Why I Won't Open a Restaurant
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
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If money were NO issue, what would YOU do?
I would code and research because I love creating things and would have the freedom to study whatever I want
Breed jaguars so I can try to domesticate one for a pet.
Get up on my feet and let go of every excuse, cause I wouldn't want my baby to go through what I've been through
Two chicks at once.
Open a bakery 🧁 !
We opened a small restaurant recently, and it was hard when it started however thankfully things are going well
Any starting advice?
right on brotha!
embrace social media to promote your business
@@SenpaiKai9000 adapted or die in obscurity.
Joke aside, social media is the cheapest and most effective way to reach out to potential customers
I hope u are successful dandelion may Jesus bless u u have a lot of balls 🏀 ⚽️ to open up a restaurant
@@SenpaiKai9000 speakeasy food club. Dummy. No health code. No covid restrictions. You'll have clean food but not waste time hosting inspection.
“What happens when you despise what you do…?” I loved to cook so I went into the culinary industry. Worked ten years, made it to sous chef, despised cooking. Now I’m in physician assistant school and cook more than ever. The passion is back!
So you despised cooking that you decided to do it anyways. Lmfoao Americans are too much.
@@alexaecho4273 No. I loved cooking so I did it as a job. And when I did it 14 hours a day for six days a week I despised it.
@@seofutbol i can relate. Spent almost more time in kitchens then most. And do not for a second regret leaving that life. Fastest way to hate food and cooking… become a chef. 25 years. Now that i’ve said goodbye to kitchen work i love to cook again. My wife loves it too.
@@alexaecho4273 Do you think it would be different in somewhere like France? Cos oh boy do I have _decades_ of stories for *you.* I cooked in 3 countries across 2 continents and it's the *SAME EVERYWHERE.* I mean you're clearly here just to spout "something something Americans lmao" but let's break it down anyway. What is a passion for cooking? It's a passion for the senses, the aesthetic, the creativity, the endless learning and the sense of satisfaction. Translate that to a *professional* environment with competition, ego, money as an objective, someone else's menu, set schedules and dissociation from the customer - wow we've just stripped away everything personal about cooking.
Say we go through with it for a while, because we _really_ love to cook; we drank all the kool-aid about how we can make it to head chef and cook our own food, we have developed a bond with our co-workers and we have learned how to function in a professional kitchen - we're no longer just good at cooking we are good at _working in a kitchen._ We make it to "Sous Chef". Now our day consists of inventory, scheduling deliveries, more inventory, scheduling receivership for the used grease and organic mulch, more inventory, checking stations before service, more inventory, calling the board during service, more inventory, AND IF YOU'RE REALLY LUCKY, A PREP COOK MIGHT NOT SHOW UP FOR HIS SHIFT AND YOU GET TO TOUCH SOME FOOD. For an hour or so. Then it's back to inventory.
The disconnect between the passion and the industry is not the fault of young cooks. You can hardly blame them for wanting to do something professionally that they already have a passion for. The fault lies with the writhing, bloated sack of corruption and bullshit that wears the face of an art-form when in reality it is a soulless, corporate machine like any other (you just work twice as hard as regular wage slaves).
@@seofutbol 6 days your lucky I was 7 from 5:30 in the morning till 11:30pm lol
I could only imagine you having a restaurant 🤤
dad has been in the food bussiness 30+ years, it was tough because he wasnt the best english speaker and NYC was a very savage place in the late 80's. I grew up looking up to him, one day he asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up..i said just like him and his heart just went sideways because today i see what he went through. Food business is tough whether its a startup cost/wasting, employees or even just rude people who you can never satisfy. I love to cook as a passion but nyc has drove me away from wanting to own my own restaurant but, who knows maybe one day.
mad respect to your pops for being there for you. i bet he can outcook anyone on youtube too lmao
@@SenpaiKai9000 thank you my dude. much respect too, you do alot bro, youre the king of quick food just as well as albert.
NYC is a very savage place right now lol
So sweet buddy
@@2010Failbrids NYC is just a savage place lol
There is no money to be made in the middle in the restaurant industry. You either go high end, or massive scale franchise style, the middle ones always lose.
