Here’s my dilemma. I’m 29 and feel out-of-date.
I want to open a bistro (chain) but have a distinct bias and a bizarre handicap.


Bias: I only watch movies that are easy to watch, very very easy to watch-
like NOT Alfred Hitchcock; the most complex movie I watch is “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999)
by Stanley Kubrick. All of the movies I watch (which are mostly American) are also up to 2000-2001 and not beyond; though I also saw “The Bourne Identity,” and “About A Boy.”


Handicap: I can not cook fish, but I can cook seafood. In other words, I would have to hire a fish chef.


How should I plan a bistro (chain)?

Would it be possible for me to become a celebrity chef and have my own show on the
Food Network or Fine Living Network?

YES!! I think so-

I could market foods I can make or manage a bistro with a fish chef’s help.

I think there would be room for a show on the Food Network like, “Old World Beans!” This show could run instructionals on various ways to cook lima beans, red kidney beans, black beans, and refried beans - all in a classic, “old world” (Mediterranean, old French-Asian, classic American) style. There is actually no limit to the ways you can cook beans classically.

For example:
1) red kidney beans served cold with cinnamon
2) red kidney beans cooked in water with cinnamon and cottage cheese


http://www.foodnetwork.com/


The other thing is, I’m Christian and my bistro must reflect this somehow. There wouldn’t be any solicitation but definitely implicit expression of my own person (like Colonel Harland Sanders did with KFC). My employees obviously could be of any religion (or a-religious). In other words, I would just write a biography about the power of Christ in my life (if my bistro chain got big like Wal-Mart).

It seems strange to post these thoughts on TIG, but it is a good soundboard starting-point.