $5 on Wednesday, January 7 from 12-2pm. The celebration will extend to the flagship restaurant at Shannon Rd. as well.

Green Tango serves fresh chopped salads that are quick, healthy, and customer-designed. Salads and wraps are prepared to order from more than seventy quality ingredients, including five lettuces, twelve dressings, and a wide variety of fresh vegetables, grilled meats, and cheeses. Our approach is deceptively simple – start with the freshest ingredients, provide nearly limitless choice, and chop and toss each salad to order to create the ultimate salad experience.

For more information or to access a menu, please visit www.greentango.com

Open

Knives Out

Sharpened and ready for tomorrow.

Prepping has begun

With Health inspection in hand we began the process of prepping everything.

Permisiion is granted to operate a...

Restaurant! We passed and received our permit from the health department. We came in just under the wire. We were putting the finishing touches on everything as the inspector was walking across the parking lot.

GC summed everything up (as only he can) "Now the real work begins." Soft opening is scheduled for monday.

Pre Opening Visit - 9 More Things

Glass for the sneeze guard was installed this morning. Health Inspector came by for a pre-opening visit this afternoon. Left with 9 things that needed to be addressed before we can get our permit and open. Inspector will be back late on friday afternoon. We have less than 24 hours to handle all 9 things or we most likely will not be permited till January. Going huddle with the GC and see if we can make it.

Close....to losing my mind

Sneeze guard is in, but alas no glass. Same company who made the mistakes with the sink that I wrote about previously decided to cut the wrong glass as well. First time I have ever asked anyone to leave a job, but felt that given their track record we were better off going with another company. We had hoped to be open already but can't without the glass. Local company is going to rush it but even with that still about a week a way.

Failed Plumbing Inspection

Down to our last inspection (not including health department) and the hope was that we would breeze right through. GC called it when he said that someone would find a reason to hold us up for a day or two. Plumbers will be back in the morning to address the inspectors concerns.

What did you think you were doing today?

Hit a little bit of a roadblock late on friday. An unamed supplier royally screwed up the dimensions of our dish sink. Unbeknownst to everyone involved he decided to make his own sink rather than the one we ordered.

In addition they showed up with no tools to break it down (so that it would fit through the door) and no crew to actually move it in. Fortunanetly the GC saved the day with both the tools and the crew. Which was no small feet considering it was Friday afternoon at 4PM. Most construction sites are a ghost town by that point.

New Menu Boards

Happy that with this location we were able to revist the menu boards and touch up the design. We used the the new website as a jumping off point. They look awesome!

A little to the left...

Another logo. We don't want you to forget where you are.

Getting it Right

Doesn't look like it would be, but hanging the blocks for our logos at the right angles and the right spacing is rather difficult. GC and crew took their time and did a great job.

Stacked

After much planning and fretting the blocks for our big logos are built, painted and stacked. Gotta get them up on the walls though, they take up a lot of valuable floor space.

Hanging Signs

One of the first things we ordered when we started this project was our exterior sign. Hard to believe, but you can practically build out an entire restaurant before the various agencies approve and build our sign. Very happy to see the crane on site this morning hanging our 10 letters.

Day 2 of the Corian

Counters are in and clamped down to dry. They will be back later today to buff the edges.

Polishing Corian

Corian Instillation started today. A lot of the work they were able to do off site (the cutting and forming of the individual pieces). The pieces fit together like a giant puzzle and then they came back and sanded and polished the edges together to make smooth surfaces. All the sides were done today and tomorrow they will be back to make the tops (with the cutting board inserts).

That's a straight line

Cabinets in and waiting for Beach Glass Corian. Messy Messy stuff but when finished oh so pretty. The goal is to have the corian finished before thanksgiving.

Blocks!

Now that the cabinets are in the GC and woodworker? woodsmith? carpenter?(not sure what he calls himself although I would be happy to call him the man based on his work) have begun work on our logo blocks that adorn the wall. The GC spent the weekend sketching out the plans, making adjustments and ordering the boards. One of my favorite parts of the original Green Tango design (thanks john!)

First Cabinet

But it looks a little lonely, don't you think.

Taking Photos of Photos

My photo of electrician's photos of the lights at the first Green Tango. Woah. Kinda trippy. If only I could make them spin. He was using them to get the track lighting mounted on the bulkhead exactly the same as he did 5 years ago.