March 4, 2014 ~ Lucas' Restaurant

For Lucas' capstone class, a class that is required before graduation, his final project was putting on a restaurant. His group had to come up with a theme (Greek), come up with a menu, and get people to come to their restaurant. They had to provide the recipes for the menu and the fellow classmates made the dishes on the menu. They also had to decorate the restaurant and make a Greek atmosphere for their greek restaurant. Throughout the semester Lucas rotated throughout the restaurant, he rotated through being a chef, a host, waiter, and a managed. Luckily Lucas was a floor manager on the day that his group did their restaurant so I got to see him when I came to his restaurant! His group had to get 60 people to show up or else he would get a bad grade so we spread the word and there was a good turnout! Unfortunately his restaurant day landed on a tuesday but luckily I have a pretty cool boss that let me leave for lunch! Our family supported us and Lucas in his restaurant and because of the support and love Lucas had a school record breaking customer amount at his restaurant. He had..... people attend his restaurant!

You could either pay at the door or buy a ticket a head of time. This is what the admission ticket looked like.

They had to make posters and post them around campus to advertise their restaurant. Lucas knew exactly what would draw peoples eye...a naked Greek large baby! He is a funny genius, and he knew a pretty amazing graphic designer to help him out (Tony)! The class loved it but the professor didn't. Lucas tried appealing the denial of the professor because he knew the poster would be a hoot but they rejected his appeal and his group had to make a new poster.

This is what the new poster looked like. Still funny and appealing but nothing compared to the first one! 

They had to make a menu for everyone to look at and order off of. Lucas was in charge of appetizers, so he picked humus because it's amazing! 

Lucas accidentally got his tie wet when he was inspecting the food as the manager. 

This is what the place looked like before everyone came. Once people started coming there was a line out the door! People unfortunately ended up leaving because the wait was so long.

Everything on the menu looked so delicious and you could only pick one entre, so naturally everyone got different dishes and we shared. Everything on the menu looked so good so of course we had to take a picture of every dish! 

The handsome manager and me. 

Everyone was so supportive and we made a fun afternoon of it!