[JLXP]

(Original post by Luna.)
I'm a massive child, so please please please can we have pancakes in the shapes of things?

Haha, we can!
A children's menu with shaped pancakes is a great idea, thanks!

[rifle.eyes]

Savoury ones! I quite regularly make bacon, cheese and onion pancakes and they are amazing!

[mimile]

pretty much like the picture heres a few more things i love on pancake:
Veggie spread(green pepper,tomatello are my favourite)
corn
olive tofu
soya mince
carrots,apples(fruits and vegetables in general)
veggie cheese
yogurt(vanilla,straciatella)
nutella

hope i'm some help
if you have any questions just ask i'm a pancake addict

[Luna.]

(Original post by JLXP)
Haha, we can!
A children's menu with shaped pancakes is a great idea, thanks!

I think a pancake place is such a great idea! Everyone loves pancakes but there aren't a lot of restaurants that specialise in them. Good luck on your venture.

[JLXP]

(Original post by rifle.eyes)
Savoury ones! I quite regularly make bacon, cheese and onion pancakes and they are amazing!

Have you tried maple syrup on that? delicious

(Original post by mimile)
pretty much like the picture heres a few more things i love on pancake:
Veggie spread(green pepper,tomatello are my favourite)
corn
olive tofu
soya mince
carrots,apples(fruits and vegetables in general)
veggie cheese
yogurt(vanilla,straciatella)
nutella

hope i'm some help
if you have any questions just ask i'm a pancake addict

That's a brilliant let, many thanks! I will be referring back to this in a few weeks when i design my menu, so i will probably have more questions for you
+haha, me too! Thanks again

[JLXP]

(Original post by Luna.)
I think a pancake place is such a great idea! Everyone loves pancakes but there aren't a lot of restaurants that specialise in them. Good luck on your venture.

Thanks, indeed there are very few around and about! A certain food culture has taken over, which is why a pancake parlour would have such a great appeal. I'm also slightly concerned as to location, i'd like to have it in a local village, but i don't think there's enough foot flow, or in the centre of manchester but the rent is far too much. Thanks Luna!

[mimile]

great to know there's other people like me which ones do you like the best? american pancakes,french crepes...?

[JLXP]

(Original post by mimile)
great to know there's other people like me which ones do you like the best? american pancakes,french crepes...?

I LOVE thick American style pancakes, i remember once having one really big one (pizza size) With cheese, ham, bacon rashers, and maple syrup! sldfighsdkfjgsafgoi it was brilliant.
What about yourself?

p.s. i got a crepe maker for my birthday i'm ADDICTED haha!

[rifle.eyes]

(Original post by JLXP)
Have you tried maple syrup on that? delicious

No but I will now!

[Dinnes]

Yeah I think you'd be best going for a slightly artsy/healthy/green styling on the restaurant, cause if you're going for a pancake it'd be more of a social thing rather than a huge meal; like a starbucks compared to a pizza express.

So you'd need light wall colours, loads of natural light, blackboard menus?

Also you could have a section for pancakes from different countries - think about the america/british differences, and if you go on wikipedia there are others - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake - you could really monopolise on it by telling customers about pancakes, history, influences, etc.etc. stuff like Scandinavian pancakes sound really interesting and I'd definitely pay for one.

Perhaps even offer out leaflets with recipes on them - people will probably not actually use them but it creates a great 'customer experience', and as Dan Ariely wrote about in Predictably Irrational people love free stuff, even if it isn't that useful. If you can get customers to have a positive association with a chain then they'll keep coming back.

Of course I'm no expert, but hopefully this helped :P

[Dinnes]

Oh and you must have american pancakes with bacon and maple syrup, cause they're just nommy <3

[sammy-lou]

Pancake parlour is a great idea! Pancake House at Center Parks used to be the highlight of the holiday the couple of times I went as a kid!

Obviously offer all the traditional toppings (lemon&sugar, maple syrup, chocolate) and savory options. Then do some other kooky options - just experiment with different flavours!

I don't know if it's just in my local area but we've had loads of little milkshake parlours pop up recently - the popular ones have a sort of Design-your-own system where they have the full range of chocolate bars on display and you can choose whatever you want to put in your milkshake, and they blend it in front of you. You could do the same sort of thing with making up sauces and stuff to put inside the pancakes.

And have american pancakes as well. American pancakes are the BEST!

[JLXP]

(Original post by rifle.eyes)
No but I will now!

Let me know what you think!

[JLXP]

(Original post by Dinnes)
Yeah I think you'd be best going for a slightly artsy/healthy/green styling on the restaurant, cause if you're going for a pancake it'd be more of a social thing rather than a huge meal; like a starbucks compared to a pizza express.

So you'd need light wall colours, loads of natural light, blackboard menus?

Also you could have a section for pancakes from different countries - think about the america/british differences, and if you go on wikipedia there are others - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake - you could really monopolise on it by telling customers about pancakes, history, influences, etc.etc. stuff like Scandinavian pancakes sound really interesting and I'd definitely pay for one.

