Quote :

"hyperbole, dumbasses."

Apparently you don't know the definition of hyperbole either.

Using exaggeration to bolster an argument in your favor is not hyperbole. It's stupidity.

2/8/2011 2:40:30 AM

Whatever you say, Boss.

2/8/2011 2:43:01 AM

why on earth would you decide to open a restaurant to make money

100x more stress, 80+ hour weeks, little to no cash flow for years, dickhead employees, dickhead customers, some new crisis every other day

sounds like fucking hell

[Edited on February 8, 2011 at 11:23 AM. Reason : be thankful its over]

2/8/2011 11:23:19 AM

Done the right way, owning a restaurant can be very profitable. In my experience with well run restaurants, after busting your ass for 3-5 years, you can somewhat relax and possibly make six figures annually. And as an owner, it's nice to be able to come in and chill in your own restaurant/bar, chill with family and friends, eat and drink for free...rather than walking into your own office and leaning back in your office chair. The work is hard, but the benefits are more enjoyable.

There is definitely a cap at owning just one restaurant, but the people who really make bank open up several or hit their peak with one restaurant and sell it for bank 10 years down the road.

It's always something I wanted to do, but as I get older and closer to settling down, it's not looking like the best profession in relation to starting a marriage/family. I just signed a consulting contract for a bar that is going to open up in downtown Charleston 6/7 months from now with the option for profit sharing/bar managing position when it finally opens up. I think this will be my last "trial run" (helping other people open up their places) that will help me determine whether or not it will be an option for me at some point. By

2/8/2011 11:45:13 AM

V-- yeh, delivery minimum is $500

[Edited on February 8, 2011 at 1:37 PM. Reason : .]

2/8/2011 1:26:09 PM

yo man you deliver to raleigh?

i'll tip like 20% dawg

2/8/2011 1:36:44 PM

This thread has taught me if I do end up opening my own restaurant I should invest in some small business courses. I know the front side of things well but am pretty clueless about what goes on in the background.

2/8/2011 1:37:10 PM

you'd probably learn a lot more by trying and failing than reading out of a textbook, ttytt

[Edited on February 8, 2011 at 1:38 PM. Reason : .]

2/8/2011 1:38:12 PM

I'd rather take precautions to not fail than lose my savings.

2/8/2011 1:40:38 PM

You'll probably still fail even if you take business classes.

Textbook learning is never a substitute for real experience

2/8/2011 1:46:00 PM

All TWWers are small business experts. If only you had consulted them first you would not be in this situation.

2/8/2011 1:48:39 PM

I did consult them first, and i'm in this situation

2/8/2011 1:51:05 PM

Quote :

"This thread has taught me if I do end up opening my own restaurant I should invest in some small business courses. I know the front side of things well but am pretty clueless about what goes on in the background."

You'd be better off buying a "Opening your first Restaurant/Bar" book from Barnes and Nobles. You get the same basic info without all the useless shit and wasted time and money.

2/8/2011 1:53:38 PM

Actually....


I went and took a business class at the Adult Learning Center which offers low priced, lean, fast paced classes. It's a nonprofit city provided service and the teachers volunteer their time (successful from their own respective career). This assures you that they are there to teach because the want to teach, and not because they are looking to keep a paycheck by pushing students through.

It's designed at giving less fortunate people a chance at catching up their education to get on their feet. It was only 8 classes, 2 times a week, and I learned more in those classes than a whole semester in college (minus math classes).

2/8/2011 2:00:43 PM

^ Yeah that would be the sort of thing I'd be interested in doing. Sometimes Wake Tech even offers courses geared towards the restaurant business. If it's anything like the "life learning" course I'm taking there now it's going to be a good course.

2/8/2011 2:03:52 PM

i can't help but find irony in your username / situation.
self-pwnt that was 4+ years in the making

2/8/2011 2:04:22 PM

Have geniuses never failed in history?

[Edited on February 8, 2011 at 2:14 PM. Reason : .]

2/8/2011 2:07:10 PM

i just did an internet search regarding your query...no, genius' have never failed.

