Business Idea

• Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2014-07-08 02:20
  Picture this situation - You have a significant other and you want to have a romantic date night. You don't want some shitty overpriced restaurant where they charge $30 for a spoon full of food, and you don't want fast food for obvious reasons, so you decide you want to cook for your partner! But wait! What if you don't have a kitchen? Or maybe you have a very small one. Perhaps you lack a dining room, maybe you're a teenager and still living with your parents, or hell, maybe you just don't feel like cleaning up after you finish cooking! This is where this new restaurant comes in! Unlike a traditional restaurant, rather than a large dining room it has multiple private dining rooms with attached kitchens. You rent out a room, (several theme options available, or for reduced cost choose one of the plain rooms and decorate it yourself) bring your own ingredients or buy them from the owner(Difficult to find ingredients may require prior knowledge to have available for your date), and have full access to the kitchen equipment to cook for your partner, no cleanup required!(The staff cleans up after you leave!) The rooms are well sealed for privacy, but not too much privacy(We're not that kind of establishment).
  
  What do you think? Do you think anyone would be interested in this sort of thing? I think it would be useful for people with small apartments, room mates, or teens living with their parents among others. But yeah, it was just a thought I had while sitting here doing nothing. There would be next to no employment costs because there would be no cooks or waiters, just someone to man the doors and welcome people, and a handful of janitors to clean up the kitchens.
• Natural Harmonia Gropius wrote on 2014-07-08 02:24
  Interesting, but sounds like it would end up costing more to do this than to go to a fancy restaurant.
• Ashikoki wrote on 2014-07-08 02:38
  This probably wouldn't work. Kitchens are half the reason why dining out is so expensive. The gas, electric, and water bills are really high and in the thousands each month for a small kitchen. To make a commercial public kitchen you'd need a much larger one that would multiply that cost, plus employees to clean up the user's mess. There'd be liability for injuries, which is a legal nightmare.
  
  Its a niche business idea for people who might already be chefs, but that's really all it is. Niche. You might maybe run some community cooking courses if you have an open kitchen.
  
  Another problem is the cost of ingredients. You can't exactly jam an entire grocery store in to your business (and if you did, it would have to be marked up to compensate for various problems). If you ask people to bring their own ingredients, they're going to have to buy entire packages of ingredients that they won't use all of. If they're here because they have no kitchen to begin with, they can't use those leftover ingredients later, which is a huge loss of money.
  
  Overall I would imagine renting out a single user's worth of kitchen would cost twice what you would pay for a dinner of two at a restaurant, not including the ingredients. It would also get very poor business outside of dinner hours. Operating costs would be through the roof, and the niche customer base wouldn't bring in enough to keep your business afloat.
  
  tl;dr: You'll go bankrupt fast.
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-07-08 02:42
  There's a place here that instead of cooking for you they teach you to cook and then you eat what you made. Sounds a lot like that, though this is for anyone, usually large groups go but couples do too.
• Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2014-07-08 03:16
  ^That sounds more like a normal cooking school/ cooking courses. Sounds vers different from waht Nithi was contemplating, which is pretty much a love hotel but focussing on food.
• GODZILLA wrote on 2014-07-08 04:39
  Sounds like something Kramer would come up with.
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-07-08 11:21

  Quote from Campylobacter jejuni;1230892:

  ^That sounds more like a normal cooking school/ cooking courses. Sounds vers different from waht Nithi was contemplating, which is pretty much a love hotel but focussing on food.

  
  
  Not really a school "officially" though, it's marketed as a restaurant and people usually only go once. There isn't recurring classes or anything like that.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-07-08 13:05
  Between cook at home and cook at this place and pay to decorate it I really don't see the appeal. I can just decorate my place and do the exact same thing and I don't have to pay for it (except cost of ingredients).
  
  If you want to do a "do it yourself" establishment, you need to make sure the thing your customers do are not stuff they can do everyday anyway. For example, pottery, Birthday cake, stuffed animal...etc
• Osayidan wrote on 2014-07-08 19:57
  Found it: http://chefenvous.com/en/aboutchefenvous.html
• Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2014-07-08 20:06
  Oh, that's an interesting business model. Definitely needs to be copied.
• Splatulated wrote on 2014-07-09 02:04
  id be afraid of some moron burning down the place .-.