My Role Model

Type of Restaurant

1. Fast Food Restaurant/ Quick-Service Restaurant

Characteristics:

• Many precook or partially cook food.
• Goal is to serve maximum number of customers in a minimum amount of time.
• Food is paid for before service.
• Limited menus

Advantages:

• Save money because fast food tends to be cheaper than the alternatives.
• Save time as there is very low or no waiting time for food to be served.
• There are many healthy fast food options now so no need to eat fat-filled burgers and fries.

Disadvantages: 

• Lower quality food that are usually caused by a large-scale production process.
• More fattening foods that are mainly caused by the lower quality food sources.

Example:

Subway 

In-N-Out

2. Franchise Restaurant

Characteristic:

• Fewer Risks
• marketing and management supports are available.
• restaurants format has been tested in the marketplace.
• Several requirements
• franchising and royalty fees, advertising royalty, and substantial personal net worth.

Advantages: 

• A well established name
• Financing 
• Training and Support

Disadvantages:

• High employee turnover rate
• Price sensitive
• Franchise Costs

Examples:

TGI Friday

McDonald

3. Fine Dining Restaurant

Characteristics:

• Expensive and leisurely
• Very low table turnover
• Restaurants are small
• Customer: special occasions and business

Advantages:

• Elegant and entertaining
• Only one waiter is required
• Much of the profits come from wine

Disadvantages:

• Price is expensive
• Cannot fits many customers
• High labor costs due to the necessity of highly experienced employees.

Examples:

Macalister Mansion

Farquhar Mansion

4. Coffeehouse

Characteristics:

• Casual restaurant without table service.
• Serve coffee and other beverages.
• Suitable for businesses, family or friends for gathering place.

Advantages:

• Relax and socialize
• Provide patrons with a place to gathering, talk and others.
• Nice atmosphere and environment

Disadvantages:

• Limited selection of cold foods
• No have main dishes
• No table service

Examples:

Starbucks

Bricklin Cafe & Bar

5. Cafeteria

Characteristics:

• Serving ready-cooked food arranged behind a food serving counter.
• Customers take the food that they desire as they walk along.
• There are often stations where customers order food and wait while it is prepared.
• The beverage can be filled from self-service dispensers or order from an attendant.

Advantages:

• Many food selection
• Price is cheaper
• Food arranged

Disadvantages:

• There is little or no table service
• Ready-cooked food will turn cold food.

Examples:

Ikea's cafeteria

6. Theme Restaurant

Characteristics:

• Built around emphasizing fun and fantasy
• Comparatively short life cycle
• Do well outside major tourist attractions
• Costs area high

Advantages:

• Design a new theme concept restaurant
• Attract local people and tourists to visit

Disadvantages:

• High costs for decoration and design
• Short life cycle compared to others type of restaurant
• Most of the profits come from merchandise not food sales

Examples:

Ice Cafe

3 Leg Cat Cafe

7.  Chef-Owned Restaurant

Characteristic: 

• Part of American tradition of family restaurants
• Publicity is key in gaining attention
• Chef-owner should have a good backup person
• Share in management, food preparation and marketing

Advantages:

• Having an experienced, highly motivated person in charge.
• Name often already known and synonymous with great food.
• Can be very profitable.

Disadvantages:

• Chefs often less knowledgeable about "the numbers".
• Can often make more money working as a chef in a name restaurant.
• Location and other factors are just as important for success as food preparation and presentation.

Examples:

Gordon Ramsay

Jamie Oliver

8. Centralized Home Delivery Restaurants

Characteristics:

• Reduce costs of order-taking, food preparation and accounting.
• Home delivery centers verify and process credit card information.
• Can be done at any location connected to the internet, locally or internationally.

Advantages:

• Health benefits
• Very convenient

Disadvantages:

• Price
• Limited menu

Example:

Domino's Pizza

Pizza Hut

9. Pub

Characteristics:

• Drinking establishments with food
• Are gastropubs
• Serve simple food fare

Advantages:

• High Quality food
• Large selection of beer

Disadvantages:

• Limited choice of food

Examples:

Uptown Pub & Bistro

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10. Ethnic Restaurant

Characteristics:

• Feature foods of different nationality or cuisines
• Serve local food, international food and well know dishes.
• Eg.: Chinese restaurant, Thai Restaurant, Mexican Restaurant and etc.

Advantages:

• Educating the customer
• Making exploration comfortable

Disadvantages:

• Price may expensive
• Ingredients are import from other country.
• Not every customer like to eat ethnic food
• Eg.: If Mexican restaurant operate in Penang, some of customer like           Mexican food some do not accept. 

Examples:

KO.B.Q Korean Restaurant

Kapitan India Restaurant

11. Buffet Restaurant

Characteristics:

• Serve a variety different kinds of food.
• More than 10 types of foods
• Called as an all-you-can-eat restaurant.

Advantages:

• Fits in a large of customers
• Reap a large turnover
• Implements the cross strategy
• The cooks do not need to cook every new order comes in.

Disadvantages:

• Provide large meal
• Will lose if it turns out that there are not many customers coming.

Examples:

Hotel Equatorial Penang - Nada Lama

Bayview Hotel Penang

12. Food Truck

Characteristics:

• It is a large vehicle equipped to cook and sell food.
• Along with portable food booths and food carts, are on the front line of the street food industry.

Advantages:

• It has the ability to simply move to new locations.
• It have the ability to generate revenue in a number of different ways.
• It will park near night time entertainment venue in order to generate more substantial revenue.

Disadvantages:

• Labor and fuel costs are a significant part of the overhead.
• Unique health risks compared to regular land-based restaurants when it comes to food safety and the prevention of food-borne illness.

