Can't Handle the Stress?

Owning a small business is not for the timid or weak. If your life has been all fun and roses, you're in for a shock when you step into your first business. When you visit other businesses everything looks like it's running smmothly from the customer's viewpoint. That's the way it's supposed to look to the outsider. But go behind the scenes and spend a day with the owner or manager and you may need some aspirin. There's an entire other world there that most customers never see and probably don't want to. If you ever get invited into the kitchen of a very busy restaurant on a Saturday night, you won't beleive it. You'll never figure out how they get all the orders done correctly and timely. In my opinion, a busy restaurant kitchen is either a work-of-art or a disaster. That's why most restaurant owners stay out of the kitchen and let the executive chef run it. And the chef gets paid very well to do it. If you can handle the stress you can succeed.