ddubia
New Member
I don't own the shop I work in, but when you enter our reception area it's actually a Hot Sauce Shoppe and a Sandwich Shop. Bottles of hot sauce, rubs, garlics, etc, on shelves on every wall. The owner, (being a chef quality cook), did a promotion one Saturday for some smokers he bought to sell by offering pulled pork sandwiches for $6. A large kaiser roll, 1 full cup of smoked, pulled pork, several tablespoons of his homemade BBQ sauce then covered with a 1/2 cup of homemade cole slaw. He sold 87 sandwiches on that day with no advertisement. He was done with that it was only a one-day thing.
On Monday morning people were calling in wanting to order carry-out for lunch. He had meat left over so sold another 39 sandwiches that day. Seeing some possibilities in it he opened a small restaurant along with the hot sauce shop and had been slammed for three weeks Wed-Sat 11am-5:30. He's selling sandwiches of smoked pulled pork, smoked beef brisket and smoked chicken (with a peachy BBQ sauce). Everything is homemade right in our small hallway of a kitchen at the shop which has been upgraded to meet our city's health codes.
So now our reception area is for the sign shop, a hot sauce shop and a sandwich shop/ restaurant that seats 12. One day soon I'm going to post a thread with plenty of pics. It's a pretty unusual yet interesting place now.
I am involved, by choice, only in the sign shop. There's plenty of sign work to do and since I'm the major sign maker here I don't want to spread myself too thin, get them dependent on my help with the food and then get slammed with sign work being the only one to to do it. We do have an employee originally hired as sign shop help who is more and more asked to help with the other stuff. We also have a secretary who used to own a pizza shop so she's been real handy with the food biz.
I'm still "just" a sign guy. But the owner of our shop is plenty busy in other things with this new combination of businesses.
On Monday morning people were calling in wanting to order carry-out for lunch. He had meat left over so sold another 39 sandwiches that day. Seeing some possibilities in it he opened a small restaurant along with the hot sauce shop and had been slammed for three weeks Wed-Sat 11am-5:30. He's selling sandwiches of smoked pulled pork, smoked beef brisket and smoked chicken (with a peachy BBQ sauce). Everything is homemade right in our small hallway of a kitchen at the shop which has been upgraded to meet our city's health codes.
So now our reception area is for the sign shop, a hot sauce shop and a sandwich shop/ restaurant that seats 12. One day soon I'm going to post a thread with plenty of pics. It's a pretty unusual yet interesting place now.
I am involved, by choice, only in the sign shop. There's plenty of sign work to do and since I'm the major sign maker here I don't want to spread myself too thin, get them dependent on my help with the food and then get slammed with sign work being the only one to to do it. We do have an employee originally hired as sign shop help who is more and more asked to help with the other stuff. We also have a secretary who used to own a pizza shop so she's been real handy with the food biz.
I'm still "just" a sign guy. But the owner of our shop is plenty busy in other things with this new combination of businesses.
It keeps me busy! But this weekend....I'm OUTA here!! Cottage bound.
