You mean a variation on this place? 
Naturally there’s plenty of polyhedral dice available? I’m thinking there’s bins of cheap plastic $.25 dice at the register. (Serious gamers bring their own high-grade dice, but in a place like Crazy Gamer’s Cafe, some of the dice will need to be replaced mid-session.)
And would you pretty please include a few MAME boxes? I won’t ask where you got the ROM images from.
I assume lots of Funyuns and Mountain Dew will be available? 
Ooh, suggestions! Yeah, bins of dice are a good idea, and some basic scale scenery like walls and stuff. There will be Funyuns, but the Cheetos will be more prominent.
And Igor bars?
I am totally about all the in-joke geek supplies. (Didn’t know about that one though.) There will have to be a suggestion box.
Did I mention Vorsicht Doug!'s take-out department, Do Your Wurst?
I will have to open my wife’s restaurant idea.
Presenting:
Whatever
Can’t figure out where you want to go? Can’t decide what you want? Let us do it for you!
At whatever, we cook a beef, chicken, and vegetarian dish every night. We serve that dish, and that dish only, all night long.
When you are seated, you are asked if you want beef, chicken, or veg. Then we bring out your dinner. No hassle with deciding what you want, no agonizing over the decision… we’ll do everything but the chewing.
*please let the hostess know if you have food allergies, and she will let you know if tonite’s Whatever is safe for you to eat.
Harriet the Spry, I 've wondered about how difficult it might be to open the kind of restaurant you mentioned, one that had dishes tailored to dietary difficulties. I wonder if a place like that opened, would it have to be in a really big city, to have enough clientele? Or possibly in or near a major teaching/research hospital?
I see that those darn menu printers forgot to include grits on there. And what the heck are these potato things you’re serving at breakfast time? 
My place would be the Crafty Cafe. Folks who quilt or crochet, paint or draw, carve miniature duck decoys or create chain maille could congregate there with other like-minded folks. There’d be plenty of wastebaskets around so that people have no excuse for not cleaning up after themselves and anyone who still insists on leaving a mess will be asked not to come back. I think I’d have to have a modest cover charge since most folks will likely be taking up space for an hour or two at a time but if you’re just picking up something and leaving, that fee would be waived.
Items on my menu would have crafty names. There would be The Crazy Quilt–an omelet with spicy sausage, red, green and yellow bell peppers, mushrooms and red onions. There would also be The Blank Canvas–a 5 inch square lemon sugar cookie covered in white cream cheese frosting. It would come with two or three tiny tubes of colored icing so you could create a masterpiece before eating it up.
In addition to coffee and tea, I’d have a large selection of soft drinks from the smaller companies that usually can’t afford shelf space in your average supermarket.
Thanks for making me snerk. 
By the way, MacTech, what a great idea for a thread!
The Teahouse. It has several rooms – one is the more British-sytle cozy tearoom, with comfy chintz overstuffed sofas and chairs, well-made scones, double Devon clotted cream, etc. Fire in the fireplace in winter, good books available for reading pleasure, probably mostly from the British Golden Age of detective stories. A second room is an Asian-inspired teahouse. (I’ll try not to rip off the Tao of Tea Tao of Tea too much, but as they are just about perfect, it’ll be hard not to.) (Or my favorite Montreal teahouse, can’t remember name, however) Great teas steeped at the proper temperature for each variety. Flowering teas in clear glass pots. Great selection of Yixing teapots lining the walls, and of course the bamboo tea scoops carved in the shapes of the Chinese zodiac are available. A great dragon hovers near the ceiling.
A third room is dominated by the Russian samovar, and provides caviar and sour cream on toast, lox and crispbread, and Scandinavian pastries.
The fourth room is changeable. Default mode has a quiet waterfall and and music of singing bowls or glass armonica for customers who want to come in to meditate. Twice a week, an authentic tea ceremony performed. At entirely erratic times, a Zen priest comes in for question and answer sessions. Other times, we have kendo, iaido, aikido, and other martial art demonstrations.
Oh, yes, there is a fifth room where digestive teas and cholesterol-reducing teas are served. Lots of beds, so that Dopers who are overly full from eating at all the other fine establishments can lie down to recuperate before going home. Slings to support the bulging bellies available on request.
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Nobody has this yet, but somewhere you need ** Juliefoolie’s All Day Breakfast **
Pancakes…both “Finn” and Regular,
Thanks for making the Finnish pancakes! Will you do both lettuja and pannukakku?
I’ll be there every day.
I’m no market researcher, but I don’t think it would have to be that big of an area. A lot of your business would be parties with one or two special needs diners. You could also branch out into religious dietary restrictions and kids who need a meal where no food touches any other food and crusts are cut off the bread.
I thought I’d put this restaurant in the Doper complex to keep the picky eaters out of everyone else’s hair.
I’ve been dreaming of this one for a long time, now:
The Shellfish Pig.
It’s your basic bar and grill, serving seafood, steaks, chicken, burgers, etc., with a twist. Every item on the menu is cooked in bacon grease, or wrapped in bacon. Not bacon salt, bacon. Real bacon. Every item.
We’ll be located next to the gym, of course.
Don’t forget to serve things like potatoes and other vegetables, and dough wrapped hardboiled eggs for all us “veggies.”
Yes, I know bacon grease isn’t vegetarian, but I won’t tell if you don’t.
ETA: That has to be the least kosher restaurant on the planet!
[Shakespeare In Love] Good name. [/SIL]
I have only one rule for my restaurant, and it has nothing to do with the food.
The bathroom doors must push OUT.
That is all.
Tikki, I think I would be your number one customer!!! I love your idea.
There is a tea house/cafe in Cold Lake, Alberta, that has just the concept you described! It is supported mainly by artists who paint (all mediums). There is even a studio in the back room where they can leave their paints and canvasses until the next time they come in. The art-work produced by these talented individuals is displayed in the cafe. There is a cozy nook with a few couches and easy chairs, along with some books. It is very inviting.
If I went to the Crafty Cafe, I would bring my knitting and curl up and knit while watching the other customers come and go. I would listen to all of the interesting conversations and hopefully, if there is a resident cat, it would come curl up beside me.
You could even charge me a small rental fee over and above the cover charge!