Archive for 9/2009

My background is not in restaurants.  It is in design.  Whenever I design anything, I like to prototype.  Make a rough version, try it, gather feedback, tweak it, repeat.  This is how you end up with a product design that completely kicks butt.  Designing Modmarket is no different, the exception being the scale of the product!  Since we opened two weeks ago we have been constantly tweaking things left and right trying to make mM be the best fast food joint in the land (or at least in Boulder).  Our customers have been AWESOME about giving us great feedback, a lot of which has already resulted in changed offerings and or store operations.  Here are just a few things that we are either working on, have change or are going to change based on feedback we have received.

• vegan cheese – we now offer vegan cheese on our flatbreads and are also selling small logs on it.  A customer recommended we use Teese vegan cheese, which is not sold in Boulder.  So we ordered a bunch of it and even got some small logs to retail to local vegans who want to take some home with them
• soups – EVERYBODY keeps asking about this.  Don’t worry, we are on it, should be ready next week (if the bowls arrive on time)
• kids menu – about a week out, we are going to have some Horizon Organic Milks, a special kids menu (the salad one allows parents to select a few key veggies that they know the little ones will like and places them in hand friendly containers)
• lemons and limes – we thought about this one, forgot to do it once we opened and had a customer remind us that we needed it.  lemons are now available all the time at the beverage counter and limes will soon join them
• smaller to go boxes – taking a few pieces of flatbread in a big box is a waste and everyone hates aluminum foil.  we now have small, sugar cane based take out boxes
• smaller side salads – new bowls coming for side salads which will make sure they are all ‘side’ sized
• salt and pepper – we started out only having to go packets for salt and pepper.  everyone seemed to hate that.  we now have very chic salt and pepper grinders.  check them out by the beverage counter next time you are in
• combo meals – still working on it, but within a few weeks, combo meals will be a reality.  should be a pretty good deal.
• oregano – we are morons.  we should have had this from day one for people to put on flatbread.  it will be here by Friday
• gluten free beer – we should have it by the beginning of next week. it tastes shockingly good.
• more dressing – a lot of people thought our dressing was bland.  we think that was because we were going way to light on them for the first two weeks.  now we put on a little more and ask everyone is that enough.  trust us, our dressings are ANYTHING but bland.  if you have the right amount, you will definitely taste it!