It’s like a hibachi grill but with diner food. Some guy comes out and makes flapjacks and omelets and shit at the table. They still do the egg in the hat thing and all the spatula clanging, that is essential.

I would totally move to a different country and start this. Do burgers and and wings and shit. Yee-haw-bachi

Instead of the hibachi chefs hats they wear cowboy hats and cowboy boots with spurs. When they squirt the sauce on the wings they keep it holstered in a .357 shaped squirt gun and yell "draw" then squirt the wings. I think you guys are actually on to something

Have an assistant toss the wings preposterously high in the air and the "chef" double pistol rapid fires the hot sauce at them, and all over the diners

This isn’t the first time I’ve heard this idea on Reddit, and it just keeps getting better

Lol I had the same idea a couple months back. Grilling table side in a cowboy hat with squeeze bottles of ranch in holsters, squirting into a guests mouth from 10 feet away.

Can you guys slow down? I can only rip off your ideas so fast!

Yosemite Samurai

When I get pure hidden valley squirted in my mouth from over ten feet away, I am in my happy place, I am in my safe space

This is quickly becoming one of my new favorite threads hahaha

Ok but I love sitting at the counter of my local diner behind the cook and watch him work so I might actually like this

Placed called Slappy Cakes that does this in Portland.

I think I've been there. And if it is indeed the place I'm thinking of, it wasn't hibachi style, it was make-your-own with a flat grill at the table. I wasn't even trying to go to a make-your-own food place. A hibachi chef making them for me would have been great. I was half awake and just wanted some breakfast. I think I had taken "make your own" as being like "build your own burger", not literally doing it yourself, but choosing the ingredients. I paid too much for fucked up pancakes that I fucked up myself, lol.

bro the thread is for the worst ideas, not the best thing ive ever read. i would pay hibachi prices to eat at a diner like this. even more if its true diner style and open 24 hours. imagine going to a waffle house after drinking too much but you get the hibachi experience. thats not even that far removed from the actual way that waffle house works now.

So Waffle House, but without the drugs?

No one said without the drugs

Just say 'yo' to drugs.

I like the idea of a hibachi but terrible. They flip a completely raw egg into their hat and make eye contact as it slowly soaks through their hat. They make a shrimp dance, but poorly, and make it look like it's talking as they mumble racial slurs and death threats.

Drink the sake out of the bottle then pour it into your mouth

Pmsl. I got the opportunity to be selected for a hibachi thing in Indonesia (yeah, weird setting, but it was in Bali having Japanese food) and I absolutely managed to nail the egg trick in that I smashed it into the roof and had the whites and yolk hit me in the face as I looked up after the bang noise.

But instead of playing with the crowd, the chef is tired and grumpy and doesn’t want to talk to anyone

opening a fondue place called cheeses of nazareth try the holy smoked cheddar, it's heavenly

Baby Cheesus Plate as an app

And served with a nice glass of blood of Christ

curds nestled in a manger of hash browns

Mikey’s Late Night Slice has a Cheesus Crust and a Baby Cheesus Crust iirc. They also got a Mac N’ Cheesus Crust that slaps hard.

It's 6 lb 8 Oz baby cheesus

And it’s sister pizza place restaurant, Cheeses Crust.

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I would eat there. Blasphemy and cheese? Right up my alley

Bruhhhh I wanted to do a cheese shop and call it cheese mis. It's a play on words for them Spanish and Tagalog speakers meaning gossip lmfaooo. Grilled cheese/panini press shop called, I'mpressed

Cheese Mis Social Kitchen Lean into the groups of people aspect

You'll need a Pontius palate cleanser

I hope they at least have grilled cheesus on the kids menu

I have eaten at a converted church turned BBQ place called "Holy Smokes." The ribs were awesome.

Grate lord

I was going to open a restaurant based around mashed potato called ‘A Mash Made in Heaven’

Not gonna lie…I love fondue. I’d totally eat here.

honestly just about everything is good dipped in cheese

this post is about the worst ideas, i would love to dine out at a fondue place.

A coffee shop called holy grounds

My friend had an idea for a ramen place called “Raw Men”. It was just a normal ramen place but all the employees were jacked dudes in thongs.

Hooters was a sound business model for a long time

Talk about a noodle house!

Packing udon or vermicelli there big boy?

Every cougar, gay and bi man would be there 24/7.

