A restaurant that serves leftover spaghetti and maybe at super low prices. Hot or cold.
Posted by YoureCringeAndWeak@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 12 comments
Serve spaghetti like normal and at the end of the night make more than normal and put it in the fridge with the sauce.
The next day offer it throughout the day at a low low price. Gets people in. It's super fast to serve. Maybe creates some free publicity. Can microwave it hot if needed. Done.
Who doesn't love next day spaghetti?
Who says no to $5 restaurant quality next day spaghetti?
XROOR@reddit
There was a place in Burke VA called the “Spaghetti Factory” in the 1990’s. You bought bolognese spaghetti by the pound.
Ateist@reddit
Do you really think products in restaurants are expensive due to high costs?
FYI, ingredients cost less than a third of what they ask for.
"Leftover spaghetti" would cost exactly the same.
YoureCringeAndWeak@reddit (OP)
Do you think restaurant prices are the same everywhere?
You could be a semi high end restaurant and offer this for lunch.
It's essentially free labor to just make extra at the end of the night and store it for tomorrow.
Ateist@reddit
What restaurants (as well as many other places like movie theaters) sell you is, essentially, time that you spend inside.
Someone eating cheap spaghetti is taking up valuable space that could've been taken by someone eating far more expensive lunch.
There is ZERO reason for a restaurant to offer you cheap food.
YoureCringeAndWeak@reddit (OP)
Wtf r u on about?
Cheesecake factory does not charge what they do to keep me inside.
Your argument makes no sense.
Restaurants are making profit from:
Food and drinks. That's it. Outside of merch if available.
So if food is small margin profit then surely deducting labor costs makes it even more profitable.
Pasta is generally an easy to make bulk dish. Do all the labor when making fresh plates. Then the next day there's near zero labor time needed.
Sell $5-10 next day pasta and suddenly the margins are higher than fresh + another opportunity for drinks + quick in and out customer you can rotate through.
Ateist@reddit
They do.
It's just included in the price of drinks and food.
If you don't order enough and keep occupying the table for a prolonged time they'll very politely ask you to either order more or get the fuck out once busy hours arrive.
Who, exactly, can guarantee that people that order cheap spaghetti are going to be "in and out" fast?
Restaurants have "menu of the day" for that.
Dubbly45@reddit
Day old spaghetti is the best! https://www.antonioscatalina.com/
YoureCringeAndWeak@reddit (OP)
GOD DAMN
That sounds good.
But can it come cold...
Imajzineer@reddit
This isn't a crazyidea and these 'restaurant that' posts are getting seriously tedious now.
How about a restaurant that employs someone to track down and brutally hack to death the next person to post one?
YoureCringeAndWeak@reddit (OP)
Show me one restaurant that does this. Does every post have to be unhinged?
Imajzineer@reddit
None of them need to, that's not the point.
If this were r/ GoodIdeas, I'd've upvoted this post..
But it isn't ... it's r /CrazyIdeas.
Furthermore ... see those sub rules over there -->
This is the third 'restaurant that' post in almost as many minutes today; no matter how worthy an idea it might be, yet another 'reataurant that' post is, therefore, by definition, unoriginal and, consequently, boring - think of something else.
GrandmaSlappy@reddit
Next day spaghetti is pretty bad