If you were a child/teenager in a small town, would you like doing this?

I operate a small sushi restaurant in a pretty populated but small town. It's basically family and very close friends that live in town. Since the town is small, a lot of the kids have nothing to do besides ride their bikes around town.

I thought it was a good idea for me to do like a DIY or build your own shirley temple for the kids and teens for after school. I obviously provide the syrup and cherries needed for a shirley temple along with the ice cup. The kids can come in, ask to make a shirley temple, they can choose any flavor of canned soda or seltzer from the fridge, and they can build it outside on the patio table we have. If they ask for the shirley temple, then it's a $1 more for the syrup and cherry.

The soda price for my restaurant is $1.50 before taxes and the canned ciao pellegrino is $2.00. So it's $2.50 in total if they get the canned soda + syrup and $3.00 for the ciao pellegrino + the syrup. I personally think it's fun idea because a lot of the kids go to starbucks after school.

Posted Sep 8, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

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