Has anyone visited one of these establishments? An all-cereal restaurant sounds like a good idea but I'm not too sure about the idea of toppings and cereal combos.
― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― still bevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)
Tom, I live to disppoint you.
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― ke[hm, Thursday, 2 December 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)
Hint of cereal?
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)
Might I also point out that they *actually* have a smoothie-type beverage called the "Slurreality"
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)
Boxtiality -- The all-drink-box juice barRameniscenceGranoligarchyJellocityOreography
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)
(Sam, "restaurant prices" doesn't mean "the cost of a full meal at a restaurant," it means "the price the item costs at a restaurant.")
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)
1. people pay it! they do! and here as with starbucks they're not just selling the staple, they're selling VARIETY and CONFECTION (wtf malted milk balls on your frosted flakes, but hey, whodathunk "eggnog latte! yum!" (I did, yesterday evening on the way to class))
2. the ingredients are so cheap the overhead for your class-A location becomes a moot point by the time you've made 50 sales each AM M-F
3. yes it's insane! Americans love sugar! I wish I'd thought of it first. There's no way I'd let them get by with that name, though. MY cereal restaurant racecar would just say PENCIL SHAVINGS ALL UP IN YA MILK on the hood and I'd never get any venture capital.
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)
I mean, this is coming out at the same time that "chef's helpers" in the grocery store -- partially prepared items that are neither as fresh as produce/normal meat nor as convenient as frozen dinners, but more expensive than either -- sell very well.
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)
garlic, thai, cowboy--that place RULED with IRON FIST...been closed for ten years
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)
Tep, I was just trying to make this jackass feel like an idiot.
I am the anti-Tep you know. Microwaving something is trouble for me. I don't like preparing anything as I don't wish to have to wash up plates or anything like that. I don't predict this height of laziness to last forever but for the last year or so it's suited me fine. If there was a cereal restaurant nearby, it would become my new Ships.
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 2 December 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)
Loads of folks here bring in and eat cereal in the mornings - we even have the little single serve kellogs variety brick packs in our vending machine - it'd so work here I reckon.
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)
What's worse is that the Starbucks near me usually has a chalkboard with something along the lines of "Try a Triple Vanilla Hazelnut Latte with a Double Chocolate Heath Bar Brownie today!" Gross.
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)
Somehow that makes it seem more Kramery. I'm not just gonna open up a branflake boutique, I'm gonna do it in Arizona!
Part of the plan they fed the bank must've invoked the much-hyped comfort food fad that doesn't seem to be quite as strong as anyone thought it was. The website is all "we're the restaurant with nothing new!"
There should really be a chain of restaurants called either Hey Smell This or What The Fuck Were You Thinking, but I think I've talked about that before.
(xpost: see that was what made Starbuck's work, though, they created a new coffee niche -- a triple lutz hazelnut flapjaccino isn't competing with a cup of joe, just like McDonald's isn't competing with Applebee's etc.)
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)
xpost
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)
Weeping... with... giggles..
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)
HST and WTFWYT are both restaurants that emphasize the participatory appeal of restaurants, the other side of the "just add the ingredients together and stir" frozen meal. It would have to be marketed as "not a meal substitute."
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.chikalicious.com/menu.htm
― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 2 December 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)
oh. dear. god.
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 2 December 2004 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)
i would fuck coffee up if i made it at home, i dont fuck cereal up.
4 dollars for cereal is so ridiculous that i cant possibly even see why anyone would pay for it.
― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 2 December 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)
*-(
― donut christ (donut), Thursday, 2 December 2004 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― I'm serious ... Ti-i-i-i-im (deangulberry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)
I doubt they're aiming for it, but if Cereality wanted that level of success they would presumably need to do something similar: spin their product in such a way that it's the cappuccino of cereal.
(After all, Todd, I doubt you fuck up ice cream sundaes, either, but sundae joints selling their product at nearly the same markup as Cereality -- with as much labor saved -- aren't going away any time soon.)
Remember when they thought waffle bars would be the next big thing in the mid 90s?
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)
rice to riches. it was on or near mott street, i think. also in nyc: the peanut butter and jelly place on sullivan, the grilled cheese place on ludlow, the milkshake place on st.mark's, the hot dog emporiums on st.marks and e.10th, the fried dumpling joints on eldridge st and allen st... this could go on and on.
