Texas Barbecue

I'd probably take luxury items (like Waygu beef etc) and sell them in v. small portions at what seems to be an affordable price to the punter.

Mine would have been anything in wraps -

So falafel, or meatballs, crispy chicken, fajitas etc.

I would have called it

It's A Wrap

I would create a veggie place - something like Cranks which used to be in Covent Garden but with a take out option. Or something like the soup/salad places they have in the states - Olive Garden, or Soup Kitchen I think they are called, where you pay a set amount and can have whatever you want/as much as you want, and a lot of it is veggie.

And now reading this thread has reminded me that I've only had a banana so far today and its ages til lunch!

ETA it's neither olive garden nor soup kitchen, i'm thinking of, it's Souplantation - must google before post!

toast to go
a toast shop

I had this thought the other day.

Some toasters and an assorment of sliced breads.

Some butter, spreads, preserves and Marmite.

Cheap and fast.

I thought of the toast one while watching the show.

£1 a slice, your choice of bread,spread.

Quick, easy to carry, don't need plates just a napkin.

In Will Mellor's comedy series White Van Man they spoke of a toast-based cafe called 'The Toast Office'. That's brilliant, I'm amazed such a place has only been thought of in a sitcom.

£1 for one slice

I love the dessert idea - although it doesn't realy fall into the remit of fast food

I guess takeaway carvery option is probably the best because it's novel and it could actually work.

Breakkie foods in the morning (so sausages, bacon and eggs) and a choice of rolls / bread. Meats for lunch time... customers have a choice of having meats in some kind of wrap or with potatoes and a few veg! Same with the veggie option.

In the 90s I thought of (in a pub and for a laugh) Toast by the post

A online shop that delivered toast to offices by bike in London


rather than invest in it I ended up getting drunk and falling down an escalator.

It'll be a very tiny portion. 1kg is about £120, isn't it? It could work well in a wealthy area, though.

There is a cheesecake shop with cafe franchise now in Nottingham - six outlets so far and growing:
Mamuska

Theres one very near me, I've not been though as I'm not really a fan of cheese cake. I mean - cheese-cake? A cake made of cheese? Not in my lifetime!

A seafood burger place with American-style buns and sauces. "Prawn in the USA"

#meateasy does them!

Imaginary food, like in Hook. The profit margins would be enviable.

Plenty of burger places but apart from the hand carts @ niteclub kicking out time not much in the line of hot dogs;
I'd have done a hot dog place with choice of sausage, chilli dogs & corn dogs etc.
I'd have called it "The Dog's........".

As a special there'd be Vietnamese Meatballs, they really are the dogs bo**ocks.

Inkeeping with the candidates' knowledge of history and culture (not just this series) - I'll go for an Argentinian theme and call it Franco and Bene's.

Or alternatively I might team up with Susan and we can open a basic Chinese noodle/rice box place. I could call it Ma, She's Making Rice For Me. (Only people of a certain age and sad background will understand this and it's probably just as well).

Then again, I could just get me coat...

If I were you I'd stick to Italian, - Lena Zavaroni sounds like a pasta dish.

Fine, I'll switch to speciality risotto - sorted.

Gruel place called Gruel Brittannia.

Ooh, that is right up my street...I can smell the waffles and crepes now

I WOULDN'T have opened a pie and mash shop. I thought it wouldn't work but it seems it works very well indeed.

I'd probably go for something like Cornish pasties. You aren't supposed to call them that unless they come from Cornwall, so I'd have to come up with a new name, which I could then base the branding around.