/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17502143
dont open a shop front
at best it's something you could maybe sell home-made chips at the Sunday flea markets but thats it.
>why does no-one open one of these?
people have been selling shit to people for thousands of years.
if it was a good idea it wouldve been done by now
therefore it's not

>>17502143
chips go stale if they're kept out though, youo basically need airtight packaging of some kind

>inb4 you wind up with one of these

>>17502143
No one wants just chips you fucking fool. It's inherently insulting to even imply so.

Local burger house serves chips as the default side instead of fries, charges you extra for fries, fuck them.

>>17502143
>small town
good luck getting any business

just sell them from your home bro, make an etsy
it'll be better in the long run.

>>17502169
>No one wants just chips you fucking fool
But I do. And people have shops orientated around candy, or ice cream, or wine, or bread.

I can’t have a shop revolving around chips?

>>17502178
I don't like saying 'etsy' because sounds gay and I won't order anything from that fag site

>>17502187
>I can’t have a shop revolving around chips?
no, you cannot

>>17502151
There have been worse ideas that were popular
>>17502152
Good point
>>17502160
What the hell is this?
>>17502178
No one is going to get their chips from Etsy, they’ll just go to the supermarket or deli.

A shop that sells hot, fresh potato chips right off the line could be successful. You'd have to toss them in salt or various other seasonings right before serving.

>>17502197
>>I can’t have a shop revolving around chips?
>no, you cannot

I’ll sell crackers, nuts, and pretzels too

>>17502202
>A shop that sells hot, fresh potato chips right off the line could be successful
Excellent idea. I still like the idea of making my own and selling them in bags, but that could definitely garner some attention.

>>17502206
if you can find a way to prevent the chips from going sale i think it's not too bad of an idea
what kind of flavors would you have? what are you going to do to stand out? what is my incentive to buy chips/snacks from you?

>>17502206
Like a deli but with beer snacks. You may as well serve beer too, but then you've just opened a pub, nothing new.

>>17502206
>yeah bro you hear about that new shop in town? Autistic chips?
>no
>yeah it sucks, nothing but salty, overpriced food that doesn't make you full. They don't even sell drinks. I heard soneone found one of the owner's pubes in the chips too.
>fuck that im feeling McDonald's

>>17502198
I guarantee more people would buy the chips off the internet than they would from a shop in a small town

>>17502211
The standard, plain, BBQ, salt and vinegar, jalapeño, and maybe a few obscure ones or of my own creation.

I dunno, I’d try to find the best and most interesting potatoes and get high quality and rare spices, so it won’t just date like any chips you get from packaged brands.

I probably have a store made of very onset wood, with lots of racks with different chips on display, and a large oven to cook fresh chips that would make the place smell of fresh chips.

>>17502223
Would be based if the owner is trans.

>>17502215
>but then you've just opened a pub, nothing new.
No. That would just make it another $0¥ IPA place. I don’t want that vibe… and I do not drink or care about booze.

>>17502223
>nothing but salty, overpriced food that doesn't make you full
>salty
>doesn’t make you full
They are a snack food. No one goes to the ice cream or candy shop to get full.

Imagine the crunching.

>>17502240
Yes they do. Fatasses do it, but no one will do it with chips cause you'd have to buy a gazillion chips to feel full. Your premise is FLAWED

>>17502242
It would be beautiful

>>17502246
Your missing the point. ITS A SNACK SHOP NOT A RESTAURANT.

No one goes to a coffee or wine or cake shop to “get full”. What are you a cave man who thinks the only point of eating is hunger? It’s about taste!

>>17502242
Imagine these guys hopped up on IPAs and exposed brick walls fucking each other Raw in the shitty Chip shops bathroom, their moans louder than the chip eaters crunches

>>17502250
im trying to help you here man. No one is gonna go out for some overpriced chips, it ain't gonna happen.

>>17502253
Why do sexual thoughts come to mind when you look at a bunch of $0¥s? What the fuck?

Also we wouldn’t have a public restroom, it would be a small place.