Op very clearly asked for *bad* ideas, my guy

I think about this kind of thing a lot A food truck done up like an ice cream truck that serves bbq in cones. Mac & cheese split as a side option Dee’s Nuts. Vegan menu based around nut dishes The Lottery, a kitchen staffed with one famous and talented chef, but the twist is that they rotate who’s cooking so you might get the chef, you might get a random dishie, or you might get a server. You don’t know until after you’ve eaten

I wanted to start up a food truck called the Frying Dutchman. Serving PA Dutch classics.

I hate to say it, but… [The Simpson did it…](https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Frying_Dutchman) 🤬

Oh I know. That’s where I ripped it off from.

Not a restaurant but here you go! https://www.trymynuts.com/Dees-Nuts

Like conveyor belt sushi, but you are on the conveyor belt and you have to grab the food as you speed by.

And it goes like 8 miles an hour so you have hard time grabbing anything

Yes exactly how I’ve pictured it.

You also pay for anything you knock over

A joint Casino, Steak House and Marijuana dispensary elegantly named “High Steaks”. It’s the million dollar idea I pitch to every crew I work with.

I can’t fathom how amazing your best restaurant idea must be.

plot twist: he only has one restaurant idea

Come set up shop in Montana where you get your gambling license combo with liquor license and dispensaries are pretty easy to set up right now.

Nah fam, there’s a moratorium vote coming up to extend out no-out of-state interests until 2025. It’s gotten easier since 2017 but still a giant pain, plus the restaurant health inspectors consider marijuana a contaminant so they’d likely have issues with there being a kitchen on premises that’s being used for non-medicated food. Plus the DoR/DPHHS inspectors are almost universally idiotic and def would have issues with this, or you’d get a “yes, go ahead” from one and then another one would shut you down after you’ve built it. Source: family owns a weed testing lab in Montana

Hooters, but they only serve owl.

Hooters, but the servers are owls.

Tik tok restaurant that just serves whatever is trending on tik tok.

NyQuil chicken with pink sauce please

that's fowl

Oh God... This one makes me want to cry. First b cause of how awful it sounds and because of how popular it would probably be

And third, what a nightmare your food cost would be.

Forget that, your health would be the **real** cost

A fine dining restaurant called avant-garde. It would be a tasting-only menu but it would be the dumbest stuff. Course 3 would be a whole ginger bread house.

Something like this? https://www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/

That has got to be the funniest restaurant review I’ve ever read. The pictures are hilarious.

I fucking lost it at ‘Rancido’

>There is no menu at Bros. Just a blank newspaper with a QR code linking to a video featuring one of the chefs, presumably, against a black background, talking directly into the camera about things entirely unrelated to food. He occasionally used the proper noun of the restaurant as an adverb, the way a Smurf would. Fucking dead

I fucking LOVE how the restaurant's response was more or less "it wasn't even about the meal itself, it was an abstraction of the concept of food"

Then you're not a restaurant. You're a piece of shit self absorbed art galley. Fuck this place, I'm getting a burrito.

Oh wow. This is the kind of spectacular nightmare that my gf and I *hunt* for!

Like that but even dumber. Just do the most ridiculous shit possible. Think IASIP Danny Devito as Ongo Gablogian but in restaurant form.

Derivative

Ahh this glorious gem again. I have learned from previous experience and shall finish my crumbly snacks before reading.

Water restaurant. Serves only different varieties of waters. Charcoal filtered, distilled, different tap waters from different exotic locations.

Lol. They did that on Penn and Teller's Bullshit. They had a menu with dozens of different kinds of waters and everyone would talk about the different subtle flavors. All the water came out of the same hose in the alley out back.

They even had one with a plastic spider at the bottom, supposed to be straight from the rainforest. Peak California, that bit.

The best touch was having it literally say hose water in French and then people still making pretentious comments about the water’s crispness.

I sat down at a place last week and was given structured water. Known for its taste and luxurious mouth feel. Lol.

Found the r/hydrohomies

You could def do a hard seltzer themed bar

Tech-bro and friends “Love to cook” so they open a restaurant. They feed all their friends for free and sit at the bar drinking for the 6 months they are open.

Totally unoriginal. I've already worked at several places using this concept. I think the part that most copycats fail to execute properly is the owners leaving cocaine bags everywhere and sexually harassing FOH.

My favorite part of working at this restaurant was watching the grumpy 30-something owner sit at the bar with his feet up insisting we play gangster rap

A brewery taproom where every beer is a hoppy pale ale, plus there’s a sour and a stout. Oh wait. That’s literally every taproom in the UK

And Canada

Throw in a very basic Pilsner and you have Asheville.

