30 December 2010

Forklore

This post is a restaurant business idea.








Concept:
Your multi-course meal is served in the rhythm and style of the story for the night: appetizers with the exposition, salad with the rising action, entreé with the climax...and, well, we won’t spoil the ending. Our culinary and narrative artists unite to give your tounge and imagination an unforgetable evening of surprise and delight. Let your fork tell the story.

This could also play out over tea time, breakfast, lunch, you name it. Some stories could be drama, some suspense, some for children, some for adults. The "waiters" would double as actors to aid the narrator in telling the saga for the evening. This combines the experience of great food and beauty of words for not only a multi-sensory experience, but also a full-being experience, involving also one's intellect, feelings, emotions, spirit, soul, and imagination.

In addition to the graphics above, I have in mind a graphic "mascot," so to speak:
an illustration of wolf in the upright standing position, one that is skinnier that your typical tundra wolf, with grayish-brown coloring, wearing grandma's bloomers that are elastic with a ruffle and with burgundy-red coloring with golden yellow polka-dots, he is hunched over and taking a step forward, his head slightly turned toward the audience, he is coming from the right with his body facing left.

Groups would sit together at larger tables and enjoy their feast together as the story creeps in on them. Is there a large gust of wind in the story? A gust should rush through the dining space. Is the scene of the story in a dancehall? The waiters should arrive with the next course dressed in dancers' clothing and dancing in unison. The guests will feel as though the story is happening all around them.

At at the end (after dessert, after coffee, after a warm hand towel), just as with every good story, the guests should receive a little something to take home with them: a little reminder of the wisdom that the waitcast had to share with them that evening, a little present that guests are to open when they arrive home (for example, in the story "In the reign of Harad IV," they might receive a miniature wrapped in a special box) to remind them of their special evening when their fork told them a story.

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