It's interesting to see a Sparten thread where he actually knows what he's talking about. Cool thread.
I know you've worked in restaurants for a long time, but have you managed your own business before?
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It's interesting to see a Sparten thread where he actually knows what he's talking about. Cool thread.
I know you've worked in restaurants for a long time, but have you managed your own business before?
Just growing up in and around food establishment,s, also heavy immigrant influence,s.Quote:
Originally Posted by SrslySirius
A couple of head waiting jobs a stint as a McDonald's mngr and my last situation.
I have forgotten how good I had it..
I've been making 7k to 9k a month in salary and profit but had!! Expensive habits.
Even $20/30 a day in poker adds up. Just ask beerandpoker, he is very friendly with me and always comes to the table I'm at.. (Just kidding b&p :-)
Nothing but the best weed and very generous w it.
La quinta in a dozen times a moth and throw in the parker meridian at least once a month at full retail for the night $450 never mind I wouldn't tell her no every time she opened the mini bar and I would as well "fuck it"!!
Etc etc etc etc....
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Not trying to sound like a pessimist, but this venture has got failure written all over it. You just strike me as a guy that will quit showing up, and that $800 a day will seem like the good old days a few months from now. I hope I am wrong, but the fingerprints are all over this one and it just wreaks of a failure. Not that you are alone 90% of restaurants close 2 years after opening.
Has anyone ever applied for a Chick-Fil-A franchise?
Your a Dick..Quote:
Originally Posted by tgull
I've made no secret that I work hard and play hard. Not apologizing for it either. Go trump.
Yes, in the ambition category I have been a slacked and underachieving.
Yes, I have stop showing up for jobs or left them for no reason I can remember, in the distant past.
Yes, I am the idiot of the family.
Never married and no children couse I didn't want to deal with it or maybe it's because "one that got away" so many years ago has corrupted my relationship logic.
Fuck u at failure.
At the very least the store pays for itself and that allows me an.opportunity to sell it if I.must..
The volume and profit WILL!!! pick up because that's how big my balls are especially in my environment..
Once again every time u open your fucken mouth u put your Dick in it. Now here let me put mine and stfu.
Once again in a small cash business with sole ownership has great upside.. increasing sales to just 1150$ a day from $750 puts at least 9k in my fucken pocket a month..
Is it a uphill battle?? Fuck yea..
But like my uncle said!! Etc etc etc..
You're better off putting the cocksucker on ignore sparten. Guy cleans shit for a living and takes it out on the forum.
$800 isn't bad for a Monday btw. How did Tues and today so far? Thinking you'll be making most of the profit from Thurs to Sunday however if you can grab some school accounts like hut said you'd be doing just fine.
Also, how big is your war chest just in case things take longer to materialize than you hope?
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Originally Posted by Pooh
Absolutely schools!!
So much on the plate, I'm on this forum to distress.
I am knocking them down one by one.
I.can only move so fast so far. Don't want to be wasteful. CONSTANT MICRO INCREASES IS THE WAY IL PLAY THE FLOP. Will make adjustments accordingly when I see the turn..
War chest is what I got in my pocket and appx. 100k which is life savings left.
My pre flop play was competent but not overwhelming.
My flop play looks good and right but I'm in mid position. It will take a couple of weeks before it goes to the guy betting on his big blind.
Side note...
I went and bought those extra large pillsberry dough choc chip roll 3x on sale in the supper market. Then went to the 99¢ store a got a spatula and baked the large cookies I made..
Made around 30+? Selling them out at a $1 each..
I will be ordering a case cookie doe from the distributor and buy a hot chocolate machine..
Every day is a new day.
Will post pics of pizza , food counter and me making
Pizza(trying) when all is settled down and more lubricated.. the stuff that big Dick doesn't like me to use.
snap some photos of the new shop and of a couple of pizzas
Do you hit the Dewars while working?