Perhaps even offer out leaflets with recipes on them - people will probably not actually use them but it creates a great 'customer experience', and as Dan Ariely wrote about in Predictably Irrational people love free stuff, even if it isn't that useful. If you can get customers to have a positive association with a chain then they'll keep coming back.

Of course I'm no expert, but hopefully this helped :P

Blackboard menus is a great idea, shows that the recipes are really fresh and regularly being changed and updated, and gives a more homely feel rather than an industrialised/commercial feel which is what you get in the likes of Mcdonalds/starbucks etc. Indeed, there's plenty of pancakes to go off there, i was thinking to keep it basic at first by offering French crepes and American (thick) pancakes, to keep things basic at first.
The leaflets would be great, especially for customer satisfaction, and thats true, people do love free stuff!
Thanks dinnes!

(Original post by Dinnes)
Oh and you must have american pancakes with bacon and maple syrup, cause they're just nommy <3

Check out post #26, we're on the same wavelength haha! Perfect!

[tehforum]

Keep it simple.

Forget organic stuff - too expensive.

You want decent quality stuff, at an affordable price if you want any chance of surviving.

You're going to need SOME savoury pancakes - you don't want to rule out any potential customers. Plus, it's just the piling of a few extra ingredients no biggie.

Bacon + maple syrup?

Try and do an old school ice cream shop style interior?

[JLXP]

(Original post by sammy-lou)
Pancake parlour is a great idea! Pancake House at Center Parks used to be the highlight of the holiday the couple of times I went as a kid!

Obviously offer all the traditional toppings (lemon&sugar, maple syrup, chocolate) and savory options. Then do some other kooky options - just experiment with different flavours!

I don't know if it's just in my local area but we've had loads of little milkshake parlours pop up recently - the popular ones have a sort of Design-your-own system where they have the full range of chocolate bars on display and you can choose whatever you want to put in your milkshake, and they blend it in front of you. You could do the same sort of thing with making up sauces and stuff to put inside the pancakes.

And have american pancakes as well. American pancakes are the BEST!

The centre parcs one was BEAUTIFUL! loved it there.
Indeed, we have frozen yoghurt/milkshake places popping up all over the place here in manchester, and people seem to love being able to customise their own shakes which i think would be amazing in pancakes, so they can have their own unique options.

I also thought about having an open style kitchen, (like that of some pizza expresses) Where people have the option to watch their pancakes being made, whilst the beautiful aromas of pancakes will enrich the room!

[JLXP]

(Original post by tehforum)
Keep it simple.

Forget organic stuff - too expensive.

You want decent quality stuff, at an affordable price if you want any chance of surviving.

You're going to need SOME savoury pancakes - you don't want to rule out any potential customers. Plus, it's just the piling of a few extra ingredients no biggie.

Bacon + maple syrup?

Try and do an old school ice cream shop style interior?

I was thinking perhaps one Vegan one, organic pancakes not so much because if people are eating healthily the likelihood is they will be avoiding pancakes all together, right?

Yessir, bacon + maple syrup is beautiful!
That's a good idea, it was suggested up there^ that a 50's style diner would be cool+unique, which is brilliant.

something like this on a much smaller scale would be nice

[tehforum]

(Original post by JLXP)
I was thinking perhaps one Vegan one, organic pancakes not so much because if people are eating healthily the likelihood is they will be avoiding pancakes all together, right?

Yessir, bacon + maple syrup is beautiful!
That's a good idea, it was suggested up there^ that a 50's style diner would be cool+unique, which is brilliant.

something like this on a much smaller scale would be nice

Yeah, definitely do a vegan one.

Well, organic is really just for those ethical do-gooders, and if you're going to a pancake shop, then really, I doubt there is much concern tbh.

yep that on a smaller scale.

[sammy-lou]

(Original post by JLXP)
The centre parcs one was BEAUTIFUL! loved it there.
Indeed, we have frozen yoghurt/milkshake places popping up all over the place here in manchester, and people seem to love being able to customise their own shakes which i think would be amazing in pancakes, so they can have their own unique options.

I also thought about having an open style kitchen, (like that of some pizza expresses) Where people have the option to watch their pancakes being made, whilst the beautiful aromas of pancakes will enrich the room!

Yeah, the customisation seems to be increasingly popular these days - it could work really well with pancakes! You could also do like a sort of mini-bites option sort of thing, where they can buy a set selection of the favourite options on a plate, like 6 different top-selling flavours of mini pancakes! When you have a massive choice like in the milkshake places it can be difficult to choose so some people might prefer to go for a set menu option!

And open kitchens a good idea!

[mimile]

(Original post by JLXP)
I LOVE thick American style pancakes, i remember once having one really big one (pizza size) With cheese, ham, bacon rashers, and maple syrup! sldfighsdkfjgsafgoi it was brilliant.
What about yourself?

p.s. i got a crepe maker for my birthday i'm ADDICTED haha!

me too. i love american pancakes<3 with apples and yogurt and nutella and everything eatable in the fridge
soooo jealous about the crepe maker. we used to have crepes on christmas when i was little. best thing about christmas eve...
but i also love those that my grandpa uses for my birthday-pancake-pie-thing last year the both of us ate the whole thing together he's addicted as well