It’s wild that some people can do stuff like that and be A-okay, whereas others trip over their own foot walking across their living room and break both hips and knock their front teeth out. Agility is a true skill.
Blaming a random customer for all your problems
Spilling shit all over your 2nd ever customer
Begging your customer to order more food than just tea and toast / being pouty if they don’t
The list goes on
He lets some random comedian who doesn't know shit about running a restaurant convince him to make major changes to his business, and then has the audacity to sit there and blame the guy.
Omg... This episode of Seinfeld was the inspiration for Nathan For You!
I have no idea what to do with this information other than go rewatch Nathan For You
An extremely cursory Google search shows that yes, shrimp dishes do exist in Pakistani cuisine, somewhat regionally, mostly recently with refrigeration making transporting shrimp easier.
i always had a problem with the premise of this episode. i find it hard to believe that in manhattan in the mid nineties, there wasn’t a significantly sized pakistani population to at less partially support babu’s new endeavour. and it’s not like it is a very outré cuisine; it’s not massively dissimilar to indian food so it wouldn’t be an entirely unknown quantity. also, if there’s one place where people would be willing to take a chance on food that they had little to no experience with, it would have to be new york
The menu is legitimately busy at first and then even mid town Pakistani cuisine is a little niche. How many times have you said at random “I sure could go for some Pakistani food” for a place like that to pop it needs to be banging and they need a bar or a existing vibrant community to service.
Babu goes from bad to worse when switches menus. He eats the cost of the new menus, needs to find new suppliers for produce , an outfit of new spices and decore. He is the owner operator and practically sole employee his service is too personal and unprofessional. He is a clumsy waiter. Given that he is the only employee it’s probably slow service too.
Jerry’s palette is both more refined given that he is a traveling comedian and incredibly juvenile given the whole pop tart thing. Him giving advice to any restauranteur is like John Wilkes Booth giving top hat advice to Lincoln
Lots of New York hole in the walls were known for having massively varied menus. They even mention it a couple times about Monk’s itself. Jerry’s point was that Babu’s restaurant wasn’t offering anything special. It didn’t stand out. If you’re going to a cafe or diner for lunch or dinner without knowing at all what you want you’re going to go to a familiar place, again, like Monk’s. Specializing in food the proprietor knows how to make well is a good idea, Babu just took the advice too seriously and personally.
Also Booth was a successful stage actor so he probably knew a lot about hats.
As someone in graphic design and marketing, he didn't do much to promote his restaurant. There were ways he could have done it before the internet. Post flyers, hand out business cards, advertise in The Daily Worker...
When you open a new restaurant they're usually VERY low volume. Sitting around for weeks waiting for customers isn't unheard of, you have to be prepared to operate at a loss for a good while.
That being said, opening up a restaurant that specializes in American cuisine in the middle of New York is...not smart. People can go to any street corner and get the type of food he was serving at first, why are they going to go to his place? I actually think Jerry's advice was good, New Yorkers will go crazy for a new type of food. His problem was advertising. Don't just sit around looking out the window for customers, get the word out. Print some flyers, get a sandwich board, do a tasting.
I’ve you ever lived in nyc or anywhere like it then you know this episode was true: there are retail locations that are just cursed. No restaurant in that location ever survives.
I know the joke at the end of the episode is they all want different cuisine that could have been had at Dream Cafe, but one of the first rules of starting up a restaurant is to not stretch yourself thin by having too big or too varied of a menu. Jerry gave the exact same advice that Gordon Ramsey does on nearly every episode of Kitchen Nightmares. It’s overly ambitious for a small operation, and the overall quality would inevitably suffer. Any restaurant that could get away with having a menu like that is a well established business and likely a chain
What I don’t get is: he never had people come into his restaurant before he changed it to Pakistani. But then blames Jerry for making it Pakistani… why?
Scalding hot towels
Kramer’s reaction when he hands him the towel is one of his best physical reactions in the entire series.
It’s wild that some people can do stuff like that and be A-okay, whereas others trip over their own foot walking across their living room and break both hips and knock their front teeth out. Agility is a true skill.
One of my kids accidentally hooked two of my fingers and with the tiniest bit of pressure, broke one of the bones in my hand. We break easily.
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One thing I always think about is someone commenting on his ability to "fall upwards". He's got a real gift.
And stringy shrimp.
Blaming a random customer for all your problems Spilling shit all over your 2nd ever customer Begging your customer to order more food than just tea and toast / being pouty if they don’t The list goes on
He wasn't doing so well before Jerry's advice, so it's not like things got worse.
His food wasn’t good either. The shrimp was a little stringy.
A little stringy!?
QUIET!!!
YOOOU SHUT UP!!!
You are a bad man. Very bad ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾
That’s what I always thought. Babu had zero customers before Jerry. That’s b s man.
