Saturday, May 22, 2010

Melt packs 'em in

The social media taking the world by storm, Facebook, gives each user a little different spin on anything and everything, depending on what they are looking for.

Obviously, in the news media, you can not take what you read on Facebook and just run with it before verifying and getting all sides....

But, for a light, fun story--why not!

The newest craze on the east side was the grand opening of Melt --which opened Friday night --at Cedar and Taylor Roads in Cleveland Heights! Whew hoo! Finally!

My nephew's roommate works there as well as many of his friends.

In fact, the band my nephew is in was included for posterity in one of the many murals painted on the walls of Melt!


Friday night was quite a hopping night in the newsroom --had at least 4 stories alone for just one of my cameramen to cover.....he started close, worked his way east and then south for 2 stories......

His second story was popping in to shoot the grand opening of the new Melt.

Periodically throughout the night, I was able to track the success and popularity of this new venue.

I had friends and family who were attempting to dine there....and by the Facebook updates, was informed that at one point, there were hours and hours of wait time not only for an in restaurant table BUT for take-out! Holy cow!

Kinda fun to track this 'unscientific' data for a very fun story!!

Can't wait to hit the new Melt, hopefully wait free!

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