Let's brainstorm about the menu desk

Hi

I dropped into a local hotel yesterday and saw one of these fancy stands with the mini-cards gig.. Interestingly enough there were only 2 restaurants out of about 40 that I could see (others were hang-gliding, wildlife tours etc), and NEITHER of them gave any hint as to menu. It was just the name adress and some comment about how good their food was.Certainly wouldn't have got ME there! And one of them is a spectacularly good restaurant too. Well known to locals but not to visitors.

Another interesting thing was that many of the minicards were "dog-eared", leading me to think that people look but don't take. They were all full too, so either they had just been topped up (so why not take away the "dog-eared" ones?) or nobody's interested.

The stand was labelled "Tourist Information" and maybe in trying to cater to every interest, it actually catered to none.

Re menus on a stand vs minicards, how about a combination? Some sort of lectern for the menus as well as a card holder for the restaurant's ordinary business cards. That way they won't nick the actual menus.

Just some thoughts

Philip

> Don Alm or another had a post about
> *MiniMenus* or *MiniCards*...Biz card size
> but bi or tri-folded, done with nice
> graphics. A graphics fee for the art work
> and then a fee for printing (say 1,000)of
> the MiniMenus. Then guests CAN take them
> with them. A nice wood display with 24 slots
> or so to place the cards.This may eliminate
> the need for a binder of the menus. Charge a
> fee for the service of YOU going to refill
> them monthly. Reorder fee after the original
> 1,000.
> Not my idea, just repeating what I read
> elsewhere.