>>17502143
fucking stupid idea. OP is on something

something like DRUGS

>>17502255
I never said they would be overpriced

>>17502256
because it would be great if they got raped

>>17502256
Because I'm mentally ill.
If you don't have a bathroom they'll just fuck on the serving counter

>>17502257
I can not be the only one who loves chips. I thought everyone loved chips, and I’m pretty sure I am right.

Something is wrong with this place.

>>17502255
The chips will be objectively better when they've come fresh out of the fryer compared to sitting in a sealed bag for who knows how long, speaking from experience. It might be worth the extra cost to people. Potatoes aren't very expensive anyway.

>>17502259
You arent going to be able to compete and undercut Lays potato chips. How much do you plan on charging for a small bag?

>>17502266
Is you and your refusal to accept there are more than 2 genders, fucking bigot

>>17502264
That’s why I’ll keep a pistol under the counter. Albeit it doesn’t even have to be a real one, they’ll go running the moment they see anything remotely threatening.

>>17502198
>What the hell is this?
It's an ice cream parlor that also sells a bunch of mexican candy, chips and other fun snacks. It's weird because it looks like a chain, but all the stores are independently run with their own different menus and products

>>17502268
>You arent going to be able to compete and undercut Lays potato chips.
But I can with taste. Kay’s is just GMO crap that taste the aftertaste of a mediocre chip.
>How much do you plan on charging for a small bag?
$2.50

>>17502275
>just chips
>no bathroom
>local chip man waves gun at people he doesnt like
You think these things make for a successful business?

>>17502278
Bizarre

Salty snacks and ice cream don’t sound like a good mix though.

>>17502286
peanuts and ice cream are great, I can see other salty snacks like pretzels working too

>>17502283
I think if people are having grotesque sexual relations in a small public space that is totally justified.

>>17502282
>$2.50
Wow, you think your chips are worth more than a mcdouble?

>>17502289
Good idea. I could have an ice cream section if my shop was a bit bigger, maybe I could partner with stone one trying to go into the frozen treats Buisness, which already seems competitive. I think having stuff aside from ice cream would give it an edge, and even if the non ice cream stuff couldn’t get attention on its own (which I believe is not the case), it would most certainly help.

This idea would probably only work as a food truck.

>>17502298
>Wow, you think your chips are worth more than a mcdouble?
Yes because
A. They taste good
B. They are not poisonous
C. I am not using drugged up cows potentially mixed in with bits of human flesh
D. I don’t have a satanic clown as my mascot

>>17502143
Why'd you post a picture of crisps then?

>>17502318
Over here we call them chips. I don’t care what the hell the rest of the world is doing.

I'm gonna steal this idea from you OP, if nothing else works out.

>>17502335
>steal
Not a problem, in fact I encourage you too. It’s not like there are any chip shops to compete for now, and you can set a standard for the Buisness.

>>17502318
a french fry shop would be infinitely more successful than OP's chips idea. id open my french fry shop across the street from OP to run him out of business and watch as his dreams get deep fried

Are we talking kettle cooked or standard? Kettle cooked are done in batches while standard chips are made in a continuous process.

This is the gayest fucking thread I've seen on here on years.
Congrats OP, whether your chip shop fails or succeeds you've set a new low bar today.

>>17502143
Small town sweet shops aren't exactly common either.

Just go try to sell chips at market, it's a time honoured way to make some extra money and a much better venue. If it becomes popular enough try to get local grocery shops to put some of it on their shelves.

>>17502152
A tank of nitrogen and a sealing machine are cheap enough.

OP, you want to start small with this sort of thing. Set up a stall at a farmer's market or flea market and build up a buyer base before you do something like a store. Word of mouth will be your biggest advertiser and if you have good product, the people who enjoy your stuff will follow you to the end of the earth.

>>17502349
I’ll se those too, thanks for eh idea
>>17502356
Kettle
>>17502357
At least I have ideas
>>17502370
>>17502408
Good advice

ITT: reddit

>>17502421
The replies obviously are.

>>17502421
Based.
I'm trans and valid too btw

>>17502235
>>17502427
What the hell do troons have to do with chips? They are more likely to get ice cream to LARP as their favorite anime girl.

