The product
Everything here is in service of this.
Photographed in 2019 at Wake and Late, a separate and unaffiliated business, during the founder's tenure there. Shown to illustrate prior work.
Mornings are hard.
The burrito isn't.
Breakfast out is usually disappointing or slow. Most people take disappointing, because they have to be somewhere. We'd like to fix that for the corner we end up on.
The name
Named after Bonnie and Bill.
Bill escaped communist Romania. Bonnie left her life behind in Poland. They met at a bar in Chicago, which is the least likely sentence on this page.
He carved wood by hand for the same company for forty-one years. She cooked, and I grew up on it — in our house, feeding people was how you said you loved them.
So the sign says Bonnie and Bill's. The badge reads BB's, which is both their initials and what we sell.
Everything else can be copied by someone with more money. This part can't.
The size
The size is the product.
It's a meal, not a snack. You can put it down in one sitting, and you won't need lunch.
- A 10-inch tortilla
- Three eggs
- A full slice of cheese
- Crispy tater tots
- Three to four ounces of steak, or bacon, or a quarter avocado
The handoff
Two windows. That's the entire front of house.
There's no dining room to be greeted in and no counter to wait at. Every moment of hospitality this business gets happens at a window, and it lasts about eight seconds. So we treat those eight seconds as the product they are: a real sentence, a name when we know it, and the burrito handed over warm and right the first time.
Window one · Drive-thru
Order, pull forward, and the food is in the car before the driver behind has finished moving up. Speed is the courtesy here — the kindest thing anyone can do for a person at 7:15 on a Tuesday is not make them wait.
Window two · Walk-up, pick-up and delivery
Neighbours on foot, mobile orders, and couriers all come here, which keeps delivery tickets off the drive-thru rail so the lane never stalls behind someone else's order.
For brokers and landlords
We're looking for a drive-thru in Las Vegas.
Second-generation food-service space on the morning-commute side of an arterial. We want to inherit the lane — we don't build it and we don't permit it. If you have something that fits, or something close, we'd like to hear about it early.