The crowdsourced restaurant by Jonas

Crowd

Twice in a row I’ve gone to PSFK as inspiration for a post. This time it’s about a restaurant in Washington, that slowly are developing into a concept, a brand and a real restaurant.

Starting in 2007 Neil Takemoto invited people to show up to a brainstorming meeting. 14 people showed up on the first meeting, today there are about 400 of them and together they’ve created all the necessities that a restaurant needs. Interesting enough people see little financial incentive to get the restaurant off the ground instead they do it because it feels good.


It’s the community. What’s rewarding is coming together to create a place in the city that’s beneficial to the community and yourself and your friends.

Already long before launching the actual restaurant they have a real customer base ready to spend money. This is such an uplifting story showing that all industries are ready/possible to revolutionize through open source thinking.

Elements process map

As a side note this made me remember a post by Jeff Jarvis from this summer. Based on a tweet where he was asking how an restaurant run on Googlethink and got this answer about a restaurant called Wiki Wiki Teryiaki in Austin:

Rather than having a set menu, they just have a bunch of ingredients and invite you to bring your own. The diners, who call themselves “recipedians,” get to put together their own recipes and have them cooked. Other diners can then build on each other’s recipes and discuss them, creating a seemingly limitless array of recipes. Soon they’ll add ratings and tags to make it easier for diners to parse their options.

However:

Actually, none of that is true. It’s just a restaurant with the word “wiki” in it. Twice. But how cool would that be?

Image credit to James Cridland

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