Recipe for success

A friend of mine recently announced that he has just quit his job and is planning to open up a restaurant. Actually he didn't really announced it. Another friend of mine, during dinner just stood up and was looking for an excuse for a toast just said, 'hey guys, cheers to Dre for opening up a restaurant'.

The reaction to this was the usual "yam seng" and "down it you wuss" and after the toast, it was back to some serious conversation. Some congratulated Dre, "you da man", "where's da restaurant", "wat kind of restaurant". Some sounded skeptical. You can tell when they said, "wah, you've got balls man to quit your job just to open up a restaurant".

Anyway, Dre just replied that its not really a restaurant but a cafe, serves alcohol (that's the word that all of us wanted to hear) and food.

"But what's the theme? Do you have a theme?" I asked. I thought that it was a good question. A very intellectual question coming out from my mouth even after so much drinks. Dre did not have a chance to answer yet ...

Han: "You know, in order to be a good restaurant, you need to have good food. Great food. Then the people will keep coming back"

Me: "Yah, but what's the theme?"

Cicak: "No lar, you need to have damn good settings, interior designs, decoration. The ambience is very important. That's the reason people will come back"

Me: "yah, but what's the farking theme?"

Han: "You dick. Who the fark will go to a restaurant when the food is not good? you goin to farking eat the decoration is it? you go to a restaurant is to eat! if you want to look at decorations, go to a farking art gallery!"

Cicak: "Can you let me finish? Don't ejaculate prematurely! What I am saying it, yes, decoration is important. But at the same time, you must serve good food too. How can you eat good food when your surrounding is like shit? Can you farking eat in a toilet? No right? So, that's what I am saying"

Me: "ok, but what kind of food are you going to serve?"

Han: "I still say you need good food. Period."

Wor Siong: "screw you all with the food and the decoration. I say you must have beers. Loads of it. Farking loads of it"

Dre: "for sure, for sure"

Wor Siong: "and alcohol. farking loads of it too"

Keling Zhai: "fark u all. you guys don't know what is a real crowd puller"

Cicak: "and what is tat?"

Keling Zhai: "you need women. hot looking women. hot looking women in skimpy clothing. you need scantily clad waitresses, you need them for PR work. you need them to just stand around. thats how you get people to come back"

Dre: "errrr, its a cafe. not a karaoke joint"

Keling Zhai: "no, seriously, get these women. we will help you with the interviews, ha ha ha ha" "you can get different nationality wan oso.... shanghai, vietnamese, mat salleh"

Me: "dei!, you pimping or wat?"

ha ha ha ha ha

Me: "hey, why not we have a business collaboration? Downstairs is cafe with all the hot chicks. Upstairs we open a "bed & breakfast" lar?"

ha ha ha ha ha

Keling Zhai: "yah, yah good idea" "so when we interviewing your waitresses?"

Cicak: "fark lar u guys, from a cafe its becoming a "kai-tau" (literal translation = chicken den)"

Dre: "errr guys, no worries. all the plans have been set. and there is already a budget hotel nearby my cafe"

Me: "damn!"

Anyway, Dre, wish you all the best with your cafe.