Need homework help

[ArcticChicken]

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy books

I don't think that would do so well, most people are not comfortable having a conversation with their dinner.

[Treasure]

What about a Seven Deadly Sins theme? I once went to a bar that was in what used to be a church and they had drinks based on the sins - that is as far as they carried the theme, but I bet you could take off and run with it.

My family has talked about a neat idea for a Casino in Las Vegas based on this - call it Inferno (as in Dante's) and then each area would be devoted to one of the 7 deadly sins....

lots of red and black, cocktail waitresses in fishnets/black shorts/red tops/devil horns (demons); dealers would probably wear black T-shirts with wings on the back, and be "fallen angels"

all the restaurants would be in "Gluttony"
the sexy dance show would be "Lust"
the rooms would be "Sloth"
the casino itself would be "Greed"
etc etc etc...

[ShadowBall]

I also considered a marine restaurant with sea mammals in large tanks and then smaller tanks where you catch your own fish which is then cooked on a hibachi grill in front of you. But I figured it's been done and someone would bitch that it would be meeeeean to cook the attractions.

And I originally considered a retro sci-fi theme - like having a small gift shop stocked with vintage sci-fi posters, overpriced Star Wars trinkets, little planet keychains, robot jewelry and alien plush dolls. I want the employees wearing silver costumes (kinda like the women from Tron Legacy, only without the pretty lights). And I have an idea for a marketing campaign involving tinfoil hats.

I have a book of old sci-fi art as well as a book on planets and stars that I intend to take with me so I can give silly space names to the menu items, which will be coffee and baked goods. Thanks very much for all the ideas - they're all pretty awesome, but I think I may have been convinced to do my original idea after all since I think it's different enough from other space-themed restaurants to still be unique.

[ZumZum]

Why not a Dr. Who themed restaurant???

[ShadowBall]

Like I said, no one in my school watches the Doctor and they're all going to go, "Durrr hurrr I don't get it." Basically the two women who critique stuff are a little dense in that if they don't get the purpose in a split second, they will give a shitty grade. I figure space is pretty hard to misunderstand, but they might surprise me and manage to be confounded by that idea too.

I mean I made a poster in the summer depicting someone being strangled with an AIDS awareness ribbon and I had to explain that this was to show that the person (a celebrity) died from AIDS. I had to explain several times. The director of the fucking program still didn't get it. For this being a master's program, you really gotta dumb down what you do for these people.

But yeah, don't feel like drawing now, so I will probably do everything the night before it's due like every semester. What can I say? Pressure inspires me.

[Chromatix]

Since you're in America, one way to ensure that it's original is simply to make it railway themed. Now you stil get a lot of choice within that - you could do modern American railways, classic American railways, or classic British railways, as each of those categories has a reasonably strong following.

[ShadowBall]

Sorry for dragging this back up, but just got home from school...well...last night. I went with the space cafe idea and it was, shockingly, seen as a fun idea. My instructors actually understood it, which left me gobsmacked. The only negative thing they really had to say was that my roughs were a bit too rough (no color) for them to give a resounding "awesome" or "sucks," but that they felt it would be cool when done up in color.

I am not looking forward to the interior design because I am horrible at drawing rooms in perspective. This is where I wish I knew 3D modeling a bit so I could just make it like that, but I've used 3DS Max and it is the bane of my existence. I was horrible at it.

Everyone said they thought the space-themed baked goods were fun too and I'm wondering if I should try making them sometime and photographing them. Really, I was blown away that despite how sketchy the roughs were, I got very good feedback. Must be everyone was sick or something that day.

[Der Cute]

For a quick way to do the baked goods, try getting a sheet cake. Use a knife to cut out some basic shapes of space stuff. Space ships, Star Trek stuff? Star Wars stuff? So you'd make a circle with a lopside, call it an asteroid and put frosting on it. Use a cookie cutter on some pre-made cookie dough to make a Darth Vader face (half circle with triangle attached). Quick and dirty.

Menus? Navy blue/black, sharp bright yellow, on a light gray background? Doodles of space stuff floating around. Name of something super special? Aurora Borealis. A scoop of neopolitan ice cream..3 colors.

Seating? Bar stool style onto a countertop. Blackboards with chalk on the wall, artist drawings in space colors matching your menus, with specials, customer comments, shit like that. Each table out there has a space thingy on it. 3'x3' tables, one has a nebula. One has a pic of the planets. One has a Borg shape on it.

I get creative when on pain meds.