primitive wants to open a restaurant

[Flufferlie]

....and the DUmmies felt so sorry for the homeless guys that they demanded your grandmother be taxed more.

Yep. I have little patience with libs. Such backwards thinking.

[RobJohnson]

I want to buy myself a job, only work 2 hours a day, and make 20k a year./DUmmie

[JohnnyReb]

I want to buy myself a job, only work 2 hours a day, and make 20k a year./DUmmie

How's the DUmmie going to buy a job.....put it on their EBT card or something?

[RobJohnson]

How's the DUmmie going to buy a job.....put it on their EBT card or something?

She claimed to have "family assets."

[Texacon]

Auggie (16,792 posts)    Wed Sep 4, 2013, 12:20 PM

1. My wife owned a cafe for five years

The second-happiest day of her life is when she opened it. The happiest day of her life was when she sold it.
 
She was netting, for herself, about $20,000 a year at peak. The most trying part were employees, employee turnover, and the constant need for her to be present from 7 to 5, six days a week.
 
I think her suggestion to you would be to work in a cafe similar to the one you want to run to find out what works and what doesn't.

The DUmmie isn't listening to someone who could very well help them tremendously. 

DUmmie wanting to open a 'cafe' ... read that post and read it with all the comprehension you can muster.  Look at the part I bolded to bring to your attention.

That one little part tells you everything you need to know.  This woman, an owner of her OWN business, was making $6.41/HOUR!  Note to DUmmie, this includes; sick time, paid holidays, vacation, etc ...

What makes you think, if you are going to pay yourself below minimum wage that you can hire and retain workers?

Just food for thought.

KC

[Texacon]

I do have experience in this, and became exhausted just reading the thread.  DUmmie, I lived on 4 hours of sleep  a night for a very long time.  While we were successful, we never got rich from it.  Food margins are razor thin.  The person who mentioned $20K net, that you sniffed at and pronounced unacceptable, was being optimistic and generous. 

Anyway, this is never going to happen, so I'm not going to waste time with advice.   

Karin, Is that how you read her response?  Personally I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. 

$20K / yr. would be beyond acceptable for me! Sorry to say?

I dunno?

KC

[Dori]

I want her to do this.  I want to read her posts when she complains about how the city, county, state and federal governments are involved in her business affairs and are making her life miserable, with all their taxes, licenses and fees and filing their paperwork.  I want to see how she deals with lazy employees and pissed off customers that give her bad reviews on yelp.

 

[AprilRazz]

The primitive needs to read "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain. Yes he is a bit of a lib but he knows about the business. Then the primitive needs to put that silly idea out of her head. He said that people like her tend to last less than a year.

[Chris_]

The primitive needs to read "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain. Yes he is a bit of a lib but he knows about the business. Then the primitive needs to put that silly idea out of her head. He said that people like her tend to last less than a year.

It's a good way to go bankrupt.

I blame television for putting ideas into the heads of people who have no business opening a restaurant in the first place.

[Dori]

It's a good way to go bankrupt.

I blame television for putting ideas into the heads of people who have no business opening a restaurant in the first place.

What do you have against dummie entrepreneurship?  Just think, a dummie learning about capitalism from our perspective.

[Texacon]

It's a good way to go bankrupt.

I blame television for putting ideas into the heads of people who have no business opening a restaurant in the first place.

You should try to work real estate with someone who watches ALL the real estate shows on TV.  Ugh.

KC

[JohnnyReb]

DUmmie will sit on ass expecting the money to come gushing in so I say "wants to open a restaurant   rest-your-turd-runt".

[Karin]

Karin, Is that how you read her response?  Personally I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. 

I dunno?

KC

Yes, she was incoherent, but it was the "sorry to say" that I took as "that's not good enough."

The insurance alone will make her run screaming into the night.  You have be insured 10 ways to Sunday.  The Workers Comp is a killer.  And the Health Dept regs...you really need to take a class in it (we did.)  Can't guess or use common sense. 

I'd love to see her learn a lesson in basic capitalism.  But, I don't think she has the steam to go forward with it.

[Chris_]

The insurance alone will make her run screaming into the night.  You have be insured 10 ways to Sunday.  The Workers Comp is a killer.  And the Health Dept regs...you really need to take a class in it (we did.)  Can't guess or use common sense. 

Quarterly taxes, health inspections, equipment maintenance, absentee employees.

