Fort Worth Meet (BJs), Bringing the 'F' to d-F-w-50s
 

Since the Dallas guys don't seem to want budge from their meets on the east part of town and it seems like we have several in the Fort Worth area that are looking for a closer meet, I know I am. So I wanted to make this an official meet for us.

We are looking to do this meet every Wednesday Night @ 7pm.
The first meetup will start this coming Wednesday night @ 7pm 1/29/14.

We are going to start out meeting at the BJs at the Alliance Shops off Heritage Trace Blvd. Right off of 35W, on the north bound side of 35W. You can see BJs from the highway.

Address:
BJ'S Restaurants Inc
9401 Sage Meadow Trail
Fort Worth, TX 76177

Map:
https://www.google.com/maps/preview/...af5e013f0579af

Depending on how well this meet does we will keep it here for now. If we have to end up moving offsite a bit due to turnout size that is fine. This particular area has a A LOT of parking so I think we will do pretty well in the infant stages.

Of course I have to mention. No burnouts, excessive engine revving, or jack ass behavior will be tolerated. This is a meet up with the mindset for us to get to know each other. Let us respect the local business as well so we can continue to meet.

Depending on how many people we have come out as well I may consider giving the restaurant manager a call to give them a heads up.

Can't wait to see yall there! I'll try to get there a tad early to secure some parking in the back of the lot facing the restaurant entrance.

We need an admin to add this to the weekly meet thread.

I am also open for any suggestions as well but it seems the general conciseness on the Facebook page agrees with this.

Its no wonder Dallas people would not attend these meets.
Tarrant county is a mess.
I live in Keller and work in Coppell. It takes me an hour to get home leaving the office at 5-5:15pm.
Then have to fight 377 or 820 afterwards..haha no thank you.

I'd love to make it out. I'm not far from there from my job but, I get off work at 4pm. I can maybe pull that if Frank doesn't mind me hanging around his shop for awhile lol.

-Alex

Pretty much. It's a shame too because there is actually a lot to do over there, it's just not worth fighting all that traffic for it.

Besides, the best meet in DFW is here in north Dallas on Friday nights for over a decade in the same location. No other meet anywhere in Texas can make that claim. ;)

Same can be said for us trying to make the stuff on the east parts of town. The coit meet is 40-50 miles one way for most of us.

Also if we have any folks more towards the central / east part of town this place is really easy to get to. 114 all the way to 35 and the meet is just about 5 miles south or branch off to 170 and its within a few miles.

There is no dealing with 820/377 unless you are coming up from the further south parts of Fort Worth. This meet is designed to be removed from some of the terrible traffic locations.

I think a good idea would be have a once a month meet on a Saturday night somewhere in the midcities.

Strokd has a friend who owns So Cal Taco shop in Grapevine that I'm sure would be happy to host a once a month GTG for us. I think Grapevine would be a good half way point for everyone and easy enough to get to.

Yeah, the traffic is the absolute killer part about it. 7 PM isn't a bad meeting time. Most of the traffic is died down.

That's fine you can start your own meet then once a month for something like that.

This meet is more tailored for the west of town folks really. Anybody is welcome to come too from any part of town; if they want to make the drive. I just know a lot of people's pain in coming out to meets from the Fort Worth area to the east parts of town.

This is by no means supposed to complete with Coit or something like that. This is just an opportunity for local members to meet each other and hang out.

I think so too. I've been out to this area several times since I've lived in this part of town and traffic is pretty decent at that time. We can always modify meeting times if we need to.

Tsk, tsk.

It was just a side idea to bring both sides of the metroplex together to fix your complaint about Dallas side not making it over there. Wasn't trying to intrude on your idea. Not like I've had any success building up a meet or anything. Carry on with your idea that 6 cars will show up to.. lol

Grapevine is good spot as well.

-Alex

This.

Also I think we may have 8-9 cars show up. ;-) lol

We've tried Grapevine already. It fell through pretty hard because Dallas folks complained about the drive and stopped coming.

Dude I am about at the limit with your crap. I don't need your negative opinions on how this should be done. You are trying to completely side track this meeting's time and location.

I'd be open to your opinion if 1 you were coming to this meet and 2 if your suggestion was reasonable. This was something designed for the local FTW people and anybody else willing to drive this way, since nobody budges for us.

I am plenty for your idea for a monthly meet as well closer to the middle of the metroplex if you want to start something like that, instead of bringing this one down.

