The Restaurant Business sucks one needs to be hands on at all times to make it work
His critics seem to enjoy his failures.
The restaurant business is highly competitive, usually with a short lifecycle. Unless you’ve a very well established name, great management & consistent quality & cost and guard against new competitors. Location matters too.
I'd still be doing that kind of work today if it paid well. But it doesn't. Unless you are an owner or the head chef.
If I ever got divorced, I would open a restaurant. I would work/live there pretty much 24/7 because that is what it takes to run a restaurant. You do not have much of a life on the outside. It's the restaurant all the time. I'd also spend a lot of time at the bar and drink some of my profits.
That title makes my head hurt.
just because the celebrity is an owner is no guarantee
I was in the restaurant business as a teen. I won’t forget it, but I won’t ever go into it again. Failure rate of 95%+.
My younger daughter had her college graduation party in this restaurant back in June. Food was good, but half the items on the menu were just “not available” and the service was terrible. Orders were screwed up, late, and the waiter never checked back to see if our large party needed more drinks or desserts. The waiter wrote nothing down, relying on his very questionable memory to remember who ordered what. He also made very inappropriate comments to the women in our party.
The staff was too busy talking among themselves to do their jobs right. A drink that was ordered non-alcoholic was brought with alcohol in it, people who ordered diet colas got sugared cola (which could have been deadly for a severe diabetic), and one diner specified absolutely no shrimp because of a severe allergic reaction got a dish with shrimp in it! The waiter did not even apologize! The manager was NOT on the premises, when I asked to speak to her.
One couple came in, was seated near our area, menus given, but never were visited again. They finally got up and walked out, disgusted.
When our bill came it was incorrectly totaled. . . when I tried to bring it to the attention of the waiter, whom I had to chase down, he argued with me. . . Even though the error was in my favor! Then, when I wished to pay the corrected bill, again no one was to be found. I called over another section’s waitress and she got our waiter to come and got the check and my CASH. He took twenty minutes to return with my change. I was, by this time seething. Had the restaurant not automatically added an 18% tip for large groups to the bill I would have left exactly 2¢. . . so he would know I had not forgotten to leave a tip!
In my opinion, that is why the Arden Way Guy Fieri Johnny Rocket Restaurant abruptly closed its doors.