Subject-RIP Front Door
January 30th, 2008
This arrived in my in box, with the above subject line. It runs as written. . .
Hello to all,
I have some sad news to pass on to everyone. As of today the Front
Door as we know and love has gone. A new owner has purchased the
place and let me go. It will now become part of the Reef and its
management team. Alex has left on his own accord and I am not sure
who of the remaining staff will stay. I may have bad things to say
about this, but unlike one of my trusted former employees I will not
bad mouth anyone; that wouldn’t help my future cause, you know karma.
I promise this, I will resurface, and as long as I am here, I will
make sure there is a beer scene of this magnitude in Boise. I, along
with Matt from the Co-op, are going to plan a wake for the Front Door
so we can all say goodbye. We are going to plan it sometime soon so I
will keep you updated on that.
If it is alright I am going to hold on to all of your email addresses
so I can keep you updated on what is going on with my future plans.
There is one keg of Abyss left which I am sure they will be tapping soon.
Thank you to all of you for the support you have shown our cause. I
have truly loved creating the Front Door and getting to know all of
you.
I will be in touch,
Shane
- Posted in About Town
January 30th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Big surprise, The Krick Evil Empire has unceremoniously fired another hard working, talented manager. It will be hard for Dave Krick to find a qualified replacement that he hasn’t already dumped. Shane, if it is any comfort you are in good company.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
sad
I have always liked that place.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Well…
Technically Dave Krick had nothing to do with this decision. The Reef & Front Door were under new ownership when this particular unceremonious torching of talent occurred.
We create enough of our own bad press… some of which we deserve, and some of which is at least slightly misconstrued… Let’s allow the new owners of Reef to generate their own press if that’s what’s going on here.
Kevin Kelpe
February 1st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I don’t understand the first reply. He says in his e-mail that another person had bought the Reef & Front Door. What does the firing have to do with Dave Krick? I say kudos to Dave Krick for finally selling those places. He never should have opened them in the first place.
February 2nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
This whole thing is ridiculous. Mainly because of the clusterfuck that is occurring for the servers. I don’t think having new managers that don’t know anything about the beer we serve is conducive to our business. The worst part is the new manager (the reefs gm) has been picking fights with servers and staff at the Front Door since Krick brought her on, she doesn’t care about the Front Door.
February 2nd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
So what’s the deal,”employee” seems to think Dave Krick is behind this. Isn’t the Reef still part of the Krick group? The way employee speaks of the new management sure sounds like Krick!!!!
February 2nd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
DON’T CHANGE A THING!! IF YOU START SERVING DOMESTIC CRAP - I WILL NEVER EVER GO BACK AGAIN!!!
KEEP EVERYTHING THE SAME - IF THE NEW OWNER COMPLAINS - TELL THEM %^#^%$&%&*^%&^ THAT THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!!
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
No Krick sold it to the same owner of legends sports bar at the Edward’s complex. Shane being fired isn’t Krick’s fault, the new owner fired him, and he hasn’t told us why. Reef sold with the Front Door, and the new owner is combining the staff, and management, meaning that the Reef management stayed and is now the front door management. A lot of our regulars have concerns about the new owner not keeping the format. As of now, we have been told that absolutely nothing is going to change….
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
All of this chatter does not accurately reflect my intent to keep intact EVERYTHING that has been so masterfully built by many. I will give proper credit to Shane for imparting his skilled touch in the whole process! In passing the torch, we have much work to do to continue it’s evolution. Please be assured we will not dispoint the discriminating beer lovers!
February 4th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
What is angering about this whole situation is that the new GM, a girl from The Reef, has absolutely NO beer knowledge. Along with no people skills. I personally have been sitting at the bar in the Front Door when this gem of an employee showed up, and was so passive aggressive with the Front Door staff that I almost got up and left. Keep in mind that at this time, this gal had absolutely NO business with the staff of the Front Door. Now this is the peach that will be managing the Front Door. The new owner fired Shane, who had more beer knowledge than anyone I have ever met. He’s actually a “brew master.” Shane and Alex built that business from the ground up- they were given crap to work with from Krick, and still managed to make that place a huge success. The new owner owns Legends out by Edwards, and if you’ve ever been in there, you know that the staff has no customer service, and a lot of attitude. So apparently this owner is just a seeing dollar signs, instead of building a great business with a great staff. Stand up for downtown Boise, and take a stand against these huge slum-business owners. BOYCOTT THE FRONT DOOR AND REEF!
February 6th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
i noticed that a couple comments have been deleted. what was the reasoning for it? i am going to have a hard time showing my patronage after all this. i really enjoyed going there and got along with most of the employees. does anyone know who the new manager is? i heard rumors…and i’m a little concerned.
February 6th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
There are more comments in the update.(see above) Nothing has been dropped. Unless they are offensive or smam, Boisee.com does not delete or edit the comments.
February 7th, 2008 at 12:09 am
The new manager is Whitney from the Reef (Shes the GM up there, and now the Front Door). If Shane had such a skilled touch, why was he fired? Maybe in corporate America you fire people that are doing well? I am just going to enjoy sitting back and watching as Whitney destroys this place from the ground up.
April 19th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
The new owners of the front door are unfriendly and standoff-ish. I had the displeasure of witnessing one of them ( the woman) engaging in an argument with an employee at the entrance to the building. Of course she didn’t pause for a moment - ( especially not to greet a patron). Why would she? She acted disinterested in me, a long standing customer of the front door, the first time we encountered each other. She sucks! Oh, excuse me, I’m actually a former customer now. There are too many cool places to go downtown to pad the pockets of these egocentric fools.