Saturday, December 6, 2008

What is 'Dream Dinner'?

By Peter Hallway

The term 'dream dinner' may bring to concious mind a hone date at a candlelit table, violin music in the background, with the meal capped by a engagement ring concealed in the champaign glass. Having said that, dream dinner is even bigger and quickly spreading from mouth to mouth. It involves prepared menus and places where people go to acquire instruction in preparing them. A lot of people ask, why didn't I think of that?

People are very busy today. Eating well at home is seemly more and more difficult . Even the terrific pre-made food available today in stores isn't quite the same as home cooking. When the agenda is full, however, will people give up their jobs or their home made meals? That's where this franchise comes into the picture.

The programme works like this. Patrons go in and select some or all of 14 meals from a menu. Number of servings determines value of each meal. Then they cook it while still at the shop. Cooking experts supervise in either private or normal cooking sessions. It's a little bit like a cooking show where the show gives the audience the food then helps them prepare it together with the host.

The meals are a little bit less expensive than it would appear when the idea is first described. Although salads and side dishes are separate, the main course is only about $3.5 per serving for all 14 meals. The cost per serving with the sides is about $5. That's a great deal for the food addition the cooking instruction.

This is a franchise business. And there's been some contention behind the franchise. The food and menus are fine, but the franchise owners may have a problem. Forbes Magazine profiled Dream Dinners in March 28. But, the story is conferred from a different side of angle. The new idea rapidly gained popularity and attracted would be business enterprise owners. But it seems the business enterprise plan wasn't strong, as many of these people found themselves unable to continue the business after a short time and a lot of investment. Forbes claims the franchisees were sold a account of commodity when it came to the claims of liquidate success.

Business disputation aside, Dream Dinners is a fantastic idea that allows busy people living the 21st century fast-paced life a way to getting even to some of the home spun food value of the recent decades.

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