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Restaurant Concept, Locations, & Designs

Treepod Dining, Koh Kood, Thailand

Concept:

• The inspiration was come from the free spirited nature of childhood.
• Comfortably seated in a bamboo pod.
• Food and beverages are delivered via the zip-line acrobatics of your personal waiter.

Market:

• In-house guests from Soneva Kiri.
• Guests whom want to experience dining at a three-pod which located 15 feet above the ground at the resort in the Koh Kood rain-forest with views of the ocean.

Change & Modified A New Concept:

• As there is no Treepod Dining in Malaysia yet, bring over the concept of Treepod dining to Malaysia is not a bad idea. 
• The new location will be Teluk Bahang as there is beach, forest and so on.

Sequence of The Development of The Restaurant:

Location Plays Significant Role in Development of the Restaurant:

Kinds & Characteristics of Restaurant

Types of restaurants

1. Family Style Dining Restaurant
2. Fine Dining Restaurant
3. Fast Food/Quick Service Restaurant
4. Buffet Restaurant
5. Theme Restaurant
6. Pop Out Restaurant
7. Coffee Shop
8. Franchised Restaurant
9. Bakery Cafe
10. Seafood Restaurant
11. Dhaba

1. Family Style Dining Restaurant
Characteristics:

Moderately priced menu

Table service, rather than counter service

Full bar, usually separate from the dining room

Advantages:

• Relaxed atmosphere 
• Family-style menus can have better food cost than a traditional menu
• Help themselves to as much or as little of each dish as they want

Disadvantages:

• Will be passing large platters of food around a table, so family style meals definitely have the potential to get very messy.

Example of family style dining: Khunthai Restaurant

2. Fine Dining Restaurant
Characteristics:

• Expensive and leisurely
• Low turnover rate
• Rules for diners, such as dress code
• Customers mostly dine on special occasions or business relation

Advantages:

• Customer service goes above and beyond
• Won't have any wasted food with these meals, since plates are pre-portioned

Disadvantages:

• Most expensive dining option
• Takes longer dining time than usual

Example of fine dining restaurant: Farquhar Mansion 

3. Fast Food/ Quick Service Restaurant
Characteristics:

• Speed service
• Low cost
• High-tech food service equipment

Advantages:

• Convenient
• Save time
• Offer on the go meals
• Cheap

Disadvantages:

Example of Fast Food/Quick Service Restaurant : Mc Donald's

4. Buffet Restaurant

Characteristics:

• Foods are arranged on tables. 
• Guests usually move along the buffet line and serve themselves. 

Advantages:

• Offer a large variety of food in sizeable amounts
• Encourage guests to be mobile and walk around, they will have ample opportunities to mingle with each other.

Disadvantages:

• Get hectic if too many people go up to get food at once.
• The owner has to provide large meals and will lose if it turns out that there are not many buyers coming

Example of Buffet Restaurant: Three Sixty Revolving Restaurant

5. Theme Restaurant

Characteristics:

• Built around emphasizing fun and fantasy.
• Major tourist attractions

Advantages:

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Disadvantages:

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6. Pop Out Restaurant

Characteristics:

• also called supper clubs
• Temporary restaurant

Advantages:

• It's a relatively inexpensive way for a chef to get their name out and start getting people familiar with their work or helping them to establish themselves in a new area.
• It's also an inexpensive way to do a "test kitchen" of sorts that is detached from a established restaurant.New menu items can be introduced and experimented with while keeping them disassociated from the restaurant until there is certainty that they will work.
• Chefs from different restaurants can cook together, which is not only great for a one-off event that patrons get really excited about, but also provides them with an opportunity to share some knowledge and technique.

Disadvantages:

• Not great money-making operations.

Example of Pop Out restaurant.

7. Coffee Shop

Characteristics:

• Originally created based on Italian bars.
• Modified to include wider variety of beverages.
• Meet the taste of consumers.

