[ open ] kaveh's permanent catch-all

[fussiest]

WHO: kaveh (fussiest) & y'all!
WHAT: this is a perpetual catch-all for kaveh because i'm too lazy to make a new one every month. this is for closed starters, tag-ins, visits to kaveh's workshop and the like! be wild! be bold! be free!
WHERE: all around the city, and especially at kaveh's workshop, the pairidaeza architectural design studio in district 1
WHEN: everywhere! everywhen! all at once!
WARNINGS: bickering, probably - everything else will be warned for on a thread-by-thread basis

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[fussiest]

[ two looks are exchanged right over the airspace of kaveh's salad. kaveh, who's very much enjoying his salad, catches the looks in the way of shrapnel on a well-worn battlefield. his eyebrows quirk. but aside from general guesswork based on the two men standing before him, kaveh thinks, there's nothing he can infer from the glances aside from the fact that the two of them are quite close and know each other well enough to have quiet conversations. that's another measure of friendship; it has kaveh's brow quirking a little up into his hairline, but there's salad to get to, and that ought to be his focus.

the salad: the storefront stretches past. kaveh observes robby's foray across the floor, and daniel's quiet footfalls as he follows. he begins to make observations. robby seems to enjoy the expansiveness of the space. daniel, kaveh thinks, has his gaze lingering on the windows. you could tell a lot about clients from where their eyes linger. kaveh, who is a perpetual people pleaser, considers these two facts. ]

That's where the fact that this city is empty and the stores are equally so comes to our advantage. If this were a job in a thriving city, we'd have to work with what the space we have. It's a little different when you can cannibalise the space from the building next door, even if it still makes me feel a little guilty doing it. [ it feels a little like cheating, when rather than working within the box, you are literally making your box roomier. but sometimes your vision needs to be born into this world, and sometimes you had to do anything you could to give it life. sometimes that includes knocking down walls. ] That's where knocking down walls come in. See here?

[ kaveh's hands wave over the wall shared between the clothing store and the corner store - ] This wall isn't loadbearing. I'd have to check where the bathrooms are on the other side of it, but theoretically we can knock down this one, adopt the bathroom from the other store into the floor plan, and erect a wall to block it off on the otherside. The bathroom would have the plumbing needed for the kitchen sinks.

However, if we want to expand the diner across two different stores, my suggestion is taking into account the length of your serving counter and how far you want your staff to walk as they deliver food around the space. Not all space has to be restaurant seating, and I've never run a restaurant before, but I'd imagine you don't want the kitchen to be too far away from the furthest set of seats. [ ... kaveh brightens. ] Unless, I've been toying with the idea of setting conveyor belts into a countertop so that food can be moved from one end of a counter to the other. I don't suppose you'd want a gimmick like that in your diner?

[ say no, please, because the glint in kaveh's eyes is a bad ideas dinosaur glint. save yourself. ]

[strongroots]

[ yw mr larusso

But anything Robby would have to add to this theorising of placements and where things might be, could go, is put aside to the latter suggestion that gets his eyebrows raised up before anything else. Raised, and eyes darting onto Mister LaRusso, who indeed is being left to answer this possible addition to his diner affair.

(Robby can think of an answer, but also? It's not as funny to have to watch Mister LaRusso answer it. You're also welcome for that, sensei.) ]

[miyagimagic]

[ Robby is lucky in the sense that Daniel is assuming responsibility for this entire operation. Robby is just a kid, after all, and while he's a kid Daniel trusts to no end, he wouldn't want to put too much responsibility on his shoulders because of it.

It means that he's perfectly fine with the boy staying quiet, even if it's just to let Daniel have to handle the more.. ridiculous aspects of this...

And this ridiculous aspect sure seems to catch the man by surprise. His eyes visibly widen as he hears Kaveh's suggestion. ]

.. like conveyer belt sushi?

[ At least it's not unheard of to this local weeb. Does that make it a good idea though?

Probably not, judging by Daniel's instinctive reaction, though he quickly forces it to soften a little. He wants to make sure to let Kaveh down gently, especially when the guy is doing so much thinking and work for them already. ]

I.. was thinking we might want to keep things a little more simple than that. [ Smooth. ] Considering we mainly want to welcome new people here, I'd like for the space to not be too overwhelming, you know? The kind of place you can walk into and have a good overview of everything in it right away.

[fussiest]

[ conveyor belt sushi, daniel says. kaveh's expression is thoughtful at it - because he's heard of one or the other, but the two together seem like a fascinating premise. the sushi would be on plates, it would traverse in a loop.

in a place with an economy, how would one know which ones they had to charge for and which ones the customers took? things to think about, but kaveh isn't an architect used to handling odd requests - and being a little odd himself - without precedence: kaveh observes the careful wending of daniel's words, and smiles for it. daniel is a kind man, through and through. and robby has a bit of mischief to him after all. ]

It's alright. I've pitched that idea to two other establishments already, and neither of them wanted to take me up on it. I wonder why. [ but the curl of kaveh's lips, impish int he making, says exactly what he really thinks about it, ] But alright, I'll stop jesting. No conveyor belts, I promise. Though I do ask that the two of you think about the amount of walkway you would like your servers and customers to traverse. Too much of it, and the restaurant model will lack the coziness that perhaps you are going for.

[strongroots]

Once we have an idea of the space we're working with, it'll be easier to arrange where to put everything, won't it? [ Is Robby's contribution here. They'll need to dictate the space between the actual kitchen and then the eating area, though the thought does have him give a rather useless look around as- ]

We can work around more space than less. Around here-- [ he gestures to the large windows, closer to where the door entering is. ] It'd be cool to have a place where people can sit on sofas. You know-- if people are just coming in and wanna take a moment, or have a drink. We can have tables too, but coffee tables?

[ He looks between the pair, Mister LaRusso and Kaveh. ]

[miyagimagic]

[ Kaveh already suggested the idea to two other places? Sure, it says something about just how helpful the other is, that he's already helped two other places set up like this, but also that he sure is a man with a dream..

At least he won't have to wonder who the owner is in case some sort of conveyor belt sushi place opens up in the city.

His thoughts easily drift back to more productive matters though, glancing about as both Kaveh and Robby point out some things. There's definitely an approving nod at Robby's contribution. ]

Yeah, we definitely won't need the entire place to just be places where you sit down for food. The welcoming aspect of it is more important than the diner part, really. [ Daniel just can't resist cooking for people, that's more where the latter comes in. ] Like Robby is saying, we can definitely dedicate a part of it just to a space for people to sit down even without food, that narrows the scope of the actual dining space we'd need.

[ He gestures towards the door. ]

Not to mention we'd probably want to keep the entrance clear of tables or other things so people can easily wander in.

[ Daniel especially looks at Kaveh when he finishes. Are you picking up what they're putting down, pal? ]