I would sell my soul for a mashed potato buffet!
We used to have a grilled cheese place that started as a food truck. It’s been closed for a few years, and I still miss their Pigs & Figs. They also had excellent onion rings.
They had one in Santa Barbara probably fifteen years ago but it only lasted for a year or two. I was in the bathroom there and saw a guy leave without washing his hands. I was horrified.
Maybe I’m being whooshed but here’s some problems I see with their business plan.
- You need to offer customers choices. You should not have a menu that consists of two items.
- If you’re only going to put three items on your menu, keep them there. Don’t rotate them so people have to remember which day of the week they can get shrimp eggrolls.
- You need to let customers choose how much they want to order. They should sell single eggrolls as an option.
- You need to have competitive pricing. This place doesn’t.
- I didn’t mention this before but they have a bad location. They’re in the back of a under-trafficked shopping center with poor parking and no foot traffic. And they don’t have a sign on the street to let people know they’re there.
- You ideally should be offering customers something they can’t get elsewhere, especially when you’re breaking the first five rules. That’s not the case here. this town has several other Chinese restaurants that sell eggrolls - plus other menu items. And they all let you buy a single eggroll if that’s all you want.
This restaurant has put itself into a position where they’re depending on selling one product. And they’re not the best choice for buying that product.
My apologies - no whoosh intended. I was merely marveling at the level of determined nicheness that the establishment had achieved. I should probably have included a 
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Man, do they suck!
It’s amazing they are still in business.
There used to be a restaurant around here specialized in potatoes, aptly named “Die Kartoffel”. Now don’t get me wrong, this is potato country, but this was just the most niche place we ever had here. It was quite good, they had many variations of potatoes, baked, fried, sauteed, cooked, mashed, casseroles and my favorites, Reibekuchen. They had an all you can eat offer for them for DM 15. The restaurant lasted for a few years.
I was coming in to post something similar - Homeroom Mac + Cheese. I haven’t tried it, but a co-worker says it is pretty damn good. They have been popular enough (occasional lines out the door apparently) to start a modest expansion.
I haven’t visited one but I checked the menu when they started opening around here, maybe 5 years ago. Fingers or fingers on bread or biscuits. People say the sauce is good but how good could shelf stable, fast food dip possibly be?
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Heh. Those exist.
Hummus Brothers was a short lived chain in London that just sold hummus and pitta bread. Quite tasty, and I used to go at least once a week.
The S&M cafe in Islington wasn’t some kind of fetish venue. They specialised in sausage and mash. Different types of each and several flavours of gravy. Also sadly closed now. In a previous life the cafe appeared in the film quadrophenia as the coffee shop the mods hung out in.
I don’t judge them that harshly. To me, they are just entirely, soul-crushingly, forgettably average
NYC has Rice to Riches, a restaurant that only sells rice pudding.
Excuse me… 2 restaurants that only sell rice pudding. If the Spring St. location isn’t to your liking, walk 10 minutes east to the Rivington St. location.
Sure, there’s rumors that it’s just a money laundering front, or… does the Lower East Side / Soho region of Manhattan just love rice pudding that much?
I’m hoping that I can find another place in London that specializes in spam, egg, sausage, and spam. The previous place was great, apart from the Vikings.
Sounds like there would be too much singing for my liking in the spam venue.
It’s ketchup, mayo, Worcestershire, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. How wonderful can it be? Answer: Not very.
It’s a very low expectation ceiling, even before the uninspired ingredient list. A buffalo sauce, a garlic parm, mintberry crunch, wasabi, we already know it won’t be great, at least make it interesting.
Taco Bell’s sauce packet salsas are pretty good at this. “New Fire Fuego Faygo Chupachup Chalupa collab?!? Sounds terrible, can’t wait to try it.”
I had high hopes for a new restaurant called “Hula Bowls”. I thought maybe they would serve various Hawaiian foods, like poke or poi. Nope. All they do is fruit cups, or variations on fruit cups, like fruit on pudding or yogurt, or fruit blended into a smoothie. 
Some time between the easing of the Covid lockdown and June, 2022, my daughter spent a lot of time with her friends at the Anaheim Packing House. She finally consented to escort me there once, and brought me to a place called the Kroft, where I got to experience poutine for the first time. They had a large list of variations on the theme, and my impression at the time was that those comprised their entire bill of fare. Looking at their website menu, either I was wrong about that, or they have expanded their menu in the intervening years.
ETA: BTW, an I the only one bemused by the fact that a glorified food court rates a recommendation from the Anaheim Visitors Bureau?
Although TBF, Olvera Street could be characterized similarly.
I ate at a place in Louisiana called “Spectacular Tuber” which had a few locations where their entire gimmick was baked potatoes but with a ton of toppings and variations, and they basically had “Double” Baked Potatoes which was a baked potato expanded to twice it’s size. Looking at their online menu they also have burgers, fries and other restaurant fair but the potatoes are the certain piece. What I ate I really enjoyed but INCREDIBLY filling.
I miss Jamaican patties! I loved them when I lived in Toronto, and I cannot find them here in Alberta. A few Jamaican beef patties and HP sauce was a filling and tasty lunch.
Tell Patties Express to consider western Canada for expansion. I’d be first in line!