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Following Your Dream..

What is this salad you speak of? Is it a pork product? How long do you fry it? What kind of cheese do you serve on it?

Must be some kind of European dish.
 
Plecostomus said:
BorgMan said:
Döner Kabab is one of my favorite *I don't have time but I need to eat something that fills the tummy FAST* meals. At the trainstation you get a bread full of the stuff (it's not pita, it's some kind of other round bread) for €3,25. What do you pay at your place for it?

And that Glutton burger... is that for real? I don't want to see the guy who eats that, I'm getting sick of the thought already...
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They used to give a free t-shirt to anyone who could eat a whole Glutton Burger in one sitting but with the the number of truckers who stop in they were getting raped on the t-shirt deal.

It is for real, most people eat part of it here and take the rest home it was intended to be a novelty meal rather than something you actually eat in one sitting. A contest as you will. Now the place is famous for it and they serve six or seven of them a day.


The DK here is $5.10 but its a very big portion. That's normally gone by 130pm.
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I like the idea of eating some of the glutton burger and taking the rest home - that could be your week's meals in one go!
 
trampledamage said:
Plecostomus said:
BorgMan said:
Döner Kabab is one of my favorite *I don't have time but I need to eat something that fills the tummy FAST* meals. At the trainstation you get a bread full of the stuff (it's not pita, it's some kind of other round bread) for €3,25. What do you pay at your place for it?

And that Glutton burger... is that for real? I don't want to see the guy who eats that, I'm getting sick of the thought already...
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They used to give a free t-shirt to anyone who could eat a whole Glutton Burger in one sitting but with the the number of truckers who stop in they were getting raped on the t-shirt deal.

It is for real, most people eat part of it here and take the rest home it was intended to be a novelty meal rather than something you actually eat in one sitting. A contest as you will. Now the place is famous for it and they serve six or seven of them a day.


The DK here is $5.10 but its a very big portion. That's normally gone by 130pm.
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I like the idea of eating some of the glutton burger and taking the rest home - that could be your week's meals in one go!
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More like dinner and breakfast for me. :techman:
 
Hi all!

Thanks for the support, I've been wanting to do this for years. Should of seen the look on Mom and Dad's face when I walked into the house with my lawyer and a check told them I wanted to buy the diner and take over ASAP. :D

Pleco isn't joking about the menu we serve stuff like that, along with more traditional dishes like pasta and steaks and stuff like that. We've been doing alot of traffic with the high-end Greek dinners, I'm going to expand out and add some tradtional dutch recipes as I get them and possibly try to introduce a few wacky british dishes too.

DOn't want to change the core menu that's what makes us money, but I want to add these things as specials.

That and master a few meatless meals for the animal-product free crowd.


So far it's been a blast. The kitchen is up to code, the freezer and storeroom stocked, and the lead cook is terrified of me despite the pay raise. :D Long story.

Anyway, open to suggestions as to diner-scale meals we could trial. Plec is going to scale up some of his seafood dishes for next Friday.

Did I mention how much fun I'm having? I should have done this years ago.
 
Plecostomus said:
Zion Ravescene said:
An Officer said:
Ingenious. We could spend all day eating like pigs, then all night working out, so we could start again the following day. We could be the mascots of the place or something - a little zoo of pigs in the back.
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Even better, the treadmills and weights could be connected to a system which converts some of the kinetic energy back into electrical energy and channels it back into the local grid, so you could theroetically be powering the grill which cooks your lunch. :bolian:
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Whatever you do... DONT ASK about the protein resequencer in the basement.

CUSTOMER: Excuse me, ma'am this tastes like shit.
WAITRESS: I'll call the mechanic.

:D
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An Officer said:
^ Oh dear! :lol:
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If we start serving Taco-Bell mexican dishes I'll consider it. Otherwise don't install ANYTHING without asking me. :guffaw:
 
DUTCH DINNERS YAY! YAY FOR HUTSPOT!!! If you start serving Dutch food, you really need that and ofcourse the Broodje Unox!

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No, Wife of Brian, no Automats. Sell Healthy Stuff(TM)!
 
BorgMan said:
DUTCH DINNERS YAY! YAY FOR HUTSPOT!!! If you start serving Dutch food, you really need that and ofcourse the Broodje Unox!

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No, Wife of Brian, no Automats. Sell Healthy Stuff(TM)!
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The funny thing is we discussed an automat-style franchise awhile back when the truckstop down by Manchester closed. Decided against it because I don't need truck-drives feeding pesos and Canadian dollars to the machines. I don't mind fixing jams but not every hour of every day. :D
 
This is neat. I'm learning how they plan meals for the next day. For example they are going to make liver tonight. They know from the record that X number of people order liver on Sunday so they prep X + 4 pieces of liver and make X + 4 units of sauce. The meatloaf special, since that's just leftovers ground and mooshed they make big pans of that and whatever doesn't sell goes home with the staff.

Lot of planning. Had no idea all this stuff goes on behind the counter.


For those interested here are the highlights of tonight's specials:

Greek Spaghetti: Angel-hair pasta saturated with real butter, feta cheese, slices of olives and more butter and more cheese topped with four strips of marinated lamb. Served with garlic-bread, side salad and and a side.

