Well I don’t know. Today be a Friday and it’s super super slow. It’s crazy how horrible this year was for business. It wasn’t even like a steady drop - it was more like a sudden drop. I mean yeah last year was slow but it wasn’t nearly as slow as this year. I get that the economy is bad, but jesus. It can’t just suddenly get worse like that. On top of that things in the restaurants have been breaking down and shit. But today is probably the worst Friday I’ve ever encountered business wise. It makes me sad.
Another bitch thing that happened today was a lady called the restaurant and asked, “Hi, are you the restaurant that is next to Martin’s?” Mind you the place she’s talking about is the restaurant RIGHT BEHIND US - New China. I tell her no we’re the one by Peddler’s Pub, blah blah blah. She continues and asks, “Oh. Well do you know the name of the restaurant I’m talking about? Because I’ve been looking everywhere and I don’t know what it’s called.” I’m like, “Ma’am did you not comprehend the question you just asked me? It’s equivalent to asking McDonald’s where Burger King is located. Why would I tell you my competitor’s location?” Stupid dumb bitch. Seriously what the fucking fuck.
You know I understand why people go to New China (even though their food is gross). They’re cheap for one thing, and they give you fried rice instead of white rice! 8D Reason we don’t do it is because we treat fried rice as a meal and we actually MAKE our fried rice. On top of that we make our food from the freshest and finest ingredients. We make our food from scratch essentially. I find it hilarious that people will be 5 bucks for stupid coffee at Starbucks, but won’t even pay that much for actual FOOD. Apparently New China is expanding. It’s annoying as fuck. We were here in this area first >_>
At the same time I want the keep the restaurant and another part of me wants to give it up. I feel like if I gave it up, it would be less stressful, but at the same time I won’t get to see friends and family as often. I don’t really know. I recently made menus for my dad because all the menus were old. The ones I’ve made were pretty nice and I’ve wasted about fifty bucks of my own money to print them out. Now my dad doesn’t want me to print them out anymore and not even bother to use them. It’s annoying and I wish he would have told me earlier not to do it… I wanted to make them look nice and advertise using my own money and hopefully get more business in, but he just seems like he’s already giving up.
On a different note, I’m so close to graduating that it’s scary. I wish I wasn’t in the situation where I have to worry about my dad. I wish I was one of the kids who were able to leave home and go to college - be on their own and not have to worry about their parents. After I graduate I just really hope I’m able to find a good job and stay relatively close to home. I feel guilty if I left him behind. I don’t want to be like my sister and not give a damn about family. My dad is all I got left.
