The restaurant start up. Life is not one that we look at very often if ever here on. A programme of school is all about starting quickly, starting horribly, not taking a lot of risk, and we think about the restaurant World war. It is expensive to start a restaurant least. Usually it is hard to make it work almost always, and if it doesn't work, the costs of failure can be high at least compared to many other projects. So that's why over industry or people in a different direction, but to be fair one. If it's your life dream to open a restaurant, and what, if you want to do it, you have to do it without much access to capital stats. What will look today, in the form of a catering, is turned a brick and mortar establishment in Santiago. California, actually very close to the border of t want to Mexico. We're calling the story, not your average tacos chef puts a twist on mexican coronary classics that title by the way, not your average tacos.

You also we're not, as young shop in child of immigrants overcame a last minute, snafu that cost six thousand dollars or almost cost six thousand dollars to stay tuned for the story and threatened to close down the business before it ever opened, but she figured it out and now the business is off to a great start, stay tuned for once more nacho average. How's that Priscilla, Korea is no stranger to the food industry, for parents have been running classic mexican restaurants into you, wanna for over thirty years. It's part of robbery, A decade ago, her family migrated north to truly Vista California, a suburb of San Diego, just across the border they opened a restaurant called calibre Zoo combination of growing up in the business and jumping into work. Ass. A teenager gave her an insiders glimpse into how the industry works a few years

later. Priscilla started her own part time catering business. It was only on the weekend, but it gave her a chance to exercise or coronary creativity and bringing some extra cash. It also helps make local connections in the restaurant industry. She kept her start up costs low just around twenty dollars at first, and this bought her enough for some basic ingredients. Able to prepare food at first or catering brought in a few hundred dollars on the weekend, which he kept at it and by twenty sixteen she was bringing in ten thousand dollars on the side each year. Priscilla said she'd, always save her money and reinvest back into the business she's. A firm believer in having every dollar a job put that money to work, even as a single mom working to jobs. She kept saving before long. She had saved twenty thousand dollars. Then one day she was so tacos outside a brewery when a customer like them so much, he agreed to help or set up her own brick and Mortar Restaurant help of that perfect stranger and the money she saved to know TAT Korea was born.

Priscilla doesn't burrito around the Bush with her ingredients. In her words, less is more. We have to get the most out of everything accordingly, her menu offers a small selection of dishes featuring tacos served with modern twist her trademark, taco too, to no means roasted bone marrow. It's one of the most popular items. The book of business to the new restaurant comes from either word of mouth or her instagram account. She mentioned it's important to maintain quality inconsistency, both in the dishes she prepares and on a social media. She shares her advice, don't take pretty pictures and then now an inferior quality product unfortunate. That's what somebody- restaurants, gyp snapping, pictures and resell, preparing meals, the dishes themselves or st side selling tacos were key factors in growing or followed. It doesn't hurt that too, to know located right near the crossing between San Diego into you wanna, so she gets plenty of foot traffic from both sides of the border. The toggery has only been opened for four months.

As already achieving a thousand dollars a day and sales margins are tight because it is the food business but she's off to a great start. So what's next Priscilla would like to open a small change Korea's. An mover catering business under the umbrella of tuna for cooking has been described as passionate, precise, soulful, unbalanced and it's all giving customers something to talk about Ok, so, as I said, the restaurants startup life is definitely not the easiest site us off. Don't you want to be a good partner? There might be other since that are not as challenging. There might be other ways, historic and food industry, but not open and actual restaurant stop we all have to eat. I gotta restaurants, everyday myself, and this is Priscilla passion, so good for her and the fact that she was able to save the money she needed as a young, single mom

I regret the bureaucracy associated with opening a restaurant and and begin building a loyal fan base. That is impressive and illustrate this lesson and perseverance. There is one example of something she had to figure out so about six weeks before opening the restaurant, she had a require inspection. That inspection reveal that she needed to replace the sprinklers. The contractor she talked to told her. It would cost seven thousand dollars at that point, she was gonna capped out. You didn't have a lot of money to invest and other people around here were telling her. Maybe do something different, maybe just give up and come back to this later, but she thought otherwise. She was already working to jobs but decided to pick up a third also critically. She decided to get a second just in case, and that was a good idea, because the second contract, your said they do it for half the price. Naturally, she took that lower quote. She managed to earn money within the mind, earn a great aid on the inspection and open three days later so lesson number one keep going lesson number two always get another quote:

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