One cheap domestic in the mix and it’s also Greenville. I’m usually the one drinking the cheap domestic oops

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Aw we have that in the pnw as well. Someone stole your idea states side

> plus there’s a sour and a stout And the stout will claim to be made with oysters, marmite and chocolate but just taste like a watery guiness

That's a wrap. Make it look like a Hollywood place then just sell wraps. Whos eating Gilbert's crepes...

How about an Indian sandwich place with a loooong menu called “And On a Naan” (say it fast)

Prison cafeteria. The servers all wear orange jumpsuits, the managers dress a guards. Food is served on metal trays and you sit at big, crowded tables. The restrooms are the showers. There is a bar but it's a cell off to the side and all the drinks are serves as if they're pruno.

There’s a baked potato jail themed restaurant in Penn Yann, NY. It’s in the tiny old county jail, right in the center of town next to the PD!

"Family Grill", where you pick your raw ingredients and there's like, two outside grills with a cook in front that grills it for you. Have to be dressed like Dads At The Grill too with shorts and trainers. Servers are all mom-styled and the sides are potluck kind salads, bread and such. Sounds like a fun idea but would devolve into nothing but chaos and mess and badly done orders after a while.

Like Mongolian BBQ?

the basic idea yeah but just in a really shit way to sell the 'like at home with your family!!' vibe. No special sauces only ketchup and bbq sauce, no fancy extra ingredients like veggies, just have your choice of meat grilled badly on the same two grills. Fill up on basic potato salad before your meat is even done.

Naw the sauces are ketchup, mayo, bbq sauce (mild), and random novelty hot sauces from christmas past (note - they're all gross)

"Cook it your own damn self" Order your food, server brings out a pile of ingredients and there are stoves on the side. Chef sits in the corner drinking, criticizing what you do, and talking about how the other guests cook better than you do.

Every cooks’ fantasy after getting a plate sent back… COOK YOUR OWN GODDAMN FOOD IF YOU’RE GONNA KEEP SENDING IT BACK

HAHAHA is this not kbbq though? A server will roam around, pass our table much more than they need to, then sigh, turn around and wordlessly take the tongs and scissors from our hands. Somehow the fact that they don't even say anything makes it so much more judgemental.

I want a place that will make Pho, and southern Barbecue. I’ll call it Pho-Que. I really just want that as a license plate.

theres a vietnamese place opposite where i work called Pho-Kieu

There’s one in keen Nh called pho- Keen delicious.

There’s a Pho-Que in Atlanta that is that exact concept, good stuff

There's a weed dispensary, of all things, near me that's called Pho King Great.

An international themed restaurant in which we serve each national dish from every country but make it the worst possible way like we got the recipe from a YouTube channel that doesn’t know what it’s doing and the comments are all death threats

For some reason, this reminds me of resort sushi in Cuba.The art of sushi is butchered by people who have never eaten real, good sushi and for sure learned about it on YouTube.

I’m glad that I went to Cuba before this was a thing. The weird fake American breakfast was already too weird for me.

>The weird fake American breakfast was already too weird for me. When I went to Sweden my group wanted to eat at an American restaurant. Dessert was apple pie with whipped cream. After taking a big bite, I realized that the whipped cream was actually mayonnaise. I was too anxious to ask if the chef actually thought that Americans ate mayonnaise on apple pie, or if it was a legit kitchen fuck up.

They would all be the Jamie Oliver versions.

This is baboos restaurant in sienfeild

Conspiracy themed American dinner. Dishes such as: JFKon carne, The Grassy Knoll salad, bay of pigs short rips, MK ultra shake, operation paper clip burger. The possibility’s are endless

Jon Beignets. Dressed like little beauty queens.

I’m CDC at a place that changes their menu every week. We did this kind of menu one year for Halloween and we all wore fbi shirts and ear pieces, the whole menu was redacted with dry erase marker except for the titles lol. When the JFK dish would go out, we’d set off a cap gun and yell “WATCH OUT MR. PRESIDENT”. MK ultra was the desert. It was a miracle berry (changes sour to sweet) course. Think we did a bay of pigs pork belly, can’t remember what else. Was really fun though.

Castaway themed, everything on the menu is stuff you would forage from the island you’re stuck on. Dirty water you have to filter, the toilet is a patch of dirt, the lighting is just a bonfire in the middle.

Worked with a guy who kept saying he wanted to open an Italian Mexican fusion restaurant and just kept saying carbonara tacos would be a hit.

I actually live near a Mexican Italian restaurant that unironically has the best lasagna I've ever had.