>>17502430
Are you saying transgirls can't be fascinated by chips too?
Your judgmental nature will doom your business.

>>17502198
>There have been worse ideas that were popular
yeah but usually the people with these awful ideas are millionaires that can just pay someone else to market the idea to retards so it sells anyway.
it's literally elon musks's business model.
he's just an ideas guy, he pays people to invent shit for him

>>17502440
I commute to da big city and I have yet to see a troon in the past year, maybe some dumb bitch dying her hair blue and claiming to be non-binary, but that’s not a mutilated freak… they are non-existent outside Reddit and discord.

Say why the hell do you people bring up trannies so much, you talk about them more than the most far leftist I know IRL.

>>17502440
nobody likes trannies, nobody wants trannies around them. deal with it

>>17502453
Because transgirls are the future of humanity.

>>17502458
I do. I'm based and valid.

>>17502464
Your probably a troll, but either way you are boring and should shut up. The hell is wrong with you, I want to talk about selling tasty snacks and you want to talk about men who cut their genitals off.

>>17502469
That's very judgmental against transmen!
People of all ages, races and genders deserve equal treatment and chip opportunities.

>>17502143
good idea, just change it from small town, to a high traffic seasonal tourist town.

>>17502469
trannys eat snacks too anon

>>17502232
you'd need a bunch of weird meme flavours or no one is gonna bother going there, the only way this could see any sort of interest is getting zoomers to make tiktoks of them eating your horse semen and lean flavoured chips

>>17502489
This.

>>17502485
Based idea, yeah it would be a big tourist spot

>>17502143
do the carny circuit.

There was something like that where I lived years ago. They, of course, went out of business but during their short-lived existence, they were nice, if a bit overpriced. They had a pick-and-mix thing. You wouldn't think so but cookies-and-cream potato chips + barbecue potato chips mixed together works and it's delicious.

>>17502547
Did they have restrooms?

>>17502553
They were in a mall, so not necessary. What an odd question.

>>17502143
Someone in a small town near me had a similar idea
They wanted a small business making high quality chips with natural ingredients, better flavors, etc.
The issue was setting up to kettle fry chips, researching different recipe's etc. is only profitable if you make decent size batches and bag the chips up and sell the bags
Instead of a shop they ended up with a boutique chip maker that sold cases of bags to local grocery stores and gas stations
pic related

>>17502582
He needs to know so he can write a fanfic about $0¥jacks.

>>17502665
>is only profitable if you make decent size batches and bag the chips up and sell the bags
Probably what I would end up doing
>Instead of a shop they ended up with a boutique chip maker that sold cases of bags to local grocery stores and gas stations
Not the worst fate

>>17502665
luv me some Bappo Voodoo
simple as

>>17502665
>owned by mega corp Utz
lol

>>17502672
so why tf even bother with a storefront? who would bother going out of their way to buy a bag of chips

>>17502758
>who would bother going out of their way to buy a bag of chips
Oh they would bother for the best chips globhomo corps can’t make

>>17502143
small town wouldn't have enough people to support your novelty business, even if the product was good

>>17502143
A small town could never support this. Your business model is essential "Drunks come here in the night for drunk snacks, and we maybe make some small sales to normal folk in the day/evening." This sort of business could only turn a proift in the bar district of a large town that'll have a lot of drunk dudes wanting a good savory snack.

>>17502665
Those are actually quite delicious and I'm glad they went through with it.
>>17502725
Just looked it up. They were bought in 2011, although they did have "a few hundred" employees already so they were a pretty sizable operation.

>>17502143
The chips will go stale in the containers, also breakage. I'm imagining some retard coming in and ramming a pair of tongs into your bin of wasabi umami potato chips and crushing all of them while gingerly pulling out 3-4 chips. He does this to 5-6 different bins of chip and then takes his bag up to the counter and gives you $1.50 for his (cause no one is going to be willing pay more than that for chips).