Chicken Annette: Chicken-steaks marinated in olive-onion-wine sauce topped with olives, cheese and green peppers. Served over a bed of butter rice. Two sides.

Liver Dianne: OMG HUGE slab of liver served in wine-butter-garlic sauce topped with caramel onions. Served with two sides.

Mac And Cheese: Secret blend of cheeses, elbows, bacon, tomatoes and bread-crumbs. One side

Paradise By The Dashboard Light: (Dinner for two) Two big portions of meatloaf-and-gravy, scoop of mac and cheese, two side salads and choice of appetizer.
 
Zion Ravescene said:
Plecostomus said:
Paradise By The Dashboard Light: (Dinner for two) Two big portions of meatloaf-and-gravy, scoop of mac and cheese, two side salads and choice of appetizer.
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http://www.instantrimshot.com

Good to see the business is still going strong.

Now, how about that meet-up...? ;)
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Yeah this was my creation from awhile back when they started the "themed meal of the day" thing. They asked me to name the meatloaf special since I'm a big fan of the singer. :techman:
 
Plecostomus said:
Glutton Burger: two pounds of hamburger with a ham-steak, eight slices of cheese, 20 slices of bacon, greens, tomatoes, potato pancake, hot meat sauce, onions pepper, dressings served on extra thick toast.
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What the fuck.
 
Plecostomus said:
This is neat. I'm learning how they plan meals for the next day. For example they are going to make liver tonight. They know from the record that X number of people order liver on Sunday so they prep X + 4 pieces of liver and make X + 4 units of sauce. The meatloaf special, since that's just leftovers ground and mooshed they make big pans of that and whatever doesn't sell goes home with the staff.

Lot of planning. Had no idea all this stuff goes on behind the counter.
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One simply doesn't understand how much planning goes into running a restaurant unless they've done it. Pull to much out of the freezer and your profit goes in the garbage can. Pull too little and your customers bitch all night. Even gauging by the previous weeks meals, you're not going to pull an exactly right amount. You just hope that you fudged enough to have everyone happy without a ton of runouts or leftovers.

Have you done a food order yet? :devil:

I honestly think I spent more time on these two activities on a weekly basis than I did actually interacting with my customers.

A restaurant near here serves something very close to your Glutton Burger. Only differences are that it doesn't have the bacon and they call it the "Quadruple Bypass Burger".

How many meals are you serving on an average daily basis? Weekends? What are your hours of operation?

The former restaurant manager in me is now highly curious....

For those interested here are the highlights of tonight's specials:

Greek Spaghetti: Angel-hair pasta saturated with real butter, feta cheese, slices of olives and more butter and more cheese topped with four strips of marinated lamb. Served with garlic-bread, side salad and and a side.
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:drool::drool:

Can I get one of these delivered please?

Paradise By The Dashboard Light: (Dinner for two) Two big portions of meatloaf-and-gravy, scoop of mac and cheese, two side salads and choice of appetizer.
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I love this one. Sooooooo appropriately named.

As for rescaling your recipes, it's easy but you have to be good at multiplication. After doing the multiplication, you just reference a measurement conversion table like this one....http://www.pioneerthinking.com/measure.html
 
Captain Ice said:
Have you done a food order yet? :devil:
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In fact I have. One of the reasons Wife Unit "hired" me is I do purchasing at Soon To Be Former Day Job. No sweat. Same nonsense different vendors if you must. ;)

A restaurant near here serves something very close to your Glutton Burger. Only differences are that it doesn't have the bacon and they call it the "Quadruple Bypass Burger".
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Novelty meals like this are common in the region. The "Garbage Plate" is a good example. Two burgers, onions, meat sauce, hash-browns, beans, and slaw all mixed together and slapped on a plate. Looks nasty tastes divine. We don't serve that here though, too many other places have a version.

How many meals are you serving on an average daily basis? Weekends? What are your hours of operation?

The former restaurant manager in me is now highly curious....
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Don't know, but I've seen the trend graph and the last six months worth of balance sheets. Place brings in more profit that my Soon To Be Former Day Job and her Old Job times two.... so something is going right.




Paradise By The Dashboard Light: (Dinner for two) Two big portions of meatloaf-and-gravy, scoop of mac and cheese, two side salads and choice of appetizer.
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I love this one. Sooooooo appropriately named.
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Yeah I named that one. Awhile back her parents came up with the idea of offering one or two "theme meals" per day and I helped name a few of them. I'm a huge fan of Meatloaf, both the eating kind and the singing kind. :)
 
Sounds fantastic! Congratulations on following the dream and for having the balls to go for it WifeOB.
The menu sounds awesome. Son and I went out for Tapas the other day ~ 2 tapas for £6.95. one of the dishes was 2 meatballs in gravy - straight from the Cambells tin I think. This was on their 'introductory lunch special' I predict not many will be back for dinner! You definately have the right idea with the menu and portion size:lol:
The very best of luck to both of you, I wish your customers full bellies and yourselves full registers :beer:
 
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