When it rains, it pours.

[East Coast Hustle]

Don't you miss the rush of a real kitchen? The rapid fire barking out orders while expediting the servers and telling the manager to either shut up or help?

I will, but it'll take another year or two.

[East Coast Hustle]

UPDATE: He's doing a soft opening sometime in the next few weeks, then he's going to call me and run sales numbers and growth projections by me. His idea is that within a few months he's going to open a 2nd cart and make me manager. He says he has some people working for him, but they're basically just line grunts and he wants somebody with both chef skills he trusts AND ownership/management experience he trusts and I fit the bill. According to him, if the operation makes money (and I'm fairly confident that it will) I'll have the option to buy in and become part-owner.

Looks like unless his soft opening is an epic failure, I'll be moving to Texas sometime in the next few months.

On the list of things I NEVER thought I'd ever say, "I'll be moving to Texas" is way up near the top of the list.

[pumonca333]

For the record moving to texas would've been on the tippy top of my never gonna happen list at one point also. As will happen circumstances convened to bring me to Austin, and I love it here, It's a great city with a rich sense of community and local pride, a cool kind of out of the box diy approach toward business, and a panopoly of interesting things to do, I've been here almost 2 years and I'm not even close to shedding my sense of newbie wonder and discovery (then again i've been on earth 28 and still feel similarly in general so it may just be me).  That said, the food trucks here occupy a hallowed place in the Austin landscape and would probably be really fun to work in.  I know plenty of young people here start one up as a relatively surefire and low risk way to learn business management.  Perhaps most importantly it's very easy to get laid here, and there are enough non-cabbage persons to make it rewarding, so by all means give Austin a shot, you likely wont regret it

[East Coast Hustle]

As it turned out, my current job gave me a HUGE raise so Texas is gonna have to wait.

[Reginald Ret]

Cool!
In two ways:
1. more money!
2. this means they really really want you to stay, so job security ftw.