Typical Yaseen!

I got the following email from a friend:

Today’s Yaseen story:

Friend: Hi Yaseen I want one steak sandwich
Yaseen: ok sir you want anything to drink?
Friend: ok what do you have?
Yaseen: We have juices orange juice?
Friend: No…what else do you have..
Yaseen: You want special sir?
Friend: Ok what do you have?
Yaseen: We have steak sandwich sir!

Amazing!
Oh, and we learned today that Yaseen is MUCH better waiting on tables than answering calls and being the Cashier. So stay tuned for his new role!

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In other news, we are pleased to announce our new opening hours:

Saturday - Thursday: 8AM - 10PM
Friday: 1:30PM - 10PM

Delivery is also available during those times :)

Menu

For those of you who dont have a copy of the menu, here you go (click on the picture to enlarge):

Here's a PDF Version of the whole menu (Thanks to K.TheKuwaiti)

Soups & Salads

Sandwiches
Pizza & Pasta

Breakfast

Drinks

.. & more drinks

And don't forget, you can always play around with the menu. You can have you sandwiches made into salads or have them as a wrap. And always ask about our delicious weekly specials.

If you're a pasta fan, try out our latest customers creation, Pasta with Pink Sauce.

Munch will start opening on Friday's starting this week, so make some space this Friday for Munch, delivery or dine in.. Whatever suits you.

Asian Wrap!

I just took the liberty of stealing one of the Asian Steak Wraps set out for a catering service we have tonight.. AMAZING! Much better than the sandwich i must say.
Here's a hint, any of our salads or sandwiches can be made into wraps. You can even have a sandwich served to you as a salad.
Try playing with the menu the next time you Munch ;-)

Try it today!

And here it comes! Munch's special for the coming week created by our Guru (Dana), Asian Steak sandwich. Tender juicy marinated steak, with our homemade special Asian sauce (has a pinch of peanuts), topped off with fresh mixed lettuce.
Try it today for lunch!

Good morning Yaseen

A customer ordered 3 cheese sandwich and Yaseen, kindly, sent him old fashion cheese burger!
Way to go Yaseen! Sorry fans, I think he's walking out the door really soon.

Go Djocovic

Whoever he is, but apparently people know him. I'm not a tennis fan, but several of our friends are and they're watching the Australian Open final in Munch right now.

Heavenly

Our new best seller, Pomegranate with mixed berries. Seriously, you have to try it.
We're still thinking of this week's specials, any ideas?

Allah!

How about getting this for the front door? :-P just saw it at Ace and thought i should share it. Oh, and for our customers who said delivery food is a bit cold, we're working on that. Just bought delivery bags that will hopefully keep your food as warm as possible.

Chalkboarding

Munch is closed today. But starting next friday we'll be open 7 days a week. So i'm here today at Ace Hardware buying blackboard paint for the area above the kitchen, where we currently have small blackboards -if you've noticed-. The problem is Ace only has green blackboard spray, no black until march probably. I'll take this and see how it fits.
On another note, Abdulla shot an interview with Yaseen yesterday, should be interesting. I'll try to post it today.

Mmmm!

We got a wonderful 'Mmm!' for the moroccan couscous salad from one happy little customer.

Right now

I really like this mobile blogging, this is Munch right now.
Oh and the speakers are working fine!

Special Yaseen

Yaseen was just asked 'whats the special today?', he replied 'mam, everything is special on our menu'!
Way to go Yaseen! Fyi, our specials this week are peking duck wrap & slow roasted lamb with dates

Let there be music..

I went last night to get speakers for Munch. We've been using a small ipod dock since we've opened.
Our new Bose speakers are being installed right now. Just in time for you to enjoy some music over lunch.

Happy birthday Ali!

He was actually suprised. You can never guess Ali's reactions, he was peaceful this time.
And for the record, his birthday was yesterday, and we were late. But apparently we're the only one who 'remembered' it. He's now 26.
P.s: you should've heard chef Ahmad sing happy birthday!

More Ali

More pictures of the energized Ali keeping the kitchen in order!
Its his birthday today, we're surprising him in a minute, please dont tell him.

Yaseen

In this picture taken a couple of minutes ago, Abdullah explaining to Yaseen that when someone orders Pomegranate & berries please dont put 'orange juice' on the invoice.

The Ali day

Ali (middle) was having a problem being an owner of the place. I had 6 missed calls from here earlier in the day asking me if we deliver to Salmiya or not. He's also been saying that we need new items for breakfast, without saying exactly what. He's getting more used to being an owner today when i saw him giving instructions in the kitchen.

Electricity... Smoke... Action!

We officially opened only a couple of days ago and business is doing good. We're using this time to invite friends over and have them check out the place if they haven't before.
Everything was good until.. yesterday at around 12PM (peak time) the electricity goes off and we basically cant cook. It stayed like that until 2:30, turning people away and bringing the kitchen to a dead halt.
Technicians from the building were busy so we called our contractor to solve the problem (which turns out to be a burnt out electric fuse), problem was solved after some time, all electricity is working.. except the oven.



Yaseen


In the mean time, Abdullah (a managing partner in Munch) gets a call from an angry customer complaining about Yaseen, the Cashier. This was the 3469th complaint on Yaseen this week alone. He will sadly have another role that is far less visible in the very near future (next post will be dedicated to Yaseen, I promise).



Ahmed & The Ducks


At the other side of the kitchen, Ahmed, the head chef, starts improvising by putting this week's special "Peking Duck Wrap" in the Pizza oven (because the original oven is not working). Nice job chef, only if he knew that the pizza oven is far to small for 3 ducks!


Smoke starts coming out of the pizza oven, Ahmed runs and opens it only for MORE smoke to come out. It was a foggy moment at Munch.





At the same time guests enter, Dana (Guru of Munch & Managing Director/general manager/you name it) was quick to jump in and seat them. Here she is in this picture trying to explain the smoke thing.. and that the electricity was out.



Meanwhile at the cashier's desk, Yaseen enters Creamy Mushroom Soup for a customer that ordered Penne with Cream of Mushroom sauce.


Finally, electricity was back and all was good. In this picture, Mohammed -guy in the middle, our operations manager- settling everything with the engineer, while you can see Chef Ahmad right behind them .. still trying to clear the smoke and clean the Pizza oven!

See you tomorrow :)

Oops!

And Oops there's the blog!

This was not meant to happen, if it wasn't for today's "blackout". Well.. it wasn't really a blackout, lights were on but the stove, oven, all the cooking material were not. Munch was out of electricity for about an hour, and I felt like i was in the middle of "Hell's Kitchen", or some reality show about a new restaurant. And there it came, a reality show about a bunch of guys who are passionatly in love with food (wow, slow down) and just opened a hip gourmet deli place and called it Munch (which we still debate if it was the right name or not)!

And because no producer offered a reality show for us, we thought why dont we blog it, and make you feel like one of us, share our ideas & problems. Who knows, this blog might later serve as a guide for you when you open your business.

We'll try to make it short around here, it should be fun!
Enjoy the ride ;)