The Glade 4.0

of the restaurant industry. With the economy as it is, and worsening by day, the industry has suffered to the point that it is no longer lucrative enough to keep me there. I have moved onto bigger and beter things.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Eh, you do know the 3 year rule right?

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What is the 3 year rule, Khross?

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Dream as if you'll live forever...
...Live as if you'll die tomorrow

Vivere Senza Rimpianti

60% of all restaurants fail in the first 3 years.

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I thought it was 60% of all small businesses?

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Condolences Rynar,

and what is next?

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Sorry to hear that RyRy. From your posts...I would eat at your restaurant as often as I could afford it. You sound like you have a knack for food...I hope this is just a bump in your culinary pursuits.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Sorry to hear that Rynar.

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Sorry for some misconceptions here. I haven't owned a restaurant for quite some time now. I have a catering and prepared foods business (selling soups and sauces), most of the prepared foods being sold to local restaurants. This was actually far more lucrative than owning a restaurant itself, as it gave me 100% control over costs and waste. However, business has dried up, and many of the restaurants and bars I service are failing. I speculate that this is because dining out is a luxury, and when times are tough, luxuries are the first to go.

I have gotten out of the industry entirely. I was presented with an opportunity which was too good to pass up, and aligns well with my other passions.

That said, yes Khross, I am aware of the three year rule. Thankfully it's not applicable here. I'd like to try and open one again, some day, but not until I am far better capitalized.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Condolences

One door closes...

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I'm sorry to hear that, Rynar, but I'm glad to know that you're able to pursue other interests. I had always hoped that if we ever managed to get up that way, we'd be able to patronize your establishment.

Well then congrats!

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

If you ever manage to make it up this way, you'll have to come eat at my house.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Aww now I can't have Rynarpoo food.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I don't think Rynar would ever have served you his poo food.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Rynar feeds his poo? Gross.

Who would want a pet Screeling? Yech!

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

I'll cook when I make it down for one of your barbecues.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

The food industry is a ***** in good times, let alone times like this. Hope your new gig is good.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Thanks, Monte. It's my dream job, to be honest. I'll always miss the restaurant industry, and I'll likely be back again in the ownership capacity in my retirement, hopefully no more than 20 years from now. The new job allows me to make my own hours, and spend a ton of time with my family; while being stress free and at the same time being directly ties to economics and politics and very lucrative.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Might I ask what this new, rewarding job is?

Working as a financial advisor and administrator.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Pfffft ...

Owner/Operator is always a stressful gig; you know that I mean, honestly, the only guy I know who reliably holds onto his restaurants and makes a decent amount of money out of all of them is universally reviled as the biggest ******* in the business. And, while he's certainly a competent chef, his true gift is restaurant management.

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Yeah, just look at Gordon Ramsay

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Holy shitsnacks!

Gordon's really not that much of an *** in person. Like I said, his true gift is restaurant management. Emeril Lagasse and most other "big name" Chefs generally go 2 or 3 and out on a place. 2 and out is a common strategy, because you sell for a sum greater than total investment and leave some schmuck to eat the losses. It is, in fact, a really common practice with night clubs and bars as well. Gordon Ramsay at least knows how to run a profitable establishment with decent food. And if you watch Kitchen Nightmares, everything he's telling the owner/operators in this shows is true and applied in his restaurants.

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No, he really isn't. It's am image he uses, which is built around the "chef as primadonna" stereotype, to market his TV show. That and everything else Khross has discussed in this thread are 100% true. There is nothing more stressful than attempting to make money in a luxury industry with a perishable inventory, and a labor pool that is made up largely of uneducated substance abusers.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20