All very good advice.

the tourists here are of 2 ditinct groups....

1st is international (japan, italy, germany..ect..) and those from several states away...those would be the least likely to be repeat or even 1st time customers (unless word of mouth/advertisement at hotels caught their eye/ear)...

the 2nd and larger group is folks from within California and they are for the most part those that have permanent Summer palces up here or make it a yearly/bi-yearly custome to vacation here...they tend to visit regularly in the spring and summer for the lakes, weather and of course Yosemite and in the fall and winter for the skiing...these are the ones that will most definately be repeat cutomers looking for the good food with a local feel.

no need to worry about it being an 'tourist trap' that is not at all the direction that i am going with this....the business would fail if that were the focus not to mention that the employees would be seasonal for the most part with too much turn over and that would result in folks working for me that really couldn't care less about how well they are doing their jobs....