Essay 3

Name: Zechi Zhang

WRIT 1133-27

Professor: Eric Leake

4/18/2012

The restaurant observation: South Philly Cheese Steak

Last week I went to the South Philly Cheese Steaks. it is a very good restaurant with great delicious food. The cheese steaks are made from thinly-sliced of steak and melted cheese in a long bread roll. In the combo meal you can get a cup of drink and some French fries. I usually put some ketchup in my cheese steak, because in this way I will not feel the cheese steak so fatness. The reason why I went to this place is because this restaurant is located near our university and almost anyone who ate it before, will introduce this place for me.

         When you get into this place you can see a bar table at your right hand and on your left there large and small tables there. You can order your meal at the bar table and also you can order it in the cheese steak window. Next to the cheese steak window, there is a pool table over there, sometimes there will be some people play it. At the cheese steak window where you can buy the food, you can see part of the kitchen though a big glass window. I think the big transparent glass window can give the customers a message which means the restaurant’s kitchen is very clean. There are three televisions in the restaurant, two are near the bar table and the other one is on the opposite wall. The channels on the TVs are always the sports channel, such as football or basketball.

         In order to make a good observation I went this place twice, one in the day time and the other in the midnight time. In the day time, there are few people go there and they often eat at the outside table. People like to chat when they are eating. If someone eats by their own, they will play with their phones or laptops. Most people go there choose to make the order and then take the food to go. So there are not so much people in the restaurant. Also there are few people order some wine or beer and then sit at the bar table to relax themselves. The whole atmosphere is under some pop music and in this way it can let customers feel relax and delightful.

         The second time when I went to there is midnight. The restaurant is completely different from the day time. There are lots of people in there and they all drink wine or beer. The most interesting thing is the cheese steak is still sell and you can also order at the bar table. When I went into this place I saw people were all drinking, dancing or playing the pool table. The music was becoming more like the nightclub’s style. If someone wants to get high or wants to find some beautiful girls, I highly recommended them to come to this bar.

         Though the different time of the day, we can see the situation in this restaurant is totally different. What I am really interested into is that the restaurant with the bar combination thing. I think this is a very good idea to make the whole place for fully used. In China I do not know any restaurants or bars do the same thing.

         Not only the great layout and the great time arrangement in this place, but also the delicious food are very important. In my opinion people go there expected the meat and cheese because there are a lot of meat in one cheese steak. The other thing which why people like to eat at this restaurant is the fast cook process. When I was eating there in the day time, I always see some people drop by and but some food to go. Maybe a person who has class or has work to do wants to cheese steak, because is fast and delicious. And if someone wants to eat chicken wings, he or she can definitely come here. In this place they have 3 different sauces for the chicken wings; in this situation you can find your own suitable taste. When we want to talk about the culture thing, there is only one thing come up with my mind. The thing is the fast food culture in American. I know lots of fast food in American and for me the cheese steak is the most interesting and delicious one in American.