Restaurant Offers Interactive Menu

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Keith McCord ReportingIf you're looking for a place to eat and want a different experience, we've found one. Or, if you're preparing a meal at home and need a new idea, or want to share one, we found that too, in the same place, in Draper.

Welcome to Zupas -- a restaurant with a modern European feeling to it with menu items from all over the world.

Restaurant Offers Interactive Menu

Rob Seeley, Co-Owner, Zupas: "We've both traveled a lot. I've been to about 75 countries; Dustin's been to 25 or so all over the world, so we've just picked the best things from wherever we've been."

"Zupa" is a deviation of the word "soup" in Italian. The menu features 10 homemade soups and sandwiches and about a dozen salads. They're all prepared as you wait. And it's fresh, nothing comes out of a can! All this, from two guys who started in the computer business.

"We both come from a software background. And one of the things we like about the software background is the "open source" movement."

That is, getting ideas from many sources to create the product, or in this case, create the menu. So Zupas is interactive. If you have a favorite recipe, Owners Rob Seeley and Dustin Schulthies want to hear about it.

On the Zupa webpage customers can send in their favorites. There's Ashlee's Winter Salad, Julie's Broccoli-Peanut-Grape Salad and Norma's Dutch Oven Stew.

Send in a photo of the finished product. If they like it, the recipe goes on the menu for a couple of weeks as the in-store special!

Dustin Schulthies, Co-owner, Zupas: "In fact, next week our special will be from a woman down in American Fork."

They'll even demonstrate how you can make the specials yourself. While you're standing in line, you can watch this TV screen, watching how the special of the week is prepared; speakers hanging down from the ceiling project the sound down on you, and it doesn't bother people out in the restaurant.

Sales of the specials increase dramatically, whenever the video is playing.

"And it's fun for the customers, when they're in line, they can look at it and decide whether or not that want to try it."

Everyone has an old family recipe that's been handed down from generation to generation, here's a way to share it with people all over the world. Zupas has two stores, in Draper and Provo, and more are planned in other states.

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