-: I took the long route, so to speak,
so I was here a couple extra years
but I used those to my advantage.
Networking is probably my number one tool, I should say,
and not taking the people that you meet for granted.
You might meet them today and they might come around
and either come to your restaurant
or help you as a vendor five, six years down the road.
So I think that for me it was continuing that path
and getting my degree.
I was a restaurant and hotel management degree.
So a lot of those things I learned in school
I didn't use right away but they stuck with me.
The accounting side, the HR side,
and I use those things daily
and I never really realized that I would,
but from that technical side
there are many things that are useful but I think ultimately
I think that won't get you or lose you a job.
I think the networking that people, interaction,
I think that's what people will come to see.
When you go out to eat
or you go to a hospitality type event,
you wanna be able to talk to somebody and feel comfortable
and I think you can teach that
but I think most people,
that's ingrained in their personality.
Number one, like I said, you can tell somebody
that nights, weekends, holidays, are what you're needin'
but until you do it three years in a row,
until you work a Christmas Day three years in a row,
or a Thanksgiving Day three or four years in a row,
you don't really understand the challenges that go into it.
But I think that working, and learning, and
that's the way that people,
you earn respect from a lot of people.
There's a very wide demographic of people
that work in restaurants, and respect is earned
and given by working, and working hard,
and working in front of people, and working for people,
and working with them.