/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>city döner
>sell all kinds of fast food

I already own a food place, not going to tell name.

Mostly cater to beer geeks, have 3 taps that run beer all brewed in house to suit the season, they're always changing but some are brewed more often because of demand. Another 12 taps that have local, imported and a couple of macro brews.

Sell mostly burgers but have the normal bar foods like schnitzel, wings, pasta, fish.
Have a woodfire pizza oven outside in the beer garden only gets used on Saturday and Sunday.

Some national chain, that's all these fuckers will eat it seems.

I'd find a space with a small kitchen and a shallow retail front (or barring that, a food truck) and sell a rotating menu of seasonally appropriate soups and a few varieties of fresh baked bread (might out source that to a local bakery).
I don't know what I'd call it, probably something simple with no puns.

>>9601835
I've always wanted to do this, but I definitely would do the truck. It would be easier to haul around big pots of the stuff in the back.

For a name I like either Soup on Wheels or Ladle Lorry.

It would be only encapsulated food joint. Similar to a samosa or cornish pastys these handheld Foods would be filled with Thanksgiving dinner, breakfast foods, and maybe even Chinese food

Hung Low Sloppy Joe's
I'd sell cheese steaks

>>9601835
just call it souper

>>9601803
Sounds hipster as fuck. You ought to be ashamed.

>>9602012
It's not really, it's on a beach in a tourist area. Most customers are surfers, tourists or just the regular bunch of locals that come in.

>>9602026
Fuck that guy, I'd get a beer at your place.

>>9601880
Where I'm at right now has pretty harsh winters, so I'd rather have a brick and mortar location. If I were somewhere more temperate I'd go food truck.
Either way I don't want to mess with a dining area. Too much overhead for a start-up.
Get your soup and GTFO.

>>9602026

backshore brewing in maryland

>>9601713
i live by the ocean so i would have a beach BBQ shack. no dining room. just a walk up shack with a bad ass pit behind it, and maybe a deck out front. my gimmick would be doing all American regional styles of BBQ and sauce with regional sides. I would call it something stupid like Smoke On The Water or something.

I live in Tampa but it's hard as shit to find restaurants that sell local seafood for prices that aren't astronomical. So I would open up a seafood food truck and just drive to the suppliers every morning and keep everything simple and light to beat the heat. Maybe name it Tampa Tastes or something gay like that.

Or just open up a Phô restaurant and name it "Phô King Great" so baby boomers will think that they are just dumb asians who can't engrish but it's actually pronounced "fucking great"

Mad Science Creamery
Ice cream parlor with a focus on unique and interesting mix-ins, swirls, and flavors.

I love ice cream and it's my dream to just own an ice cream parlor.

>>9601713
"EAT MY FOOD OR ILL FUCKING KILL YOU WITH MY DICK"

We don't actually serve food but they don't know that... till they're DEAD!

>>9601713
I've had a couple ideas for different restaurants to open in my area but I have no money.

>fried chicken and soul food truck
>paint it up like a giant chicken and run it off bio diesel made from used chicken grease
>call it "chicken 'cross the road

>bar that serves french fries with a takeout window
>20-30 toppings to select from
>gravy, nacho cheese, different sauces and meats etc

One day I'll convince my family to give me the start-up money :'(

I would open a chicken restaurant in Central Texas that has:

The best freshly made macaroni and cheese. Every order will be made fresh from in-house pasta and cheese and some other things.

Locally grown chiken that is served on fresh made fluffy biscuits or as tenders

Spaghetti made to order too, in quick serv bowls or cups made from fresh locally sourced beef

and fixins

Basically except for the spaghetti I'd be bojangles but in Texas and higher quality. The whole menu would be like a kid's meal but good as fuck.

(note: I have never been to bojangles but damn it looks good) I know I could do this, I could even be head chef

>>9602688

I like your idea chikin bro

I would add some Tex-Mex style to my chicken house

Maybe a salsa chicken biscuit or something with a spicy coleslaw

Subway franchisee.

Hard to fuck up, always profitable.

>>9602709
>central Texas
I'm assuming downtown Waco would be your best bet because of all the Baylor faggots that would flock there

>>9601713

>Planxa
>catalan tapas, pinxos, seafood and traditional fare with local ingredients and high-dollar wines.

I will make bank off of WBurg foodie yuppies and FiDi idiots, as well as run a great restaurant in case anyone else who just likes good food cares to show up.

