Our chef has a man bun, a very well-groomed long beard, a facial piercing, wears black apron, and black gloves
But he's passed out in the back, so this teenagers gonna slap your burger together.
But a black & white stencil print of him is the cover of our menu.
If I were to start my own fast food business, I would make my food cheap as fuck and deliberately target locations that have:
People care about speed, cost and not eating something that will give them food poisoning, not gourmet food. The luxury market is oversaturated and we have anything but the luxury to do that often.
Also, if it's a sufficiently large eat-in location like a diner, maintaining toilet facilities that don't look like they've been vandalized is important too.
The business model you are describing is perfect for a food truck.
They usually aren't happy when I take a shit inside our local food trucks. They keep telling me it's unsanitary but I always insist that a restaurant must allow its patrons fair use of their toilet facilities.
Fast food + college kids , good idea.
Fast food + drunk college kids, not so much.
As was suggested earlier, a food truck is the perfect solution. You're not responsible for cleaning vomit.
Throw in a fun clown mascot for the kids, and I think you’re on to something with this cheap fast food idea
It's annoying that you can either choose between having a weedy shit burger that's mostly lettuce and has to be held together with a stick, or eating a really expensive one and have to look at a load of wanker tat on the walls.
Also, you can stick your brioche buns up your arse. A brioche bun is not a load bearing bun. It dissolves in contact with moisture.
Those guy knows his buns
hell yeah lemme get that pretzel bun SON! shit SLAPS
Hipster burger restaurant starter pack.
And the main burger is called 'the americano' which is fatty, with too much cheese, and a sweet relish.
"if i pay $50,000 for this hanging piece of flare, and only stay open from 4-10pm we can siphon money from money with our money from the people who have money. But our waiter? minimum wage, cameras in the back our head chef is a wanker from out of state who pretended to be something they are clearly not, and the wine? straight from my vineyard, with minimal staff, green card only workers and an ever living hate for anything that shows compassion or empathy. that'll be $18 a glass of home wine and $38 for alfredo pasta add $8 for broccoli add $10 for chicken. what...what's wrong this is just business."
Also, let’s not use plates. How about a small metal pan, fryer basket, or wood plank that allows the food to scatter onto the table?
Question for the audience: what city do you most associate this style with? For me it's Seattle, because that's where I live, and ugh, it's everywhere.
Boulder, CO comes to mind for me. Although, there's one in my small town that's almost exactly like this so I suppose these are just everywhere.
Confession: I actually kinda like this decor. Not the overpriced food and drinks though.
I don't associate this with any particular city, but with the rich neighbourhoods in every city, particularly the recently rich neighbourhoods built from gentrification and forcing the existing poor residents out. An upscale "urban eatery" is a sure sign that the neighbourhood is destroyed.
Fries on the side are a minimum for me.
ok but they're served in something weird.
A silver plated original civil war shovelhead plastered with googly eyes as a plate
A miniature frying basket is the default.
Truffle oil with rosemary and artisanal oregano grown on the roof in our sustainable vertical farm.
And you just know that this is the type of restaurant to throw out still edible food in a dumpster and then call the cops when starving people try to take stuff from the dumpster.
Damn...what is this, r/seattle?
Don't forget the fact that despite it's just a cheeseburger, it's named "The Vonderbilt Wonder", "Halfsie Pattsies", or "Edmonton the Second". Ideally on a menu so scant on details it's hard to tell the french fries from the extra avocado.
I despise that kind of lighting because it's so fucking dim at nighttime. The places that still have physical menus apparently expect everyone to pull up their cellphones' flashlight to read it.
One place I went last year also had some boardgames, but only opened at night and only had that shit dim yellow light. Reading anything was nearly impossible and even the colors of the game pieces were blending together, "is this red, pink or orange?"
Lol I have those exact barstools at home.
TIL they are supposed to be hipster/fancy?
No, just cheap and generic.
Praise the sun for me being cheap and generic, instead of hipster, then!
They are suggested for restaurants because people don't linger very long as they aren't comfortable.
I think it's a offshoot of the shabby chic aesthetic. Expensive stuff made of cheap elements because you're being sold a certain flavor of minimalism.
Funnily enough here the prices of fast food chains have risen so sharply that the fancy hipster burger places are now priced the same or even cheaper. Like a double cheeseburger at a McDonalds is 5.50 euros but a local burger joint with burgers twice as big, filling and so much tastier are 6 euros, it's a pretty simple choice.
Gentrified takes on junk food with gratuitously expensive ingredients that are a slightly more subtle equivalent to just sprinkling everything with gold leaf like in 1990s Moscow or somewhere (“Our Southern-fried hog jowls come from rare heritage-breed hogs sourced from a tiny family-owned farm in the Outer Hebrides”)
…and they always put an egg on top of the burger for fucks sake.
I would 100% patronize a restaurant that had full transparency and decent no-frills food. They publicly post all their expenses and how much profit they make. Charge a table/dine-out fee, then actual cost of food and prep on top. Pay their workers in full, so no tipping required. Explain things like dining hours that help the business keep down costs.
What if we just didn't build a ceiling and called it the industrial aesthetic?
Hate joints like this.
Forgot the server guy with a beard and a ponytail
Fast food isn't far behind. I went to Burger King two days ago for the first time in ten years and was pretty shocked at the price.
I'd be okay with that if the money meant that the workers get a living wage and benefits. But that's not how most business owners do things here
