| 1. Do you care how big The Soup Peddler gets? |
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| I was really attracted to the business by the feeling that it was a little secret, and if it got really big it'd be like watching your favorite little local band get big and all of a sudden you have to go to La Zona Rosa to see them and pay thirty stinking dollars for a ticket for a band you used to be able to see for free right down the street, but all of a sudden they don't recognize you anymore because they're BIG ROCK STARS and you don't count for nothing. |
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| As long as the soup rocks, I'm in. Go for it. |
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| What about all that stuff you claim to represent about the slow food movement and connecting to your customers and your community and stuff? You can't do that if you're big, you know. You're a big fat phony. |
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| 2. You were saying? (please enter any extraneous thoughts that may have been caused by the previous question) |
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| Results not for your eyes |
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| 3. Let's say we were to, oh, I don't know, send out a weekly email that looked more like this (but with more options)... 
Do you think you'd desire us to bring you more than just soup? |
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| Heck yeah |
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| No, thanks |
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| Part of the reason that I appreciate the business so much is that you ONLY do soup, and that makes me feel like you're part of the lost world of pre-supermarket specialization of labor, and that I'm supporting something that's sort of old-fashioned and villagey. All this talk makes me sad. |
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| 4. Do you think you'd want the bread? (not sourdough specifically, but bread in general) |
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| 5. What about the salad? |
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| 6. How about the entree? (vegetarian entrees will also be available, of course) |
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| 7. And what of dessert (not pictured)? Do ye not desire it also? |
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| Aye, I do desire it |
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| Nay, ye can stuff your desserts up your petticoats |
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| 8. Is it important that The Soup Peddler's Culinary Brain Trust produce all said foods in house, or would it be fine if we, say, outsourced the pates and terrines and tamales and whatnot to other fine local establishments? |
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| Holy crap, if you can bring an awesome, hand-picked menu to my house each week, I don't care WHO makes it. |
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| No, I think you'd be losing an important part of your initial intention if you served foods that you didn't make yourself. |
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| 9. What if these changes meant that your food primarily comes to your door in a refrigerated van (possibly alternatively-fueled, if I can swing it) instead of a bicycle, and we use the bicycle much more sparingly? (select all that apply) |
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| I guess that'd make sense |
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| I'd actually be kind of heartbroken, because the bike was such a powerful symbol of your environmentalist ideals |
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| I think I'd just revert back to biking up to the grocery store and cooking for myself. |
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| Would the van have a big papier-mache bowl of soup on top? That would be so awesome! |
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| Did you really select the "peddler" spelling as opposed to the "pedaler" spelling when you started the business because you knew this was coming eventually? |
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| You could bring it in a freaking auto-rickshaw for all I care |
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| 10. Okay, I know this is a lot to digest, especially for the Old Guard Soupies out there. These are really big changes I'm proposing. Please feel free to take this time to breathe deeply, look inside yourselves, and discover what it is that you'd like to share with me. Let me know your thoughts on the matter. |
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| Too much information for you |
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| 11. And your silly, pre-Valentine's Day bonus question for the week: What soup do you think of when you're making whoopee? |
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