What a long 4 months it has been since the doors opened. You think the story had drama before, you have no idea the drama when it's a full-service restaurant with 20+ employees. Holy cow, nobody prepared me for some of this nonsense.
And construction delays continue. Had delays 7 years ago, and have them the same today. Our new walk-in cooler got pushed back a few weeks longer than promised, so we're still without draft beer. The cooler did come monday and we built it, but still need to get an electrician in here to get it up and running. So, draft beer finally ready by next week fingers crossed.
One thing I don't know if I touched on before was the constant beating you get from customers and even the public. Even when 9 out of 10 comments you read online are great, the occasional negative comments are still hard. People flat out lie oftentimes. Just talking trash for the sake of being a jerk. And I get it, I realize these comments are always in the tiny minority, and most of the time not even completely true, it still feels like a personal attack. I've been doing this for years now and it never really gets easier to shrug those off.
We are also gearing up for festival season and on the prowl for a mobile smoker and/or food truck or concession trailer. We have a number of events this summer in sight, and also have a number of requests for family reunions and weddings with on-site cooking. Another major expense, but with business being good and a lot of event/catering possible, now is the time to start planning.
Finally, we've had a commercial on TV for a while now, I just forgot about it. This was shot early on so the restaurant is bare and it doesn't talk about the bar, but they are coming out as soon as our tap system is going and will shoot more video so they can add that info to the spot. I know some of you may be interested, so here's that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzD8ww7psz4