Top Ten Reasons for Owning Your Own Restaurant

#10 - You have no problem falling asleep at night after working 14 or 15 hours.

#9 - You are off on Mondays, when other restaurants - if any are open - are less crowded.

#8 - You get to work on Friday and Saturdays, when other restaurants are too busy to get into.

#7 - You have an ice machine that produces enough ice for the kitchen, the bar, your cooler, your friends' coolers.

#6 - You know the bartender.

#5 - You can have all the blueberry pie (leftover) for breakfast that you want.

#4 - You usually get to see family and friends when they are in town, even though you are "at work".

#3 - You get first notice on new products just coming on the market - DragonBerry Rum, anyone?

#2 - Your 0ffice is located within a (fully stocked) professional kitchen.

And the #1 reason for owning your own restaurant? You really want to know? Okay -

#1 reason for owning your own restaurant has to be all about all the people you get to know over the years, front of the house, back of the house, suppliers and purveyors, customers and employees. It's just about one of the most social jobs out there and it's the people that make it work. For better or worse, friendly or surly, young and old, good and bad - you see and meet and talk and work with them all. What a melting pot of influences on the way you view your surroundings and those of others. We wouldn't trade it for any other job out there, which is actually pretty lucky, since we wouldn't know how to do anything else but this! ha ha!