Saturday, January 6, 2018

The Restaurant Business

Coffee Salt

We received this coffee salt marinade as part of a gift basket for Christmas. I am interested in trying it out, something different.

Last weekend, husband M, son K and I went to a restaurant at the mall for a breakfast brunch.  It was bone chilling cold and snowed a bit.  The waiter told us the restaurant had been very busy over Christmas but  business slowed down considerably after that.  He mentioned that it is pretty dead in January.  The restaurant business must be tough.

13 comments:

Valerie-Jael said...

Never heard of coffee salt, let us know how good it is! Keep warm, hugs, Valerie

Adam said...

I suppose most places usually die down during Jan.

Anonymous said...

I think most businesses feel the slump after the big rush of the holidays,,lol, I feel it too lol,,so quiet after all the celebrating! Thats interesting salt,, I'll look forward to you telling us your review of it!

Kathy G said...

When I worked at the mall I saw how things really slowed down in January.

Anonymous said...

I imagine people are struggling to pay off the debt they accumulated in December!

Anonymous said...

Terry went to our local mall on Friday, to shop at JC Penney. It was terrible. The stores were a mess. Clerks no where to be found. He found a small part of what he wanted to purchase but with much difficulty. One would think the stores would be thrilled to have the after-holiday sales. On any kind of sales since so many of the brick and mortar are closing.

I tweeted to JC Penney about his experience and they assured me they would be looking into the problem with the store management.

Kay said...

I would never have put coffee and salt together. I wonder how that would taste and what you would add it to. I like the cold weather in Hawaii... not in the Midwest or East coast though.

DMS said...

I have never tried coffee and saly- but I just watched something recently about it and supposedly it is better than sugar. Can't wait to hear your thoughts.

I worked in the restaurant world for about 20 years. It is definitely hard work and there are bursts of crazy business and good tips and then slower night. Servers work really hard, that is for sure. :)

~Jess

Christine said...

Kay it says you could use it in meat marinades for example. It is a flavoured salt so I would use it as I would salt.

Lowcarb team member said...

I think things can go a little quiet in many businesses during January as folks are recovering from their Christmas spend.

All the best Jan

Kristin Dudish said...

I'll be interested to hear what you think once you try it :)

Jennifer Rose said...

most places I worked, were dead in january. people are broke after xmas :p

The Happy Whisk said...

So many business have it tough, that's not easy.

Interesting new ingredient.