Do you love the Melting Pot Restaurant Fondue?
Talking today with one of my co-workers. She took her teenage daughter to the Melting Pot in Longwood Wekiva for her daughter’s birthday. Our great debate was whether a seven year old would be able to enjoy and actually participate in a safe way at the Melting Pot Fondue Restaurant.
This brought note of a great idea as she told me she does fondue a few times a year making a cheese fondue for use with vegetables and bread at her home. I asked her if she had a fondue pot, hoping she might have one that I might borrow in order to train my own tribe on the finer things of all things fondue. But, she told me she hd a great alternative. She suggested starting the cheese fondue on the stove and then once it was prepared she would put it in her mini- crock pot (I think CVS and Walgreens pharmacies have the little sized ones on sale for $10 occassionally).
Of course, ever the restaurant equipment guru or maybe you could just say I tend to obsess about restaurant equipment I thought of the equipment we would have in the office and showroom that would work beautifully for an introduction to fondue without the open flame and burning worries.
1- induction burner
2- Vollrath rethermalizer (industrial version of crock pot)
3- Countertop warmer with inserts for both chocolate and cheese fondues
4- Caramel apple dipper
On brief thought I think those are probably the top four items I might use as a fondue alternative server. Now I suppose it might be great to use sterno with an older group of children, say preteens/ teens. But I think for the early elementary bunch the light introduction is a good indicator of how they might fare at the Melting Pot Fondue restaurant. Add to that I think attention level and distractibility also play important factors in the age of the child who might go to the Fondue restaurant.