Advantages:

• Profit
• Being a part of community.
• Create the lifestyle you want.

Disadvantages:

• Time consuming.
• Hiring task is difficult.

Example of coffee shop: Maoz Cafe

8. Franchised Restaurant

Characteristics:

• Restaurant format, including building design, menu & marketing plan have already been tested in the marketplace.
• Training is provided.
• Marketing & management support is available.

Advantages:

• The opportunity of the company grow faster.
• Company's management has more time to focus on product, operation research and less execution.

Disadvantages:

• The company having less control over management.

Example of frachised restaurant: Burger King.

9. Bakery Cafe

Characteristics:

• Different than a bakery in that they serve soups, salads and sandwiches.
• Many bake off goods that are prepared elsewhere or do final proofing after receiving goods.

Advantages:

• High traffic location can make for easy profit.
• There is a need for niche bakeries.

Disadvantages:

• Profit margin are often quite small.
• The working hours are not always so friendly.

Example of bakery cafe: Lavish.

10. Seafood restaurant

Characteristics:

• Specialise in seafood cuisine  and seafood dishes. 
• The concept may focus upon the preparation and service of fresh seafood (as opposed to frozen products).

Advantages:

• Acquired seafood restaurants should be profitable right out of the gate; they should also be capable of demonstrating a loyal customer base, brand identity and operational efficiency.

Disadvantages:

• Seafood restaurant acquisitions can be difficult to adapt to your unique business philosophy.

Example of seafood restaurant: Ah Keat Seafood Restaurant.

11. Dhaba

Characteristics:

• Roadside food stall found on the roadsides of a city.
• Specializes in the city’s local foods, serving a variety of dishes, which are freshly prepared.

Advantages:

• Cheap and Convenient
• Easy to find food
• Various choices

Disadvantages:

• Lack of quality
• Hygiene problem

Example of Dhaba: Chai Leng Park Food Street

Half Day Trip in Penang Heritage Area

Annyeonghaseyo~ Welcome to my blog! ♡ 

An ordinary girl from Butterworth, Penang who currently studying Bachelor of Art in International Hotel and Tourism Management in KDU Penang University College.

In this post, I'm going to post about half day trip with my friends at Penang Heritage Area!

The itinerary will be Ah Lai Coffee Shop ↦ Armenian Street ↦ Chew Jetty ↦ Tan Jetty ↦ Sekeping Victoria ↦ Eastern & Oriental Hotel ↦ Depart Home

Outfit Of The Day

Before we start our trip, we try out the traditional breakfast running under a big tree that recommended by other bloggers, toast and half boiled eggs. Not the least, a cup of iced coffee special to brighten your day.

Iced Coffee Special♡

Breakfast that we had ♡

About Ah Lai Kopitiam - Under The Big Tree @ Church Street

↣ 15, Gat Lebuh Gereja, 10200 Penang

↣ Monday – Friday: 0900am to 0500pm

↣ Saturday: 0900am to 0300pm

↣ Sunday: 0700am to 0100pm

↣ Contact: 016-4771332 (Ah Lai/Ah Lim)

↣ No service charge & government tax

↣ Halal

Armenian Street, Georgetown Penang

The first destination after our breakfast will be Choo Chay Keong Temple located at Armenian Street.

Side view of Choo Chay Keong Temple.

The detail view of Choo Chay Keong Temple.

Choo Chay Keong Temple at the junction between Armenian Street and Cannon Street, it completed in 1924, it is dedicated to the patron deity of the Yaps, Hoay Che Chung Wang.

Next, we went to the temple just right beside Choo Chay Keong Temple, which is Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple. 

The only group photo we took in front of Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple.

Photo took at the main entrance of Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple.

Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple is a hundred years old Chinese temple built in year 1850's in Armenian Street. It was once the headquarter of a secret society called Kian Teik Tong. After Penang riot in year 1867, all secret societies, including Kian Teik Tong, were permanently banned.

