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Anyone in the Boston Area Want to Open a Restaurant With Me?
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I will pay you to quit your profession.Originally Posted by jays978
You can pay me to quit my profession. I'm trying to get out anyway!
OP, have you tried contacting the member known as "vox satoria"? I think he can help.Originally Posted by acidboy
DUDE WTF. I'm trying to work a client here and you are totally cockblocking my wallet. **** you. **** you hard.
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I bet if it was six girls you'd consider it.Originally Posted by Rambo
[edmorel]Add a bar and you can call it six girls one cup.[/edmorel]
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You can pay me to quit my profession. I'm trying to get out anyway!Originally Posted by kwilkinson
DUDE WTF. I'm trying to work a client here and you are totally cockblocking my wallet. **** you. **** you hard.
dude I feel he's gonna serve a lot of foamy stuff and ranch dressings.
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dude I feel he's gonna serve a lot of foamy stuff and ranch dressings.Originally Posted by acidboy
A nice ranch dressing creme fraiche? Ketchup foam? If you do ever get something off the ground in boston lemme know as i'd drop by
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A nice ranch dressing creme fraiche? Ketchup foam?Originally Posted by chronoaug
If you do ever get something off the ground in boston lemme know as i'd drop by
If you can open a real bbq place around these parts you can have my money.
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If you can open a real bbq place around these parts you can have my money.Originally Posted by pscolari
Yea, there are a few openings in different areas of boston. Not everyone wants to drive to m&m (and even then, i've only been once but wasn't floored. will try again with another menu item. still good though). The problem is do you do a straight forward one, or trendy it up a bit (while keeping the food good). Hard for startup places without anything going for them to last. Just a regular solid restaurant starting up is probably doomed to fail.
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Do you need in-house counsel? I'll accept payment in the form of alcohol.
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If you can open a real bbq place around these parts you can have my money.Originally Posted by pscolari
I can do BBQ very well, but don't want to be too burnt out (smoked) by the end of the day. A future venture perhaps.
Yea, there are a few openings in different areas of boston. Not everyone wants to drive to m&m (and even then, i've only been once but wasn't floored. will try again with another menu item. still good though). The problem is do you do a straight forward one, or trendy it up a bit (while keeping the food good). Hard for startup places without anything going for them to last. Just a regular solid restaurant starting up is probably doomed to fail.Originally Posted by chronoaug
I feel like Bostonians don't know what they want in terms of restaurants, they just follow the crowd. That makes it that much harder to cater to them besides opening up a lunch spot for the working. Just like how you mentioned how one would need to "trendy" up a BBQ place.
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There are some smaller operations that make good food without added flash.
By "trendy" up a bbq place i mainly meant in comparison to a real bbq place from all over the south. Basically most look like someone bought out a mcdonalds, put yellow tinted lighting in and called it a day. I mean, unless you've been around forever as an established bbq place who does well in regional and national competitions and have a good reputation, you can't just open a place like that up. Especially since boston doesn't have a big bbq community.
If capital, real esate, and manpower is a problem for you, why don't you try a food truck?
By "trendy" up a bbq place i mainly meant in comparison to a real bbq place from all over the south. Basically most look like someone bought out a mcdonalds, put yellow tinted lighting in and called it a day. I mean, unless you've been around forever as an established bbq place who does well in regional and national competitions and have a good reputation, you can't just open a place like that up. Especially since boston doesn't have a big bbq community.
If capital, real esate, and manpower is a problem for you, why don't you try a food truck?
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I feel like Bostonians don't know what they want in terms of restaurants, they just follow the crowd. That makes it that much harder to cater to them besides opening up a lunch spot for the working. Just like how you mentioned how one would need to "trendy" up a BBQ place.Originally Posted by jays978
I think you are buying into the local media's take on Boston dining at face value. Reading The Improper and Boston Magazine will brainwash you into believing your quote is true. For me, the people that follow the crowd are the suburbans who come into the South End and dine at Stella or Stephi's on Tremont to be seen out. These are the people that skim the Improper or BM and decide where to eat. There are a ton of great restaurants that have been chugging along but are not owned by Barbara Lynch or Ken Oringer, and do not get the lion's share of press around these parts. Not to mention, there is also a huge Chowhound and Grub Street community spreading the word about noteworthy places.
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