By Phil Ricci
Today was a great day. We are counting down to the launch of our brand new service! I will tell you all more about that in another post very soon, I promise. Right now however, I have got to get something off of my chest.
I met with dozens of business owners today about this…
From Dimes To Dollars Comments:
Business owners like this may as well do themselves a favour and close down today. It will save them some long-term debt, because they’re going out of business. It’s not a even a question of if, it WILL happen. There’s a franchised pizza joint by me (I won’t mention the same because the brand as a whole is pretty good) that is run by very lazy folks. They’re slow to respond to customers (just like in Phil’s situation), and they arrive late to open shop, sometimes missing lunch, and seemingly leave for the day whenever they feel like it. I’ve seen them closing up shop by 4 PM on a weekday.
You’re a pizza business. You can’t afford to miss serving lunch. You can’t afford to ignore customers when half a dozen other pizza places are a few blocks away.
I’m a compassionate person, but I can’t bring myself to feel sorry when businesses like these go under. Their hearts aren’t in it, they’ve given up completely on their own. Before you start a business, no matter what the scale, do your research, and make sure you have a PASSION for what you’re doing so you’ll be excited to come in every day and work your ass off for what you love.
