Help with Cafe name....

Im glad your using TW to get your idea's and thoughts out on.....screen... haha

 

my very own little corner of the net

 

Yea buddy!

Are you going to post the menu?

 

naw

 

I think it'd be a good idea to try to get employees of the local establishments on your side. Particularly front desk employees at all the hotels. Give out coupons for a free meal to them or some such. That way, when a hotel guest asks 'Where's a good place to grab some grub?', they have a ready-made answer because you already stroked them so to speak. I'd do that as far away as Tamarack (is it even open now?) too.

Another move is to shmooze hotel owners into letting you put flyers in the actual rooms and not just the lobby display with the other 900 flyers. Just make sure that it catches the eye so the guests actually look at it. I'm sure you've already thought of this stuff, but figured I'd throw it out there anyway. Gotta get those all-important tourist $$$ in a town like McCall.

 

GREAT!!!!!!!!!
We do want to see the MENU.
NICE LOGO.
When is the GRAND OPENING?????????

 

thank you so much for the great ideas, great post!

Been here for a year working at a place with a great rep. Met some great locals, got some hook ups. Tamarack is open, skiing is great!!

tyty
working on the menu.....open in 10 days or so

 

Might also consider tossing a coupon in the 'what to do this weekend' section of the Statesman for a free latte or free desert or some such. Lets the touristas from the valley know you're there.

 

the Cadillac.........




views from outside....the hotel is above me

 

for coffee is there any local coffee roasters around?

 

yes, some in Boise..... I'm searching...... have some samples one the way. But still looking

 

Definatly try to go with something local, Mother Parkers sucks!!!! I drank enough of it though

 

Breakfast

Skillets
Served with geoff's potatoes and toast
Plain Jane $5.29
Cheese with two eggs any way (add meat $1.00)
Brando's Full Tank $8.49
Ham, bacon, sausage, onions, green chile, cheese and two scrambled eggs
Farmers Market $7.69
Spinich, mushrooms, broccoli, tomatoes, cheese and two scrambled eggs



Morning Sandwiches
Served with a fruit cup
Breakfast on a bun $3.29
A scrambled egg with geoff's sausage or bacon, cheese on a hamburger bun
Bacon Toaster $3.89
A fried egg with bacon and cheese served up and grilled Texas Toast
McCall Muffin $2.89
A Fried egg with ham and cheese on a toasted english muffin

Breakfast Burritos
Served with a side of salsa
Scrambled eggs, hash browns, Green Chile and Cheese $2.59
Add Bacon ham or sausage $3.69
Loaded Burrito and Smothered with New Mexico Red Chile $5.69

Top O' The Morning Creations
Big Dawgs Breakfast $8.29
3 slices of bacon, sausage, hash browns,
toast, three eggs cooked your way and a slice of French Toast

Weesy's French Toast $5.29
Three slices sprinkled with powdered sugar and sliced strawberries
add bacon or sausage $2.00

S.O.S. (Sinks on a shingle) $4.29
Creamy beef gravy smothered on two slices of thick toast
Served with a side of hash browns

Chef's Huevos Rancheros $7.89
Two eggs any style, hash browns, beans and melted cheese
Smothered with New Mexico Red Chile sauce, all piled on a large flour tortilla.

Barb's smothered Hash Browns $4.29
Pile of Hash Browns with bacon pieces and melted cheese
add egg $1.00

OTHER STUFF
Toast and Jelly $1.59
Eggs in a Cup $2.89 (two eggs chopped up with toast)
Yogurt Parfet $3.29 ( with granola and fresh strawberries)
Old Fashioned Hot Cakes (3 - $4.89 ][ 2 - $3.89)
Side of New Mexico red chile $1.89
Side of geoff's sausage $ 2.29




how we lookin so far? Are you hungry now? What would you order?

 

So i have been in the restaurant biz since i was 20, 5-6 days a week for the last 16 years.
First of all congrats and good luck!
I am 6 months into my first venture myself. Holy shit is it alot of work!
I also am in a great location in a ski area where there are both steady local and tourist traffic.
So far this winter we have done great and right on pace for expansion to "brew pub" status. (6 mths - 1yr)
Were on facebook at BrewsterRiverPub, check it out and exchange advice!!
If you have any questions or need any help or advice don't hesitate to PM me and I'll try to help in any way possible.
For us our main goal was to create menu items and an atmosphere that you couldn't get anywhere else in town. Also having a theme and signature items that get people talking and bring them back is what is a winning formula.
Were a family friendly ski-bar pub that serves lunch, dinner and late night food with live music on the weekends.
Even though were very different restaurants I think we could bounce some ideas and help one another in certain situations.
Well I hope this helped and Good Luck!!!
BTW I liked "The Hot Skillet" after reading all the ideas and it wasn't there.

 

^^^^ GREAT post!!! Thanks ALOT!!! We both have similar things going on, wow , very cool! Sure I will hit you up in the near future for advise!

 

Just a quick idea, looking at the pics of the outside of the building, looks like the place could be easy to miss, I'd get some kind of neon in one of those windows, 'open' or 'food'', 'geoff's' something that people will notice from a ways off

 

How about " Another Cafe shop" or stop. Just another cafe shop.

 

^^^ YES! And I also have some sidewalk signs... Massive walk by traffic in the summer.

 

lmao.... i was hoping that you'd chime in! you are correct, changes made
thank you