That's not true. My restaurants do about 1000-1300 dinners a week and we do excellent
@@psykoShr00m Yeah but you are not resistant to inflation, in the end it will swipe you
@@ArtControlChannel I don't wanna Jynx it, but we just broke all kinds of records. Inflation isn't hurting us. We own everything. All our buildings, our properties. We don't pay rent or mortgage
I admire someone who Loves cooking and working in a restaurant scene with a passion. Its not easy whatsoever.
gib me monies
Gible
Here: take some money 💰
Take a huge loan 💰
Senpai kai where is this place, 😭😭
no🥵
lol I opened my Deli 3 months before the pandemic. we are still kicking but it's been a struggle. I am happy making people smile with my work and ideas though.
ngl, my brain wasn't processing your words. that food looking good asf
No, People mostly fail because they turn their art into a business but they don’t turn their business into an art. I’ve seem so many people lose every penny because they thought their passion for cooking was enough to run a business.
Here's MY reason why I won't open a restaurant:
I might be tempted everytime and eat the food and go bankrupt
not after you tried and had the food a hundred times
You would be your best customer, yeah having no control from eating you own supply, is a good reason not to do it.
Not really, you’ll get tired of the food eventually after eating too much of it, so that might be a way to prevent bankruptcy lol.
It's wild how much work is to usually just be scraping by. My grandparents owned one of the most popular hookups bar/clubs in Seattle and they were barely profitable
Was it called Dynasty Bar?
@@boscopappas234 The drift on in , it was Lynnwood area
@@brandenhill8426 I think I’ve heard of it
@@boscopappas234 it's gone now but they owned it in the 80's and parts of tvr 90's I think. It went through a few owners before and after them
Dont open any restaurants. Its a scam. Youll never make money from it. Especially since price of groceries have gone up. Wholesale or bot.
That food on the tray looks absolutely magical!
I've always said the exact same thing.I love to cook and want to be a chef later in life, but owning a business is a whole different ball game
So what are you doing now then?
Don't be a chef, shit career path
@@Monkeypole Anti-social work hours too. It's hard work, I love food but it's completely different in a commercial setting. I have a wage but I can't go out or do anything because I'm working when most people are going out. It's definitely better than sitting in an office having to be pc all the time and I don't have to deal with customers but fuck, I'd love to have my weekends back.
@@HidingSleeper just take weekends off say you have another job weekends or something. Thats what i do.
Start a "restaurant" in your backyard Friday and Saturday night only. Then as your name gets out there and you get more customers, you can grow to a food truck. Them from there you can grow to a restaurant. Restaurant doesn't have to be big. It can be a drive up only. Go for it!!!
I've been in restaurants for 24 years now I turn 40 this year. Even the pandemic won't stop people from coming in especially now. As a server I work 4 nights a week and can comfortably be where I need to be.
You're speaking the truth! My mother ran kitchens with stars, even ran a bakery for a while, she taught me the value of working for someone else when It came to restaurants, etc. She's in her late 70's now, we joked the other day that the best option to make money is to be on UA-cam or Tiktok as a foodie, not that it's easy, just easier than owning all the debt, plus you get to cook what you want/enjoy
Preach it, homie. I've cooked and cheffed for a few stressed out, miserable owners. It's a sad truth. 😔😪
love the variety in your videos man
I've worked in a few restaurants where I earned more money than the owner. And trust me: the owners worked far harder than I did.
It's kinda sad, really.
well im the owner, and i feel it rn
Facts
That’s why the rich restaurant owners I’ve met own several restaurants. Make too little from just one
As someone who has owned 2 cafe's and now a fish and chip shop, I would say this video should be compulsory viewing for anyone thinking of getting into a food business.
Do you make good money with your restaurant?
You have to start somewhere and if you let the unknown scare you then definitely don't do it. It's a slight gamble
I love the honesty
And yet so many thriving restaurants and businesses associated with food and catering.
Truth. Owned a restaurant for 14 years that made a modest 2 million a year take home eoy was like 150, split that with my partner and it's 75. Now 75 isn't bad but when that restaurant needs ANYTHING is come out of your pockets.. oven break? Delivery car transmission went out? Cool/freezer goes down over a holiday causing total cold inventory loss? Employee breaks in over night and cleans out the safe? All if these things have happened to me. In the end I lost it to a fire and while insurance helped I was left with debit, and had to claim bankruptcy. I now make 75k yr running a Truckstop 3 weeks vacation, quarterly bonus 5 day work weeks, 8 hours a day.. would never in my life put myself back through that. American dream can easily become the American nightmare.
I used to cook and decided to open a Cafe fast forward 3 years later closed the door gained almost 70 pounds felt like I had an elephant on my chest. I grew to despised cooking. Many years later i have been growing to love it again cooking for my family. My wife has asked me if I would ever want to open up another place I said a busniess yes a food industry busniess no. I don't even cook professionally anymore. But seeing the faces of the people you care about light up when you make something delicious even when it's a simple homemade mashpotatos is such a great feeling. So to Senpai Kai smart decision do what you doing now if you happy doing it.
