Hooter's style Dim Sum restaurant?!
Answers: My friend wants to get out of the corporate finance sector and open up his own restaurant business. He wants to open up a all-day Dim Sum restaurant Hooter's style, where there will be attractive women dressing "sexy" (of all ethnicities) pushing those carts of dim sum appetizers around. He wants to teach the non-asian women how to say the dishes in cantonese/mandarin so they can communicate to the chinese families but I'm not too sure chinese families would want to bring their kids there. Although I'm pretty sure there will be PLENTY of young adult males there. I think he's really going for it...would it work?
I think it sounds brilliant. I love dim sum, and don't see any problem with the sexy girls. Sexy girls are everywhere and they can sell a lot of stuff. Throw in some beer and tv sets for good measure.
Maybe have a basic menu with fried rice and noodle dishes for non-dim sum fans.
Heck, I'd be there, and I'm a chick! Build one in Atlanta :)
PT Barnum once said "Nail any 2 things together that have never been nailed together before and some fool will buy it." and it is well known that "SEX SELLS" do as long as you shoot for the fool Looking for sex you should be ok.
Now If you want the rest of the world to come back, the food had better be real good. All you have to do is pick your audience and get a great location for the store.
i always thought the Chinese dress looks good on all girls! especially those high cut ones. :)
and i always find westerner-run Asian restaurants have better service (although the food generally sux), so if you can get a real good dim sum chef, and make sure restaurant is nice and clean, yeah, i give it a thumb-up.
Add some sexy male ninjas, or martial artists for the ladies. Plan a original menu and sleek decor. Seems like a good idea. Good Luck ;)