-: I guess what I do mainly it's about people skills.
It's about communication.
My communication with my employees, with my customer,
and also my clients.
I've got to be intuitive and know what they want,
what makes them happy.
But it's also a good base of business skills,
when you translate what I do to preparatory degrees
that you would get in college.
It's management, it's finance, it's marketing,
it's communications, it's computer, anything with computer,
and also understanding of culinary arts.
So there is a path to get to where I am right now.
Any of those things that I just mentioned,
for me it was marketing and finance in college.
But any of those could get you to where I'm going today.
The most important thing is just a personal drive
to be the absolute best you can be in your industry.
I would absolutely recommend, while a person may be going
to college and getting a good business background,
to maybe work in the industry.
Work in the restaurant industry and make sure that that's
what they wanna do, and if they absolutely
fall in love with it,
they not only have the business background, then,
but they have the culinary background as well.
Working in the restaurant business, it takes a lot of hours,
a lot of hours per day and a certain dedication,
and a dedication to push, to really be the best.
There's so many restaurants that open up
and they close within months.
It's hard to get that initial loan to open up a restaurant,
and there's a reason why.
The majority of people aren't dedicated enough
and devoted enough to spend their time
to run a successful restaurant.
The key there is surrounding yourself with good people,
honest people, and people that you can count on
and depend on when you're not there.