Gaming Restaurant

[Ramthundar]

So this idea came up while my girlfriend and I were talking about her dream of becoming a pastry chef. I said how it might be cool to have a restaurant like Hard Rock Cafe, except for video games. This got us to a good 30 minute conversation on how this restaurant of ours would work.
Some ideas:
FOODS AND DRINKS
Star and Fire Flower Cookies: Baked right from the land of Super Mario! Either get your fire stirring with the spicy Fire Flower Cookies or feel the tingle when you bite into the pop-rock Star Cookie.
Health/Mana Potion:Not feeling up to your full strength? Then pop the cork off one of our delicious potions of smoothie taste! Try either our strawberry Health or our blue berry Mana potion!
The Kirby Burger: With massive buns of either white or all-wheat, two slabs of beefy meat, 5 kinds of vegetables of your choice, and 6 cheeses of your choice, you can make your own burger that would even slow the Pink Gobbler!
Moo-Moo Steak and Milk!: While sipping in the replica glass bottle of Legend of Zelda fame, dig into a juicy stake made only from the happiest cow!

For atmosphere, I'd decorate the walls with old gaming posters {hopefully signed by a famous developer or something}, gaming merchandise and play soundtracks from good/famous games {sticking in the occasional rock or popular modern song}.
I would also have every system {non-current} set up, all connected to big screens. Customers could then come up and ask for a game to play till their food was ready! EDIT2: The consoles would be built into the wall, leaving enough room only for people to put in games. Also, employees would be the only ones to touch the games and put them in.
I'd also have a few T.V.s showing Gaming Channels or playing video-game trailers.
EDIT: Forgot, I would also make sure to have it Wi-Fi accessible so that WoW players can have a reason to go out.
Also, I would host regular multi-player/online tournaments there over various games and systems, winners getting free food!

The only thing we couldn't agree on is a name.
SO FAR: A lot of people like Save Point.

Spoiler: FYI

Because of a couple comments, let me say this: I'm not making an actual restaurant. This was just a fun idea my girlfriend and I had, which I wanted to share. But maybe one day, if we're not over-run by zombies, we may open a restaurant like this.

So, dear Escapists, if you were to eat at a Gaming Restaurant, what kind of food would you want? What would you like to see/do at this restaurant? Share your ideas!

 

[ThaBenMan]

Awesome idea. I would definitely hang out there a lot.

EDIT: Oh, and for a name - maybe something like "Gamer's Grill"?

 

[GodsOneMistake]

Sounds like a great place to pick up chicks. HAHAHA aha ha........ (Crys...)

 

[InvisibleMilk]

Great idea, but I forsee many stolen game consoles
Definitley an underground gamer thing, Maybe for Comic-con or E3 or something of that extent.

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

Get me some steak and I'll eat there.

 

[Fightgarr]

Awesome idea. I would definitely hang out there a lot.

I'd hang out there with ThaBenMan a lot.

Does the restaurant have pool? I likes pool.
All the balls could be super money balls.

 

[jasoncyrus]

We've got something like that in the city nearest to me. Not toally gamer themed with food (since you cant get the foods listed over here very easily) but the res it had and was great.

 

[Radeonx]

Seems like a nice place to hang out.

Sounds like a great place to pick up chicks. HAHAHA aha ha........ (Crys...)

I thought the same thing.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

ditch the wheat buns or at least give people a choice, cause frankly i'd never eat a burger with a wheat bun

 

[Hazy]

Town Inn is what I'd pick for the name.

And it sounds awesome.

 

[Ramthundar]

Get me some steak and I'll eat there.

Moo-Moo Steak and Milk!: While sipping in the replica glass bottle of Legend of Zelda fame, dig into a juicy stake made only from the happiest cow! {kind of morbid, but it was the only Game-related steak i could think of now.}

Awesome idea. I would definitely hang out there a lot.

I'd hang out there with ThaBenMan a lot.

Does the restaurant have pool? I likes pool.
All the balls could be super monkey balls.

Briliant! And I'd get a few slot-machines of Pokemon style, but it be only small change so the kids could play, too.
Also, a few dart boards that had the posters/images of the Worst Games Evah on them.

ditch the wheat buns or at least give people a choice, cause frankly i'd never eat a burger with a wheat bun

Edited by your suggestion, good sir. Though I added all-wheat cause I'd like to give my customers a small chance of survival.
<('0'<) Only this can survive that much calories.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Health/Mana Potion:Not feeling up to your full strength? Then pop the cork off one of our delicious potions of smoothie taste! Try either our strawberry Health or our blue berry Mana potion!

Sorry, the Health/Mana potion already exists. It has twice the amount of caffeine than Red Bull!
It does taste like crap though...

I would like a nice steak on the menu though.

EDIT: okay now I'm happy =)

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

Get me some steak and I'll eat there.

Moo-Moo Steak and Milk!: While sipping in the replica glass bottle of Legend of Zelda fame, dig into a juicy stake made only from the happiest cow! {kind of morbid, but it was the only Game-related steak i could think of now.}



Then count me in!
Yay I finally figured out how to get color!
Edit: still can't get that quoting right.

 

[TK421]

Sounds spectacular.

Great idea, but I forsee many stolen game consoles

And this.

 

[Knight Templar]

That sounds intresting, but prehaps you should include Plasmids?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91251-Barkeep-A-Plasmid-Please

 

[BlackIronGuardian]

Eating and playing video games in the same place? Christ, sir, that's my room.

 

[Alpha Pat]

call it the
save point
check point or and put a mini or large arcade
ye olde inn
gamers cave have some consule shaped menu cards
gamers inn
gamers point
gamers palace and tables shaped like consules

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

Remember Arcades? Make it an arcade with a café included that serves said dishes. Nothing attracts a good gaming crowd like a respectable arcade. Even if you can only afford about 5 arcade cabinets, its better than nothing. You could call the place LFG, as it could be a gathering area for gamers. Or you could go for the sillier idea, Game n' Grub.

 

[Barakon Jr]

Sounds like a great place to pick up chicks. HAHAHA aha ha........ (Crys...)

T_T Hit the nail right on the head.

 

[LilGherkin]

Name Ideas

The Virtual Dungeon (How do I put a line through words? Because that one sounds wrong the more I think about it.)
The Virtual Console (Talk to Nintendo about joint custody of the name.)
The Gamer's Lounge (Probably taken already)
Controller's Cafe
The Digital Hub
Ender's Game & Drink (Probably gonna get you in trouble with Orson Scott Card)
The Temple
The Temple of Time Killing.
The Electric Light Bar & Grill

More names to come.