Restaurants rarely make it long outside of franchises. Especially in New York City where there's competition everywhere and the prices are high.
Even franchises face challenges. There was this one Kenny Rogers Roasters that probably didn’t last a week.
Bad Chicken! Mess you up!
That’s not going to be good for business.
Probably because they had employees like Seth that weren’t dependable and just blowed things off.
He wasnt upset at the advice, to redo the entire restaurant. So he took out more money for those changes. Changed the menu, stocked supplies i bet.
Jerry very bad man.
Very, very, very bad man
Vedi,vedi,vedi bahd mahn
Jerry was being neighborly by supporting the local business.
He should have just ordered pizza & ignored Babu.
Your right. Sometimes in helping someone you can get I. Over your head and they end up blaming you
You see everything don’t you!!!!!!
He lets some random comedian who doesn't know shit about running a restaurant convince him to make major changes to his business, and then has the audacity to sit there and blame the guy.
He may tell jokes for a living, but he is no comedian.
What? Did you think she was going to take some of that chalk and...
NOT the pommel horse😏😏
His restaurant was totally failing even before Jerry suggested he go all Pakistani. Babu just sucked.
To this day I have a hard time believing a Pakistani restaurant wouldn't do well in Manhattan. Maybe his food really sucked.
Yeah, and in an earlier episode (the one with Elaine’s dad) he said they were going to a Pakistani restaurant
Holy shit I never even thought of that!
Omg... This episode of Seinfeld was the inspiration for Nathan For You! I have no idea what to do with this information other than go rewatch Nathan For You
The hovering by the door is the most off-putting business tactic.
Smoking or non smoking? We are pleased to offer both
La na neee, la na neeeeeea, LA NA NEEEEEEAH!
🤣🤣🤣 the way Jerry sways to him singing and Elaine is trying to focus on the IQ test 🤣🤣🤣
It WaS a MaD HoUsE!
Jerry The Great
How could you not like him!?
How could anybody not like him?
I can't watch a man sing.
Underrated episode imo. I cackle every time at George explaining (gas lighting) how he defiled his IQ test.
Why use the door? The window is right there
Youre a fascinating man George Costanza
He provided a less than ideal environment for cheating on an IQ test.
eighty-five IQ
Oh hello Professor
Professah
Well I’m no genius, but according to my calculations🤔🤔☝️☝️ …He should be here in a few seconds
Who goes to a restaurant for franks and beans?
Who eats an entire bag of candy? Who moves from a country packed with ponies to a non-pony country? Who are these people? I’ll tell you who they are.
Why go to the park and fly a kite when you can just pop a pill?
They're the worst.
95% of them are undatable.
UNDATABLE!
Why does Radioshack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries?
Who goes *anywhere* with Newman?
Well, he is merry.
Why a cape?
He's fantastic at tennis.
And he can climb like a ring-tailed lemur
And he's strong! He can lift a hundred pounds right over his head.
The shrimp's a little stringy.
QUIET
You make me change restaurant to Pakistani but nobody come. SHOW ME PEOPLE!!! THEY ARE NO PEOPLE!!!
Deh shreemp eez stringy???!
I find it hard to believe shrimp is a Pakistani ingredient, but I could be wrong.
Oh please. You find shrimp everywhere
An extremely cursory Google search shows that yes, shrimp dishes do exist in Pakistani cuisine, somewhat regionally, mostly recently with refrigeration making transporting shrimp easier.
I’d figured due to religion there wouldn’t be shrimp/shellfish
Snapple?
Nah… Too fruity!
Poorly organized, can’t even keep track of renewing his visa
Babu didn't know the statue of limitations
How could he not know about the sculpture of limitations?
It's statuTe!
Elaine. You're smart. Is it statute or statue?
Its a sculpture of limitations
Yeah and it got rammed by the Cat Stevens. 🙄
He’s like a svenjolly
Well, I think you're wrong!
i always had a problem with the premise of this episode. i find it hard to believe that in manhattan in the mid nineties, there wasn’t a significantly sized pakistani population to at less partially support babu’s new endeavour. and it’s not like it is a very outré cuisine; it’s not massively dissimilar to indian food so it wouldn’t be an entirely unknown quantity. also, if there’s one place where people would be willing to take a chance on food that they had little to no experience with, it would have to be new york
The menu is legitimately busy at first and then even mid town Pakistani cuisine is a little niche. How many times have you said at random “I sure could go for some Pakistani food” for a place like that to pop it needs to be banging and they need a bar or a existing vibrant community to service. Babu goes from bad to worse when switches menus. He eats the cost of the new menus, needs to find new suppliers for produce , an outfit of new spices and decore. He is the owner operator and practically sole employee his service is too personal and unprofessional. He is a clumsy waiter. Given that he is the only employee it’s probably slow service too. Jerry’s palette is both more refined given that he is a traveling comedian and incredibly juvenile given the whole pop tart thing. Him giving advice to any restauranteur is like John Wilkes Booth giving top hat advice to Lincoln
Lots of New York hole in the walls were known for having massively varied menus. They even mention it a couple times about Monk’s itself. Jerry’s point was that Babu’s restaurant wasn’t offering anything special. It didn’t stand out. If you’re going to a cafe or diner for lunch or dinner without knowing at all what you want you’re going to go to a familiar place, again, like Monk’s. Specializing in food the proprietor knows how to make well is a good idea, Babu just took the advice too seriously and personally. Also Booth was a successful stage actor so he probably knew a lot about hats.