I always felt like food truck was the way to go over a restaurant
It’s not only restaurant. It’s business it’s self. Tesla, Ford, GM, just to name a few have their own story to tell.
Consistency in what you LOVE to do opens the door.
I think I tell people this exact thing word for word when they ask this question. I'm a Chef, I don't want that stress I already have enough
That is true. My mom runs a small restaurant in Oregon. Its a teriyaki shop. When she first opened it back in 2018 she was working 7days a week 10 hours a day. She is in her early 60's. Now she works 6 days a week and works lesser hours and luckily she was employees now
this is what I wish everyone knew before they asked me if Id want to own a restaurant or even be a chef. Id rather just be a line cook at this point. Ive had several family members entertain the idea of having a family restaurant. But I think anyone who wants a restaurant should watch kitchen nightmares and read kitchen confidential and then talk to me.
"When there is a will, there is a way"
-random shifu on the internet
Well that's BS
WHERE IS THIS?! I NEEEEED THIS BBQ
Looks bomb
totaly true. Our restaurant makes almost no returns on the food. But on the drinks... Hot damn, we sell so much beer its insane. It also helps for extra tip money since in the netherlands tips are not required. So people mostly do give us tips because they are drunk and feel generous haha. so on top of a really good minimum wage we get like 2-8 euro's an hour extra (heavily depends on the night you work).
OMG your food looks good maybe a food truck or meals from home👍 😋
Best wishes to whatever you decide to do 😘
Exactly why I opened a food trailer, also Exactly why I wouldnt get a truck, because if it breaks down your business breaks down! at least you can always rent a U-Haul to tow your trailer.😉
@RunningOnEmpty damn this shit hits a little too close to home lol
My family actually sells food in our house but having a restaurant is extremely tough
how do you get a license for that? or is it just under the table (no pun intended lmaoooo)
@@CHLOCHLOLP my parents don’t have one plus it’s very common for people to sell food at there house
@@mgofficial5470 you don't have to pay taxes? Get a permit? Health inspections? 🤯🤯
@@mgofficial5470 also when tou say food (meals, baked goods, or canned?)
@@troll1321 home cooked Mexican food
Honestly didn’t like your content at first but loving it, your on your way to your dream
That brisket looks so slappin omg 🤤😋💖
rlly good living as a server? as a cook? yeh right 😂😂😂
I am a server and most servers at my restaurant make 100k+ a year.
Some of the best entry level jobs. You can easily work your way to 50-80k a year. 100k if it’s a half decent restaurant
I mean if its a high end restaurant then yes, those server are highly professional
@@maheshdatwani59 if you cant afford it then cook your own food peasant
Was making around $22 an hour as a server. really good living in my younger days, partied hard though
I’ve owned several, it’s a ton of work and a ton of risk. Glad to be out.
What do you do now? Just work for a restaurant?
This is why a coffee shop or cafe is a better idea
Facts..it's a hand life but when it's good...it's great!
OMG! You just stressed me out😭😭😭💙
UA-cam should give you a free restaurant after 1 millions subscribers 😤
Oh yeh, because that's realistic 🤦
Preach! Honestly, the entire restaurant system needs an overhaul.
Lol no. That's normal thing to do when you're a leader of organization.
You need to dedicate yourself to your organization.
If not, then say goodbye to your organization.
If u want to have an enterprise without working, then be an investor. But you're not the real owner tho. Just "one of shareholders"
As a chef I totally agree if we are talking about “mainstream” restaurant with a set menu (I mean by that, that the menu is always the same). In France here We have a lot of small restaurant 10/20 seat. And the menu is never the same everyday, it’s the chef decision. I think the real problem is doing the same thing over and over again.
So my advice is opening a small restaurant and having the liberty of making new dishes and experimenting things 😃. It is more expensive for the customer but it is special dishes and made with passion and love.
I need everything on that plate.
