Need help from foodies

[Coffin Nail]

I manage a sandwich shop and I have been saying for a while that the menu needs an overhaul. I'm looking for ideas for panini and wrap fillings that I can try out on my spam reliant clientele.

 

We have a varied range of customers; builders and bus drivers, office/admin staff, solicitors and a new medical centre has just opened up so we've started getting them too.

 

If/when you buy lunch what do you have, what do you get, what would you prefer?

 

Thanks for the help. This will go a long way to helping me get a decent pay rise. My boss has short arms and deep, deep pockets

[AbielleRose]

Ooh, sounds like fun creating a whole new menu!

 

My favorite panini when I go out is either a tomato, basil (whole leaf), mozzerella one or a Mexican style one with shreaded chicken, taco sauce, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream.

 

 

[Lucybird]

I like chicken paninis generally. I like sweet chilli best I think, and chicken tikka, and lemon chicken. I like Mediterranean vegetable too. As for wraps my favourite is mexican bean

[Chrissy]

I love Tuna melt panini, with the tuna and melted cheese, also a bacon and brie if I'm being incredibly indulgent.

Husband has a meatballs in ragout favourite, all tomatoey and meaty.

 

My favourite filling for wraps is shreeded ham and leek with a sprinkling of grated cheese and a coating dollop of mayo!

[Lucybird]

Oh how could I forget tuna melt? I love tuna melts.

[pickle]

for a panini I like bacon and brie with a smidge of cranberry or avocado and bacon

 

for a wrap shredded chicken salsa guacamole sour cream hmmm just eaten dinner now hungry again

[Raven]

Bacon and Brie is nice.

[Talisman]

I don't frequent sandwich shops since none of them offer gluten free bread ... but if I did, and I find this with other vegetarians too, I would like to see a much varied choice for vegetarians instead of the same old cheese and egg - how about curried tofu for example or spicy beans, avocado, humous and roasted vegetables, or even plain roasted vegetables. I am sure that this sort of thing would be popular with meat eaters as well as veggies.

[Nollaig]

Definitely a variety of chickens. I hate when there's only like, plain chicken and MAYBE some strange variety of a spicy chicken.

 

Chicken tikka, honey chilli chicken, mixed chiken and stuffing and chicken pesto are all awesome too!

[Stephanie2008]

I agree with Noll about the variety of chickens. I hate when there's only chicken and mayo or chicken salad.

 

I love chicken tikka, or chicken and sweet chilli - where there's some kind of sauce either on the chicken or with the salad, keeping it from being too plain.

[Vladd]

Cranberry and Brie is good as is chicken and bacon mayo.

[Coffin Nail]

Thanks for the input. I already make several types of chicken after much wrangling with the cheapskate owner, but now its started to sell (after I made free samples) he's not moaning.

 

If I start talking about mozarella or brie it sets the vein in is head throbbing, but I'll keep at it.

 

(Wait till I tell him about the pudding club--That might actually kill him )

[ian]

Coffin Nail, you said at the start of the thread that your current clientele are SPAM reliant, so why not SPAM panini's and wraps!

 

In all seriousness, would converting your most popular fillings to panini's and/or wraps work? It might intice your customers to try something slightly different, then once convinced about the change in bread, hit them with the new fillings?

 

Ian

[Coffin Nail]

Coffin Nail, you said at the start of the thread that your current clientele are SPAM reliant, so why not SPAM panini's and wraps!

 

In all seriousness, would converting your most popular fillings to panini's and/or wraps work? It might intice your customers to try something slightly different, then once convinced about the change in bread, hit them with the new fillings?

 

Ian

 

It's not so much an overhaul as an expansion. I wouldn't change the most popular stuff I'd get lynched. I'd be breaking some sort of by-law if spam and black pudding weren't an option. This is Bury after all. And there's nothing so sad as seeing a builders face crumple when we've run out of spam. But its far too greasy to put in a panini, the bread dissolves and its wholly disgusting.

We make the bulk of our profits on ham salad or bacon and sausage muffins and that won't change.

 

In related news, we make a mega sandwich the size of a dinner plate with a full English breakfast on it, 2 slices of bacon, 2 sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, black pudding and two fried eggs. The boys on the building site have christened it 'the moonie', because if you can finish one you pull down your pants.

I have seen six naked bottoms today.

[Mac]

Yo.

 

My favourite sandwich-type thing is:

 

Bacon, cheese, black pudding, tomato ketchup, mayo, sausage and the magic ingredient - pickled red cabbage. Awesome. If you provide this and it goes down well, may I take the credit for its creation, please?

 

Your mouth will love you for the rest of your life!

[Chrissy]

In related news, we make a mega sandwich the size of a dinner plate with a full English breakfast on it, 2 slices of bacon, 2 sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, black pudding and two fried eggs. The boys on the building site have christened it 'the moonie', because if you can finish one you pull down your pants.

I have seen six naked bottoms today.

 

Who the heck named it?

[chesilbeach]

I don't really get paninis or wraps very often, but if it can be done like a toasted sandwich, I love cheese and mushroom, something like Gouda or Emmental works well.

[~Andrea~]

there's nothing so sad as seeing a builders face crumple when we've run out of spam.

That made me laugh

I have seen six naked bottoms today.

Coffin Nail, you're job sounds far more interesting than mine

 

In seriousness I like sandwiches like Brie and grape or cranberry, or things with roasted peppers and red onion in them. I also love cheese and mushroom toasties! (And no I'm not a vegetarian if you're wondering )

[Coffin Nail]

Don't get overly excited about the bare bottoms girls. It was quantity rather than quality.

I've threatened the offenders that if they moon me again enmasse after their successful completion of a giant breakfast, I'll send them to the evil beauticians round the corner for a 'crack 'n' sack'. Either that or I'll be taking rope and gaffer tape into work tomorrow and diversify.

 

@Mac-You're not pregnant are you?

No one has asked me for that, but we regularly use all those things....just not in that order. If it takes off we'll call it Mac's Artery Buster and phone for the ambulance at no extra charge.

 

I'll keep trying with the roasted veggies, but 95% of my customers are carnivores. I make veggie soups as a special though. My son is a veggie so I'm well aware of the limited choices available.

 

Working with a hungry public has been erm.......very enlightening.

[poppy]

Man I'm positively drooling after reading some of these ideas( lol not the bare bums tho' ) Chicken goes lovely with apricot, either a sauce or dried and red onions, lettuce, brie and walnuts.