Setting notes for "What You Believe Is Great Work"
These are the setting notes for "What You Believe Is Great Work."
The Melting Pot has entry arches of cast resin designed to look like stone. The floor is original hardwood. The industrial fixtures in the ceiling have been painted black. A drop ceiling that would match the other decor was prohibitively expensive, and a plain commercial one would clash horribly. This was a decent compromise.
The counters are heavily used during the lunch period, less so during the supper period. The tabletops are bare during lunch but covered by tablecloths during supper. The menu also changes from lighter, simpler fare during lunch to heartier and fancier fare during supper.
There are 7 square tables, each with 4 chairs. In this configuration, the restaurant can seat 28 customers. More tables and chairs are stacked in the back, although they don't all match. This allows the restaurant to be reconfigured into other layouts such as banquet seating with long tables.
Daily specials go on the chalkboard menu. Orders are placed at the front of the wooden counter directly below that. The quick-kitchen behind the counter holds premade hot and cold foods for fast service and allows preparation of certain things like shawarma and kebabs that take little work to cook.
The viewscreens over the counter are not automated. Instead, they can be controlled via smartphone by anyone who joins the customer club and downloads the restaurant's app. Halley Finn wrote the menu program for the website and its app, so that it will run the menu in visual mode, Arabic, English, French, or Esperanto. The eventual goal is to add more languages, but that's the starting set for which they had easy access to people who could translate the content. This way, people can see things on a larger screen than their phone, while still controlling the menu. An audio version is available via smartphone in the same languages. Hardcopy menus are currently available in Arabic, English, and Braille. This maximizes accessibility and minimizes the number of people who need to ask for help with a menu. When not in use by customers, the viewscreens can use images from the picture menu as a screensaver mode, or they can be set to display specials, ingredient profiles, or other things.
The counter has a salad and sandwich bar where people can assemble quick-fix meals. The far left end of the counter has the checkout register.
The door between the beverage cooler and the quick-kitchen leads to the back of the restaurant which has the bathrooms (straight back), the slow-kitchen (near right), and storage areas (far right).
The arches are made of acoustic foam with framed photographs from Syria. Along with some wood fixtures, they help absorb sound so the restaurant doesn't get too noisy. The walls on this side are covered with wallpaper that has brick and Middle Eastern patterns on it.
The wall on this side and the front is original brick. More acoustic panels hang on the walls to absorb sound.
Family style meals are available.
The restaurant has two accessible dotties each with a roll-under sink, toilet, and roll-in shower with bench and handheld shower hose. The walls and floor are all covered in ceramic tile which Shiv has made impervious to graffiti. These are suitable for disabled users and Islamic hygiene needs. The dotties were paid for by the charity Dottie's Potties. Kardal happily logged his restaurant on the Dottie Spotter and Find Dottie apps, attracting more traffic from genderqueer people.
A former janatorial closet is coverted to prayer space.
The slow-kitchen provides ample space for cooking things that require complicated preparation and/or lengthy cooking.
The cold storage room has stationary shelves to hold refrigerated ingredients.
The pantry for storing bulk ingredients has track shelving for maximum capacity. There are 2 end racks and 10 mobile racks per side, and 2 gaps per side to allow access; plus one stationary rack at the center back of the room. That makes 25 racks for storage.
The second floor has a 2-bedroom apartment. The third floor has two 1-bedroom apartments.
The Dietary Wellness Center occupies an old brick building.
The first floor has a conference room.
Penina Trueblood's office is on the second floor.
The Melting Pot has entry arches of cast resin designed to look like stone. The floor is original hardwood. The industrial fixtures in the ceiling have been painted black. A drop ceiling that would match the other decor was prohibitively expensive, and a plain commercial one would clash horribly. This was a decent compromise.
The counters are heavily used during the lunch period, less so during the supper period. The tabletops are bare during lunch but covered by tablecloths during supper. The menu also changes from lighter, simpler fare during lunch to heartier and fancier fare during supper.
There are 7 square tables, each with 4 chairs. In this configuration, the restaurant can seat 28 customers. More tables and chairs are stacked in the back, although they don't all match. This allows the restaurant to be reconfigured into other layouts such as banquet seating with long tables.
Daily specials go on the chalkboard menu. Orders are placed at the front of the wooden counter directly below that. The quick-kitchen behind the counter holds premade hot and cold foods for fast service and allows preparation of certain things like shawarma and kebabs that take little work to cook.
The viewscreens over the counter are not automated. Instead, they can be controlled via smartphone by anyone who joins the customer club and downloads the restaurant's app. Halley Finn wrote the menu program for the website and its app, so that it will run the menu in visual mode, Arabic, English, French, or Esperanto. The eventual goal is to add more languages, but that's the starting set for which they had easy access to people who could translate the content. This way, people can see things on a larger screen than their phone, while still controlling the menu. An audio version is available via smartphone in the same languages. Hardcopy menus are currently available in Arabic, English, and Braille. This maximizes accessibility and minimizes the number of people who need to ask for help with a menu. When not in use by customers, the viewscreens can use images from the picture menu as a screensaver mode, or they can be set to display specials, ingredient profiles, or other things.
The counter has a salad and sandwich bar where people can assemble quick-fix meals. The far left end of the counter has the checkout register.
The door between the beverage cooler and the quick-kitchen leads to the back of the restaurant which has the bathrooms (straight back), the slow-kitchen (near right), and storage areas (far right).
The arches are made of acoustic foam with framed photographs from Syria. Along with some wood fixtures, they help absorb sound so the restaurant doesn't get too noisy. The walls on this side are covered with wallpaper that has brick and Middle Eastern patterns on it.
The wall on this side and the front is original brick. More acoustic panels hang on the walls to absorb sound.
Family style meals are available.
The restaurant has two accessible dotties each with a roll-under sink, toilet, and roll-in shower with bench and handheld shower hose. The walls and floor are all covered in ceramic tile which Shiv has made impervious to graffiti. These are suitable for disabled users and Islamic hygiene needs. The dotties were paid for by the charity Dottie's Potties. Kardal happily logged his restaurant on the Dottie Spotter and Find Dottie apps, attracting more traffic from genderqueer people.
A former janatorial closet is coverted to prayer space.
The slow-kitchen provides ample space for cooking things that require complicated preparation and/or lengthy cooking.
The cold storage room has stationary shelves to hold refrigerated ingredients.
The pantry for storing bulk ingredients has track shelving for maximum capacity. There are 2 end racks and 10 mobile racks per side, and 2 gaps per side to allow access; plus one stationary rack at the center back of the room. That makes 25 racks for storage.
The second floor has a 2-bedroom apartment. The third floor has two 1-bedroom apartments.
The Dietary Wellness Center occupies an old brick building.
The first floor has a conference room.
Penina Trueblood's office is on the second floor.