this is the project:
taking an old 1938 diner and making it new again (which entails demo, permits, construction, rebuild) and opening a new restaurant (which entails permits, licenses, taxes, payroll, cpas, merchant services, hiring, marketing, websites, design plans, menu building, purveyor accounts, utilities, inspections...well, it's kind of big all by itself you know) and then because we're going for locally sourced we have farm wrangling, which is a whole other big ball of time and organization.
we've had delays. we're dealing with city permit issues, but we're getting there. the building is pretty much gutted, we've logged our progress on facebook and worked hard to make connections in the community. it all seems kind of unreal after coming off of 4-5 years of 50-70 hour weeks working for others on salary, to no paid job, to the next step of business owner. what a wild three months of leaping and hoping it's been.
here's to 2011 and where it takes us.
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