This idea we evolved after years of intermittent and months of intensive thinking posed some unique challenges. Starting with the original thought of an oversized plate, Martin and I explored many types of rigid materials. To mentally test the concepts functionality we tore the experience apart from a service perspective.
- How do we physically carry a four-foot square "plate" through a busy dining room in an elegant fashion?
- How can we place it on the table with guests seated around it without smacking someone in the head?
- How do we wash this giant slab of material, as it doesn't fit in the dishwasher?
- Once the food is consumed, and some residual foodstuffs exist on the "plate", how it is removed in a graceful way, without tilting and thereby soiling the guests' clothes if food were to drip or roll off?
- Where are these giant "plates" stored?
