I sense good things on the horizon but I don't want to jinx it.
I used to work at a very popular/busy family owned pizza shop for about 10 years back in the day. After that I worked for one of my former co-workers that opened his own shop.
This former co-worker is buying the original shop and is bringing me on board as staff. The place has gone down hill and its time to get it fixed and lucrative again.
This works for me because I really don't want the stress of learning a new job. Yeah, I have IT experience but I've been out of the game for a while. My rustiness makes me less of a candidate compared to others and I would need to work extra extra hard to get back up to speed in the computer game.
The pizza arena is something I know well and am good at and it pays very well in the circle I run with.
This will give me the opportunity to go back to school as well. I only have 32 more credits to go for an Associates in Human Services (Drug and Alcohol option) and I would like to re-take the classes that I dropped out of the last time around due to my habit.
I know I can increase revenue there. Check this out... there is a huge hispanic population in my area and no one is targeting them for business. I'm going to suggest having menus made in Spanish and bulk mailing them out. To accomodate this we should hire at least two bi-lingual folks to run the registers, phones and delivery dispatch. i think if someone is comfortable with ordering in their native language, they will be more likely to make it their regular spot.
We'll see what happens...
I used to work at a very popular/busy family owned pizza shop for about 10 years back in the day. After that I worked for one of my former co-workers that opened his own shop.
This former co-worker is buying the original shop and is bringing me on board as staff. The place has gone down hill and its time to get it fixed and lucrative again.
This works for me because I really don't want the stress of learning a new job. Yeah, I have IT experience but I've been out of the game for a while. My rustiness makes me less of a candidate compared to others and I would need to work extra extra hard to get back up to speed in the computer game.
The pizza arena is something I know well and am good at and it pays very well in the circle I run with.
This will give me the opportunity to go back to school as well. I only have 32 more credits to go for an Associates in Human Services (Drug and Alcohol option) and I would like to re-take the classes that I dropped out of the last time around due to my habit.
I know I can increase revenue there. Check this out... there is a huge hispanic population in my area and no one is targeting them for business. I'm going to suggest having menus made in Spanish and bulk mailing them out. To accomodate this we should hire at least two bi-lingual folks to run the registers, phones and delivery dispatch. i think if someone is comfortable with ordering in their native language, they will be more likely to make it their regular spot.
We'll see what happens...
