Friday July 14, 2017 I recently featured several posts on restaurants with a unique ore different business model. I was just reading about Hamburger Mary's. Clearly the menu will not pass muster with the Weight Watchers' crowd! Check out this burger-4   Hamburger mary's is a gay themed burger joint, which of course began in…

Weekend July 9, 2017 The Pharm Table was begun by Chef Elizabeth Johnson in 12/2014. She was the Latin Cuisine Specialist/Chief Instructor at the Culinary Institute of America here in San Antonio. The first year 2015 Pharm Table was named of the Top[ 10 New Restaurants in SA 2016 Best Restaurant for Special Diets Healthiest…

Tuesday July 4, 2017 Have you considered the massive concentration of restaurants in the burger niche? National McDonald's Burger King Wendy's Jack in the Box Whataburger In and Out Culver's Carl Jr Sonic Hardee's Dairy Queen Streak n Shake Niche – Upmarket Five Guys Wahlburger Shake Shak Fuddrucker's The article below lists other niche chains…

Tuesday July 4, 2017 Shake Shack deubted at $21 and rose to $92. There are a mere 84 USA locations and another dozen outside the USA. Here is a textbook story of social mood.  The IPO was officially priced at $21 but jumped to $50 the first day of trading. For a company with a…

Tuesday July 4, 2017 How about 1,000 franchises in 18 months?  Read how Five Guys uses a basic platform to allow customers to create their own burger. All burgers are prepared to go, regardless. The real draw is the real french fries cooked in peanut oil rather than the sort of artificial creation one gets at…

Tuesday July 4, 2017 I want to use this as an example of one of the uses of managerial accounting. Accountants are in demand as advisors. This business model described below solves many of the problems of a traditional restaurant. Here in San Antonio the San Francisco Steakhouse has gone to a meeting only format.…

Tuesday July 4, 2017 Here is an example of what I mean about articles illustrating managerial accounting. This blogger explains why Texans love Whataburger. When Harmon Dobson began what would become the chain in Corpus Christi in the early 1950s, he wanted customers to say, what a burger when it took two hands to move…

Tuesday July 4m 2017 The  Old San Francisco Steakhouse off San Pedro in San Antonio is no longer a restaurant. The owners realized a market exists for meetings only out side of hotels. Now the venue is only open for meetings. This solves most of the existing problem of running a restaurant. See the previous…

Tuesday July 4, 2017 Here is another example of a restaurant that has overcome many of the problems of a typical restaurant. It is in downtown Odessa, which is not well served with restaurants. I see they dropped breakfast, which they tried for a while, and are now back to the original 11 AM –…