A few weeks ago, the local student newspaper had this article about two new food establishments in town. You’d think that a normal entrepreneur would do something standard, like burgers or steak. Not these folks–they chose to open up cookie shops.
One of these places is a local start up, and the other is a small corporation that has its roots at UPenn. What I think is really neat is that both places deliver and are open until the wee hours of the morning, so that the college kids who imbibed too much fire water can get their sugar and fat fix. I think this is pretty ingenious, if you ask me. The only hitch in the plan is these two restaurants are off the beaten path from the bars, and as we know, it’s all about locationlocationlocation.
I’ve not checked out either place. My wife and I were out that direction the other night and might have stopped in, but for the fact that Insomnia was closed at the time (it was 7 at night), and Baked was clear in the other direction for us. We won’t get our chance with Baked again for the next several weeks, as they are closing up for the Christmas break and won’t reopen until the New Year. I have heard, though, that a cookie place is nothing special. All I know is, I never thought such a business model would be economically viable. It just goes to show you anything is possible; all you need is a little tenacity and some vision, I suppose.
With that in mind, maybe I’ll start an salty-foods shop with my father-in-law, purveyor of all things brine-y? We’ll call it “Pickled.”
Published by Hal on December 20, 2007
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In an effort to increase readership, I’m participating in a “blog swap,” of sorts. Michael Martine is a blog writing consultant who is hosting this swap. If you’ve come here, from there, welcome to the Common Culinarian. You can check out the “About Me” page to see a little more about this blog. In short, I started this blog over Thanksgiving to post food information (i.e., recipes, techniques, shortcuts, reviews, you name it) for the person who is busy and/or on a budget, like me, but doesn’t want to sacrifice the quality of his/her food. I also try to educate, because countless people have said to me “I don’t know how to cook.” Bollocks. Everyone can cook, if you have a little patience and some tenacity for this skill.
For my regular readers, check out this link, to the swap, to see some fledging bloggers and what they have to offer. Check back a few times, as this post is very new (I was actually the first commenter, and I just happened upon the blog looking for the new layout!).
Happy reading!
Published by Hal on December 20, 2007
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I have been shopping for a new layout for sometime, because the old four column thing wasn’t working for me. Enter K2, from the designers of the original Kubrick style on Wordpress. It had what I was looking for: three columns, a clean style, a customizable header, and “menu bar” style page links.
These were important to me because: four columns used up too much screen real estate, and felt cramped to me; I don’t want you to be distracted by lots of visual clutter; I wanted to use a picture in my header for a long time, but this always looked hard; and the page links thing is because of the screen real estate issue. I actually want java-style drop down menus so I can add the categories and blog-roll to the menu, but this will do. Any kind hearted developer want to help me out with this?
I still need to customize the style sheet, as my wife pointed out, there are some stylistic elements that need to change. I’ll get to that over my Christmas break. Let me know what you think about the new format!
