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Super Suppers Adds Take N’ Bake

Posted on January 23rd, 2008 10:18am by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Restaurant News

Now that I have your undivided attention, I would like to enlighten your palate and perchance lighten your cooking load. (Yuk.) A couple of years ago, I tried Super Suppers. Did the whole 12-meal deal. Took ‘em home, froze ‘em, heated ‘em up. Not so great. I mean, most of the ingredients at the assembly stations came from huge Sysco freezer bags and cans. Yet somehow, this chain, which now numbers close to 200 units, is thriving and former Fort Worth cooking instructor Judie Byrd, founder of the Culinary School of Fort Worth and Supper Suppers, is probably a gazillionaire. Perhaps it’s because they added Grab n’ Go and Curbside-To-Go, two concepts Ms. Byrd clearly swiped from Tim Rogers’ bestselling book How To Score With Girls, Volume 6. Now they’ve added Take n’ Bake. (Timmy, you clearly missed that one. Guess marriage and kids don’t sell.) Anywhoo, I think I’ll give old Super Suppers another super-de-do-dah try. Who wants to be my partner? Developing.

6 Comments to “Super Suppers Adds Take N’ Bake”

Dave @ January 23rd, 2008 at 10:46 am

Didn’t the Super Supper on Lemmon close down?
Matt @ January 23rd, 2008 at 10:56 am

I’d love to hear if the Take ‘n’ Bake is better — wife did a bunch of the assemble-freeze-cook meals, and they were pretty much uniformly awful.
CDD @ January 23rd, 2008 at 3:19 pm

Is this the same concept as those Short Stop stores? I’ve seen one at the Preston/Forest Shopping Center and haven’t stopped in – any good?
Miss La Bia @ January 23rd, 2008 at 3:43 pm

They make an average meat curtain couscous
Nancy Nichols @ January 23rd, 2008 at 4:00 pm

Not the same as SS which, the last time I went in, was mostly take out. At super suppers you are assigned a station with raw ingredients and compile dishes from their recipes, box them up, and take them home to your freezer.
Christine Calhoun @ January 24th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

I own the Super Suppers in Lakewood. We’re in the Lakewood Shopping Center near Dixie House. You can purchase premade Take N’ Bake Meals refrigerated or frozen. We also have stations where you can walk-in with no reservation and make any number of meals yourself. I hope you’ll consider coming in and giving us a try. These meals are pretty much all we eat for dinner at my house – and we love them!

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