Does anybody agree that if Smilers got rid of its tacky red plastic chairs and tables and invested in something a bit more substantial it would transform the whole corner and give it a much more upmarket image?

Tricky

A good point, tricky.

However, the red chairs are probably part of a marketing scheme for the beverage company that provides them. Maybe loosing benefits from a supplier is a valid reason to continue to use them.

Maybe relocating the phone booth would be a good step towards clearing up that corner.

I guess restaurants/bars spreading over the pavements is a general problem. The 3 J's over the road from Smilers seems to occupy more outdoor space each time we visit. Agree about the phone booth though G.. Each time I force myself to sit on a tacky red chair and sip a Guinness, I'm often forced to listen to someone's life history coming from the phone booth!

Ain't life a bitch!

Yeah, but someone has to live it!

..yeh get rid of plastic chairs, put's us off a bit....
gaynor

I was thinking, some nice wooden chairs and perhaps green canvas umberella's, or a bit of wraught iron (bit hard on the bum though)
I'm sure some of the breweries that they use could supply something better than the 'Tacky' red chairs and plastic tables.

Come on Smilers, clean up Carvoeiro, avoid visual pollution

Tricky

I assume the next demand should be that all the patrons sitting at Smilers be colour co-ordinated and that starts with their clothes. I always saw the place full with patrons and never noticed the chairs they were sitting in. Funny how people would change the colour of trees if they could.

tricky wrote:Does anybody agree that if Smilers got rid of its tacky red plastic chairs and tables and invested in something a bit more substantial it would transform the whole corner and give it a much more upmarket image?

Tricky

...would be happy to supply some of our "all weather furniture" to Smilers or any other bar/restaurant with tacky plastic chairs and tables...

Rob.

My dearly beloved has just informed me he does'nt care what he sits on as long as Smilers keep serving him the "waters of the Liffey" when we're in CVO
Mind think I read recently that the sales for Guinness were down can't understand it, J certainly does his bit to keep the shareholders happy

Sorry I've been away from CVO for 2 months! Will do my best to improve Guinness sales when back at the end of September. Must agree though, I've never really noticed the chairs.

What difference does the chairs make.
People go to Smilers because they enjoy it not because of the furniture.

I wasn't suggesting that the type of chairs would stop anyone visiting smilers, but I do think that whole corner is a bit of an eyesore and that better quality furniture would help to improve it.

Tricky

Have to agree with tricky it can't be said that the chairs & brollies are a thing of beauty & I think they let smilers down. We really like the place & the staff but the outdoor furniture is positively naff!

I agree the red pastic furniture is tacky. There is a mayor in some remote Italian village that has banned all plastic furniture outside restaurants and bars now is that not a step forward !!

Gary