Film Episode - II

Mama’s Galaxy Restaurant


This excerpt from Chapter 11 of the WonderProjectä book describes in detail the experience guests have in the theme park version of the restaurant and the story that is portrayed in the 2nd installment of the Family Everywhere Film Trilogy.

Chapter - 11

Mama’s Galaxy Restaurant


When You’re Here - You’re Family

                                 The Olive Garden


On a small garden peninsula at the edge of MultiVerse Lake there is a magnificent white Victorian structure that is part of the MultiVerse Swings area.  This is Mama’s Italian Galaxy Restaurant, an establishment that forever remains true to it’s motto - fine food and good service - a tradition in seven galaxies for over a million years.

Passing under a beautiful white trellis archway that is adorned with a rare species of Telearium Roses, we find ourselves surrounded by a garden that contains many of the exotic plants and flowers that Mama’s family and friends used to send her from all over the cosmos.

The Telearium Roses, renowned for their incomparable beauty, were originally a gift from the Royal Prince of Telearium.  The Prince had once publicly announced that when Mama’s desserts were introduced to their royal chefs, they instantly fell into the sin of envy.

Strictly speaking, the architecture of the restaurant is not Victorian.  For the most part it does match the classic lines of this era, but it also contains bits and pieces of styles that were loved by many of Mama’s original family members.  To a great degree it resembles the first home the family had worked so hard to create.

Continuing up an inclined path you reach the porch that surrounds the entire establishment.  Mama loved porches, and from here you can enjoy a terrific view of MultiVerse Lake and Romance Island.

When you reach the heart of the restaurant’s interior, you immediately find yourself surrounded by the seven galaxies that host the millions of beloved eateries which sprang from the family’s modest beginnings. Above and below you guests from all over the MultiVerse sit at tables that seem to float among the stars.  

If you are a first timer, and even if you are not, I encourage you to partake of Mama’s story before you dine.

Stepping into a homey little theater we are treated to a three hundred and sixty degree motion picture presentation.  Here you meet Mama and discover that, at least from her point of view, you are already a part of the family.

As Mama and her very extended family begin to tell their story, you discover that it all began a long time ago on a mining asteroid in the Tri-Delta System.

Mama, her husband Giovanni, their two sons and three daughters had a dream - a dream of building a beautiful new home somewhere in the country.

The only trouble was they had barely enough to get by. The idea of coming up with enough cash to build the home seemed to be a distant, unattainable reality.  Fortunately, Giovanni and the boys seldom faced reality.

One day Tony, their eldest son, arrived home with an ad.  Like our planetary  invitations to join the building of the Alaskan pipe line or some similar grand endeavor, the ad promised great wealth for those who were willing to sign up for a two year contract working the Tragorian asteroid mines.

It would be hard and dangerous work, but for those who ventured out and survived, there would be ample rewards.

Despite the ongoing protest of the boys that it was much too dangerous a place for the girls, Mama insisted that if they were going they would all go, or nobody would go.  In the end Mama won out.

The Tragorian Asteroid Mining Company was an offshoot of Taget Industries. Two disgruntled line bosses had finally had it with the bureaucracy, and decided to head off on their own. They encountered all sorts of difficulty from the parent company, everything from a boycott that cut off their supply lines to legal suits that backed off their prime investors.

However, Stone Faced Bill and Drill Happy Harry, as they were known in the trade, were as tough as they come. They weathered all of the storms and built the company into a multi-billion dollar business.  

When Mama and her family arrived on the large staging asteroid that served as the company’s headquarters, they found themselves among some of the meanest, toughest miners in the trade.

Everyday Papa and his two sons would head off for a grueling twelve hour shift in the mines. In an attempt to create a little extra income, Mama and her three daughters opened  a small eatery.   

It wasn’t long before just about everyone in the company came to enjoy Mama’s fantastic cooking.  The meals were so good, and the service was so loving, that even the hardest of the lot would defend the girls to the death if anyone even looked at them in an odd way.

The restaurant turned out to be such an asset to the company, that Drill Happy Harry got his crew to convert an entire floor of the main complex into an elegant place for Mama and the girls to create their culinary magic. Well, it was elegant by mining standards, and with every arrival of a new supply ship, Mama discovered that certain miners had imported beautiful statues, exotic plants and an eclectic assortment of art to spruce up the place.  

After one particular shipment somebody accused Death Hammer Al of being the one who orchestrated the arrival of a rare and astoundingly beautiful sculpture by Baer Megoff himself. The guy who accused Al came pretty close to death that night. Six miners unsuccessfully tried to pull Al off the guy, but it only took a gentle touch of Mama’s hand to end it all.

Shortly after that, Stone Faced Bill threw a special party to commemorate Mama’s fifty-third birthday. It was on that occasion that the restaurant got dubbed, Mama’s Italian Galaxy Restaurant. And it was Death Hammer Al who announced, with a glass of sparkling wine in his grubby hands and a bunch of tears in his eyes, that this was the best damn food and finest service in the galaxy.
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When the miners went off to a non-gravity asteroid, as they often did, they carried their lunch from Mama in an odd looking device. One of the few surviving ones can be seen in the restaurant gallery.   

One day Mama prepared a new dish as she often did. However, because of a special bonus that was promised to miners who reached a certain quota, none of them took a lunch break that day. So when the meal was brought back to headquarters it flattened out and pizza was born.

One of the saddest days in mining history took place when Mama, Papa and the family finally reached the point of having enough money to build the house they had always dreamed of. Every worker in the place, from the top executive down, stood in utter silence when the transport vehicle whisked them away.

Maria, Mama’s second daughter, had married Stone Faced Bill. People say it was the first time they ever saw him crack a smile, but it certainly wasn’t the last.

Maria stayed on and continued to run the mining restaurant for some time. Eventually she and Bill left to establish and operate the first really successful Mama’s Galaxy Restaurant franchise.

After completing their contract many miners would travel to Mama’s new, magnificent, sorta Victorian home on the 4th planet of the star Altair. The time they spent with the family turned out to be some of the finest times they had ever known.

Death Hammer Harry was at Mama’s side the day she died. He sat right next to her bedside, his eyes drenched in tears. They say that he never recovered from that. For a while he went off somewhere to live as a hermit.   

Papa and the kids traced him down and insisted that he come and live with them.
 
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