>>9602709
You sound retarded. Have you ever worked in a kitchen. ?

I would open up a teahouse. None of those memeteas either, just high quality teas from China, Japan, and Taiwan. There would also be a few baked goods and some light food fare such as paninis. There are zero teahouses here and like 15 different cafes but they only have the crappy flavored teas.

>>9601713

>The Cockhole
>fried chicken, nachos, and beer

>>9602709
>spaghetti made to order

So do you mean that you would make the sauce to order and it would taste like shit because a good sauce needs to simmer for hours or do you mean you would cook the pasta to order like literally every other restaurant in the world?

>>9602809

Shit no. food service industry is for fuckin losers

>>9602822
>n that you would make the sauce to order and it would taste

the latter

It would come in a cone shaped cup so you could eat it while driving

>>9602268
Nope, wrong country

I'd open a little breakfast restaurant. open from 6am-2pm. We'd have breakfast from around the world. but mostly breakfast burritos.

>>9602909
I would do this but breakfast quesadillas instead.

>>9602912
those too

Cineyum. It will be a bar/cafe/cinema.

We'd do lunch and dinner and also general cafe foods like sandwiches Toasties cakes and shit like that. Menus change every month. Movies twice a week, depending on how business is I may increase that number. My bartenders will be able to make any cocktail asked for. Our film's will be good ones none of the latest trash bloccuckster.

>>9602269
sounds awesome. if you're true to the regional theme, it could be amazing. if you doctor up the sauces or do "our spin" it would lose all it's attraction to me.

The fishcaf.

Waiters are rude and diffident, decor is awful, chefs clothes appear stained and filthy. But the seafood is fresh and perfectly cooked.

It's a cross between seafood and performance art.

Spoiler: back in the day there used to be a restaurant just like this near where I lived named 'The Last Aussie Fishcaf'. It was great. You seated yourself, the waiter would drift over and drop a couple of menus on the table (one per person if you were lucky) then walk off without a word. Ten minutes later they'd return and the first thing they'd ask would be "whaddya want?". Food would be dropped off also without a word, drinks would arrive at different times, it was hilarious.

It'd be a total antidote to the over-attentiveness of most waiters. You go to the Fishcaf if you just want a nice seafood meal and no fucking chit chat.

>>9603308

That's awesome. A place like that would be excellent in a city, they're full of entitled pricks who would just be caught totally off guard.

>>9601713
I'd run a truck that made grown-up versions of lunches you had as a kid

I'm horrible with names but I think a ramen restaurant catering to the weeb/internet nerd crowd would do well. especially if it was a little hole in the wall with only like 4 seats so the people that go can pretend like theyre in an anime

soup and broth are easy to make and most ramen is just "broth, with noodles, and a bunch of other shit already prepared"

two ramen places actually JUST opened up next to my house, i think its gonna be the next meme food round here

Five House
-crepes/omelettes/pancakes with artisan tea and coffee
-beautiful showcase patio

gay maid cafe

all the waiters are male and dress in skimpy maid uniforms

the food literally does not even matter at that point

Open up a Waffle House in DC proper and drown in profits.

the 2 cents
50c eggs
50c whte Bread sándwiches
50c top ramen 2.50 faux pho
75c hot dogs
2.50 chilli cheese fries
1.00 fried pickles
2.50 Frito pie
1.00 fountain drinks no refill
1.00 canned drinks
3.00 basic bitch burger 5.00 big ass burger
1.50 roasted corn
2.00 roasted potatoes
5.00 fried rice
2.00 cheap wine
2.00 cheap beer
super hipster vibe shuning poor people., selling random shit.

>>9601713
>tfw I live in Asheville, NC
It's a huge tourist city with literally dozens of acclaimed restaurants already. I'm probably doomed to fail because competition is so stiff around here. However, it could be called a mixed blessing because the city is also home to dozens of local beer brewers and the Biltmore vineyards, so having a good selection of beer and wine is easymode around here.