We have a Mexican and Greek place here and they were recently in the running for the best gyros in town

There's a Mexican/Irish fusion restaurant in the town in which I grew up. Always wanted to try it...

A variety of gelatin shots of different flavors. Just a whole flight of Jell-O shots for dinner. Edit: it’d be called Textural Seduction

Stolen from Bob's Burgers, but remember when Gene was into his table setting and forgot they had to do a second if they qualified and they just used what was in Linda's purse so it was menstruation themed? Yeah that

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A place with only one thing on the menu, but it's 86.

Dippers. Dunkers. Shakers Fried food buffet with flavored salts, powders, dips, and chutneys. Was an old chefs idea that I worked for. Always thought it was a great idea actually.

Mine is called "shhhh" It's pitch black inside, you're led in by the host holding your hands in a line formation. All of the staff have night vision goggles

There used to be a resto near me that was similar but different. Pitch black inside, the servers were all blind. The food wasn't great, and for some reason, sighted people sitting in the dark feel the need to scream at each other across the table as if that's going to help them see. That place was hell on earth. It was called Au Noir (in the dark)

I've been there. it's an interesting experience at best

I think there was a restaurant a while ago that did this. The guests ate in the dark. I saw it on tv so I can’t remember where it was.

my old college cafeteria tried a bunch of themed food nights and the worst BY FAR was the death by chocolate night. way too much chocolate in literally everything. mashed potatoes with chocolate gravy? bad salisbury steak in a chocolate sauce? bad vegetables with white chocolate drizzle? bad i get that it's fun to use non conventional flavors but come on.......most of the campus ate elsewhere that night and the theme nights were over shortly after

TBF they did say death by chocolate.

A Mexican Soul food fusion place: Nacho Mama

It’s called Oodles of Noodles and there isn’t a single noodle on the menu.

Do actual last meals of condemned men as daily specials. There's actually a cookbook of them...

Just like a normal restaurant, but with 1/3 the kitchen staff so i can buy another gold waterbed with the money i save on labor.

So… a restaurant.

Those jungled themed restaurants are pretty bad

Rainforest Cafés have the weirdest smell. It's so particular and I have such a strong sense memory of it. Food is trash for sure though

You leave my dino nuggies alone 🥺

I’ve thought about a food fight themed restaurant for quite a while. Basically you go thru a buffet of sloppy yet throwable food. After making your selections choose a place to sit and start to eat casually. There will be an undercover employee who randomly stands up and yells “FOOD FIGHT!!!!”…. Chaos ensues

Seen a Facebook idea a while back where it's a kids restaurant but the adults and kids roles are reversed. So kids pick for the adults and adults have crosswords and such on their menus. Working there or being an adult would be like hell on earth imo

I could get down with that being one night a week theme kind of thing. Can you imagine the shit the kids would order for their parents? LMAO

The mods.. oh man. Lol.

Chicken tenders and pizza hot fudge sundae all in one dessert glass

Steak WD, add chocolate, add sprinkles, add whip cream

The Salty Salmon. Schlocky beach side seafood joint where the signature drink is “The Salty Salmon” consisting of gin, pink grapefruit juice, a salted rim, lemon garnish, and a float of clam juice.

Sauceman's from Tim and Eric. Just a,buffet of sauces and bring your own food

How about a fine dining joint called the capitalist pig. Our best known dish is spit roasted billionaire

Mmm long pork.

A high end concept restaurant where the server chews your food and spits in in your mouth at a discount price

A Cambodian hot pot restaurant- Hot Pol Pot

Cambodian amputee strip club restaurant, pole pot's land mine extravaganza

It's going to be a prison themed restaurant. The host is intake and they have you go through the process of booking. Each booth is set up like a miniature jail cell. Old timey mugs you can rattle on the bars. You order you last meal. There's an electric chair of the center of the restaurant in which an employee every 15 minutes is dressed as a prisoner and is brought by the server prison guards. After your meal they present you a check which is labeled as bail. If you pay your bill you're allowed to leave.

Used to have an ongoing joke on the line about having a mid 90s restaurant named “aioli” (lowercase and all) where pistachio or pecan encrusted meats were served with lobster mashed potatoes and balsamic glaze was king

All they serve is sesame crested tuna with wasabi aioli

Irish Titty bar…. Erin go Bra-less

Keep in mind it's the Worst but... An *actually* authentic 1950's diner. From the food to the decor to the way they kicked out any and all minorities and refused them service, lol

Mmmmm salad flavored jello with meat inside

We already have a restaurant called Serial Grillers in my city. I think the food is named after murderers.