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 2 December 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 December 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 3 December 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 3 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)
― Remy Snush (x Jeremy), Friday, 3 December 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 3 December 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)
xpost to spencer.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 3 December 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 3 December 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Remy Snush (x Jeremy), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― daria g (daria g), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)
No one's mentioned the fact that you have to add the milk yourself! You might as well be at home. Most retarded.
― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)
Yeah, they've put it in the heart of ASU, which is like, what, 50,000 students?
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, 3 December 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/drsoda/kecopolsi.html
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)
The milkshake place on St. Mark's is also a grilled cheese place, though! That's the best part.
― C0L1N B3CK3TT1, Friday, 3 December 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)
It's great for Americans who sometimes just want shitty drip coffee instead of Italian espresso all the time. Also the chairs are so much more comfy than any fancyass cold steel cafe.
― C0L1N B3CK3TT1, Friday, 3 December 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)
(This is most likely why they have no competitor yet. Like Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken, they took a market that had only existed in regional pockets, and nationalized it; most of their market now associates the product with them. Vs post-McDonald's national burger chains and pizza delivery joints, who have to compete on an existing playing field and whose customers already knew what they liked before they saw the menu.)
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)
You know that you'd have to drink about 8 espressos to get the amount of caffeine that's in your typical 24-oz cup of American coffee? The drip method actually extracts more caffeine, and of course there is the big disparity in volume. So for your average American coffee drinker, an espresso just isn't going to cut it.
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― C0L1N B3CK3TT1, Friday, 3 December 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)
But all that cuppuccino milk will make you fat! Or perhaps you don't share my ex-fat kid neurosis.
― C0L1N B3CK3TT1, Friday, 3 December 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 December 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/39829.htm
― oskar shindig! (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 February 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Monday, 7 February 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)
― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Monday, 7 February 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)
"Who the heck is going to get rich off rice pudding?" asked Ozbbel Baez, a local carpenter. "
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 7 February 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)
― oskar shindig! (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)
sounds awesome, wish they had one in the uk!
― rayanbee, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)
There's a similar store in Coral Gables, Florida, called the Cereal Bowl. The menu is overstuffed with sugary cereals, but there's some surprisingly healthy alternatives (oatmeal, for instance). The store received some extra attention, as the business model won a Miami Herald "Best New Business Idea" contest. It's become something of a college hangout (the University of Miami is across the street), and has a cool-ish and family-friendly vibe.
Still, my six year old daughter won't go there, even though her piano lessons are at a studio just above the Cereal Bowl and I always suggest it (and trust me, she likes sugary cereals).
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 8 October 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.eatmecrunchy.com/ to thread.
― Pete, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)
there's one called Eaties right across the street from work (Asheville NC). I kind of doubt I will ever go there but god bless 'em!
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 8 October 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)
It is heartbreaking to live in a test market town and then the thing tested is a bust and it goes away forever, and no one outside the test market believes your heavy tale. Boise was one, we and one other town got our Jack-in-the-Boxes replaced w/the new JBX Grill, which not only had the world's best onion rings AND delicious chicken-avocado-bacon sandwiches BUT they sold beer! Beer at Jack in the Box! And really good coffee & espressos! AND IT WILL NEVER EXIST AGAIN.
― Abbott, Monday, 8 October 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)
they had BEER at Jack in the Box!?! that's usually the place you go after you're drunk.
― carne asada, Monday, 8 October 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)
Yes we took my friend there for his 21st before anywhere else. Newcastles at Jack! YES.
― Abbott, Monday, 8 October 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)
I'VE BEEN TO A JBX.
The milkshakes were exactly the same, but in a glass.
The girl I was with was waaaaaay too excited, but she was brain-melting gorgeous, so it was OK.
― en i see kay, Monday, 8 October 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)
There's a Carl's Jr in downtown LA that serves beer. I doubt if they carry Newcastle, though.
― nickn, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)
The JBX employees got payed like $10.50 an hour! JBX seriously made my sister want to get a degree in marketing, she was so WOWED by them. (Currently she is learning how to do brazilian waxes at a trade school in Tempe. It's real dull phone conversation, always with the body hair.)
― Abbott, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)