I'd name the place The Southern Stag Tavern, and style it as something between an English pub and a bed & breakfast, though I wouldn't have rooms to rent. The name is kind of a play off my family name, but sufficiently convoluted that I'm not worried. The menu primarily consists of Southern fusion, the kind of stuff I grew up eating and making with my family. Southern classics like biscuits and gravy, TexMex dishes like chicken tacos or nachos, Italian American stuff like spaghetti + meatballs or lasagna, and a few other out-there type dishes that we would try and imitate from other cultures. But of course the real heavy-hitters of the menu would be Southern dishes or variations on them inspired by other cuisines. Kind of a taste of America, if you will. The place would also have a full bar with a rotation of local beers on tap, as well as a cocktail list that tries to bring back some classics like whiskey sours, old fashioneds, that kind of thing. The goal is for the restaurant to be comfy as fuck.

Kant Wolfe down enough!
Every meal comes with some sort of printed pdf of philosophical script or just a plain Gene Wolfe story, intended to enlighten every customer.

It would be in Driftwood, Texas and I'd serve a good selection of snobby wine and offer expensive Italian food sourced from local ingredients (which is easy as fuck in Texas). There would also be a kids meal that includes /lit/'cken tendies and cross shaped corn dogs with home-style gravy for dipping that looks vaguely like cum.

With sufficient funding? I'd make homemade pizzas with the best ingredients as possible. Pizza in my town is garbage.

>>9601713
Lol! So how much are you willing to pay us to do your marketing brainstorming for you?

>>9601803
>caters to "beer geeks"
>only 15 beers on tap

>>9601713
Taco Tetas.

Everybody loves tacos. 50% of the population loves tits. Tacos are cheap, easy to make, easy to sell. I'd set up the Hooters of Taco stands. Big-ass titties slinging good-ass tacos. It's a mint.

>>9604789
You sexist pig

>>9601713

The Place or Mmm Snackbar. Going to have a fleet of fryers churning fries and chicken wings and give the pleb masses what they want while I eat scallops in the back

>>9604793
I'm responding to the forces of the market, which I have no control over.

>>9604789
the non-stop jokes equating tacos to vaginas
>>Hey sugar how about I eat your taco

I'd open up a korean bbq/ hotpot place.

I live in a pretty posh city and there arent many restaurants you can sit down with some friends , have a laugh and a beer.

I think it would run really well.

Place that makes crepe wraps of all knid. Sweet, sour, hot, breakfast wraps(pic related).

>>9601713
Blitz

Classic British food from during the war

>>9601713
>Name your restaurant/food place
SkidMarkz©, a NASCAR™-themed sports bar.

>What will you cook & sell?
Chicago-style deep dish, wings, beer (domestic and imported), gourmet burgers w/ peanut butter + Asian slaw, a wide variety of apps and starters, and just general American pub fare.

Well, my city is a run-down meth-filled hellhole, so honestly, I just save some time and kill myself.

>>9601713
shaved ice and tacos.
i would call it frosty box.

>>9601713
would name it "swedish specialties" and would serve kebab

>>9602269
Nah dude, you don't want to try an imitate every regional style of barbecue, you'll just suck at all of them. For a beach-side place with a smoker, I'd do all kinds of smoked fish, fish tacos, and maybe some Hawaiian-style roast pork on the beach for more tacos and sliders.

>>9602830
You should just serve the spaghetti in zip-lock bags and call it "Charlie's Spaghetti Day"

>Louisville, KY
Anon's Craft Brewery and Grill
Sell bitter IPAs and overpriced wings to hipsters on Bardstown Road. Will have a couple of huge TVs on the wall so patrons can watch muh college basketball.

Fuck this shithole

>>9605301
Slushy stand on the corner. Bulletproof glass, no seats inside, just a few dimly-lit tables out front and a trash can. Dirt cheap, lots of sugar, easy cash, low overhead, easily eaten with no teeth.

>>9604302
unless your restaurant is operaating out of a shack in the gheto or a squat with your price point prepare to be unable to afford any staff and make any profit

>>9604302if you worked in the industry youd know that your prices here are pretty much what it costs a restaurant to make these items with no cost added to acount for overhead, staf etc

>>9601713
Grilled Cheese sandwiches.