This ought to be interesting.

[98ZJUSMC]

What bothers me is the primitive's obsession with how many hours she'd have to work.

That's of course important, but not important enough to be obsessed with it; the hours just happen, and one adapts.

I'm guessing most successful small businesses, the person who started one, was working damned near 168 hours a week, for the first few years.

And so I suspect the primitive's more interested in just having an 8-5 five-day-a-week twelve paid holidays a year, job, than in successfully operating a restaurant.

I think experiencing the reality of the hard work/loooong hours/low salary draw would run this little primitive out of business in a hurry. 

Only wanting to open 5 days a week?  Fail.

[Texacon]

Yes, she was incoherent, but it was the "sorry to say" that I took as "that's not good enough."

The insurance alone will make her run screaming into the night.  You have be insured 10 ways to Sunday.  The Workers Comp is a killer.  And the Health Dept regs...you really need to take a class in it (we did.)  Can't guess or use common sense. 

I'd love to see her learn a lesson in basic capitalism.  But, I don't think she has the steam to go forward with it.

I couldn't figure out if she meant it was sorry to say that $20k would be good for her or sorry to say that $20k wasn't good enough for her.

I'm with most of the others on here.  I would love to see her give it a shot and report her experience.  I don't think there's a snowball chance in hell of her doing it nor do I think she would tell the truth about how difficult it is dealing with people just like herself.

KC

[BannedFromDU]

     Does someone have a mole that can go over and offer to be the first employee?

     "I'm offering to come work for you. I need $15 an hour, full paid benefits, a pension plan, six weeks paid vacation, a paid sabbatical every two years, profit sharing, and you better make that $18 an hour because I will need that to stay whole after I pay the union dues I will owe after joining one. I have no experience, but I do have a bad back and I take care of my ailing step-uncle, so I will need a few hours off here and there for that."

[Chris_]

     Does someone have a mole that can go over and offer to be the first employee?

     "I'm offering to come work for you. I need $15 an hour, full paid benefits, a pension plan, six weeks paid vacation, a paid sabbatical every two years, profit sharing, and you better make that $18 an hour because I will need that to stay whole after I pay the union dues I will owe after joining one. I have no experience, but I do have a bad back and I take care of my ailing step-uncle, so I will need a few hours off here and there for that."

And no drug-testing either.

[Texacon]

     Does someone have a mole that can go over and offer to be the first employee?

     "I'm offering to come work for you. I need $15 an hour, full paid benefits, a pension plan, six weeks paid vacation, a paid sabbatical every two years, profit sharing, and you better make that $18 an hour because I will need that to stay whole after I pay the union dues I will owe after joining one. I have no experience, but I do have a bad back and I take care of my ailing step-uncle, so I will need a few hours off here and there for that."

and I'm thinking I'll need maternity leave in the next couple of years.

KC

[Tucker]

and I'm thinking I'll need maternity leave in the next couple of years.

KC

You mean paid medical leave to recover from an abortion?

[GOBUCKS]

I couldn't figure out if she meant it was sorry to say that $20k would be good for her or sorry to say that $20k wasn't good enough for her.

She meant she's never cleared $20,000 a year in her life, but embarrassed to have to admit it.

Anyone who wants to buy a restaurant, then work normal nine-to-five hours and close on weekends and holidays, will never limit losses to $20,000 per year, let alone make a profit.

[Aristotelian]

I want her to do this.  I want to read her posts when she complains about how the city, county, state and federal governments are involved in her business affairs and are making her life miserable, with all their taxes, licenses and fees and filing their paperwork.  I want to see how she deals with lazy employees and pissed off customers that give her bad reviews on yelp.

Seconded. This has the potential for much amusement.

I also think that Tav should stick it to the man by opening his own business which can be a model of his socialistic views...

[AprilRazz]

What has me the most concerned is the usual primitive attention to hygiene. If she cleans the kitchen like she probably bathes there are going to be lots of sick people out there.

[RobJohnson]

She can smash the hamburger patties under her hairy armpits.

[Big Dog]

What has me the most concerned is the usual primitive attention to hygiene. If she cleans the kitchen like she probably bathes there are going to be lots of sick people out there.

Exactly. Another reason I would never eat at a place that was owned by a DUmmy...

But that is kind of like saying "a place owned by a unicorn". 

"Dummy - business owner"?