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# Harsh words for the parlor
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/harsh-words-for-the-parlor/
- Published: 2002-03-22T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:09:42.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Main St, #archive-import

This is a response to the Omelet Parlor regarding the farmer’s market. • You expanded into your annex with “help” from the city. (Somehow your application to expand was approved without much attention paid to addressing parking and congestion). • Perhaps your expansion has not been as successful as you wanted. • Do you want to make the sidewalk in front of your store impassable every day now? You use the public sidewalk, (much to the discomfort of strollers and shoppers), as if it were an entitlement; an outdoor waiting room, and it is always packed on weekends. • The families and babies and organic shoppers are NOT and never have been your market place. • The market has evolved into what the PUBLIC wants. • I love it when “(a)” business tells society what is a “correct” position. What makes you think that Main Street businesses are the only ones entitled to the public’s money? Have you declared Ocean Park YOUR personal gold mine? • Spend as much time promoting your business as you do rationalizing your alleged losses and leave a good thing alone.

You have the arrogance to pay 24/7 rent but you close after less than nine hours.... get creative... add menu items that reflect more than breakfast.... • I eat at the Omelet Parlor once in a while, but you know what? On a Sunday morning I want to be able to eat what I want and where I want for less than 9$ an omelet... • Lemme see... a few of your customers complain about parking....? over 2,000 people per weekend seem to like the market... and they, as MOST of your clients do, WALK to Main Street. • You can try to shut down the food vendors at the farmer’s market but it will not solve your problem.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 22, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/032202.pdf?ref=smdp.com)