Not yet, doesn't have the spartenesq touch yet. It was a busted up pizzeria run by a black jack defense with a wife that look.like Peggy Bundy.Quote:
Originally Posted by adamantium
Every time Martin put a $20 in the register, there was a race between them who could get to it first.
When I do..
I will be open for suggestions
Constructive criticism
Compliments..
Dewar s is my go to and only at night after work. Not even on my day off when I'm home. I don't even really drink anything during day time. I don't like beer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pooh
A joint of kush or sour diesel every morning. A second joint that last me all day and and on my days off, all day! Generally while running errands or chilling with poker or cable or both.
Some night when I come home happy. I'm generally yelling at the pigeon,s and shacking my fists on Most days. Il have a couple of Martinis at home made from Crystal head vodka and whatever decent vermouth I have bought.
Generally never more then one or two double shots or two Martinis..
When I go out its an assortment of cocktail,s depending on the mood.
Il define a good day as just finished fucking some college senior in.the ass for 3 hours, who's never had been fucked by a real Greek man before and getting a text on the way home saying her boyfriend will be away every Wednesday night.or selling 30 chocolate chip cookies,. (Go figure??)
You can get Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough from most suppliers....if you buy the dough they will send you a cookie oven free. The cookies are really good and they are great to use if you have a screw up. They are cheap enough that say a customers pizza is taking longer than usual or there was a screw up.....I give them some cookies to manage the wait. I've also been ordering lately these pre-baked chocolate chip cookie "pizzas". They are 9" you bake them for like 3 minutes and sell for $5. Cost is $2.00. Another promo I use with success is I buy RedBox promo codes and offer FREE Redbox rentals with all carryout orders (at menu price). The codes only cost $1.25 each. Sometimes I buy packs of microwave popcorn and throw that in also and call it the dinner and a movie special. People seem to think the movie is "high value" even though if they paid for it it's still only $1.25.Quote:
Originally Posted by thespartenQuote:
Originally Posted by Pooh
Absolutely schools!!
So much on the plate, I'm on this forum to distress.
I am knocking them down one by one.
I.can only move so fast so far. Don't want to be wasteful. CONSTANT MICRO INCREASES IS THE WAY IL PLAY THE FLOP. Will make adjustments accordingly when I see the turn..
War chest is what I got in my pocket and appx. 100k which is life savings left.
My pre flop play was competent but not overwhelming.
My flop play looks good and right but I'm in mid position. It will take a couple of weeks before it goes to the guy betting on his big blind.
Side note...
I went and bought those extra large pillsberry dough choc chip roll 3x on sale in the supper market. Then went to the 99¢ store a got a spatula and baked the large cookies I made..
Made around 30+? Selling them out at a $1 each..
I will be ordering a case cookie doe from the distributor and buy a hot chocolate machine..
Every day is a new day.
Will post pics of pizza , food counter and me making
Pizza(trying) when all is settled down and more lubricated.. the stuff that big Dick doesn't like me to use.
Thank you for predicting my needs and offering your experience. These are not just words..Quote:
Originally Posted by hutmasterYou can get Otis Spunkmeyer cookie dough from most suppliers....if you buy the dough they will send you a cookie oven free. The cookies are really good and they are great to use if you have a screw up. They are cheap enough that say a customers pizza is taking longer than usual or there was a screw up.....I give them some cookies to manage the wait. I've also been ordering lately these pre-baked chocolate chip cookie "pizzas". They are 9" you bake them for like 3 minutes and sell for $5. Cost is $2.00. Another promo I use with success is I buy RedBox promo codes and offer FREE Redbox rentals with all carryout orders (at menu price). The codes only cost $1.25 each. Sometimes I buy packs of microwave popcorn and throw that in also and call it the dinner and a movie special. People seem to think the movie is "high value" even though if they paid for it it's still only $1.25.Quote:
Originally Posted by thesparten
I have some questions and please continue with filling in for my inexperience.. t u..
First I also would like to say that some of my previous posts on this thread are quite explicit and colorful..
