Halfway through "Hell Week"
Oct. 22nd, 2009 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snousleIt's sort of the eye of the hurricane.
Dinner for ten on Tuesday - a donation on my part, the guests paid $2K for this dinner at a charity auction. Flawless. Good to find out who has money and taste in this town.
Today, lunch for 14 at a winery. I thought it was a bit of a fiasco, but the guests loved it. My new chafing dishes are a pain in the ass, I need to figure out how to set them up with much less fiddling.
Saturday and Sunday, paired events at the same winery, appetizers for 50, identical menu for both of them. So I have tomorrow-and-a-little-bit to get my act together for that. Hardly any turn-around time between them, the first is 5-8 and the second is 1-4.
Now, a few hours of rest before I get things going again... yeah, it makes money but boy is it a slog sometimes!
There's definitely going to be a lot of business coming. My main worry now is that I have to make this sustainable and not kill myself for pennies. I think I'm getting close to a $20/hr margin at this point but I really need to get it to $30 to make it work in a conventional ROI sense. 20% better efficiency and a 10% price hike might get it there.
Dinner for ten on Tuesday - a donation on my part, the guests paid $2K for this dinner at a charity auction. Flawless. Good to find out who has money and taste in this town.
Today, lunch for 14 at a winery. I thought it was a bit of a fiasco, but the guests loved it. My new chafing dishes are a pain in the ass, I need to figure out how to set them up with much less fiddling.
Saturday and Sunday, paired events at the same winery, appetizers for 50, identical menu for both of them. So I have tomorrow-and-a-little-bit to get my act together for that. Hardly any turn-around time between them, the first is 5-8 and the second is 1-4.
Now, a few hours of rest before I get things going again... yeah, it makes money but boy is it a slog sometimes!
There's definitely going to be a lot of business coming. My main worry now is that I have to make this sustainable and not kill myself for pennies. I think I'm getting close to a $20/hr margin at this point but I really need to get it to $30 to make it work in a conventional ROI sense. 20% better efficiency and a 10% price hike might get it there.