Besides, you will also find out a few roadside store along Armenian Street.

One of the vintage shop located at Armenian Street.

A few stalls which located along Armenian Street.

The main attraction in Armenian Street will be........

Dang Dang~~

"Little Children On Bicycle" wall mural !

This is the famous wall mural in Armenian Street by Ernest Zacharevic.

Yeetheen and me with the famous wall mural.

Besides, there are also a few wall mural along Armenian Street and here is wall mural which represent the 3 different races in Malaysia.

Danielle, Yeetheen and me are mimic the wall mural. 

After we walk around the Armenian Street, the next stop we went are Chew Jetty and Tan Jetty. 

While we are on our way walking from Armenian Street to Chew Jetty, we spot the street singer beside!

There are some tourists dance along with the song which the street artist sing.

The street artist sitting aside and singing to get fund for their travel journey,

 Also, we do take photo at some nice spot while walking to Chew Jetty and Tan Jetty.

Candid shot taken by Fish.

Let's talk about something interested about both of the clan jetties.

Chew Jetty is said to be the more known and prominent one among the nine clan jetties of Pengkalan Weld. You can trace its origin back to the earlier Chinese settlements in Penang who built these village on stilts. 

While Tan Jetty is one of the nine clan jetties in George Town. It is the third clan jetty from the north, located between Chew Jetty and Lee Jetty. 

Todays, there are only 7 clan jetties still intacts todays which are:

• ONG Jetty
• LIM Jetty
• CHEW Jetty
• TAN Jetty
• LEE Jetty
• NEW Jetty
• YEOH Jetty

While the other two jetties, PENG AUN Jetty and KOAY Jetty were demolished in 2006 to give way to a high-rise housing development project.

Photo of Chew Jetty which taken from the internet.

Photo taken by our photographer of the day - Fish at Tan Jetty.

Favourite photo took by Nelson at Chew Jetty.

Group photo of the girls taken by Nelson at Tan Jetty.

Another group photo of the girls taken by Nelson too.

After visited the both jetties, we decided to have a rest at one of a must visit cafe at Chew Jetty area which is Sekeping Vistoria! The cafe is situated along Lebuh Victoria, which Waze has a pretty accurate location on it. The cafe isn't very visible from the outside as it's shaded by trees at the entrance.

Sekeping Victoria

The outlook of Sekeping Victoria.

A little corner in the cafe.

Detail photo in Sekeping Victoria.

Detail photo in Sekeping Victoria.

A little corner which we took some pretty photo here.

Sekeping Victoria is an exteded member of the Sekeping Retreat group, Sekeping Victoria is the group's first "branch" in Penang. The Sekeping brand is famous for its rustic-forestry retreat; similarity, Sekeping Victoria is designed for those who are looking for a quiet escape from the fast and busy city life. Ironically, Sekeping Victoria is located in the heartland of Georgetown - Victoria Street, off the bustling Weld Quay and Beach Street.

Food and drinks that serve in Sekeping Victoria!

Photo i love the most taken by Fish.

About Sekeping Victoria

↦ 164A-B, Lebuh Victoria, Georgetown, 10300 George Town, Penang

↦ Weekdays: 1100am to 1100pm

↦ Saturday: 1000am to 1100pm

↦ Sunday: 1000am to 1000pm

↦ Closed on Tuesdays

↦ Contact: 04-2613707
↦ Pork Free

After we having our lunch at Sekeping Victoria, the next and also the last stop for the day will be Eastern&Oriental Hotel as it is the oldest hotel standing in Penang island and it has many antique furniture.

Eastern & Oriental Hotel 

Night view of E&O Hotel.

Staring each other. 

Twin sister from "different" mother.

Hallway of E&O Hotel.

Wefie is a must!

Wefie in the elevator of E&O Hotel.

About Eastern & Oriental Hotel

↦ 10, Lebuh Farquhar, George Town, 10200 George Town, Pulau Pinang

↦ 04-2222000