I live in a small apartment complex above a commercial space in a huge city, dead center of downtown. recently this space has been rented by a string of doomed businesses, currently a very poorly conceived and executed theme cafe/restaurant that uses AI art and just emanates a cursed vibe overall. I have to walk directly past/beside it to enter my building now and it's honestly embarrassing. also they trashed our back alley and now it's a rat paradise. hate these ppl.
I've put in my hours making breakfast and brunch for friends and myself (often just myself tbh) but I used to really enjoy going to select diners in other places I've lived, like the long-gone Moe's (RIP!!!) in Montreal - places where the food was cheap and dependable and you just liked being there. so naturally I have been daydreaming (and note-drafting) about what I would do with the space if someone were to hand me the couple hundred g's for the equipment and lease after this place inevitably shutters. (not very likely but dreaming is free.)
It's been fun to build a menu, conceptualize items, and think about how I would manage the space and manage orders and stuff. I actually devised and made a delicious new pancake this morning, great fun. I've been feeding them to neighbours and my roommate and it's been all raves. I've been just openly raging and despairing over (gestures at everything that's happening) and there seems to be no protest activity here so this has been a nice lil wholesome activity/distraction
I guess my q's for fellow hexbears, I know we're not exactly pro small business tyrants around here but I was wondering if anyone had a resto concept they batted around in their heads a while even just for fun, and also if anyone had some cool diners they wanted to shout out (alive or dead) or had any thoughts on what makes a good diner or shared eating space generally.