1 - Airplane Restaurant

Many restaurants in Hanoi are tube houses, 4 meters in width and 1523984724 meters in length. That is like begging for an airplane concept. The interior is designed similar to the inside of an airplane’s first-class cabin . Staff wears stewardess uniform. Food are served in plastic trays. Customers place orders via the touch screen attached to each table. Fake airplane windows with animation of sky are installed on both walls. Seating also comes with seat belt, staff button, reading light and magazines. The restroom is of course, airplane class as well. The point is to create an experience as much similar to an actual airplane as possible. That means simulations of airplane crash or terrorist takeover might be included as “entertainment service”.

2 - Fairy Tale Cake & Tea

A basement decorated in Victorian style, filled with flowery patterns, mini statues, old books, dolls, phonographs, royal paintings, candles, bells and a toy train circumventing the room. Why a toy train? Well, you put your orders on one of its wagons while it passes by. It takes your orders to the bakery and will soon deliver muffins and macaroons to you. Sounds fun?

3 - Gulliver’s Restaurant

Food is served in mini portion in this restaurant (e.g. plates 4 cm in diameter). Basically, they are canape. That means you can eat a lot and have fun piling up hundreds of plates. A lot of things are also in mini size. Pictures, lamps, miniature buildings and figures, just like you are Gulliver living among Lilliputians.

4 - Automated Restaurant

A futuristic restaurant run by a single manager. Everything from taking orders, serving, cooking, cleaning to security will be handled by AI. An ultra-realistic female robot will greet you upon coming inside. You can then choose a seat that is green (available) or let the AI choose a seat for you based on your preferences (e.g. no sitting next to people with smelly armpit). Select your orders from a touch screen menu. After receiving orders, the robot chef will select the required ingredients and follow a process similar to what you see on those Tastemade videos on Facebook. Food will be delivered to you via a conveyor system. A cashier robot will accept your payment in credit or cash. Don’t try to fool the robot with counterfeit money, it knows better than human. If you dine and dash, or intentionally damage any robot, the alarm will ring and your picture and profile will be reported immediately to the nearby police office.

5 - Ancient Tavern

If you like watching movies about the Three Kingdoms or ancient Chinese kung-fu, you might like the old taverns shown in those movies too. At the reception, there are lockers for you to put inside your technological possessions (smartphones, laptops, watches)  and also ancient costumes for you to change into, if you don’t already wear something rustic and tattered. When you order, make sure to yell “Tiểu nhị, có món gì ngon mang hết ra đây !!!” or no one’s gonna serve you. There are no utensils. You eat with your hands and drink with bowls. After you drink the tavern’s special brew, make sure to say “Khàaa rượu ngon!!!” and pour the remaining liquor left in the bowl onto your head as a gesture of courtesy.

6 - Abstract Cafe

A Cafe filled with abstract paintings, Freudian symbols of repressed desires, pictures from Creepypasta, disfigured cups and plates, emotionless waitresses in patched-up uniforms, surreal drink prices (139,000 VND for a golden cup of Dilmah tea ), restroom with no toilet, just a hole on the ground, familiar strangers talking in unheard-of dialects, a blindfolded butler standing behind you as long as you don’t turn around, and a revolver with only one bullet in the chamber sitting right on your table.

7 - Highschool Cafe

During adolescence, our need to love and be loved is arguably the strongest, given the sudden outburst of our hormones. Sadly, the amount of love is disproportionately distributed to only a handful of ‘popular kids’, leaving the common kids’ need unresolved. Unloved kids grudgingly grow up in a state that Freud would call Repression of unfulfilled desires. To relieve that stress, their defense mechanism might induce them to embrace both a cynical perspective toward life (i.e. popular people are ‘fake’) and a tendency to self-destruct (i.e. I don’t want to improve myself because I might end up being those ‘fake’ people).

In order to help relieve these people’s Repression, we can open up a Cafe that look just like a normal highschool classroom with student desks, chalkboards, textbooks, chore assignment schedules, a manager walking around like the headmaster and pretty waitresses in highschool girl uniform that flock around male customers and give them special attention as if they are some handsome Korean transfer students. The Cafe also provide customers with blazers with shiny school badges. You can even choose how you want to attract your fellow ‘classmates’. Do you want the girls to idolize you, praise you for your intelligence or do you want special treatment from a particular girl in class?. Each option comes with a different service fee, not including your drinks and snacks. Under particular options, the girl you favor will directly serve you baked goods while saying stuff like “It’s not like I made this for you Bakaaa”.

8 - Silence Tea House

Dark, aromatic and silent. No chit chat, music, electricity devices or shoes inside, except at the reception. The only sounds you could hear are murmuring water, walking on wooden floor and sipping of tea. There are barely any windows, just holes on the wall through which daylight could leave traits of tiny rays to contrast the room’s ambience. Lights are kept at minimum level, just enough to recognize each other’s face and read books. Customers communicate with servers and each other through cards with simple phrases like “Payment”, “Water” or “Delicious Tea!”. No wifi. Appreciate the tea in silence.

9 - Minimalist Cafe

A white, empty space with nothing but a few mayflower chairs, tables as extensions of the wall, several electrical outlets, a flower pot and a wall mounted bookshelf with a single book on it - “Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life”. The menu is printed on the wall in large font. All staffs wear plain white T-shirt and black trousers. Large glass windows. No background music.

10 - Pool Cafe/Lounge

 The Bar counter is located in the middle of the pool. During weekday, it’s a beach-theme cafe/lounge with sand-cover floors, artificial Sun lamp, beach volleyball playfield, sun tanning models and overpriced drinks. During weekend night, it’s an DJ pool party ticket-event with cocktail shows,  magic performance and water-pole dancers.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/notes/linh-tran/10-ideas-per-day-restaurant-and-cafe-concepts/1172686892775353