Vietnamese-style menu was radically rejigged to make it moure suitable for takeout
Owners Victoria and Michael Tran, seen here on June 11, 2020, will be opening their new restaurant, The Lunch Lady, on July 1, 2020.Victoria and Michael Tran thought they had a slam-dunk formula for success.
After months of delay and uncertainty, the Lunch Lady is one of about 12 new restaurants set to open in the coming weeks in Vancouver.“It’s been seven months,” a frustrated Mr. Tran said last week, after being hit with an unexpected health permit hiccup , which delayed their planned June 15 launch by another two weeks.For the Trans, the biggest disappointment was not being able to bring Ms. Nguyen to Vancouver for the opening.
Ms. Tran is also worried about the prices, which have yet to be finalized. They were already going to be much higher than her $10 pho at Five Elements. But now their food costs have gone up – “50 per cent for beef and pork,” she said.Vancouver's The Lunch Lady is a collaboration with the Saigon street-food vendor, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thanh made famous by Anthony Bourdain.“The messages are already popping on my Facebook page. My customers are used to dining here for a cheap, cheap price.
“Did we consider throwing in the towel? For sure,” he said. “But we were almost 50 per cent there. We had to figure out a way.”Over in Olympic Village, a new high-end Mexican restaurant called Ophelia was about one week away from opening before the COVID-19 closings in mid-March.
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