Opening Soon

Opening Soon was a great show. The narrator for the program was Mitch Cutler who did an outstanding job. Doug Hatters did narration for a few episodes and that was all. Mitch Cutler did the narration for all seasons except the last as he had other voice over and narration gigs that made it impossible to continue with the series.

The series was edited and voiced in Toronto. There were a lot of things not revealed in the series such as arguments and even fist fights that broke out during some of the openings.

Overall it was an excellent series and it would be great to see it's return with the original narrator Mitch Cutler.

I love this show! Here you can see how small, medium and large diners, restaurants, and so on, be built/created from the beginning to the opening.

You will see how difficult and demanding it is to get it done. Everything from money issues (often lack of), technical issues and staff issues are regular parts of the show.

Another thing I like about this show is that it often includes comments from food critics (or similar), both positive and negative, that make it a bit more genuine. You will also notice that "negative" sides, both from the owners, entrepreneurs, staff and investors, are included. It's not like a 30 minute commercial.

Most of the episodes is well made and a joy to watch. The only problem is that the episodes is too short. Projects like this is to big to be cramped into 30 minutes, and therefore I get the feeling that I could have gotten so much more. There would have been no problem to make this a one hour show.