Well I guess from an update of the current situation. The god damn landlord tried to sue us and in the end we ended up winning the case. He probably thought we were stupid and probably wouldn’t of gotten a lawyer. We counter sued him saying that he never even bothered to fix the restaurant when we needed him to. For instance - My restaurant is underground (as in a basement) and the building is old, therefore when there are pipe problems, all the water goes to us. We’ve had a lot of water problems this year and have had to close many days because of it. I remember my dad calling the landlord and he never even bothered to answer the phone. Hell my dad even went up in the pipes and tried to fix them himself… and fell off the ladder and slit his hand open. We rushed him to the hospital and he got stitches.. we thought the working insurance would cover it but they wouldn’t because he’s the “owner” and not an “employee.” Fucking Bull Shit. This was back in May… and I remember specifically that we had to close for about 1-2 weeks because of the water damage. Ever since then our business dropped dramatically for whatever reason. If the landlord would have done his fucking job, all of this would have been most likely avoided. Last year he also didn’t even bother to clean the parking lot when it was covered with three inches of ice. We had to go out and buy the salt ourselves and clean up the lot. There were also many other occasions where he’s never showed up or bothered to fix the things we’ve requested. Cheap Ass Mother Fucker.

I currently don’t know how much longer we’re going to be at the restaurant. Apparently we have till the end of January… which is very soon. The thing is that the landlord WANTS us to resign because he knows that no one wants to buy our space - it’s a piece of shit (even though we make it look prettyful). Though if we resign we have to put a $27,000 down payment and then rent will be $2000 a month. How bullshit is that? Sounds stupid. My dad said no and wants to get the fuck out of the place. It feels nice to screw someone over.

Nonetheless, we currently are technically “winning” the case, so the landlord is pretty scared. We are now trying to get him to PAY US. We took a ton of things out of the restaurant and if he wants the place, he’s going to have to pay for all of the appliances etc. I recently did inventory for the restaurant and am going to do the estimation of each item.

I guess once the restaurant is gone, we are going to possibly try to open another restaurant. The location is going to be a lot better and hopefully a better fucking landlord. We will see what happens~ I really hope 2011 will be a better year.