2/8/2011 2:08:06 PM

XSMP has his own sordid history from what I remember...

2/8/2011 2:08:32 PM

do I now? why don't you expand on that?

2/8/2011 2:09:17 PM

i might be thinking of someone else, but weren't you homeless at one point?

2/8/2011 2:10:20 PM

yea when I was 16-18 years old. I'm 30 now, so it's kinda too far back to prove any point you were trying to make.

2/8/2011 2:11:49 PM

The fact that you can't make a simple google query finding failures of famous geniuses in history says a lot.

[Edited on February 8, 2011 at 2:14 PM. Reason : .]

2/8/2011 2:13:25 PM

^^
haha

i wasn't trying to offend you bro...

I'm just saying that even the best of us fail sometimes.

From what I remember, didn't you also save some old woman's life?

GeniusSxBoy hit a big stumbling block, but it's meaningless in the grand scheme.

The worst thing he can do is let this hold him back.

[Edited on February 8, 2011 at 2:14 PM. Reason : ]

2/8/2011 2:14:05 PM

MISSED

THE

SARCASM

and yea, I have helped a lot of people in my life, i know you aren't trying to be tuff on me, it's all good.

[Edited on February 8, 2011 at 2:15 PM. Reason : .]

2/8/2011 2:14:39 PM

I'm laughing so hard. I wish you could see me

2/8/2011 2:15:08 PM

U MAD?

2/8/2011 2:17:00 PM

Yes, I'm mad.

2/8/2011 2:18:23 PM

as a former ruckus pizza chef, I wanted to tell you that your pizza looks awesome and i would love to try it one day, fries pizza ranch? how can it get any better?

2/8/2011 2:21:24 PM

Lol! Dont be buttering me up

[Edited on February 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM. Reason : .]

2/8/2011 2:24:54 PM

I think the real lesson here is: Dreams do come true (for people who know how to run successful businesses)

2/8/2011 2:25:16 PM

I'm not buttering you up, ask anyone i don't evar do that here. i really would eat the fuck outa that pizza.

2/8/2011 2:26:07 PM

2/8/2011 2:32:16 PM

I'd eat the career-destroying restaurant-failing borrowed-capital shit out of that french fry pizza.

2/8/2011 2:33:41 PM

I have tried and failed, although faster than OP, but didn't really loose a lot of money. It's pretty emotional draining when you fail a business, but you learn and move on, then set your expectations lower. People learn better from failure and not successes.

2/8/2011 2:36:24 PM

Quote :

"People learn better from failure and not successes."

riiight

2/8/2011 2:40:16 PM

Quote :

"set your expectations lower"

this is what spawned O'Charlies

2/8/2011 2:43:07 PM

^hahaha

2/8/2011 2:44:15 PM

^^^ yes, failure or negative effects has been known to have a much more lasting effect in memory than positive ones.

Hey, I like O'Charlies... well maybe when I was 8

2/8/2011 2:47:57 PM

Quote :

"Hey, I like O'Charlies"

should read

Quote :

"Hey, I like MSG"

2/8/2011 2:52:20 PM

I'm Asian. I am MSG... and part noodles.

2/8/2011 2:53:37 PM

hehe you are what you eat

[Edited on February 8, 2011 at 3:13 PM. Reason : .]

2/8/2011 3:11:04 PM

so if I go on the raw diet, does that make me fruity?

2/8/2011 3:21:13 PM

depends

2/8/2011 3:26:25 PM

Could just turn you into:

2/8/2011 3:27:17 PM

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2/8/2011 7:53:35 PM

she looks like she potentially has a nice rack

just saying.


if do that last rally to save your pizza joint, would we meet her and her boobs?

2/8/2011 7:55:05 PM

Lol... her boobs are each the size of my head.



or ego.



whichever you consider bigger

2/8/2011 7:56:01 PM

She looks like she's had a few of those French fry pizzas with extra ranch dressing.

2/8/2011 7:56:39 PM

You have captured my interest...

2/8/2011 7:57:12 PM