Most nights, the servers are the last people to leave besides the closing managers. The owners of the neighboring Tang & Biscuit shuffleboard bar are preparing to open a breakfast and lunch restaurant, Biscuits & Gravy, in the former Dairy Bar space at 1602 Roseneath Road. If it's dead, they still won't cut you because nobody wants to help clean at closing. They are way over scheduled because at any moment a party of 20 could walk in for a party, which means all of you will be just wondering around or put on deep cleaning tasks until you have tables. They will basically let you know that the servers are treated poorly and hardly make money. If you're a good server, you'll have other employees ask you why you are there. They don't even move THE BAR SEATS themselves for the weekends. Yet, the bartenders don't wait on or clean any area besides the bar which is roughly 10% of the sqft of the whole place. They also take a higher % of tips than the servers out of the tip pool. You'll watch them split it every night as you mop the floors at closing. If you're desperate for money, I would only recommend this as a job to take while searching for another job, then leaving as soon as you can.īartenders take home cash tips every night, where servers rarely do because they can't accept cash transactions. I didn't enjoy any of my year there, and dreaded having to go in for shifts. None of the employees enjoy working there, and most of them spend their time on shift getting high. They provide no training and then are quick to blame you for anything and everything, and management sits in the corner on their laptops without ever looking to help with any tasks. And on the rare day you aren't scheduled to close, they will make you do all their closing tasks before you clock out at closing time. Also, you should expect every shift to be 8 hours long, with nobody getting cut throughout the night. I requested around 25 hours per week, and was scheduled for almost 40, with all of my time-off requests denied. They will also promise flexibility in scheduling, only closing once or twice a week, thorough training, and easy time-off requests, but won't follow through on any of it. First off, they tell you that they are a friendly and diverse environment, but it's purely a bar where rich white people in Richmond come to get drunk and berate employees. Chasen & Son property along West Marshall Street, where it plans a three-building, 352-unit development.Ĭapital Square also has its sights on the downtown area, where it’s one of the four development teams vying for the City Center project.Don't let your interview and orientation fool you, Tang and Biscuit does not live up to their promises. It also recently began demolition work on the former N. It is wrapping up work on The Otis, a city-block-wide, mixed-use project across the street at 1601 Roseneath Road. Blue Bee Cider plans to move to Bethlehem Road near Libbie Mill.Ī project on the sites would add to Capital Square’s project list in the neighborhood. Hack.RVA is at least the second local business to leave Scott’s Addition for the Westwood area in recent months. “That being said, if we find a space more suitable for us in another neighborhood, we’ll go there.” I never expected to move there originally but we’ve fallen in love with the neighborhood,” Stephens said. “Our hope is to stay in Scott’s Addition. Moving Mountains moved into 1,500 square feet in the Roseneath building in January and owner Jenna Stephens said she is looking for a spot to move to. Hack.RVA board member John Vann said the group is leaving Roseneath after 11 years and relocating to 2026 Dabney Road in Henrico’s Westwood area. In addition to the two restaurants, other tenants in the properties include Hack.RVA Makerspace, ObscurO Jewelry and Moving Mountains Tattoo Collective. Stanley Shield’s Jimmy Stanley declined to comment. It bought the property last year for $7 million.
The former Biscuits & Gravy building is owned by an entity tied to local development firm Stanley Shield Partnership. Biscuits & Gravy, which replaced the Dairy Bar last year, has posted that it’s closed permanently.įratkin and Gallagher also own Tang & Biscuit’s building, which they bought in 2017 for $1.7 million.
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