Self Grill Fast Food
February 18, 2010 in Food & Hospitality
This idea came to me thanks to astrid’s best rated cooking out http://smartideabox.com/cooking-out/
I liked her idea of going to the restaurant and cook because first it is a good way of differentiating from the competition and second you make the customer work and pay for it. However the question was to find out in what extend it could be different from cooking lessons, which are not really profitable.
My idea is that there shouldn’t be any chef helping and there should hardly be any cooking at all, just grilling. I thought about having big, long grills in the middle of the tables. People would pay for all they can eat and they could get meat, eggs, fish, onions, shrimps and that kind of stuff. There should also be rice, potatoes and salad that you prepare in big quantities.
So you would have no waiter, no kitchen, a really small perceived waiting time since your customers are active all the time. And since you cannot charge too much for raw food, the all you can eat formula makes it acceptable for customers to pay more.
I’ll sketch something to show you my concept.



astrid said on February 18, 2010
It makes me think of Chinese fondues… although I’ve never tried them!
I think this is not a bad idea at all. However, it might be too big of a risk to pre-pay for “all you can eat” and then just get the food you want because you might loose a lot of money due to abusive clients. It may be best to order the food you want to grill, so the bill is made accordingly.
Jonas Romain Wiesel said on February 19, 2010
I think its a good idea…install grills in a nice park and sell meat!
Joan said on March 4, 2010
http://www.benihana.com/