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I didn't take me more than the first few sentences to know what shop was going to be named. It's a new day and age at Red Top. Sometimes when I walk in there, you can cut the tension among the staff with a knife. Sometimes, it's like the old days, when everyone's your friend. If Tom, the new owner, wants a more business-like atmosphere in there, instead of the old clubhouse where guys hung around the counter, yukking it up with the staff, drinking coffee, and not spending any cash, that's his prerogative as the guy paying the bills. Whether that makes sense from a business standpoint, I don't know. A year-round operation needs its regulars to survive after tourist season, and making regulars feel unwelcome to come in and BS doesn't make sense to me.
Greg, Dylan, and Bull, of the long-time employees, are good people, though. I'm not sure whether Nelson will be back this summer after he comes back from Florida.
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