I Told You So

We have been in culinary school for almost eleven months. From day one, we have heard from every Chef that owning or managing a restaurant is hard work. It takes dedication, hard work and many unpaid hours to get it off the ground. The place will be on your mind from the time you wake up until you go to sleep. If you created this restaurant from scratch, then it is your baby. If you are a parent then this next part is easy to understand. Once conceived it’s all you think about, once born you want to nurture it and watch it grow. You make plans for its future, and strive to put in place all it needs to succeed. This place is truly your child, and if it fails, you ask yourself “where did I go wrong?” I have only had my establishment one week, and yet all of these things have played out. Sleep has become a luxury I cannot afford, for there is always something that needs to be done. I am still in my infant stage with this and yet I can already see I will have to forcefully disconnect at times to have a life outside of the restaurant. I dare not complain, for with a knowing grin and maybe even a chuckle or two those who have been here before me will say, “I told you so”.