Please join the Instructables Restaurant.
I will open an open-source restaurant that is completely made of, and only serves food based on the original instructables all the members on instructables.com have made or will make.
I mean, every chair, dishwasher, menucard, light etc. and all the food, will together be the restaurant. And I would like to ask you guys for your brilliant, funny, original ideas concerning all aspects restauranty. Inside the restaurant everything will be presented with the original instruction and accreditation to the maker. I have been involved in several pilot and concept restaurants in the past like Food Facility, a restaurant based on take-out restaurants by Catalonian designer Marti Guixe, and The Micro-Green Restaurant by Debra Solomon of culiblog.org. Both at Mediamatic in Amsterdam, where I was at the time working as an exhibition maker. I would appreciate it so much if you'd get involved in this and share your ideas with me to make it into an incredible creative place for adventurous diners, and maybe the first open source restaurant ever created (but i'm not sure about that and I guess it doesn't really matter anyway). In some restaurants you can buy the stuff you see, in this restaurant you'll go home knowing how to re-create what you just enjoyed, be it the food or the chair you sat on.
If you like it, please join the group about this: http://www.instructables.com/group/instructables-restaurant/
I mean, every chair, dishwasher, menucard, light etc. and all the food, will together be the restaurant. And I would like to ask you guys for your brilliant, funny, original ideas concerning all aspects restauranty. Inside the restaurant everything will be presented with the original instruction and accreditation to the maker. I have been involved in several pilot and concept restaurants in the past like Food Facility, a restaurant based on take-out restaurants by Catalonian designer Marti Guixe, and The Micro-Green Restaurant by Debra Solomon of culiblog.org. Both at Mediamatic in Amsterdam, where I was at the time working as an exhibition maker. I would appreciate it so much if you'd get involved in this and share your ideas with me to make it into an incredible creative place for adventurous diners, and maybe the first open source restaurant ever created (but i'm not sure about that and I guess it doesn't really matter anyway). In some restaurants you can buy the stuff you see, in this restaurant you'll go home knowing how to re-create what you just enjoyed, be it the food or the chair you sat on.
If you like it, please join the group about this: http://www.instructables.com/group/instructables-restaurant/


















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http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-Instructables-Restaurant/
Now let's work some of the great ideas that have been posted some time ago into it.
Or even better, make one yourself!
One of the desserts could be LED Jigglies in a dark, LED themed room. Or you could have a dog washing station out back to attract the local pet owners, along with some of the doggy treats on this site. You could also serve Roy Rogers and Shirley Temples.
<snicker>
http://www.instructables.com/group/instructables-restaurant/
Do you have a location yet, or is this still at the idea stage?
Kiteman brainstorms...
Definitely have graph-paper paper tablecloths and napkins and crayon/pencils/IKEA tape measures for people to scribble their ideas while waiting for their meal and to keep kids occupied.
Just click on my username to see my Instructables Robot themed projects. Have a robognome-greeter at the door or to page people when their table is ready. Good luck. Sounds like a fun idea.
Souvenir shop = great! and graph paper table cloth, how do you guys come up with this stuff. It's great. I see a whole line of tablecloth possibilities. Would you care to make an instructable for at least one of them?
I have been looking at the new science of convergence here of late and to be honest, the "collective mind" is greater then the individual parts it seems: individually we are great idea makers, but put us together and we really shine :-) Synergy.
Link to th WNYC RadioLab Podcasts on Emergence...
That would be a good name for the restaurant, or maybe Gestalt (which roughly means "a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts").
(Although, in the UK, it is easier to meet food handling regulations if you are a purely vegetarian establishment)
Since the project will be an emergent function of a group process, I think that fits quite well.
Possibly Dremels for (ahem) carving the turkey at Christmas?
- "How to clean a kitchen"
- "How to plan a menu"
- "How to wait on tables"
- "How to cook for dozens"
- "How to run a restaurant"
- "How to get licenses for a restaurant"
etc.I've never done anything like the restaurant, or a swap evening, I was just brainstorming. Feel free to use the ideas, though.
Cutlery... we have a few projects on making knives, but not forks (I think I could whittle one, but that's not hygienic). It tends to be things made from cutlery. Maybe a spanner could be re-made into a spoon?
(If I ever get to Amsterdam, I'll be sure to drop in to see my wall...)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnehendriks/295261615/
That's the tennis ball one.
http://www.nuacco.com/2007/07/27/ball-games-for-the-lazy/
LOL Don't ask me why, but I thought, for just a moment, you might have linked to another place. Thanks for renewing my respect for your taste ;-)
The default license for an instructable is Creative Commons' Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (also known as "cc by-nc-sa")
Since this would be commercial, you'll need to ask people's permission to either change the license, or just license it to you in a different way.
I'd highly suggest using cc by-sa. I think it enforces the whole sharing thing.
I think it would be really awesome if you released some restaurant how-to's under a permissive license. :-)
I'm really looking forward to seeing this turn out. It sounds like a really cool idea.
I know its normally bad to ask this, but may someone please enlighten me to why his comment was removed?
You'll need to ask Eric about using the Robot image or the Instructables name, but I can't imagine it would be a major problem, especially if things you made had a link to the original ible on them (say a tag hanging off a chair, a small plate embedded in a table-top, and posters on the wall about the cutlery), or you start a group here and include all the related ibles into it, and then display a sign, "all recipes, as well as how we made the furniture, can be found at (say) http://www.instructables.com/group/Arnes_Place/*
The worst he can do is say "no" to Robot being visible, but the use of particular ibles is entirely down to the authors.
*(yes, I know the link doesn't work properly)