Catching A Buzz

Change of Plans

Well, the meeting with the developer went well, and he offered us the prime location in his new European village style market....problem is....he gave me the creeps.

He took my chef and I to his home, then out to lunch, asked us questions regarding what we thought of his site, then spoke over us as soon as we started speaking about us or our concept. Weird. Plus, he had grandiose ideas about a bistro. Wanted a private dining room. Bistros shouldn't have private dining rooms. They are about community. Wanted a power breakfast on the menu. In a bistro??? Bistros offer light, fresh breakfast foods, like crepes and poached eggs, not heavy weighed down greasy Waffle House scrambled eggs, ham, bacon, sausage and the like. At least ours doesn't anyway. Wanted an expensive interior design, heavy on architecture, which his masonry construction company would build out for us. Um, no. Light, airy, sans curtains, please.

So we're onto another design, writing another business plan, looking for another investor. I have a feeling we'll be doing a lot of this over and over again in the next year or so.

Updated May 2008:
The new concept is a smaller breakfast driven French Cafe. Warm maple pecan french toast, crepes suzettes, blueberry blintzes, raspberry white chocolate bread pudding, roasted pepper spinach & goat cheese omelets, warm apple struedel, fresh from the oven double chocolate brownies, salads, sandwiches, soups, and lots of java..the menu is currently a work in progress. But it will still feature organic poultry & produce, as well as bovine growth hormone free dairy products....gee, healthy doesn't always sound so tempting, does it? Either way, a much simpler concept, easy design, we can do it in 2500 sq feet. And I've possibly found the money ....mwhahahahahaaa. Now to apply for business grants (cuz who can't use more money) and find a new location...