A Home-Cooked Meal — Every Day?

I don’t think there’s an age where you stop missing a home-cooked meal.

From bright-eyed and bushy-tailed high school graduates leaving home for the first time to people who now have kids of their own — everyone longs for a treat whipped up by mom.

Being in college, those trips home are savored and the Tupperwares filled with leftovers to take back with us are cherished.

This got me thinking. There’s got to be a way to get food cooked with a mother’s love every night of the week, without, you know, living with your mom for the rest of your life.

And thus my restaurant concept for “Mom’s House” was born.

I believe it would succeed best in a college town, but as I said, everyone loves mom’s cooking.

Mom has got to plan out the week’s meals so she can get to grocery shopping, so she releases a menu on Sunday that details what she’ll be making for lunch and dinner for the entire week.

This is the main unique characteristic of the restaurant. There’s only one option for every meal and those options are mapped out for the entire week.

That’s because, at least in my house, you eat what mom cooks. No ifs ands or buts about it. If mom says Wednesday we’re having spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, we’re having spaghetti and meatballs for dinner.

So essentially, people who are missing a home-cooked meal will check in on Sunday to see what’s on Mom’s House’s menu and go for whichever meal(s) they want that week.

I’m not completely sure what the ins and outs of product ordering and keeping stock for a real restaurant are like, but I think this might make things super-efficient.

There’s a set type of things that will be made during the week — so the restaurant knows exactly what needs to be ordered and those ingredients are guaranteed to be cooked.

And to help further eliminate food waste, I figured the next day we could implement a “Mom’s House Leftovers” program where you can order half-priced leftovers from the excess of what was made the day before but never got served. I think this may be especially popular with the college-age demographic.

Okay, I was actually super excited about this concept so don’t tell me all the reasons why this restaurant would fail.

But if you’re a restaurant group that would like to pick this up…you have my contact information.