Three menus inside one kitchen
The same staff has to cover lunch, aperitivo and late night. A gear change every 4 hours, with no technical gaps between one service and the next.
Quick lunch, long aperitivo, late-night drinks. Three menus inside the same kitchen, with a single cook.
A pub is not one hour of the day, it is three. At midday it needs a quick lunch that doesn't taste of the warehouse. At 19:00 it needs an aperitivo that sells the second round. At 23:00 it needs a signature sandwich that settles the stomach of someone who has been drinking. Three menus, one kitchen, the same cook. That is what we think about when we do our buying.
The same staff has to cover lunch, aperitivo and late night. A gear change every 4 hours, with no technical gaps between one service and the next.
Three quarters of the margin is made between 19:00 and 21:00. If the aperitivo is poor or repetitive, the evening dies before 22:00.
Whoever walks in at 23:00 has been drinking. They don't want cold pizza, they want a sandwich that works as a full plate. And they want it in 6 minutes.
Texture, savour, bistro presentation. Out of the oven in 6 minutes, it holds up to the late-night rush of packed Saturdays.
No kitchen shift at 12:00, yes to a gourmet dish of the day at 12:30. The same fryer that will serve the aperitivo also covers lunch.
Pizza ready in three minutes and portioned, served alongside a glass. 230 g for the aperitivo, 350 g when it becomes dinner. Three hours between 7 and 9 pm that are worth the rest of the day.
Modified atmosphere, 50-day shelf life. Hot counter, the 4pm student crowd, hunger in the dead hours. Three extra sales that pay for your staff.
Covers that turn over in thirty-five minutes, a modest but steady receipt. Ready meals cover the shift without tying up the kitchen you need tonight. Whoever has lunch here during the week is the one who brings friends on Thursday for the aperitivo.
This is where the pub makes its margin: portioned Pizzella, a board, beer. Three hours that are worth the rest of the day, and the table that sits down now is the one that orders again at eleven instead of getting up.
This is where Salomon comes in: a signature sandwich, no pizza and no cold dishes. It is fried to order, so you are not opening a second prep at the end of service. It is the hour that decides whether Saturday is full or half empty.
All three slots inside the same six hours, with one kitchen. Stock decided on Thursday, restocking mid-evening, the same fryer that did lunch. Whoever leaves happy at two comes back for lunch on Monday, and that is where the loop starts again.
Three menus in one kitchen with no new hires. Speedy Food made us see that the same fryer could serve lunch and the after-dinner, and we gained two staff hours a day.