>>17502143
I support your dream OP, I too have had a dream for a semi unique restaurant. Sadly mine will probably always stay a dream but if you really feel passionate about it and you have some talent and are willing to suffer failure I think you could make it happen. Artisan craft foods are very popular these days. I'm not sure about a storefront, maybe something more like a food cart or food stall. If you could setup somewhere downtown with a cart, get the scent of the chips wafting in the air to passing workers and you could hand them a piping hot fresh baggie of chips with interesting flavors I think you could make something of it. But that alone probably won't make you rich so you will need a stable side job for a while unless you are already setup.

>>17502879
They were founded in the 80's and were very small initially
After the founder died his heirs sold the company because none of them had the passion for kettle chips or the vision to understand cash runs out after a couple of generations but a successful family business can go on for a century or more

>>17502983
It’s just a idea I had for a while, never planned on making it a career path, but thank you for your support. If I ever have surplus money it’s definitely something I’ll invest in though, would be nice.

>>17502983
>>17503035
this is a better idea desu, customers buy fresh cooked chips and have a selection of interesting seasonings to toss them in

>>17502143
Do it. stupider food trends have caught on.

>>17502143
This would only work as a storefront thing if you sold homemade dips and stuff too, and even then I see it going badly. Those specialty popcorn/pretzel stores like Topsy's and Anne's only do well in malls

>>17503271
Dips? I’ll sell those too!

>>17503456
If you could make a good french onion chip dip I would suck your dick until there wasn't a drop of semen left in your balls. I was devastated when Kraft stopped selling their french onion dip a few months ago. They were the only brand that used actual onion pieces and tasted like real french onion flavor. The only brands left now are just sour cream with some bits of dehydrated green onions mixed in. I know I can just make it on my own but I've never been able to replicate the flavor profile exactly.

>>17503465
Anon you do not have to say such bizarre and crass things to get your point across, typing such things even jokingly is not good for your brain.

>>17502143
There was one in L O N D O N, went bust because I guess its more of a novelty thing rather than somewhere you go regularly

>>17502151
>if it was a good idea it wouldve been done by now
absolute permawagie tier mentality

>>17504436
>gordon's dip
hol up

>>17502143
Why would you want a shop for that? It's much cheaper to set up a stand in a busy street. There's no reason to spend a fortune renting a place when all you need is a big frier and a counter.

>>17504488
Forgot pic. This is the kind of place you're looking for.

>>17502312
selling overpriced normal snack items like starbucks coffee or these non gmo handmade chips of yours only would work in a large hipster city and not in a small town where people arent going to pay more than twice the price for almost the same product

>>17502143
The problem is that you're competing with economic titans like lays and Pringles. What would set you apart from those? At best you're gonna have a slightly better flavor at the cost of highly inconvenient and expensive products.

>>17502143
Great idea. Just make sure to have an actual drug dealing or prostitution business going on so you can launder the money with your failure of a shop

>small town
therefore small market
>selling savory artisanal snacks
selling anything food related means you'll need to spend a lot on your kitchen/whatever, taking into account health code regulations etc
You also either need to purchase the real estate or rent it.
Given the initial investment cost and the production cost, what sort of profit margin do you expect to have? And with that profit margin, how many items would you need to sell per week on average for the business to even break even? And in a "small town", what percentage of the population do you expect will ever buy anything from your store? How many of them will become regular customers? And will enough regulars come back, often enough, to keep your business afloat? This is all before you even start talking about making a profit. We're talking bare minimum here.

>>17502143
Good luck anon!

>>17502143
You need to sell something along with the chips that work well with them. Turn it into a deli with homemade chips instead. No one will bother with your restaurant if you just serve chips and nuts.

>>17502143
A store like that opened in my area a few years ago, lasted a year or so
The idea sounds cool in theory but I don't know how well it would be received, maybe specialize in potato chips but sell a good amount of other stuff

>>17504643
>>17506065
OP has been told this repeatedly but continues to stick his head in the sand, let him go bankrupt

>>17502143
sounds like a stupid idea that won't work. Good luck.

chip shops are already a thing

there's a permanent stall in the farmer's market here that sells fresh chips. people line up for it.

>>17502143
>move to a small town
>I sell homemade potato chips
>You think it would do well?

Clearly you are retarded.

>>17502143
if you can make a chip that vaguely tastes like herb & spice kettle chips, i will support this venture