Bombshell Dumplings
A small take out restaurant that specializes in dumplings. The restaurant itself is a converted air-stream trailer that is painted to look like front of a 1940s fighter jet w a pin up girl on the side where the customers order. Each day there is a special dumpling dish made for the following categories: Conventional, Seafood,Vegetarian, Vegan, Paleo,Light, Children's specialty, Soup, and Sweet Treat.We would serve specialty drinks too and homemade iced tea, lemonade, and smoothies. The staff would be two or three people dressed vaguely as vintage service men or pin up girls. A variety of sauces would be on the counter for people to use on their dumplings if they want them. There would be a few tables out front in case people wanted to eat at the food stand.
Example of a daily menu: Swedish Meatball Dumplings (w lingonberry jam and sauted spinach), Vietnamese Shrimp & Pork Dumplings w an asian slaw, Mushroom-Cheese Ravioli w browned butter sage sauce, Pumpkin and Root Vegetable Gyoza w Cashew Sauce, Braised Shortrib w Sweet Potato Gnocchi, Chicken Breast and Collared Green Pirogi with tomato sauce, Chicken & Apple Sausage Kolaches with fries, Turkey Soup w Spaetzle, and apple caramel empanadas.

>>9601713
Another Locally Owned Restaurant That Can't Get One of the Fucking Liquor Licenses

I would serve take out bar food and be located across the street from the 3 dive bars that don't have kitchens.

Rural Canada

I'd have an old-style all-wood interior with a stone fireplace. Clean but slightly rough looking. I'd offer home style meals for a fair price The menu would change with the seasons, holidays and any specials I get my hands on, though I'd always have standard basic meals available and I'd be open to change requests. I'd also offer custom orders if you call at least a day in advance. The goal is to feel like you're visitng grandma back in the country. Because really if you feel like a nice plate of mac&cheese but you want a different shape of pasta and also some cut up sausage in it, who cares? It's not any more trouble if I already have the ingredients, I just add em to the bill and you get what you wanted.

Walk up soul food dimsum joint called Dayumsun.

>>9606568
Would you sell corrared green?

>>9606117

Do it nao!

>Name your restaurant/food place
Shinjuku
>What will you cook & sell?
Rice bowls with speciality westernised toppings.

>>9604274
this would go over well in London

>>9605278
pretty clever but challenging, also do cute women get extra rations for blowjobs?

>>9605289
>SkidMarkz©
This is the worst restaurant name ever

>The Full English (English being my laat name)
>mainly breakfast foods including obviously full english
>standard dinner and lunch foods such as fish and chips
>imported European alcohol

>>9601713
>Offally Delicious
We serve all types of offal at insane price margins. Oh and tendies too.

Examples
>grilled chicken heart skewer (2 skewers, 10 hearts total) - $14
>chicken liver pate appetizer - $14
>braised ox tongue tacos (2 small tacos) - $19
>pork kidney stir fry w/steamed rice - $22

Eastern Canada

Would literally just steal St-Viateur's bagel recipe and make the fuckers here. Only good thing I tasted in Montreal

And if I get shut down for burning wood in city limits then I'd just open a fuckin McD's downtown

>>9604772
>Having so many beers on tap that they start to go bad

>>9602709
So like Lucy's Fried Chicken but probably half as good?

>>9601713
way to place rules down, it would be an eatgusto. the only farm to table that has worked and actually delivers farm to table because they own the farm, yes meat included.

>>9603319
Don’t know how it would work with tipping. There’d be plenty of people who either genuinely don’t get it, or choose to not ‘get it’ to stiff their server.

Might need to run it as a ‘tip optional’ place and pay a higher wage. Just like in Australia.

Roger's Tech Support Truck

Food cart, any big city. Serves a few simple but super tasty Indian meat or veg curry dishes, with basmati rice; also samosas with dipping sauce.

Servers are dressed like tech support dudes, ideally cheap Indian labor.

>>9601713
Unfortunately I live in Seattle and I don't own property. So food truck is my only option. You would literally not believe the rent that restaurateurs pay here, even in poorer neighborhoods far from the city proper.

I do know a nice commercial kitchen that has an attached car lot for food trucks though. Basically you rent space in the kitchen on your days, make food, load it on your truck, and go make your money. Rent's not terrible.

>>9607352
>truck
>food cart
>servers
You lost me and your idea is stupid

>>9607369
Food carts are called food trucks interchangeably, they exist in many big cities, you might have sen one if you had ever been to a big city. Servers means the people in the truck or cart serving you food.

>>9601803
>schniztel, pasta, fish
>normal bar foods
do europoors really do this?

>Dangarang's

Serving stuff people like, pub food. Though there will always be running specials of more refined dishes. Only best buffalo sauces offered and/or made in house. Non pretentious, yet extensive beer selection. Wood covering everything, bug comfy private seating.
>community seating is communist garbage

>Dangarang bangarang
Buffalo Chicken sandwich with your choice of sauce, cheese, and adtl toppings. Served with curly cut fries a beer and a shot of whiskey.

