Page 18 of Break My Heart
I can do this. I can beat Sawyer just like I did when we were kids. I’m actually looking forward to it.
Chapter 5
Sawyer
‘The place is packed,’ Nick says, taking a seat at the bar, the only one left. ‘You running some kind of special?’
I pick up the menu I printed out. ‘Now through Saturday, $2 beers.’
‘Isn’t that what the other place is doing?’
‘Yeah, and their special ends today, which means tomorrow and this weekend it’ll be even busier here.’
‘So you copied her.’
‘It’s not copying. It’s price matching.’
‘Sounds like copying to me. Does she know?’
‘Yeah, she was here earlier.’ I smile. ‘She was pissed, but hey, it’s business. It’s not personal. So what can I get you?’
‘I’ll take the new lager.’
I fill up a glass and bring it to him. ‘You should’ve seen how cocky she was, telling me her beer is better than mine.’
‘Is it?’
‘No! What the hell? Why are you taking her side?’
‘I’m not. I’m just asking if it’s true. I’ve heard people talkingabout that place, saying how good the beer is. Just today, I heard a couple at the orchard saying they’d been to G’s and plan to go back. And they live 20 minutes away.’
‘Did you tell them about this place?’
‘Yeah, and I gave them one of your flyers, but as they were leaving, I heard the guy telling his wife he wanted to stop at G’s on the way out of town.’
‘Probably because of the $2 beers.’
‘Maybe, or maybe she really does have good beer.’
‘She does, but it’s not better than mine.’
‘And you’re not a little bit biased?’
I fold my arms over my chest. ‘What are you trying to say? That my beer’s not good enough?’
‘I’m saying you can’t get too comfortable. You need to keep trying to make it better, especially now that you have competition. You have a good location and a name people know, but that may not be enough if she’s got better beer.’
‘Her beer is not better than mine.’
‘Have you tried it?’
‘I went there last night. I told you that.’
‘And tried what .?.?. one beer?’
‘Two, which was enough to tell me hers isn’t any better than mine.’
‘Guess we’ll find out for sure when you two stop doing these price cuts.’ He takes a drink of his beer.
