While in Phoenix I happened to stumble across The Meal Factory. I walked in the front door and assumed I was in a restaurant supply house, but it turns out that it’s actually a place where you can come with a date and prepare your own gourmet meal. All the ingredients are prepared ahead of time, and the staff takes care of the cleanup.
You and your date stand next to each other at a little countertop, get cozy and make your meal together, and then eat it together while someone else cleans up the mess you made. Such a better date idea than dinner and a movie.
What makes it amusing is that you can also choose to have the staff prepare the entire meal for you at no extra charge. Great deal, right? Design a restaurant where people cook their own food and people are thrilled to have the option to have someone cook for them. I want to see a restaurant where you go in, sit down, order your food, and the waiter asks, “Hey, how’d you like to come back and cook it yourself?”
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We have something similiar to that here in Baltimore, the only difference is you cook several meals at a time then take them home and freeze them, so no grocery shopping, no using your own electricity, no mess to clean up, and no having to cook for like a week, just heat in the microwave and serve.
The only thing better would be if a place offered to also offered to eat your meal for you :)