>>9601713
I had an idea to name my place "thing & another thing" because so many places are named biscuit & nosh, fruit & berries, sitka & spuce, maple and granite, you get the idea.

I would make burgers with fresh ground beef, in a secret blend that ive been inventing over the years and would grind the meat in the window so people know its fresh. Simple good burgers, nothing too crazy, just good ingredients cooked well.

I also had an idea to create copycats of all regional famous burgers/sandwiches from tv etc.

>>9601803
sounds like a pretty gay place tbqh

Id have quesadillas made to order, none of those frozen ones at my restaurant.

>>9602709
This post reminded me of one time when I went to this seemingly upscale fancy pub and this chick I was with wanted a cheese quesadilla but all they had on the menu was a mushroom and cheese quesadilla. Shes like
"can I just get a regular quesedilla no mushrooms?"
The waiter says, "hmmmm uhghhh no I dont think so the chefs don't like to do that."
And Im like
>you are telling me you cant make a cheese quesadilla to order? You have cheese and you have tortillas and it takes 2 minutes to make but your chef wont make one?
And the guy was just like yeah we cant make it. I kept going for a little bit asking him questions and he got pretty pissed off, just kept saying over and over its inconvenient for the chefs. Ok whatever man, i guess you think we are fucking retarded.

I was pissed. Last time I ever went there. Probably frozen shitty premade ones and they were lying that they were fresh.

>>9607382
>Food carts are called food trucks interchangeably
No, they're not

>>9606628

Corrard green kimchi sure.

>>9601713
"Lorneta z Meduza" Reykiavik.
Traditional food for drunkards.

>>9602650
there's a restaurant near me called "Holy Phok" that do pho. hipsters love it.

I'd sell as much food as cheap as I could while still maintaining profit, probably out of a truck. Shit like mashed potatoes and rice and simple sauces and vegetables, beans and maybe cheap meat. Serve it in paper cups, camp out around universities and bars.

Mostly I'm interested in if there's a market for cheap, filling, tasty shit that isn't already filled by fast food.

>>9601803
you need to start serving buffalo wings, like 25 cents each. that draws in the crowds and then they stay for the beer.

>>9604789
shut it down, it promotes sexism

i'd cook slow roasted meats and that are stuffed in pretzel buns with cheese.
like pretzel calzones.
we'd be open for till 2am.

>>9601713
Cheese sandwhich cart, on the town plaza
We will have condiments and variation bits but keep it simple.
Perhaps with expanding on sides, like fried mushrooms.

Not sure, but it would be a room full of little cabins so you can eat in private, alone maybe read something while you gulp down my shit.

Always wished there was a place that just gave you a bowl of stew with some bread desu. Can't stand the way all the fast food is unhealthy is shit, this stew idea would be healthy and fast.

I would open a K&W cafeteria and make a fucking killing. Old people love that shit and you just hire people straight out of prison to be on the line.

>>9605289

There is or was already a NASCAR cafe, I don't think it does very well. The one near me closed years ago and the building has sat vacant in the mall parking lot since, still dressed in NASCAR plumage.

The food was okay, same as every sports bar chain.

>>9602650
there's a pho place in my city called pho king, and as far as i can tell it's owned by asians who can't enrish. incredible pho.

>>9601713
I'd open a vegan mexican taqueria foodtruck

The name would be "Tacos el Veggie"

I am bad at cooking, so tell you what, I'll open something shitty for hipster faggots.

Okay, Idea: TST a tea/coffee and toast only cafe with a wide selection of breads all toasted in a vintage toaster.

>>9604274
I'd go there every fucking day.

>>9601713
I live by a huge courthouse. Everyone there thinks they're fancy as fuck but the restaurants around here are so bad. I can't tell if they're just used to it anymore or if nobody knows it's all garbage. The senator's restaurant has things way too pretentious on their menu for most people in this flyover hellhole to even recognise though. It's like they tried way too hard to say, "hey, look, we're high-class".

I'd open a café with menu items smug enough for the legal beagles but relatable enough for the locals. Bagel sandwiches, few good salads like toasted pecan pomegranate goat cheese lemon vinaigrette or some shit, wraps, smoothies, two soups each day, and actual coffee drinks that don't come out of a premixed vending machine. The menu would be limited and consistent but every month there would be a new menu item for every category. Like a different flavor smoothie or a new bagel/cream cheese combination. I'd probably call it the legal beagel or the something gavel.

