- Oct 31, 2018
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Hello all my name Is Dave and I guess this is where I introduce myself. I Make Canada my home now and live in British Columbia a place they call Penticton. A wonderful place to live. Between two good size lakes and climate is high desert so it gets hot as hell in the summer. I operate about 6 months of the year. I have had a restaurant and BBQ at a marina and have seating for about 160 with seating for half on the patio right on the lake. Sounds like I hit the jackpot and the only way I could fail is if my food was horrendous and tasted absolutely disgusting I assure you that is not the case. I have 5 stars on my Facebook page and about 160 followers. That’s not bad considering the controversy surrounding the marina. Their was actually pickets and lawsuits against what the lease holders were trying to do and take park land and green space and turn into commercial zoning. Well shoot I sure stepped into it. I have been there for 2 1/2 years and managed to win over a lot people with our quality of food. I always believed that if you have great food and location customers would come. Well believe me that’s not always the case. We managed to make expenses and create a good name for ourselves but it’s time to find a new location as I haven’t been able to afford a food truck or trailer so it’s brick and mortar again next year. I have to say as well I think we did a lot af advertising with rack cards in all the hotels, a website yahooobbq.ca and a delivery service with national brand and tv exposure. I believed we couldn’t lose and this was the year we were going to make some money finally. Well the end of the summer and I feel like my pocket has been picked clean but I still have that passion and believe that next year we will kill it. Looking ahead and it’s why I have to make it. I am getting to dam old to go backwards and back to doing drywall again. I had a knee replacement last year and scheduled for the other one in December so this is one of the reasons for writing in finally and asking questions and opinions. I have another location that I believe again that is better if at all possible than the last one. No controversy surrounding it and have a lot of the requirements that the other location didn’t like a LIQUOR LICENSE for one. Beer and ribs go together like s#%t and flies and without it we no what will happen again so I have a lot of questions and even maybe some answers so I will be posting a lot to let ya all know how thing are going . I am looking for advice from some of you as I am sure there is probably another person going through a lot of the same s#%t so I will thank You all in advance.
Thank You Dave
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Thank You Dave
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