This applies to most businesses that are starting up, especially restaurants. Easy to get into but a lot of competition already exists. Need a lot of capital from yourself or investors to operate comfortably for the first few years
That’s why there’s so many successful mom and pop restaurants
Sounds stressful as hell but I can see how it could be super rewarding too
That food looks so fucking good i actually kinda wanna cry, i need it
This is so true. I grew up in a family restaurant. I'm thankful because it taught me two things. One was how to cook really well and the other is that I never want to be a chef for people outside of my immediate family. 😂 Not only do you work from 5am to 10pm on average, longer during the weekends and on prep nights. But you have to deal with pretentious people, or at least I did. My parents had a restaurant near a private golf resort, you could only imagine the levels of Karen we got😂 and I have my grandad's Scottish temperament, so you can see where this is going probably. One morning a particular Karen had me walk a raw egg on a saucer to her table and place it in front of her and I leaned in and said " I am not your maid, you asked for over easy that is what you got, you didn't say over medium and since this is your fourth request to change your egg order, you're more than welcome to come back into my kitchen and cook it yourself."
I then turned around and went back to my kitchen. The waitress later came back and told me that it was so hard for her to keep a straight face because the look the Karen was burning into the back of my head as I walked away could have murdered someone. Needless to say I didn't have to work mornings anymore as I was apparently too grumpy. 😂
Probably the first time in her life she was told she couldn't have something. You did the right thing by not putting up with her nonsense.
@@jamesr5741 More than likely, I just wished that more people in that industry could be that way with customers like that. Most customers here in America have this mentality that the customer is always right, it's so annoying. I feel really bad for people who work in retail or customer service. I couldn't do it. They must have the patience of saints.
@@SweetSassyMuffins Yeah customers come to expect it if it's normal to talk down. It's a mutual exchange of business, and if they don't want to treat the staff with respect then they can go elsewhere.
@@jamesr5741 I've always been that person that if I hear an employee being talked down to by a rude customer, I say something. I think calling them on their shitty behaviour and embarrassing them is the best medicine for people like that. I mean I get people can have bad days, but that doesn't mean you can take it out on someone else.
@@SweetSassyMuffins Exactly!
That camera is doing the bbq an injustice
A few friends of mine who opened cafes or restaurants failed miserably. Spoilage, staff issues, declining foot traffic, costs to build up a brand all mounted to huge losses around the 2nd to 3rd year.
The last restaurant I worked at was a Hungarian restaurant owned by a Hungarian chef. We had a fire in my hometown which forced us to close for over 2 weeks.
2 months later covid hits, our restaurant was in a hotel so we were one of the first places to close in our town.
You could see my boss hair turn white through it all. Racked up over 100k in debt and had to sell the restaurant.
I'm from the same town where Guy Fieri is from. Guy even offered to try to help keep the restaurant alive but my chef was burnt out. The chef does farmers markets still but he's now mostly occupied with his backyard farm and chickens.
It's absolute hell running one.
"You can make a good living as a waiter" bruh where
Anywhere that you get paid a wage and don't rely on tips. Of course, there's bad offers and good offers, but servers in Europe have been making good money. Even here in the Balkans, where it's always worse than Central Europe. Just gotta find a good place with a good owner and stay away from the restaurants on the beaches, they work you like a slave there in the summer season. Then it's smooth sailing.
@@darkySp lmfao, so like i said in my comment, another country, not here in the US
@@darkySp yeah that makes sense. Here in the US being a waiter is a minumum wage or below minimum wage job and its nothing but that. The reason it can be below minimum wage is because If you are able to collect tips employeers are allowed to pay you less than the minimum wage so I know alot of severs that make around $4-5 dollars an hour excluding tips which is astonishing appalling in today. The US is actually a pretty poor country surprisingly when it comes to wages😅 especially with the food service industry and restaurants. They are the absolute worst.
Everyone a chef now 😆 damn you tik tok
Support can definitely help. If everyone is willing to try and help it can happen.
I feel the same way, I wanted to go into this industry mainly as a gateway to travel around the world and learn about different cultures and owning a restaurant was never on my radar. I think most people assume that if you want a career in this industry, you have to become a chef or restaurant/business owner but I think its completely fine if you dont want to take that route.
You just crush my dream 🥺
Guess I'll have to rethink my dreams of opening a small cottage cafe lol
Thank you I needed to hear this
You: "Why I won't open a restaurant..."
Me: "Why I don't paint scenic pictures..."
*Fist Bump: Lack of views*
Servers averaging 35 dollars an hour be like: I can’t afford to live. Monthly budget: 1000 dollars for rent, 500 for food and alcohol, 50 dollars for streaming services, 4000 for cocaine, 50 dollars for the savings account
Yea this
Servers dont average 35 an hour
Why I *will* open a restaurant: have you heard about insurance fraud?
I totally agree with you. I owned a pizza shop in the late 80's and I never worked less than 120 hrs a week. No one seems to understand why I don't want to go back to that.
