cant be there's no 1 litre bottles of maple syrup poured on the top

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMkVq1jRGU

Joes Garage was started by an ex-mechanic
Tiny is a mechanic (yeah I know, let it go....)

Has anyone thought about the reliability of these three mini delivery cars? are they minis or BINIs?

"You'll have to come and pick your pizza up from the corner of liverpool rd and cowpasture road sir, our delivery car has just broken down"
KB

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Nahh , one of the local pizza joints used to make them, sounds wierd but just works

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Tiny, cool idea.
How about something like cafe racer shop Deus Ex Machina in Camperdown? But instead of showroom/cafe/workshop, it will be Showroom/pizza place/workshop?


Daniel

Deus ex Machina works because even if you remove the bikes, they've still got bloody great food and coffee.

Good luck Tiny, I hope to see you on TV one day when Gordon Ramsay pays you a visit.

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One should never skimp on the zip ties.

That's what i was going to say as an example of a place which appeals to car clubs and has a different club meeting there just about every night of the week -

I reckon if you're looking to attract the car club sorts, go easy on the full-on mini/italian job branding, but there's nothing stopping you from choosing a well-chosen name which evokes a mental link to minis or The Italian Job and whilst using the mini design or logo brings legal issues, actually having minis as delivery vehicles and having like a mini front cut, doors etc coming out of the walls or as parts of the furniture is not breaking copyright (someone please correct me if this is not the case).

If you kept it less mini focussed and throw in a few other classic/iconic/enthusiast car references, it might become a popular hang out with the car-club sorts. Of course you will have to deal with the prospect of including enough Holden & Ford bits to keep the locals happy!

2 things to consider

1) Iif you go in that direction you risk putting off non-car types, which is fine if it is popular enough to survive on enthusiasts business alone but not if it's just part of the attraction.
2) Parking? You can't gear a place towards car enthusiasts without sufficient parking, preferably your own car park rather than just on-street. Part of the attraction of such places is that people, like on a run or meet, like to show off their cars and want to look at others

The alternative is to go with the idea but pull back on the overtly car-themed stuff. By all means keep the theme but go with some Turin-based pictures/walls/murals (find an old aerial photo of the Lingotto factory (test track on roof) and blow it up to fill a wall, etc), stick a mini front-cut dressed to look like in the film, maybe with an italian police car or italian traffic jams portrayed somehow (can't see anyone suing for that!) That should be anough to suggest the theme without going all out.

Crucially though, the most important thing is - can you run the restaurant and produce quality food and make money? It won't matter how cool the dining area is or how great the name of concept is if you don't get people through the door, and as someone already said a few mini runs a year won't bring in the big bucks...

Anyway, good luck. It's nice to dream about things, even if they don't always come to fruition.

...oh and put a good Vitello alla Milanese on the menu for me, otherwise I won't be able to eat anything other than the bread

can't be bothered reading through all of this, but there is already an "italian job" themed restaurant at Oatley that uses MINI's as their promotion vehicle.

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Starlet Conversion:
http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15484

All this carry on and one already exists. Makes me laugh

I just hope the one at Oatley used a sign writer with good literary skills.

And that its not called the "Italian Job Pizza Restraunt"

Same applies for the desktop publisher who creates the menu cards.

for the post above and the mini's will be the old minis and will make sure they are in top condition to do the job at hand, if you can use one as a everyday driver then driving them as a delivery car shouldnt hurt.

the place has plenty of parking and everything to suit if a club does turn up and i know what you mean and there will be more stuff then just mini stuff.

the food will be mainly prepared by a full blooded italian pizza maker who use to work there but if we can get him it will be worth it.

and i know its good to dream and hope that we can turn it to reality

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower

Depends on the driver , don't hire 17 year old kids and show them the Italian Job car chase then let them loose in the cars or they'll try and copy it . Mini's will hold up as delivery cars but only if they are treated right , I've seen pizza delivery excels killed in a year by people I wouldn't want in the same suburb as a mini .

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Why is it going broke in the first place would be my primary question

ok chris for the third time it is going broke due to poor management, he had the customer level you would want to make it a great restrauant but didnt know how to greet customers and manage the store.


and if the dream does turn into a reality and we do get the minis i might ask some mini drivers from this forum if they would like the job because they care for a mini the way i wanted them cared for

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower

In otherwords dont drive it yourself Tiny

Make sure you have a good website for it as well to attract visitors , I just searched for the italian job cafe and came up with something under construction etc , hopefully it's only temporary . As a non Sydney person if I heard about it , I'd do a web search and look at it to see if it was worth finding on teh next Sydney trip .

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