welcome to Halo's

[Halo299]

as i put myself through school at some peice of shit fast food resturant i feel that with each passing day i come closer and closer to some sort of breaking point.

then last night as i stared down yet another peice of shit customer that thought he didn't get enough chocolet on his ice cream (customer service my ass, you take what i give you and i don't want to hear anything out of you about it). an interesting epihpeny came over me.

i want to open a returant of my own.

but not some shity little burger and fries place, i mean a real resurant where people can get real food from people who don't wear caps.

the type of place where people get treated like a king as long as they have the money for it and keep quite. but where they get kicked to the curb if they give us any trouble.

i want dress codes that require people to have bathed before they come in, and food that requires that some one actually cooks it as opposed to just heating it up on a grill.

i have worked around food for a long time now and i have talked to some pretty high up people in different places. and i know the gross amounts of profit that food places make off every single product they sell (but i think that the profit margin goes down the nice the food is you serve)

but mostly i just want to run a returant where people don't feel bad about working there, and where the customers actually aprechiate the care taken to serve them.

i know people are bitches where ever you go, and that not every local economy can support a place like that. but it is a nice idea.

Welcome to Halo's, no we don't have a Chicken Box.

-halo

[Swordsman3003]

Actually when my parents were in town the other weekend, we went to a nice restaraunt owned by a really nice guy! He designed the whole menu himself and the food was unbelievable and he takes care of all the customers himself. It was just the kind of place you are describing. Expensive though.

[Aeridus]

My grandmother used to own a family restaurant, it was pretty successful too! Apparently my uncle would eat raw onions like they were apples as part of the entertainment.

[Orwell]

as i put myself through school at some peice of shit fast food resturant i feel that with each passing day i come closer and closer to some sort of breaking point.

This is precisely why I work as a care giver for a dementia nursing home. I'd rather just work IN the shit than take it.

Is this a pipe dream, or is there any real feeling behind it? I'm rather curious as to the business side of owning and operating your own restaurant.

[WangyJohn]

I suggest you read Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidental" first, it's mostly his autobiography, but also has a handy segment on how to run a restaurant succesfully.

Some pointers:
Don't count on your friends.
Expect shit.
Learn Spanish.
Learn the history of central and south america well.

The last two are important for american restaraunteers in maiking. In Europe that would probably be, learn french, arabic, turkish, persian, kurd, hungarian, russian and the a pile of other east european languages, and learn the history of everything.

[Halo299]

Is this a pipe dream, or is there any real feeling behind it? I'm rather curious as to the business side of owning and operating your own restaurant.

more of a pipe dream.

but if something happens and i can't make it in school i can see myself giving it a go.

i mean it isn't like i would have a whole lot left to loose.

-halo

[RantinAn]

In australia, it;s learn white trash, italian and cantoneese. i also sugest readgin this
http://waiterrant.net/

[Oniphire]

There's a local thai restaurant operated solely by a husband & wife team that's exactly what you describe. He makes everyone who comes in feel welcome & honoured while his wife cooks the best thai food I've ever had. It's a little on the expensive side compared to a regular diner, but not much. Think Olive Garden prices or a bit lower. It's also a small place, but I'm sure that works better since they're the only two employees.

[Kittyboymuffin]

My first thought when reading this thread's title was Halo as in the game. My second thought was Halo Kitty.

[Swordsman3003]

A game which I kick ass at, btw. I was playing CTF the other day with my roomate on my team [4v4, lots of players] and I played defense. At the end of the match I was 38 kills 1 death (nearly all were from sniping) and the one death was because he used goddamn rockets.