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[Ryst Helmut]

[Mankind]

[Gollum]

[peppermint]

Curves would do very well here indeed, but not in Itaewon., It's not the kind of area for a health club much less one centered around women. Maybe around E-dae or Gangnam though.

Blimpies would get lots of competition from Subway and Schlotsky's.
Think about the neighborhood- it's mostly geared towards young people, particularly foreigners..

I'm still going with pizza by the slice, but a 24hr breakfast would do well too. With these places everything really depends on the quality of the food.

[chiaa]

One thing I have noticed in my researching businesses here, is that a lot of the franchise rights have already been purchased for this country. That does not mean that the actual restaurant is here, just the rights have been purchased. A nice homestyle restaurant would be really good. Take each of the major countries that are represented in Korea, have their dishes on the menu.

Someone mentioned earlier that a Korean would change the recipes whenever they wanted. I have to agree 100%. I mean for god sakes, you never know what kind of cheese you are going to get at Subway. A Korean owning a western style restaurant that has not spent a good amount of time outside of Korea will screw it up 100% (just as Koreans would more than likely not like a Korean restaurant run by white folk back home). I believe (and some of you might disagree) that the main reasons for the success of my bookstore is that I run it 100% western business like. My wife and I have had numerous arguements about little things on how they do things in Korea vs. how it is done in the west. No offense to her, if she was doing it alone, it would have folded a long time ago--just because she doesn't know what we foreigners are used to. Our website, run 100% on a western model is confusing to Koreans sometimes, but once explained (the reason for the chat thing) they are surprised with how easy everything is (that is usually most of the confusion). It is just a different way of thinking.

For those of you who have read Fast Food Nation, you will know this already. One of the reasons for the success of McDonalds and BK etc., is that you can walk into anyone of these franchises and expect just about the same thing (100% the same thing in your home country). Next time you are at BK in Itaewon, have a little fun and do this. Watch the Koreans and the foreigners. The foreigners never read the menu, while the Koerans always give it a look over. You kow that it will be the same as every other BK you have ever been to, but they do not. Franchises have learned that people really like things that are consistant. If you go into a TGI Fridays or an Outback Steakhouse here, they are markedly different in service and quality of the food from back home.(if you like a well-done steak you know full well what I mean). This is why I rarely visit these places (I have actually complained to Outback USA and the district manager here in Korea took us to one of his restaurants. That meal was great. Since then, I have been back two or three times and it was the same crap all over again.)

This is the end of my thesis

[dogbert]

[chiaa]

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

1) a place where you can eat sushi (sorry, cho-bap) off of naked ladies.

2) Bibimbap and Bacon

3) Planet Bollywood

Sparkles*_*

[trevorcollins]

If that McDonalds there would start serving breakfast (and make it until a reasonable hour, like 2pm) then I'd be in heaven. No need for anything else.

[Zenpickle]

[quote="Gollum"]

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[the_beaver]

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]