If they offend u in any way, I do apologize. I'm just a kid from the Bronx at the end of the day. If u speak to anyone on this forum who has spoken with me personally. If anything I'm a straight shooter mostly honest and mostly fair.
To the rest of u I'm.not kissing his butt or two faced.
When someone with a heck of a lot more stripes on.his sleeve takes his time out to offer you guidance before YOU hit the beach. He deserves and has EARNED your respect..
The chocolate chip cookies I did by accident.
I was just in the supermarket looking for anything that would help.me micro upgrade and getting cutlets..
I know Pappas johns and pizza hut have them.but it never occurred too me..
I really can't order from cisco because the majority of my stuff comes from a couple of pizza distributors..
$17 bucks for a 50lbs flour bag.. etc there prices are good.
I can also get soft drinks cheaper from a soda distributor than right off the Pepsi truck. So I'm doing that..
It never occurred to me to put a single pour 2 Burners bunn machine for coffee and hot chocolate even though I've be buying it every day from the bodega next to me and I'm a coffee shop guy..
Tmw I'm ordering that from vasileros coffee distributors. Have a long relationship w them..
I'm a big fan of red box. Big fan and use them often.
Just can't afford to buy those promos.
If it was more suburban with intaked Americanized families I'm sure that would have a much greater effect with them and me :-)..
There is a restaurant depot that sells food and supplies for restaurants and grocery stores. Many times those places are cheaper then distributors. You just have to physically go there your self.
For the cookie doe?? Who would I contact???
I have a very old school oven in the kitchen made from cast iron. Could use some elbow grease and works well but I love New toys..
If you say that doe is cost effective and good. That's good enough for me............
In house I believe is busier , it is. but my delivery today sucks.
Can't make the menus yet and distribute them because I don't know what the menu is yet. It's still a work in progress and fluid right now..
I only have a couple of cookies left and generally nobody buys the last of anything so I will give them away. That didn't cross my mind either????
The awning guys didn't show up. Il call tmw.
It's like when I go to bed there are a 100 things I want to do.
Then when I wake up I have 200 things to do so I can't get to the first 100.
Then when I open the gates I realize I can only do 5 of them and wait till next week to do the other 195.
Then when I.open the ovens I realize I goto call these 10 people first and can.only accomplish 3 out of the 5
Then I realize I don't have the money for 2 out of those 3. Then.I accomplish one thing then another 400 cone to mind
Then I have to assign them priority as far as cost and benefit then when I get home I realize I should have done the first 100 things I thought about..
I'm alone dude. But fuck it.. I love the fight.
Wouldn't get into a pattern of giving away free shit like left over cookies or you're going to have a bunch of broke n-words coming in late at night looking for free shit instead of buying. Give em to the guys to take home who are working for you.
Good luck
I waited tables at an Italian restaurant in college and loved it for awhile but the owners (Italians from Jersey) hated their lives and did their best for over a year to sell. Over time I saw why. Dealing with people day in, day out becomes excruciating.
I always think that places with good pizza should dump the rest of their shit (pasta, chicken dishes etc.) and just go with the pizza and maybe calzone/stromboli. I've never been to a restaurant that excelled at both pizzas and pasta dishes.
Keep it simple and affordable, and people will come back if the product is right.
I know a place that thrived with this type of marketing. They would pay kids $8 an hour to walk thru neighborhoods and just plant a menu on cars and every mailbox which is illegal but usually you don't get fucked with.Quote:
Originally Posted by tgull
Target some little leagues and any type of youth sports places that sell slices of Pizza as well. Give them a discount and it is also good effective advertising and it is cheapQuote:
Originally Posted by Pooh
I used to use a restaurant depot when I started my place. But if your going that route be careful because some stuff at certain supermarkets can be cheaper and it can cost you a decent amount buying in bulk. I used to load up there once a week and then I would restock certain stuff that I knew I would need throughout the weekQuote:
Originally Posted by thesparten
This low Iq halfwit will fuck it up.