生煎包店, Fried Steamed Bun Shop in English.

It would be a hole in the all somewhere in the CBD serving buns and broth. There would be embellishments for the broth like lamian, egg and tomato, meat, and vegetables from midday onward. After 6 pm token chink dishes, bottomless steamed rice and freshwater seafood. Free vinegar and tea. No napkins, just a box of tissues on every table.

eat my meat

a gay western bbq spot in the queerest spot in the world. Austin, Texas

>>9612931
They look tasty as fuck

I would not start a business in the People's Republic of Austin. I'm only here for school.

I would open a BBQ joint in San Marcos. Full bar, limited menu. Think only BBQ plates. I would have at least five coleslaw choices. And a stage. No rap or EDM.

>>9601835
I'd probably do the same, but with less rotation and a greater focus on soups that are healthy, vegetarian, and/or obscure but still really tasty. I always knock soups out of the park for some reason.

I'm in a very small town in an area with a rather low population. It's hard for a restaurant to make much money here. Also, if you have many dishes, they will have to be frozen because on any one day you might only sell a few of them.

So if I was crazy enough to open a restaurant here, it would have only about four items on the menu -- hamburger/cheeseburger, chicken fried steak, new york strip steak, and some kind of chicken dish.

And maybe a daily special.

Another choice would be a deli.

>take glasses off and place them daintily in front of your plate, next to a kindle that's on for some reason.
>take a photo of it

Jesus Christ what kind of person does this

Chinese onion pancake. Cheap as shit, not much competition and can be used as wraps.

>>9614244
Alternatively, Yachaejeon

>>9613765
Probably someone with myopia like me who has to take his glasses off to comfortably read or take photos. Learn some sensitivity, faggot.

>>9602808
Nah, you wouldn't make it showing this kind of distaste for your customers. I know it.

My dad really wants a place where you can get steak on a stick via drive-thru.

I live in a very tech-hipster part of the US, and right near a giant company the only 24 hour restaurant is Jack in the Box, and there's always a huge line for it. I'd like to open a diner, serving classic diner food, and give the people going to Jack in the box an alternative. I think it'd do really well, but it's already massively expensive to open a restaurant there.

>>9601713
>the kebab palace
>only sell falafel
>add Knorr beef stock powder so vegetarians can't eat it, and to make papa Marco proud

>>9614336
>Late night eats
That's where you start with a food truck and build up to brick and mortar when you've got the customer loyalty and capital.

>>9614637
That's what I was thinking, but to be honest, I'm not a very good cook, so it'll never happen

>>9614653
Most restaurant owners aren't cooks, they manage the business.

>>9606558
> Rural Canada banker fag that finances these types of places.

You better hope you have enough traffic in the area, otherwise you'll be lonely other than Sunday church crowd.

I'd open up a small mexican place in europe. No one has ever seen a taco here, so it's exotic as fuck. I'd name it either Taco de piqueros or Inigo Montaco.

It would be only soft shell because that's pretty strange to a lot of europeans "Why is it soft when tacos are hard?" Also, corn tortilla, you can't get that shit here so they would have to be freshly made each day, during the day.

Tea House that specializes in comfrot soups regardless of ethnic origin.

taphouse that specializes in sandwich/beer pairings, probably call it like Warlock Brewing or something, play on witches and warlocks halloween shit thats popular nowadays

pretty gay i know but i like sandwiches and i like beer

low fat hamburgers, wings, ribs with fries + all kinds of pasta foods

If I had to drop everything and start a restaurant I'd be fucked because I have no money and no assets to loan against.

>>9601713
franchise like McDonalds then have some pleb run it for me.

>>9614676
Admittedly I live in California, where we have a law attached to food trucks: you must rent a kitchen space to prepare food in order to make money. There's a lot of costs in front of me for something I'm not sure will work, and that's what puts me off.

>>9616301
California sure has a lot of very strict laws. I work in retail and half the damn products we sell has those “this product contains or is made with compounds known to the State of California to cause cancer”. Can you just not buy those things in Cali or is it all for show?

>>9608494
Who the fuck wants a crowd?