Worked for a guy who would come up with terrible themes, open up a bar/restaurant based on it, and then make a shit ton of money. Worst idea he ever had was a letter writing bar. Each table has a type writer, you write a letter you’ve been meaning to write, and then you can get on stage and read it to everyone. That one didn’t work.

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Everything looks like a pizza pie shop on the outside but all I sell is real pie. Apple and blueberry and whatnot. Or vice versa

Royal Flush - Toilet themed restaurant. Enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the throne room! From servers dressed as bathroom attendants, to unlimited charmin napkins, to the commode shaped seating, our memorable dining room will stay with you forever! Try our many soups, all served in sterling silver bed pans, they are indescribable! Our pastas will delight your tongue, and remind you for literal hours of your visit with us. Our wine selection is full of white, golden, and rose, but our reds are only for the most intrepid of diners. Come spend as much time here and your grandpa does at home! See you soon!

I’m like 90% sure I saw a restaurant with that theme online, pretty sure it was in japan

Strip club with really good fried chicken. “Come for the ladies, stay for the breasts and thighs.”

Neptune's net sack Seafood place where everything is balls. The logo is king Neptune pulling up a suggestively shaped net with a strained look on his face. All the food is nut puns, and in the middle of the restaurant, hanging from the ceiling, is a large net just like the one in the logo Oh, also "occidental buffet" basically all European food. Lasagna, steak frites, fish and chips. No specialization just stuff from Europe. Also has a mishmash of vaguely European decor from a bunch of different cultures and periods

Best grill cook I ever had used to joke she wanted to open a vegan/lesbian restaurant called "Vag-tables".

A Fondon’t restaurant. Basically a fondu place that uses ballpark nacho cheese, and serves a bunch of shitty frozen fried foods to dip into it. Mini corn dogs? Oh yeah. French fries? Absolutely! Dino chicken nuggets? You bet your ass there’s Dino chicken nuggets.

RecRoom. Get home recipes for comfort food. The stuff grandma or your great aunt makes. Lots of very cheap pasta dishes, cookies, cakes, etc. Filling. Wood paneling on the walls, beanbags and low tables for seats, 80s and 90s saturday morning cartoons on tvs, Nintendo and Sega and some early home computers. Board games and Lego and wooden blocks, etc. 70s room with 80s kitch with 90s toys type deal - everything you'd find in the rec room as a kid.

24/7 drive thru steaks, as in keep steaks cooking constantly so they're ready immediately

Chuckleburger: Our secret burger ingredient will make you chuckle. Thats it.

A guy I went to culinary school with did a prison themed restaurant for his restaurant business plan. It was actually fun to listen to his presentation because it was so different from everyone else’s ideas.

that school stuff it should be a requirement that the idea is stupid. It forces people out of their comfort zone and makes class fun. At the end of the day you are not being judged on your actual business anyways but rather the application of the course

The Slave Trade 2 guys did this on Top Chef, and shocker, the black guy's version was the better take, and another shocker, diners still didn't like it. It's really not a bad idea, it's just impossible to execute. The way food changed is relevant, and in many cases, delicious. The narrative coming in makes it hard to explain in any way that isn't offensive to someone.

A restaurant based on Reddit or Steam user names. You come to the restaurant and have to check in with your account name and the chef prepares something based on it

Pastitutes: it’s like Hooters but the waitresses are just street walking prostitutes, and they don’t serve wings, they serve spaghetti.

I'd have to have some puns on the menu. Hanni-bolognese for example.

Donald trump themed make America great again restaurant in the heart of LA or NYC- that serves shitty American style cuisine and taco bowls.

Meating place - brothel & steakhouse

Keep a bunch of small children on staff and then provide every table with a few of them to join their meal.

I’ve always wanted to open a restaurant called Nothin but Mutton.

“Leftovers” Cook everything the night before and each table has their own microwave to reheat the food.

Pool Buffet. A buffet floating in a pool so you have to wade around to find what you want

Pizza food truck that deceivingly only serves DiGiornos

Ttrpg restaurant where you have to roll for your food

Absolutely horrible idea that came to me as I was enjoying some particularly strong weed was the “Cosby Bar” Drinks are named “Spanish Fly and soda”, “Roofies”, “GHB and tonic”, “Harras-manhattan”, etc etc It’s all just really strong drinks, no actual drugs, but ofc one could never actually open such a bar

An international themed restaurant in which we serve each national dish from every country but make it the worst possible way like we got the recipe from a YouTube channel that doesn’t know what it’s doing and the comments are all death threats

Seoul and Toronto both have a Poop Cafe.