High End 'Canteen' Style setups
Dec 9, 2011 | 5:37 am
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High End 'Canteen' Style setups
I have always wondered why there isn't more of these setups
IF you have a place with great food, instead of having food made to order, you have heaps of food just freshly cooked in bulk and people go down the line and choose what they want on their plate (not necessarily self serve) and then pay at the end
Food would be high quality and fresh but customers would not have to wait anywhere near as long if the set up was efficient. Then you go sit where you can find a seat.
The key is having enough regular customers than the food turnover is high and food isn't sitting around for long. More people you get, more variety of food you could offer
I love these kind of setups because i love mixing my food.
IF you have a place with great food, instead of having food made to order, you have heaps of food just freshly cooked in bulk and people go down the line and choose what they want on their plate (not necessarily self serve) and then pay at the end
Food would be high quality and fresh but customers would not have to wait anywhere near as long if the set up was efficient. Then you go sit where you can find a seat.
The key is having enough regular customers than the food turnover is high and food isn't sitting around for long. More people you get, more variety of food you could offer
I love these kind of setups because i love mixing my food.
Dec 9, 2011 | 8:25 am
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No the difference with a buffet is you can go up and keep re filling your plate
With what i am thinking of is you pay by the plate, just like school, you can't keep going up and getting as much food as you want at school
So i am thinking of food better than buffet food
Basically if a restaurant has 15 dishes on the menu which is about right for a good restaurant, they have large amounts of all of their 15 dishes for customers to choose from
With what i am thinking of is you pay by the plate, just like school, you can't keep going up and getting as much food as you want at school
So i am thinking of food better than buffet food
Basically if a restaurant has 15 dishes on the menu which is about right for a good restaurant, they have large amounts of all of their 15 dishes for customers to choose from
Dec 9, 2011 | 8:29 am
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Like the plate by weight concept in Brazil? Just fill up your plate and pay per oz?
Many hospitals already do that and would welcome your business. I eat at some hospital or another at least 2 days a week and I have little to complain about in terms of quality.
Grocery stores also do that. I would often go to Wegmans and get my fill of Chinese food and head back home to eat it.
Many hospitals already do that and would welcome your business. I eat at some hospital or another at least 2 days a week and I have little to complain about in terms of quality.
Grocery stores also do that. I would often go to Wegmans and get my fill of Chinese food and head back home to eat it.
Dec 9, 2011 | 10:52 am
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No the difference with a buffet is you can go up and keep re filling your plate
With what i am thinking of is you pay by the plate, just like school, you can't keep going up and getting as much food as you want at school
So i am thinking of food better than buffet food
Basically if a restaurant has 15 dishes on the menu which is about right for a good restaurant, they have large amounts of all of their 15 dishes for customers to choose from
With what i am thinking of is you pay by the plate, just like school, you can't keep going up and getting as much food as you want at school
So i am thinking of food better than buffet food
Basically if a restaurant has 15 dishes on the menu which is about right for a good restaurant, they have large amounts of all of their 15 dishes for customers to choose from
I'd far rather have food cooked to order - if a restaurant has to cook 15 dishes en masse, they are going to be put out and held hot for a length of time - if you make one dish to order, it is brought straight out to you. Quality suffers somewhat.
Also, if the restaurant has to cook 15 dishes in large enough quantities to feed the stream of people, there is going to be a lot more waste (serving 15 dishes, a good buffet style will use more food than a la carte). Thus, either prices would be higher than a la carte, or quality would be worse.
Dec 9, 2011 | 12:17 pm
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Dec 11, 2011 | 11:39 am
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They are called cafeterias in the US. Many years ago there was an outstanding one in Texas called Lubys. Very good food made on site. Each store manager was responsible for getting locally purchased ingredients and making the dishes on site. There was a real home cooked air to the place. No idea what they are like now. I hope they are the same.
Unfortunately, most places figure they can save a few bucks by making the food in a central place and shipping it and such and as a result it pretty quickly spirals to crap. Some local places remain, been to a few but I suspect they are rare.
Unfortunately, most places figure they can save a few bucks by making the food in a central place and shipping it and such and as a result it pretty quickly spirals to crap. Some local places remain, been to a few but I suspect they are rare.
Dec 11, 2011 | 6:54 pm
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If you like soup and salad (with a bit of pasta and a dessert or two) there's Souplantation.
Dec 22, 2011 | 9:45 pm
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You mean like many fast food joints (Sbarro, Boston Chicken, Etc.)? The problem with that style is really in keeping the food up to quality. Unless you have constant, steady, turnover, you really have a lot of food just sitting around. For somethings this is not a problem, but for many dishes they get dry or start to go limp.
It's quite popular in many cities for lunch spots, I would dare say in fact most lunch restaurants are like that. Less so for dinner, where people like to sit down. on the other hand, I think a lot of stuff is prepared like that behind the scenes anyways.
It's quite popular in many cities for lunch spots, I would dare say in fact most lunch restaurants are like that. Less so for dinner, where people like to sit down. on the other hand, I think a lot of stuff is prepared like that behind the scenes anyways.
Dec 23, 2011 | 7:17 am
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They are called cafeterias in the US. Many years ago there was an outstanding one in Texas called Lubys. Very good food made on site. Each store manager was responsible for getting locally purchased ingredients and making the dishes on site. There was a real home cooked air to the place. No idea what they are like now. I hope they are the same.
Unfortunately, most places figure they can save a few bucks by making the food in a central place and shipping it and such and as a result it pretty quickly spirals to crap. Some local places remain, been to a few but I suspect they are rare.
Unfortunately, most places figure they can save a few bucks by making the food in a central place and shipping it and such and as a result it pretty quickly spirals to crap. Some local places remain, been to a few but I suspect they are rare.
Dec 23, 2011 | 8:16 am
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Dec 23, 2011 | 10:55 am
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Furr's is alive and well in Texas. Absolutely awful at least for breakfast/brunch. The one I ate at was brand new.
Dec 24, 2011 | 9:56 pm
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Furr's quality varies with location. Furr's has 2 locations in Lubbock, and one is excellent, the other merely good. They no longer do breakfast here. The times I've eaten at Furr's in Plainview, I've always wished I hadn't. We had a Luby's and it failed miserably - the food was very sub-par. OTOH, I've eaten at a Luby's in Corpus Christi and it was very good.
Dec 26, 2011 | 12:32 am
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They are called cafeterias in the US. Many years ago there was an outstanding one in Texas called Lubys. Very good food made on site. Each store manager was responsible for getting locally purchased ingredients and making the dishes on site. There was a real home cooked air to the place. No idea what they are like now. I hope they are the same.
Unfortunately, most places figure they can save a few bucks by making the food in a central place and shipping it and such and as a result it pretty quickly spirals to crap. Some local places remain, been to a few but I suspect they are rare.
Unfortunately, most places figure they can save a few bucks by making the food in a central place and shipping it and such and as a result it pretty quickly spirals to crap. Some local places remain, been to a few but I suspect they are rare.
Perhaps a better word than cafe can be used..