Anorexic Restaurant...

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Heard about this on the news radio this morning. http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=72157

I wonder if the proprieter graduated from the Aggie School of Business? :slight_smile:

Can you imagine pitching this to a loan officer at your bank? “Yes, I want to build a restaurant for people who don’t eat. Oh, and by-the-way, I’m going to staff it with people who eat a lot but throw it up afterwards…” :smiley:

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Sehnsucht is the latest to feed Berlin’s seemingly unending appetite for curiously themed restaurants. The city already has two highly successful “blind” restaurants where guests eat in pitch darkness, served by blind waiters.

“Waiter, is there a fly in my soup?”
“How the heck would I know?” :laughing:

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I have this vision of a pea, a slice of carrot, a wee cube of potato with a drop of gravy on it, and a really teensy morsel of chicken all on a plate.

Can you imagine the savings? For the restauranteur, that is. Charge the customer full boat, of course. :smiling_imp:

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I’m intrigued by the idea of the restaurant where you eat what you’re given and then pay what you think it’s worth.

As marketing/sociological/psychological data, I would love to know how the cashflow’s doing. It might conceivably be more profitable than if you set prices, depending on the psychology of the customers. Or not.

The idea of restaurant where you eat in total darkness, served by blind waiters frightens me somehow.

Best wishes,
Jerry

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I really tried to wrap my brain around this one, trying to find my sense of humour about it… but I couldn’t. Somehow the manager, who struggled with the disease herself, is able to joke about it and think it’s therapeutic-- but it’s such an emotionally painful disease, I can’t seem to grasp the concept of making it into something to laugh about and then market. :confused:

Ah, well… it wouldn’t be the first time I was confused by the way people’s minds think.

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I showed the article to my son. His girlfriend has suffered from anorexia in the past. His comment was:
“That’s stupid”.

He says it’s not the EATING that’s a problem, it’s getting them to not feel bad after they have eaten.

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Precisely.

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I wonder if they garnish the plates. In the (real) food business presentation is everything, you know… :slight_smile: