Krusty Krab

The **Krusty Krab** is a fast food restaurant located in Bikini Bottom, founded and owned by Eugene H. Krabs. It is also the most popular and best known restaurant in Bikini Bottom.

It's famous for its Krabby Patty burgers, it is the rival to Plankton's highly unpopular across-the-street restaurant called the Chum Bucket. Its employees are SpongeBob SquarePants, Squidward Tentacles, and Marigold, respectively the fry cook, the cashier, and the mechanic.

## Krusty Krab

### Location

Bikini Bottom

Mr. Krabs loves money, and is openly concerned about his profits above all else. Because of this, he pays his employees very cheaply (though SpongeBob doesn't care much) and serves his food for high prices.

The reason the restaurant is so popular is because of the Krabby Patty, a burger with a very top secret recipe, which has almost always been the signature Krusty Krab dish. Other Krusty Krab grub includes typical fast food products such as french fries and sodas, as well as underwater foods such as coral bits and kelp rings. All of these items make up the Galley Grub, the food menu of the Krusty Krab.

Besides Mr. Krabs, the restaurant has three employees: SpongeBob as the fry cook, Squidward as the cashier, and Marigold as the mechanic. SpongeBob loves his job and excels at it, Squidward loathes his job and does his job poorly, and Marigold is fine with her job. She doesn't do awful, and she doesn't excel.

The Krusty Krab's main business competitor is the Chum Bucket, owned by Plankton, who is Mr. Krabs' worst enemy (and former best friend).

## Designs and Features

The Krusty Krab building has a wooden chassis with glass windows/walls and appears from the outside as an old lobster trap. There is a large clam-shaped sign in front of the restaurant, similar to those used by real-life fast food restaurants, and five international maritime signal flags above the front door. It shares a resemblance to a New England lobster trap. It might have just been built to look like a lobster trap, but it is also possible that it was actually formed from an old sunken lobster trap.

#### Parking Lot

There is no parking lot, although boats always park outside on a road surrounding the restaurant. It is unknown how so many customers can fit inside the Krusty Krab, when there are no cars, but most custom

ers walk to the restaurant, as seen in many episodes including it.

#### Drive-thru

The drive-thru is seen throughout the first four seasons and in season twelve, but its most notable appearance is in the episode "Driven to Tears" when Mr. Krabs introduces it to SpongeBob. Its purpose was to serve travellers and tourists that did not have time to eat at the Krusty Krab. It used tin cans with string for microphones, old napkins for a menu board, and a bent noodle for a sign.

#### Interior

Like other buildings in the series, the Krusty Krab's interior design is sometimes highly inconsistent between episodes. The Krusty Krab's basic floor plan consists of one main eating area, with the kitchen, Mr. Krabs' office, and bathrooms in separate rooms at the back of the restaurant. There is also a crow's nest located in one of the pillars.

#### Dining area

The order stand consists of a small boat directly in front of the window leading to the kitchen.

When someone first enters inside, there is the main eating area, which, like most fast-food joints, is the largest room in the restaurant. The tables are made out of sailing ship steering wheels, with barrels as chairs. Near the kitchen door is the order station, where the cash register is located and where Squidward works, taking customers' orders and giving them to SpongeBob through the order window which is shaped like the bow of a ship.

#### Office

On the far left is Mr. Krabs' office where Mr. Krabs works as an employer, with a money safe, a desk made out of an old sea trunk, chairs made out of old barrels, pictures, money on the wall, etc. There is also a door to the kitchen, where Krabs can check on SpongeBob from the kitchen. The safe is also where the Krabby Patty secret formula is located most of the time, and Mr. Krabs' money is hidden. On the other side of the wall, there are flags, a window, and a shelf where it holds artifacts.

#### Kitchen

The kitchen is SpongeBob's station where he makes the Krabby Patties and stores his cleaning supplies. It has a grill for cooking patties. There are storage cupboards for ingredients. A window is seen, which is used to place orders and to serve them once they are done. The kitchen is commonly used as a storage space.

The grill sits in the middle of an internal wall of the Krusty Krab, with a kitchen window placed above the grill, in which SpongeBob can easily give the Krabby Patties to Squidward. To the right of the grill is a fryer. On the back wall is a cupboard and some wooden barrels. One of the walls has a bottle of ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise on a kitchen shelf, as well as many black-colored pots and pans hanging on the wall.

It is vast, holding a "Patty Vault" full of Krabby Patties, and many other hallways and rooms. Also, the freezer holds cases of mayonnaise. It has a refrigerator. The kitchen's width is about 15 ft.

#### Restroom

There is one unisex restroom located on the far back right of the dining room, unlike most businesses that have one girl's/women's restroom and one boy's/men's restroom. It has urinals, toilets, paper towels, and sinks. A sign saying to wash fins can be seen written in both English and Spanish. There are three stalls.