As an individual, I very much fancy good food and great products. As a customer-driven entrepreneur, I pay attention and admire those concepts which are both well tought-over and perfectly executed to deliver a great experience with a flawless service to customers.
Thanks to my friend Fabrice Grinda I enjoyed a lunch a Ted's Montana Grill on 110W 51st St at 6th av which perfectly illustrates the above.
Fresh, good and tasty hamburgers, excellent service (quick, professional and friendly), spacy restaurant, inspirational design, and very decent prices ! When a hamburger at "l'Atelier Renault" on the Champs Elysées in Paris costs €18, ie $28, one will end up paying about 50% less here in the heart of Manhattan at Ted's Montana Grill 51st !
This 50-unit chain was co-founded and launched just 6 years ago by Ted Turner, the well known media entrepreneur, founder of CNN among other ventures and husband of Jane Fonda. In his Montana ranch, Ted Turner raises bisons whose meat you may eat at his restaurants (you will also find beef and chicken).
Have a look here at the founders' video where the roots and directions of the chain are thoroughly explicited. Pretty inspirational !
Concept looks right and execution just seems flawless ! Retail - which includes the restaurant business - is detail, and I could feel at Ted's Montana Grill that they have thoroughly thought over all issues. Well done, a great address in the crowded theather district where good and decently-priced restaurants are in extreme scarcity.
Indeed, awesome burgers!! Not that much of a difference in the taste, compared to angus beef for instance (to my mind), but it's all about the experience. You do not eat bison everyday so everything is made for you to enjoy that moment.
Posted by: Arnaud | June 27, 2008 at 03:56 AM
So, I should look forward to this taking the place of McDonald's?
Here, in France, we have a restaurant that sells mainly bison, so it would not have the 'shock' that some other counties would instantly have.
Posted by: Cindy King | July 07, 2008 at 04:22 PM
Apart from going into the record books as the oldest working CEO, Papa Jack's biggest claim to fame is the snap-button western shirt. The check shirts with their signature broad yokes, sawtooth pockets and diamond snap buttons are a favourite with real-life cowboys used to threading a lasso around the legs of a heifer rather than cotton through the eye of a needle.
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