Here we go then ! Finally opening on Monday ....

Jun 26, 2011 174 Replies

My counter is finished. The plumbing is finished. The unvented water heater installed with its expansion loop as discussed last week, and that all works fine. The Plumbco macerator (discussed here a few weeks ago) is a good quality unit at half the price of the equivalent Saniflo, and works absolutely hunky dory at shifting the grey water from the prep sink over the door and round the back room, to the bog. Electrics all sorted, once we threw the original guy off the job, and got a 'proper' sparks on the case. Floor done. Extraction installed. Burgers sourced and tested. Chip fryers wired and working per the way we figured it on here, after a couple of false starts with the way the labels on the backs implied they should be wired. Much local buzz, so we're hopeful of a successful launch Monday night.



Can I just express my thanks to all on here who have sent their good wishes for the success of the place, and for all the invaluable and freely given help and advice on all the aspects that I have asked for help on. Good to know that I'm not the last of the helpful people in this world ... :-)



Finally, for those who wanted to see some piccies, the website is not really finished yet. However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it where you can see photos. I don't really understand all this Facebook stuff, but she assures me that you will be able to see it all if you go here :



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is some fairly good photos of the counter I built. I think it looks quite impressive, but then, I would, wouldn't I ? :-))



The website is

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If anyone's up this way of an evening, pop in and try a burger and shake. Tell 'em you're a friend of Arfa's on the 'net. Daughter will probably charge you double for admitting that, though ....



Arfa



If I pass I will have "The Bacon Blue".

Best of luck with it, maybe Revd will pop in a help a little.

In message , brass monkey writes

Maybe I'm going blind? It might be an idea to say what town it's in on the website? I could only see a postcode. NN Nottingham? Northampton? Not Nown?

In message , Arfa Daily wrote

Is it the doughnut shop for the local police force?

The customer facing side looks very dated and down market. It doesn't create a good first impression.

Good luck - but 2 tiny points:

a. the webiste only mentioned "Glasgow salad" as included with burgers - not good *if* you are minded to attract those looking for burger + "double salad"; and b. the PDF of the menu (i) was not searchable (or at least, wasn't for me in Acrobat Pro 7) and (ii) didn't give the address.

Not sure I agree - I think they're doing for a 'retro' feel, in which case it's not a bad job.

Don't agree with the current preoccupation with unnecessary glitz on websites (which only slows the pages down)

- people going there are looking for a burger, not an art gallery.

Adrian

Nice site. It tells you almost everything.

Except where the place actually is.

Bert

Good luck with that. Yum!

I have no facebook account so can't see those pix, it would seem.

This is very good and I look forward to seeing feedback posted by some denizens of this ng. Could I suggest adding the opening hours to the home page (I see they're on the menu).

Unfortunately you're a long way from Canterbury :-( But then many places are and I'll see if SWMBO can be persuaded to take it in some time.

However, my daughter has a Facebook entry for it where you can

to facebook. No thanks.

It's a Burger and Shake PDF menu with 2 pages, not BS 7671. How searchable do you need it to be:-)

Good luck, Arfa - fingers crossed for you.

Good luck with it, are you in the left hand unit(s) that were boarded up when the google car drove by?

Yes, so long as it's got *a* website, it could probably do with having a better local map than the generic RAC one, and something to point out the quality of ingredients etc, I'm sure someone's got a few improvements in hand ...

And what's a Daim Bar milkshake? Dime Bar perhaps?

Good luck Arfa, the serving area looks really solid and professional.

They *used* to be sold as Dime in the UK, but are now sold as Daim here the same as RoW, dunno if they're still sold as the original Dajm in scandahoovia ...

Good point - I agree about the "retro" - looks nice...

But re website, it *is* worth noting that more and more people are looking at this stuff on mobile devices with 320xmumble screens and modem-speed internet connections...

Stick a google map snippet on it...

I was holding out for the corrigendum with the enhanced cheeseburger...

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