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Restaurant Owner Restauranting may seem like an easy job, and some parts are, but there are many challenges that bring rewards. A restaurant owner has many challenges and benefits in a typical day. This is a job most look forward to be doing at an everyday bases. One of the best things of being a restaurateur is the benefits that come with.  The first benefit that most would notice first of coarse would be being your own boss and free food. Also after all the hard work it’s nice to hear a compliment about your food and services. The money is a big part of the job most restaurant owners receive  about $41,490 per year at average. Another benefit is meeting so many different people that could turn into long friendships. Most of all knowing that restauranting is a job many like to go into. Joey Albanese who owns  the Mequon Italian restaurant, Albanese, quotes, " Restauranting is in my blood” [Joey]. The typical day for most restaurant owners are hectic  and stressful.  The day usually starts out early in the morning and end late at night. Most owners start out the day by checking the “book” which contains reports from the night before. Then the owners buy their food and liquor from vendors, and do inventory.  Restaurant owners are always brainstorming to think up more ideas to get customers to come to their restaurants. When the doors open the owner mostly <span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);">walks around socializing with the customers. At the end of the night the owners or staff <span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);">clean up and <span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);">lock up the doors. <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">In being a restaurant owner there are many challenges to <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128);">cope <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);"> with. The employees are a big part of many restaurant owners challenges. The restaurant owner has to make sure they are trained well or make sure they care when a customer has a complaint. Another thing is having to many customers that people half to start waiting and waiting, and that can lose business. The worse case would be having a slow day and not getting enough customers. Some restaurant owners have busy days and slow days. Then they would have very <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128);">unstable income. To <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128);">maintain quality is a very difficult thing to do, to make sure that the food tastes the same as it did the last time the customers came. Most restaurant owners have long hours and barley any time to relax on weekends. Being a Restaurant owner is a very hard and stressful job. <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">Some may say being a restaurant owner needs not much schooling, but there are many things to become an expert restaurant owner. A high school degree is necessary to become a restaurant owner. It is helpful to have a business degree to know how to price the food and drinks. Having <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128);">experience like being a waitress, bus boy, and cook. Being a people person is a definite requirement to becoming a restaurant owner. A restaurant owner has to be able to answer the phone, take care of customers, and able to listen to complaints with a <span style="color: rgb(128,0,128);">sympathetic ear. Collage program that offers restaurant programs, and street smarts are very helpful. <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">To this day and age most restaurants are very popular, and so are takeout. In the future there will be less takeout because technology will improve. Home cooked meals will taste ten times better, “I expect improvements in flavoring technology-any edible subject will be made to taste like any other” says Siemering who publishes Leawood, Kansas based trend/wire a weekly advisory letter about food and trends. In the future the wait staff will be much more educated and more involved. Advances in technology will mean healthier and safer foods. This job can lead to much success and a lifetime of memories. <span style="color: rgb(255,235,0);">A restaurant owner is a challenging job, and some might think it’s easy, but after all the hard work there are benefits in the end. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontweight: bold; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-align: center; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt;">Bibliography <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Joey Albanese personal, interview 16,March 2009

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