Inexplicably Stupid Restaurant Concepts

[Jackmannii]

…and such small portions.

[Musicat]

@DrCube

I love Papa Murphy’s, but I’m always struck by their business model. A pizza restaurant with no oven. So, not a restaurant at all, more like a mini-grocery store that sells nothing but pre-made (but not frozen) pizzas and raw cookie dough.

My cousin, back when he was younger, stopped by Papa Murphy’s when it first opened in his town. He ordered the pizza and they gave it to him, and he said, “Aren’t you going to cook it?” The cashier replied, “We don’t have an oven”, and my cousin said, “I don’t have an oven either!” He ended up having to drive to his mom’s house to cook his dinner.

You’re supposed to cook it?! My, my!

[Bad_News_Baboon]

@Dr.Strangelove

Ha! I’m glad to see I remembered correctly; I had to have been around 12 at the time (on a road trip with my grandparents in Ohio… not a place I visit all that much these days). Those cold, heavy skillets were especially difficult for a scrawny kid to handle, but I learned something about angular momentum that day.

Hey, at least they had a handle. There is a restaurant called Whiskey Cake that served me an appetizer on a plank atop a brick.

A brick.

[Asuka]

@Musicat

You’re supposed to cook it?! My, my!

My family had the same thing happened to them, on a road trip we stayed at a hotel in a pretty small town and the only place that was open at 9pm after we checked in was a Papa Murphy’s, so we all went in happy and hungry that we were going to get some great pizza only to be told that we’d have to make it ourselves and since we had no oven at the hotel we were extremely disappointed.

Looking at their website now apparently they now have ready-made appetizers like bread sticks and salads but at the time we went it was just simply pizza.

Also does anyone else think “Tilted Kilt” is an interesting idea but executed horribly? It’s basically Hooters with waitresses in skimpy tops and kilts and is supposed to resemble a vaguely Scottish pub but when I went they just had hip-hop music playing at an entirely too loud volume, most of the menu was generic American pub food (burgers and wings) and my table was right next to a claw machine that would randomly play “fun” noises every 30 seconds. So basically they just stole everything from Hooters without even attempting to make it unique or interesting.

[DrDeth]

@Asuka

Also does anyone else think “Tilted Kilt” is an interesting idea but executed horribly? It’s basically Hooters with waitresses in skimpy tops and kilts and is supposed to resemble a vaguely Scottish pub but when I went they just had hip-hop music playing at an entirely too loud volume, most of the menu was generic American pub food (burgers and wings) and my table was right next to a claw machine that would randomly play “fun” noises every 30 seconds. So basically they just stole everything from Hooters without even attempting to make it unique or interesting.

Yes, the one out here closed down. The girls had more of a college girl having fun vibe as opposed to the stripper vibe.

But the food was meh. Not horrible, just meh, and yes, the music was too loud.