
Over the years I have met an amazing number of people from diverse backgrounds who, regardless of their personal wealth or success, say they’d like to set-up a restaurant one day. Home-makers with culinary skills, celebrities looking for an investment, corporate executives who are well connected, landlords with space, restaurant mangers or chefs with industry experience, industrialists who would simply like a place to host their associates & friends, and all sorts of other people dream of having their own restaurant. |
“A restaurant is generally an establishment where the public may obtain meals or refreshments.” |
After all, how hard can it be? All you need to do is arrange for a good space, good food & good ambience, market yourself well and there... you could make some good money and even a name for yourself, right? Sure! But try getting down to doing it and you will find it isn’t that easy, not even for the most experienced restaurateurs.it is the food related ones that come up most often – “I’m quite a foodie you know” or “I enjoy eating in various parts of the world” or “I have some terrific tried-n-tested family recipes”. What is a restaurant? |
As with so many ideas that evolve over time, restaurants now serve a larger role in society... they have become places of social contact, of discovering new cultures and tastes from far-away lands, of spending an evening with your loved ones, of clinching business deals over a glass of wine, and so forth. All this, of course, in addition to the basic functions of “restoring” people with the help of good food, service and ambience. Restaurants differ based on their orientation towards a certain type of food or beverage, a specialized activity, a particular style of service or a combination of these. For instance a coffee shop is oriented towards coffee and conversation, a discotheque towards dance and liquor, a quick service restaurant towards dishing out pre-prepared food quickly on order, a fine dining restaurant towards a certain kind of cuisine, a takeaway towards delivered packaged meals. Anyone planning to start a restaurant will have to take note of these diverse functions and orientations, and cater to the different (and ever-changing!) needs and expectations of prospective clients.
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1.) Ristorante Grotta Palazzese (Puglia, Italy):
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2.) Northern Lights Bar In Ion Hotel (Iceland):
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3.) The Green Dragon Pub In Hobbiton (New Zealand):
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4.) The Snowcastle Of Kemi (Kemi, Finland):
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5.) Labassin Waterfall Restaurant (Villa Escudero Resort, Philippines):
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6.) Hr Giger Museum Bar (Gruyères, Switzerland):
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7.) El Diablo (Lanzarote, Spain):
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8.) Sci-fi Dine-in Theater Restaurant (Disney's Hollywood Studios, FL, USA):
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9.) Alice In A Labyrinth (Tokyo, Japan):
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10.) Nekobiyaka (Himeji, Japan):
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11.) Redwoods Treehouse (Warkworth, New Zealand):
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12.) Bistrot Chez Rémy (Disneyland Paris, France):
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13.) Walter's Coffee Roastery (Istanbul, Turkey):
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14.) All Men Must Dine Pop-up Restaurant (London, UK):
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15.) Prison Of Fire (Tianjin, China):
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