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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

BREAKING POINT...


The way December picked up and left leaving us all with a false sense of hope thinking we were finally going to start putting up the numbers that were more than worthy of, has got me and my anxiety in a world wind ...i know this a blog about food but its also a blog about the behind the scene structure of a restaurant...we had 0 covers for dinner tonight 0 that's unheard of we did 4 yesterday between the 2 days we probably made $500. that's a number that makes me want to cry. it costs the restaurant between $400 -$600 a day just to open with mortgage, utilities and payroll. In other years my owner has been able to sit back and take the blunt draught of winter off his chin , and never had to make any vast decisions or changes...This year is very scary..we as a whole are down 300k from last year and although its still descent numbers the expenses are just piling...So i have been finding myself wondering when will we reach the inevitable BREAKING POINT? With my third son just under 3 weeks away this is a very scary time.

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