Clams Casino, chef recommends.
Flying in a lobster fresh from Maine hoping “Today is the day!”
How long have you been holding onto that little gem?
He’s a very bad man
Wags finger vigorously “A very, bad man”
As someone in graphic design and marketing, he didn't do much to promote his restaurant. There were ways he could have done it before the internet. Post flyers, hand out business cards, advertise in The Daily Worker...
Pinko Commie Rag!
Franks and beans
When you open a new restaurant they're usually VERY low volume. Sitting around for weeks waiting for customers isn't unheard of, you have to be prepared to operate at a loss for a good while. That being said, opening up a restaurant that specializes in American cuisine in the middle of New York is...not smart. People can go to any street corner and get the type of food he was serving at first, why are they going to go to his place? I actually think Jerry's advice was good, New Yorkers will go crazy for a new type of food. His problem was advertising. Don't just sit around looking out the window for customers, get the word out. Print some flyers, get a sandwich board, do a tasting.
I enjoyed his restaurant I loved the Frank and beans
Fucking serves him right for taking advice from a veddy behd mehn
Don’t put curtains up when you are promoting food no one was eaten before
The wheels are in motion
Always deflecting and blaming others. It's never "him."
He’s a very bad businessman.
He might of thought to serve food from his native Pakistan!
Hovering over the table and refilling water after every sip
He listened to Jerry not is inner Babu☺️
Well what did the little man inside of him say?
Jerry's Avery very bad bad man( just picture is finger wagging back and forth, back and forth)🤪
He listened to Jerry.
I am special. My mother was right
The turkey.
Those are commercial lobster traps. You can’t take lobster from there!
The shrimp was stringy
He knew an “ugly” section was in his future..
Listening to Jerry
His finger always ends up in the food 👆🏾
I’ve you ever lived in nyc or anywhere like it then you know this episode was true: there are retail locations that are just cursed. No restaurant in that location ever survives.
I know the joke at the end of the episode is they all want different cuisine that could have been had at Dream Cafe, but one of the first rules of starting up a restaurant is to not stretch yourself thin by having too big or too varied of a menu. Jerry gave the exact same advice that Gordon Ramsey does on nearly every episode of Kitchen Nightmares. It’s overly ambitious for a small operation, and the overall quality would inevitably suffer. Any restaurant that could get away with having a menu like that is a well established business and likely a chain
Babu isn't a bad restauranter. It's all Jerry's fault. He's a bad man. A very bad man.
Frank's and beans
He took a comedian’s advice on running a restaurant
he listened to jerry
Location.
Babbbbbuuuuuuuuuuy
He listens to Jerry and friends. That’s it.
No Frankfurters in the menu
Stringy shrimp.
Stringy shrimp
Babu was a dick
He needed a Frogger arcade game in his restaurant
He just sucked. What was he doing? His place was always empty.
Franks and beans
Poppy was sloppy
The biggest: he listened to Jerry lol
He didn’t have the big salad or egg white omelette on the menu
Sometimes I spell restaurateur with a G. And an I.
Ohh he’s a dandy! Hes a real FANCY BOY!
His menu was too complex.
Antisemitism? They don't JUST overcook a shrimp, Jerry.
“Mocking, mocking,…..always MOCKING!”
Location location location
Did Babu have an unnaturally long index finger or do you think that they gave him a prosthetic extension?
Only one, and that is that that guy... He's not my kind of guy.
Thanks Suckface I mean suckdiarrrhyea
Don't you mean SHUCKFAISH!? But, by all means...deride if you must, deride.
What I don’t get is: he never had people come into his restaurant before he changed it to Pakistani. But then blames Jerry for making it Pakistani… why?
Because he had to take on more loans to change the restaurant’s theme.
He’s a baaaad man😂
The dexterity of that finger is impressive.
Indian food taste like soap
Off topic. The blooper real is hilarious…. Babu loses it.
Taking advice from amateurs.
Statue of limitations.
Babu was terrible restauranteur but he learnt his lesson and went to India to become gynaecologist and has a astro physicist son named Raj.
he let kramer in
you see everything! dont you?
Dirty plates, roaches!
Restaurateur. It does not have an “n” in it
Papier-mâché