1. Mimi’s Cafe in Bee Cave is closed, according to an email from their mailing list.
Yes, it was a chain. But they had pretty good breakfasts, and sent out a lot of BOGO coupons, so Mom and I ate there fairly frequently. With that Mimi’s gone, there’s an even bigger lack of breakfast places in the Lakeway/Bee Cave area. There’s a crepe place that has really inconsistent service, a “gastropub” that’s kind of noisy even for weekend brunch, a restaurant in the HEB, and a place that seems to cater to the old locals – the ones who have been there for 20+ years – and if you’re not one of them, to hell with you.
Somebody (not me) could probably make some money with an Egg and I or something like it in the Lakeway/Bee Cave area.
2. Overlawyered linked to this Sixth Circuit decision in the case of Acosta vs. Cathedral Buffet and Ernest Angley. Basically, the Department of Labor sued the buffet for using volunteer church labor: a trial court ruled in DoL’s favor, but the Sixth reversed and remanded.
I note this here for several reasons:
1) I hate cafeterias.
II) Before it was Ernest Angely’s “Cathedral Buffet”, it was a cafeteria run by Rex Humbard.
c) Back in the day, when we were visiting my maternal grandmother, I got dragged to Rex Humbard’s cafeteria over my strenuous objections. To this day, I can still reliably get a rise out of people by referring to “the time y’all dragged me to Rex Humbard’s soup kitchen”.