From Harford County government:
The Harford County Office of Tourism has announced the dates for Harford County’s Fourth Annual Restaurant Week June 3- 15, 2013.
Restaurants interested in participating in the annual event should contact Wini Roche, Tourism & Marketing Manager, via email wjroche@harfordcountymd.gov or phone 410-638-3059 for details. Participating restaurants are required to be a Tourism Partner, plus provide a $25 gift card to be used as prizes for the contest.
Changes will be implemented for the 2013 Restaurant Week including more flexibility on the price point. Restaurants may offer three course prix fixe (price fixed) menus at a higher price point as long as two of those meals start at $20.13 (or less), plus tax, gratuity and beverage. Limited service restaurants may also participate by offering a special value.
Also new this year is the contest will be social media based qualifying diners to win gift cards from each participating restaurant. Contest cards will not be distributed at restaurants this year. More than forty restaurants throughout Harford County have participated in past years. This year, as in 2012, the promotion time was extended at the request of the restaurants.
“By joining this promotion, Harford County’s participating restaurants have seen an increase in business 10-15% for the week while expanding their customer base,” Ms. Roche said.
The Office of Tourism will promote the week through radio, print, social media and on-line advertising. A list of the 2013 participating restaurants and their menu selections will be available on the tourism website at www.harfordmd.com by the middle of May.
Sad to see this “program” hi-jacked from what Havre de Grace Started. So each area now is now competing with each other for limited dollars. Should be a Bel Air week, a Aberdeen week, then a Havre de Grace week ect. Again a waste of tourism dollars. Its time to find a new director of tourism for Harford County; and they want a new Hotel Tax for more of this crap. Stop throwing money away and listen to the tax payers.
If Havre de Grace only has 1 decent restaurant in the whole town.
The idea of restaurant week is to get people to try places they have not visited before. Given the limited market in HdG, you’d quickly run out of new places.
Actually a hotel tax is a great idea. How are we the only county without one? So you seriously buy the idea that a few dollar tax a night, which we all pay EVERYWHERE else we get a hotel room, is going to hurt hotel room bookings? Seriously? Idiot.
yes, seriously, hide behind a keyboard and name call. You would be an idiot for wanting even more taxes. The hotel tax is supposed to be for tourism. Please idiot, help the other idiots come up with 3 specific proposals for this money, and you may find us idiots be willing to go along with it. In the mean time, get bent, and God Bless
You are a moron.
But one of the smart morons.
Leave it to a Liberal to want a tax because everyone else has it. The Troll probably loves the new rain tax.
Leave it to a selfish narrow minded compassionless clueless conservative to express his desire not to have his precious money touched and to let other people pay for the stuff he benefits from.
Leave it to a self entitled pseudo-compassionate thinks he knows it all federal employee to express his desire not to have his bloated paycheck touched by letting other people pay for the stuff he benefits from.
Because can think of many wonderful ways to spend your money. If that bothers you then Because will make all kinds of allegations about your thought process, the hate you have for your fellow man, and many other allegations he can think of to try and frame you as an uncaring person. Your problem (according to Because) is you are just an uncaring idiot.
Now get yourself down to the ATM, make a significant withdrawal, arrange to meet Because somewhere to hand over your money, and he will be able to place your wealth where he determines it is best spent.
It is a bizarre mentality indeed that uses that as a primary reason to have it. You could almost argue anything, ANYTHING else, but to justify extracting folks hard earned money with the excuse that everyone else does it only illustrates the twisted times we’re in.
The same people who use the excuse of ‘everyone else does the tax’, are the same people who would decry a corporation or business that was charging an unnecessary fee or surcharge for their product or service, (just because everyone else does it) as greedy money grabbers.
That’s a very, very good point and you absolutely know it’s true.
Not really, you dont have to buy the item from the corporation. you can avoid it.
Not if they all do it. That was Bear’s point. If a fee is charged (just because they all do it) then the only way to avoid the fee is to never buy. The hotel tax could be avoided if you never stayed in a hotel, but that wasn’t the point.
A hotel tax, famous for being ubiquitous, is really taxation without representation. Thinking of ways to tax people who have no say in the matter is really brilliant governance.
Or, like Democrats taxing Republicans in Maryland, same thing really.
Anyway, a hotel tax is really far down my totem pole of tax outrages. Over it.