>>9601713
I'd probably do a hearty but refined french/italian/american blend with asian influences. Basically the sum total of my food experience, though I seem to approach food from a different angle than most which I would count on for the intrigue side of things.

>>9616354
A successful business?

>>9616301
That's a normal law outside California, too.

>>9602812
Local teahouse opened and closed within a year or two in my town. I don't know that there's much hope for them, honestly.

>>9608502
I'd probably eat there more than I should.

>>9616368
A successful business wants a goldilocks number of people. Too many and people start thinking it's shit because your staff drops the ball from rushing all the time. That or you lower standards from the top down and just get more and more pedestrian.

McDonald's is a highly successful business but I'd imagine it's hard to be proud owning one.

>>9616369
Is it? I don't really understand the point, isn't the point of the food truck that you can cook anywhere if needed, and that they have flat tops and stuff?

>>9616532
It's a health inspection thing. Besides, most food trucks don't have the space for prep or storage (ain't no walk-in fridge in a step van) so you need a commissary kitchen for that stuff anyway.

>>9616563
So is the idea that you do as much prep as possible, then cook the rest on order? So if I'm doing diner fare, let's say I could do eggs on the flat top, maybe substitute hash browns for tater tots or shoestring potatoes in the fryer, par-boiled bacon crisped up on the flat top, then have two or three entrees - maybe like a chicken fried steak, a french toast sandwich (like a monte cristo) and some kind of garbage platter?

That doesn't sound infeasible at all, in fact it sounds pretty easy. Unfortunately, I've also tried being a line cook before and fucking sucked at it, so I'd definitely be the dude taking orders and helping when possible. Maybe I'll look into it.

it'd be a chip shop. we would sell nothing but chips. i'd call it "chips?" and the i would be a chip.
you walk up to the counter, I ask if you want small, medium or large, if you want gravy, cheese, bacon, then give you what you want depending on the answer.

Live in nyc.

>no name
>just sign outside in 50s font "FOOD"
>no reservations
>6 4tops MAX
>no menu
>food is whatever I decide to cook that day/week
>cash only

God, I'd be a millionaire here.

>>9617530
sounds very comfy

>the owner of this place is actively making a dining experience as inconvenient as possible
>it is now my lifes mission to eat there

the people here baffle me

Can I also have a food truck? Always wanted a food truck.
>Taco Bomb
>Mexican and tex-mex, specializing in tacos

>>9617644
Was meant to reply to

>>9617628

im lazy so I'll just do vaguely latin american food, carne asada, lechon asado, tajadas, quest frito, pupusas, white rice and gallo pinto etc. basically a fritanga but non threatening to white people

decor would be like a basic southern bbq joint, wooden tables and exposed kitchsy stuff all over the walls. music would consist of only home-burned CDs purchased from nicaraguan convenience stores, so probably a lot of marimba and mariachi stuff

probably call it something like "Lupita's" i pulled the name randomly but I'm pretty sure I have an aunt or cousin named that

>>9617530
dont forget
>its also a speakeasy

>High, Low and Middle
>Building with street level, basement and second floor with separate kitchens for each corresponding style

High - Second floor
Modern interior design along with natural lighting from glass roof and windows with maybe few high design lamps.
Serves fine dining food, excellent drinks and has perfect butlers/waitresses to serve. This place would also include a high end drink bar. Requires an access fee of $10 per person and menu prices are around $30
Persons under 13 years old are not allowed
Open: 12:00-00:00

Middle - Street level
Very casual place with normal design. Very family friendly. Serves all kinds of everyday food. No drink bar here as all alcoholic beverages are served to the table. Has a buffet table.
Price range around $7-20
Open: 09:00-21:00

Low - Basement
Very dim lighted and barely any windows apart from couple of small ones. Has stone floor with wooden furnitures and lanterns/candles to provide lighting. Almost like medieval tavern feeling. Serves simple and cheap dishes and snacks such as stews, pies, grilled things and nuts. Has a bar which serves craft beer and other beverages but not classy and expensive wines as High does. There is a pool table, darts and couple of slot machines. Basement is accessable from street level main doors and down the stairs or through back door around the back of the building.
Price range around $0.50-10
No persons under 18 allowed
Open: 16:00-04:00

>Askims
>I'd sell Turkish food. Real Turkish food, not just kebabs. As well as their tea, coffee, raki.

