What's your favourite sandwich filling? Opening a shop soon
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Cheers for all the feedback so far
This place will do your sandwiches made to order with a variety of ingredients, coffee and cupcakes etc, smoothies and shakes made on the spot, and it'll also have its own little bakery and greengrocer sections (the basic fruit and veg, and a variety of breads/baguettes etc.
There will be limited seating inside and out too. There seems to be enough parking outside as there aren't any yellow lines in the area, so passing trade (which there seems to be a fair bit of it) have plenty of places to stop.
Loving some of the ideas about the gimmicky sandwiches. I think we'll be doing a few of them, along with a sandwich of the week. There is talk of office platters in time to come too.
Demographics seems to be OAP's and school mothers, with plenty of building work going on in the surrounding areas, so I doubt we have to go all artisan and street foody.
But please keep the thoughts coming. They're coming in handy.
This place will do your sandwiches made to order with a variety of ingredients, coffee and cupcakes etc, smoothies and shakes made on the spot, and it'll also have its own little bakery and greengrocer sections (the basic fruit and veg, and a variety of breads/baguettes etc.
There will be limited seating inside and out too. There seems to be enough parking outside as there aren't any yellow lines in the area, so passing trade (which there seems to be a fair bit of it) have plenty of places to stop.
Loving some of the ideas about the gimmicky sandwiches. I think we'll be doing a few of them, along with a sandwich of the week. There is talk of office platters in time to come too.
Demographics seems to be OAP's and school mothers, with plenty of building work going on in the surrounding areas, so I doubt we have to go all artisan and street foody.
But please keep the thoughts coming. They're coming in handy.
what other options are available locally ? not many places in the uk seem to do pizza by the slice. if they do sell it , seems to be fairly poor quality. just thinking of options for when only something hot will do. hog roast is very popular but do not know how practical it is. fresh samosas and pakora tend not to be too widely available outside traditional asian outlets.
I'd recommend you go here and see what they put in their wraps, it will change the way you think about take out lunches.
http://www.gastronomica.co.uk/
http://www.gastronomica.co.uk/
williamp said:
Prawn
Is the right answer. Bunch of f
king wrong 'uns with the previous responses.Proper prawns, or even better crayfish tails with mayo on a nice foccacia. Very few places do prawns because they don't keep though, not even Greggs. But lots of people like them, prawn cocktail is the most popular starter of all time (so I'm told).
I would mention the Glaswegian crispy roll but not a lot of point if you're anywhere that does those soft bap type garbage.
Fish Sandwich. I LOVED these when I used to live here - only once a month though ;-)
http://www.gotobermuda.com/blog/In-Search-of-Bermu...
http://www.gotobermuda.com/blog/In-Search-of-Bermu...
We set up similar just over 15 years ago. Back then we introduced the takeaway cappuccino to the town ! Can't believe the coffee culture now. Make sure you do the course, there is an art to a good froth. Our best selling sandwich flling was one we made up: chicken, bacon, mushroom (raw) and spring onion in mayo, best on granary bread. Also cosider doing a daily soup special, electric soup kettle not expensive and you can buy a good range of interesting soups from loads of places. Platters are a good earner if you have a range of SME businesses on the doorstep.
Other advice:
If you employ anyone, make sure you get them to present the same attitude the owners do - not easy with someone on min wage.
Don't confuse "busy" with profitable, keep your costs under control and do anything you can creatively to drum up trade.
Food at this level is generally a cash business and you need good portion control so you do have risks if you're delegating on days off.
Be prepared for pretty unpredictable takings, we traded for 3-4 years and we could never nail down any patterns other than broad rules around weather, day of the week, month of the year.
Businesses like this are pretty tying, you won't get much time off or easily take holiday.
Take care of your regulars.
Banking can become relatively expensive.
Take care of use regulations on the property, even previously operating locations can have restrictions on them and local councils can get a bit petty about things like outside seating.
We wanted to expand it as a chain but the difficulty of securing property at the right location/price and the issue of getting trustworthy staff in a full-employment area meant we cashed in and took a modest return on our investment. We really enjoyed the challenge of setting it up and making it profitable, the day to day was a bit of a drudge in the end. The buyers didn't do a very good job after us and they folded after a year or two. We still enjoyed the Boxster and little house in France it brought us though
Other advice:
If you employ anyone, make sure you get them to present the same attitude the owners do - not easy with someone on min wage.
Don't confuse "busy" with profitable, keep your costs under control and do anything you can creatively to drum up trade.
Food at this level is generally a cash business and you need good portion control so you do have risks if you're delegating on days off.
Be prepared for pretty unpredictable takings, we traded for 3-4 years and we could never nail down any patterns other than broad rules around weather, day of the week, month of the year.
Businesses like this are pretty tying, you won't get much time off or easily take holiday.
Take care of your regulars.
Banking can become relatively expensive.
Take care of use regulations on the property, even previously operating locations can have restrictions on them and local councils can get a bit petty about things like outside seating.
We wanted to expand it as a chain but the difficulty of securing property at the right location/price and the issue of getting trustworthy staff in a full-employment area meant we cashed in and took a modest return on our investment. We really enjoyed the challenge of setting it up and making it profitable, the day to day was a bit of a drudge in the end. The buyers didn't do a very good job after us and they folded after a year or two. We still enjoyed the Boxster and little house in France it brought us though
There's a sandwich place in Bristol with a good concept - Maximillions. It starts off generic enough - pick your bread (giant white bap, obvs) and then roast meat (I like pork because it gives you apple sauce, stuffing and crackling as a triple bonus) and then select your salad items, 5 of them.
Here's where it gets interesting. "Salad" covers your generic green crap, but also such obvious "salad" items as:
Noodles
Potato wedges
Salami
Spring rolls
Bhajis
Cheese
Potato salad
Chips
Rice
the list goes on.
Essentially, a mahoosive sandwich, with a good sized meal piled on top of it. Or placed in a box, if for some reason you don't want the bread. Odd, but, it takes all sorts. I heartily recommend it.
Here's where it gets interesting. "Salad" covers your generic green crap, but also such obvious "salad" items as:
Noodles
Potato wedges
Salami
Spring rolls
Bhajis
Cheese
Potato salad
Chips
Rice
the list goes on.
Essentially, a mahoosive sandwich, with a good sized meal piled on top of it. Or placed in a box, if for some reason you don't want the bread. Odd, but, it takes all sorts. I heartily recommend it.
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