“A really good living as a server and a decent one as a cook and a chef” neither of these things are true and the fact it’s not the other way around is still BS.
High end restaurants usely tip good
@@kimjong-un5562 maybe in your country great leader but that’s not the case in most.. and still for a chef to be paid less than a carrier of food is disgusting.
@@calumjunior7748 bro u definitely aren't even working age to even discuss this
If working in rosetted restaurants for over twenty years isn’t old enough then I guess not.. don’t call me your bro, I don’t want to be murdered by you…
What do you consider really good living? Servers can definitely make a career from just serving
Laughed at "you can make a really good living as a server or a cook but it's much harder as an owner"
I own a music school. High rents almost put me out of business. The IRS is still after me. Only pure luck (maybe divine intervention) allowed me to relocate and stay in business.
And yes - very often a commercial lease is really a deal with the devil.
There are different routes to acquiring restaurant start small get bigger. I know so many family restaurants that started from a food truck.
I think you’re focusing on all the bad stuff .. there’s plenty of upside in food business... unless you plan on opening a michlien star. If not you can literally get a food truck ... if you’re reading this don’t give up on your dreams of owning one day
Even starting a street food business can do well if you know what is delicious and fun to eat in the area.
Especially if you don’t plan on starting a restaurant with big inventory that will obviously make you stress.
Starting in small inventory is the smarter choice.
But I guess some people (or most) think there is no other option but to start with big inventory
Profit margins aren’t high when it comes to restaurants
What's wrong with a person being realistic and honest. Restaurants are some of the worst investments you can make. Nothing wrong with being hesitant.
What’s wrong with looking at the bright side of being realistic and honesty?
Experience.
@RunningOnEmpty keep making excuse .... tools of the weak & incompetent which build momentum’s of nothingness
My cousin is a chef.. he makes more money then most ppl in our family he gets paid really well.. he works so much though! We hardly see him anymore! Still proud of him regardless 😊😊 he took a chance on something different
if he's happy, that's all that matters (:
Open a restaurant in the metaverse it'll b lit
People who run restaurants. Make food. Work. Sleep. It's a personality trait.
Imagine telling an enthusiastic and skilled lover they should open a brothel...
what a terrible analogy
Uhhh
@@horseliver338 it’s a joke
@@sprocastersprocaster weird joke
@@horseliver338 I agree
You mean you can’t. Not won’t
anyone with money can
anyone who wants to take out an SBA loan can too
@@SenpaiKai9000 you’re just saying you won’t because it’s easier to say that than I can’t. Self comforting. If anyone can, then take out a loan then, do it
As a man with 4 bars and 2 restaurants, You're spot on Senpai lol
You hit the nail on the head !
"you can make a really good luving as a server" what drugs are you on?
Once you grow some balls, youll be ready to open your own. Becoming a business owner and relying solely on your own abilities to provide for youself and family takes a set of big balls.
Such a childish way to look at things lol
@@eltata1475 actually, its the opposite.
Right about that. I got out of the chef business a long time ago. Not enough money, lousy hours and far too much work when you're in charge.
Grub looks on point!
This is why I won’t open one either .. I don’t want to be stuck
It is a specialty. I often see comments about how people don’t want to tip. Just don’t go out. That money usually gets split and there is so much work behind the curtains
Good point, I live in New York City and you don't hear at the media talking about it but at least 13,000 restaurants closed down during the pandemic. That's a lot of people losing their dreams.
You can gain the fame of Gordon Ramsey by calling everyone in your kitchen a donkey
Truth.....legit one of he hardest businesses
Showing this to family who constantly has the idea that I should open a restaurant.
You getting to the point where you could capitalise on who you are, your channel isn’t small and the numbers are solid.
I wanted to be a cook when i was a teenager, no experience whatsoever and i still managed to grab a cook job at a restaurant and honestly after seeing how fast it run in a kitchen and not managing to keep up with it and learning the menu. That kinda gave me a cold shower. I sure still like cooking for myself, friend and family though and it's much less stressful lol.
*”once you’re the owner the game changes” - MELL DUNEY 616*
Cooking is the best thing some people love
not even just that you always get characters that either try to hold your restaurant hostage with yelp, order something and demand they ordered something different, get mad when they had to wait 15 minutes when you gave them a 30 minute wait time for walk ins, etc.
You literally just described a struggling business lol. Ya those are a struggle
Let's just appreciate how good that food looks right now!
This food looks SOOO good
I am opening no matter what, because I love cooking and I know a lot of people who love eating
That Bbq 🍗 Look So Good Lol