Doobie's Dog House Opens Tomorrow (Restaurant Schadenfreude)
Apr 24, 2014 13:15:04 GMT -8
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Post by Evan on Apr 24, 2014 13:15:04 GMT -8
I've been intensively following the saga of Doobie's dog house for months now. A brief summary:
- Charming man in rural Alabama (Doobie) has a successful hot dog cart. Wants to upgrade so he makes a kickstarter
- The SomethingAwful Forums gets wind of it, decides it's a good cause, and raises him 300% of the money he requested (~$14,000)
- Instead of making the most kick-ass hot dog cart ever, Doobie decides to enter the restaurant game (which has a 93% failure rate) and rents a literal shack.
- Doobie renegs on almost all his kickstarter promises. Even simple stuff like making a relish dog and calling it the frog dog. Responds to all complaints by being a smug jerk.
- Doobie proceeds to fix up the shack so it is serviceable, selling his truck and his boat to afford these updates. Oh, I forgot to mention he rented it sight unseen so there were lots of revelations like flooding during rains and no vent hood.
- Sometime during this period, Doobie joins a White Pride facebook page. Also makes a few questionable comments, like claiming "some black lady" had hacked his twitter when someone had merely posted a photoshopped version.
- Doobie sets up said shack with no signage, bathrooms, or parking, across the street from a fully functional Subway restaurant. Fills no ads, counting on "trucker CB chatter" to fuel demand for his hotdogs.
- Doobie announces his hours, including 10-3 PM mondays and wednesdays, and closed Sundays.
So, a ton of people are now rooting for this guy to fail. Which he's obviously going to. So hard.
Let's take a look at some pics:
Here is the BRILLIANT masterpiece that inspired him to do all this:
Yes, that's canned chili, Kraft singles, and cheap bulk hot dogs. With like half a handful of Fritos. According to his menu (see below) this abomination would cost $8
Let's check out his shack, located in the bustling 1,200 person town of Reform, Alabama:
So it's opening tomorrow BUT THE MOST HILARIOUS THING HAPPENED TODAY. Doobie unveiled his god-awful abomination of a menu:
Seriously, the comedy in this menu is never-ending:
- Multiple fonts
- Seemingly arbitrary combinations of bold, underline, and italics
- The prices are utterly ridiculous. For the same prices, a store down my street in Pasadena (a very expensive town) serves designer hot dogs with 5 kinds of links and gourmet toppings ranging from kimchi to pickled jalapenos.
- Forgets to include A BASIC HOT DOG on the menu
- Serves both Mr. Pibb and Dr. Pepper
- Can't even be troubled to take an in-focus picture of the menu, when 99% of his traffic is going to come from the Internet
I'm following his twitter (@doobiesdoghouse) religiously, waiting for the fail to wash over this sleazy weirdo who can't even fulfill a promise to put relish on a hot dog for people who gave him $14,000.
- Charming man in rural Alabama (Doobie) has a successful hot dog cart. Wants to upgrade so he makes a kickstarter
- The SomethingAwful Forums gets wind of it, decides it's a good cause, and raises him 300% of the money he requested (~$14,000)
- Instead of making the most kick-ass hot dog cart ever, Doobie decides to enter the restaurant game (which has a 93% failure rate) and rents a literal shack.
- Doobie renegs on almost all his kickstarter promises. Even simple stuff like making a relish dog and calling it the frog dog. Responds to all complaints by being a smug jerk.
- Doobie proceeds to fix up the shack so it is serviceable, selling his truck and his boat to afford these updates. Oh, I forgot to mention he rented it sight unseen so there were lots of revelations like flooding during rains and no vent hood.
- Sometime during this period, Doobie joins a White Pride facebook page. Also makes a few questionable comments, like claiming "some black lady" had hacked his twitter when someone had merely posted a photoshopped version.
- Doobie sets up said shack with no signage, bathrooms, or parking, across the street from a fully functional Subway restaurant. Fills no ads, counting on "trucker CB chatter" to fuel demand for his hotdogs.
- Doobie announces his hours, including 10-3 PM mondays and wednesdays, and closed Sundays.
So, a ton of people are now rooting for this guy to fail. Which he's obviously going to. So hard.
Let's take a look at some pics:
Here is the BRILLIANT masterpiece that inspired him to do all this:
Yes, that's canned chili, Kraft singles, and cheap bulk hot dogs. With like half a handful of Fritos. According to his menu (see below) this abomination would cost $8
Let's check out his shack, located in the bustling 1,200 person town of Reform, Alabama:
So it's opening tomorrow BUT THE MOST HILARIOUS THING HAPPENED TODAY. Doobie unveiled his god-awful abomination of a menu:
Seriously, the comedy in this menu is never-ending:
- Multiple fonts
- Seemingly arbitrary combinations of bold, underline, and italics
- The prices are utterly ridiculous. For the same prices, a store down my street in Pasadena (a very expensive town) serves designer hot dogs with 5 kinds of links and gourmet toppings ranging from kimchi to pickled jalapenos.
- Forgets to include A BASIC HOT DOG on the menu
- Serves both Mr. Pibb and Dr. Pepper
- Can't even be troubled to take an in-focus picture of the menu, when 99% of his traffic is going to come from the Internet
I'm following his twitter (@doobiesdoghouse) religiously, waiting for the fail to wash over this sleazy weirdo who can't even fulfill a promise to put relish on a hot dog for people who gave him $14,000.