Examples:

Cake Time

The Duchess Burger

13. Drive-Through

Characteristics:

• Provided by a business that allows customers to purchase products without leaving their cars.
• Orders are generally placed using a microphone and picked up in person at the window.
• Customer will receive their food from an attendant when it is ready to be served.

Advantages:

• Convenience
• Customer do not need park their car at car park, straight go to drive-through order and picked up their dishes.
• Save time

Disadvantages:

• Attendant speak not so clearly.
• Easily take wrong order

Examples:

Starbucks Drive-Through

McDonald Drive-Through

14. Bakery

Characteristics:

• Is an establishment that produces and sells the bread, cakes, sandwich and so on.
• Some bakeries are serving coffee and tea to customers who wish to consume the baked goods on the premises.
• Some bakeries provide services for special occasions such as wedding, birthday parties, anniversaries or even business events.

Advantages:

• Mainly quick-service establishment
• Variety of setting, products and ambiance
• Many bake off goods that are prepared elsewhere or do final proofing after receiving goods.

Disadvantages:

• Waste the bread if couldn't sell it
• Cannot bake too many bread to sell, need estimate the quantity of bread.

Examples:

Summer Dessert Bakery

Bread History

Half Day Trip in Penang

How we go?

We drive the car went to heritage area and their have car park lot, but need put car park coupon.
If no have coupon, can buy at 7-11 shop or the shop that have sell car park coupon.

9.30 am - Ah Lai Kopitiam

For our breakfast, we choose "Ah Lai Kopitiam - Under The Big Tree".

In Penang, there are some locals' favorites which are still standing strong after many years of operations. 

One of the locals' favorite place for brunch is "Ah Lai Cafe - Under The Big Tree". This kopitiam is simple and no-frills cafe is operating under a huge tree and can enjoy with a coffee.

We have ordered Half Boiled Egg on Buttered Toast (RM 3.60), Instant Noodles (RM 5.00) and and their signature drink which is Coffee Special (RM2.40). 

Overall the taste was good, but i mostly liked to drink their Coffee Special. 

I'm a coffee lover, I liked the taste of coffee and it was suitable for the person who need a coffee in the morning. 

Address: 15, Lebuh Gereja, 10200 George Town, Pulau Pinang

10.30 am - Armenian Street

Armenian Street is the one of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and one of the places that tourists must visit.

This street is surrounded by Chinese Temples, Clan House, Mosques, street art, full of charming shop houses, artists galleries and cafes. 

Choo Chay Keong Temple of Yap Kongsi

Yap is a Chinese clan name or surname. The forefather of Yap families in Penang mostly originated from Fujian Province of Southern China.
The location of Yap Kongsi is at the junction of Cannon Street and Armenian Street. It is easily recognized by an extensive ornament of dragons and pearls on its green roof.

Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple

Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple, as known as Poh Hock Seah,  was built by Chinese immigrants almost 165 years ago. 

Dedicated to Tua Pek Kong (God of Prosperity and Morality), the temple was symbolic of the values of the community and rituals conducted were very similar to what was practiced in the Fujian Province where most of them originated from.

The location is a few meters away crossing over Cannon Street, there is a small gateway leading to the Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple.

Armenian Street

 "Kids on Bicycle"

"Kids on Bicycle" painting in Amernian Street and it is a great example of one of the many Penang Street painting located all around the old part of George Town.

This mural painted by London trained artist Ernest Zacharevic.

 "Three Cultural Girls"

In Malaysia , we have three major races which are Malays, Chinese and Indian. This mural was represented three different girls in traditional costumes, showcasing the unique composition of Malaysia's culture.

 When we walk around the heritage site and we want to rest awhile, we found a long chair to sit.

Also take our ootd picture.

Address: Lebuh Armenian, George Town ,Penang

11.30 am - Chew Jetty and Tan Jetty

Chew Jetty

Chew Jetty is the biggest of clan jetty and tourist hotspot in George Town.

The walkway and houses were still remain in timber, we slowly walked and looked around the Chew Jetty 

We walked until the last part of Chew Jetty, we took a beautiful scenery picture with seaside and the sky. Also one of the memory part for us.

Address: Chew Jetty, 10300 George Town, Pulau Pinang

Tan Jetty

 Tan Jetty is one of the six clan jetties in George Town. 

It is also the third clan jetty form the north, located between Chew Jetty and Lee Jetty.

The walkway and houses also still remain in timber. 

Tan Jetty also the one of tourist hotspot and nice view.

 It is a good aesthetic and suitable for #ootd.

Address: Tan Jetty, 10300 George Town, Pulau Pinang.

12.40 pm - Awesome Canteen at Sekeping Victoria

Awesome Canteen at Sekeping Victoria is a rustic-forestry retreat and the rustic interior design. 

There is suitable for the people who can relax and enjoy their minds amidst trees in this artsy space and they can meet with their friends and family.

Tourists can have a night stay at the rooms.

The location of Sekeping Victoria is at Victoria Street.

There also one of the place that teenagers like to take #ootd picture with aesthetic moment.  

Address: 164A-B, Lebuh Victoria, 10300 George Town, Pulau Pinang.

2.30 pm - E&O Hotel

E&O Hotel is a historical hotel, there have old and new building which are Heritage Wing and Victoria Annexe.

Heritage Wing's walkway

Heritage Wing is a old wing and was built in 1885, it is Moorish the backdrop for khaki-clad doormen and pith-helmeted bellhops to welcome the guests.

Victoria Annexe's Lobby

Victoria Annexe is a new wing and it is a modern-classic design.

Most of photographer will went there took photo shooting for wedding photo, view and more. 
Teenagers also like to take #ootd picture and share to social media.

Finally we can took a nice photo

Address:10, Lebuh Farquhar, 10200 George Town, Pulau Pinang.

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