Trust me I was all for Grapevine when that was happening until it started migrating back east further and further, then there was nothing. The closest meet to us FTW guys now is somewhere in Carrollton which is about a 35+ mile hike one way.

How do you make sure other cars don't park in out spot? Cuz everytime I go by there it's always packed

Yea Alex come by the shop and we can roll out there together

From the people interested so far on the FB page it does seem we have a good starting number. So far so good :)

Ah okay gotcha, I wasn't aware of that. Kudos on the restaurant choice as well. Love BJs!

-Alex

I may swing by today and gauge the parking situation just to see what we may be able to pull off.

It make take a meet or two to iron out some bugs but so long as we got some interested people in wanting to meet up i'd say that is a solid start for sure.

Appreciate it man, I'll keep that in mind!

-Alex

I love their pizza!

Actually, more Dallas folk showed up to the grapevine meet than FW people did. That's why they got tired of driving that far for just a Dallas meet.

This meet will be very solid. The comments I got from people on Facebook is why I put the post up on Facebook asking to start this meet.

Fort Worth Meet (BJs), Bringing the 'F' to d-F-w-50s
 

Check out SoCal. Great food, but I think the parking may be limited. I could be wrong, but it seems like a small area if a lot of cars show up. Good location though . I think the BJ's location is great. Easy to get to and plenty of room and great food. +1 Darkhelmet!
Edit: I drove by Socal. Plenty of parking. FYI for future

You may be right I feel it was more of a 50/50 group at its prime, but I think a lot of it also had to do with the effort involved on how it was coordinated.

Haha!
I'm not trying to side track anything. Was just offering to help out to bring both sides together. You can drop the attitude at any time.

Another side note- thought you were selling your car?

In the past, large mass chain restaraunts are very hard to organize a meet at because there is no way to control the lot. You can try to make arrangements with a manager for food/drink specials and they will sometimes even reserve an area of parking but you will need a large turnout guarantee for them to do that.

The alternatives to that are finding a side parking lot to the location, or going in off hours not near a lunch/dinner rush. Traditionally though, meets at large chain locations don't work due to how busy they are and management not wanting the liability and the ability to turn tables/parking locations and they can't do that with car guys camped out in their parking spots for so long.

I think there are ways around that if the car group goes inside for beers/food etc..
Bj's is a good enough restaurant that im sure no one would be opposed to retreat inside.

Not sure where you got the idea I was selling my car. I never once mentioned that and I never talk to you or see you.

However, thank you for your input on the restaurant idea. Input like this I welcome.

This area however is pretty large and has shops / parking available in abundance. This is why we tossed around the idea on the FB page. Also like I mentioned guys we can change this up how we see fit. If we are taking up too much space we can move off site a bit more, like I mentioned.

I didn't plan on asking the restaurant to reserve tables. The intent is to become a meeting spot for us and we can enter the restaurant if people desire.

Again I don't plan on this being a huge mass meet like Coit but something more concise to meet each other in the group.

Also I might add too we don't need to make this 100% official as this meet is in such infancy we may / may not have to change location / meet time. I think at this time we need to just get a feeler for what we can accomplish at this site.

Exactly how I saw it. Previously when we did have a meet in grapevine at Bone Daddy's most of us ended up inside no matter the weather to get food / drinks. I felt that worked out pretty well and they never had problems with us.

We can always move down towards fuzzys/five guys lot. That is always wide open. BJs will be perfect to start out at.

Hmm, okay. Well that opens you up to a lot of places. I know some other car buddies on that side of town really like the Magnolia Motor Lounge. Good food and drinks, sometimes live music. It's gearhead car guy themed place. I believe it's in downtown Ft.Worth area. I've personally never been there but have wanted to try it out.

Defiantly lets consider this. I think the first meet at BJs will tell us a lot on how it will work out in the future.

Thanks for the suggestion. Downtown parking might be tough as a group.

Ya that place is cool but we wanted something that was a bit further north. Seemed like there was more of Keller/Haslet/Roanoke/watauga people vs downtown ft worth people.

No problem. Just trying to help. Good luck with getting something going regularly, fellas.

Thanks Brah

Yeah, trying to get people to navigate parking and such in Downtown is going to be tougher. There is a free after 5 PM garage off Calhoun and 3rd street, but no one would get to see the cars. LOL

I think this meet will catch on. Hopefully have some more people just randomly show up too.

We can always post it on Facebook pages to get more exposure if we want. Not that we have to.

Should do it in Plano/Frisco