All things like manti, borek, gozleme, kumru, breakfasts with sucuk. But as well as kebaps such as iskender.

>>9617644
We had a small, soviet union themed bar in my town, absolutely filthy even for a dive bar and the owner hated his job. He was completely drunk at around 10 every night, after that you could only get drinks after he yelled at you for a while, sometimes he just told people to get their own damn beer and just stopped serving drinks.
We had people from all over the country coming here looking for that bar and the "unique" experience, some people just like to pay for shit service ironically

>>9601713
That four eyed ghost is getting uncomfortably close to my foods..

I was almost 30 before I got out of the industry, most of my gigs were making lunch shit to order, sandwiches and salads type work but more intensive than say, Subway. I'd do what I know and probably go with a sandwich food truck, or a small but really comfy brick and mortar in a prime location.

Sandwiches are easy to make but hard to master. I'd probably have like four originals and make sure I make use of more conventional ingredients so I could still do the classics. One of my originals would be chicken salad (chicken, mayo, grapes, cucumber powder, salt n pepper), bacon, and avacado on a toasted croissant.

I'd probably call it Sbalbi's after my great grand parents' restaurant.

>>9602825
You probably have atrocious work ethic.

>>9617794
High and Low are both great sounding places, but Middle sounds like it should be renamed Purgatory.

>>9601713
i don't know what should i name it, but i would put up a system where a computer takes the orders and i make the food on the back.

>Allahu Snackbar
it would be the bomb

>>9617530
kekk

>>9616872
Correct. If your truck is planning to be open for lunch, you go to your commissary kitchen in the morning to do your prep and load up the truck. Then you set up at your lunch spot and sell food till it's gone.
Probably one of the more ingenious set ups I saw was in one of my old neighborhoods. There was a taco truck and a BBQ truck that both had semi-permanent locations on the avenue. On the corner of said ave was a defunct chain donut shop so the owners of both trucks pooled their resources to turn it into their commissary kitchen.

>>9601713
>Khlav kalash
>Khlav kalash

>>9619343
Only Mountain Dew and Crab Juice.

>>9617530
>>9619171
explain this to someone who is not americlap

>>9601803
These normies are all retarded that sounds perfect as fuck. I have nothing like that near me in central NJ.

>>9601713
city - buenos aires
Moguis - authentic italian pizzas by the slice.
cone shaped plates

>>9601803
Australian?

What's your annual turnover?

city in san Francisco bay area, not very food oriented. "(my name)'s diner". diner is an american word, not a borrow term like cafe or restaurant. dinner only. serve my favorites from my mother: spaghetti/meat sauce, salmon croquettes, ham tetrazini, beef stroganoff, beef burgundy, chicken cacciatore, enchiladas, american style tacos, mexican and spanish rice, roast turkey, meatloaf, and her later dishes like fondue, coq au vin. no fancy wines, just house red, rose, white and dessert. beer. simple desserts, as she made them: apple pie, cherry pie, blackberry cobbler, german chocolate cake, cheesecake, the pie kind. hey, i never thought about this. this is a nice idea.

>>9611645
"tacos el Vagina"

>>9607418
The Frog and Peach. serves frog a la peche. a frog with a peach stuffed in its mouth. and peche a la frog: peach stuffed with tadpoles. tip of the hat to peter cook and dudley moore.

>>9604789
make from chicken breast, and cow udders. yummy.

Probably cheap ass tacos al pastor in a hole in the wall as close to campus as possible. Although everyone drives here, so finding a place with the cheapest rent would also be an option.

>>9601803
How new is it

>>9601713
>Irvine, CA
>America Joe's
>Buy the best flood insurance for my establishment
>Deep fry and lather BBQ sauce on every traditional Asian dish, triple portions, freedom fries with every entree
>Drown in tears of the orient
>Collect $$$

Authentic Japanese-Western (washoku) diner and desserts with cute employees in old-school waitress uniforms. I spent a lot of time in Japan and they do our food better than we do, just try a Japanese Denny's by the difference in quality and flavors. Target customers are families w/ kids, hipsters, weebs, and Asians.

I was pretty close to actually opening, but I didn't want to be married to 5+ years to a specific location when I'm still not sure what part of the USA I want to live in, and also finding a real Japanese expat chef is really difficult and I refuse to hire Koreans considering they are the reason Japanese food here is so inauthentic and shitty.

Sneeds Feed & Seed
Only food made from grains.