Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:04:54 -0600
To: balloon@balloonhq.com
From: Lisa WIlliams <williamsfam@tsixroads.com>
Subject: Need advice about working a restaurant on Monday nights

Dear Larry,
This is Lisa Williams aka Jingles the clown. I have been working at Pizza 
Hut in a town about 30 miles away from my home on Tuesday nights now for 18 
months. I draw a crowd to see me pretty well. When I started the restaurant 
only had about a dozen or so customers in the 2 and 1/2 hours that I work. 
Now most Tuesday's is standing room only. I see about 50 kids on a standard 
night, maybe a hundred if we're busy.

I finally got a restaurant in the town where I live. It is a locally owned 
place called The Dinner Bell. The food is good. A group from my church 
usually eats there on Sunday nights after church. The restaurant wants to 
introduce me this Saturday night. Then start me on Mondays on a trial basis 
to see if I can draw a crowd and increase their business. They wanted me on 
Tuesdays but they agreed on Mondays since I'm already booked on Tuesdays. 
I'm not as well known where I live as I am in Selmer where my other 
restaurant is.


The thing is I'm not sure exactly how I was able to build such a following 
of repeat customers on Tuesdays. I work in clown doing face painting, 
balloon sculpture and general cutting up with the customers. Talk, joke, 
and have fun . I try to learn new stuff often so I can have something fresh 
for the children I see every week. Virtually all my birthday party work has 
come from people seeing me at this one restaurant. I'll bring in as much 
from parties this year as I will from working that one night at a restaurant.

  I'm sort of nervous about the new restaurant. Do you think I should do 
anything differently. Or do you have any advice when starting in a new 
place like this.

Thanks in advance ,
Lisa