Recently a person who was thinking of becoming a franchisee for a food
prep center asked this ng for opinions as to its viability. As one
might expect from a bunch of cooks the idea was pooh-poohed by just
about all who replied. But on the front page of today's NY Times
ther's an article which suggests that these businesses seem to be quite
successful, and are becoming increasingly numerous - you can read the
piece he

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/na...=1&oref=slogin

Despite favorable comments from customers I still can't see why one
would patronise such a place!

On 26 Mar 2006 07:49:56 -0800, "Anthony" > wrote:

>Recently a person who was thinking of becoming a franchisee for a food
>prep center asked this ng for opinions as to its viability. As one
>might expect from a bunch of cooks the idea was pooh-poohed by just
>about all who replied.

I read a bit about it in that article, and what the previous poster
described isn't quite what they're actually doing. I got the impression
before that people went there to cut up all their ingredients and mostly
prepare the food.

The article talks about how the ingredients are all ready, and all you have
to do is assemble what works for you. That's a lot different, to my mind.


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In article .com>,
"Anthony" > wrote:

> Recently a person who was thinking of becoming a franchisee for a food
> prep center asked this ng for opinions as to its viability. As one
> might expect from a bunch of cooks the idea was pooh-poohed by just
> about all who replied. But on the front page of today's NY Times
> ther's an article which suggests that these businesses seem to be quite
> successful, and are becoming increasingly numerous - you can read the
> piece he
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/na...=1&oref=slogin
>
> Despite favorable comments from customers I still can't see why one
> would patronise such a place!
>

Someone that likes to cook but hates kitchen cleanup. ;-)
And is willing to pay someone else to do said cleanup!

Considering the usual condition of my sisters kitchen, she'd probably be
one of them. <sigh>
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

Anthony wrote:

> Recently a person who was thinking of becoming a franchisee for a food
> prep center asked this ng for opinions as to its viability. As one
> might expect from a bunch of cooks the idea was pooh-poohed by just
> about all who replied. But on the front page of today's NY Times
> ther's an article which suggests that these businesses seem to be quite
> successful, and are becoming increasingly numerous - you can read the
> piece he
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/na...=1&oref=slogin
>
> Despite favorable comments from customers I still can't see why one
> would patronise such a place!

You and a lot of the rest of us. The guy came and posted a question ... would
you use this service? No. Moat of us would not. I may have missed any posts
that indicated that anyone was actually interested themselves, though some
said that the knew some people who might be interested in something like
that.