Wicked Jester
Libsmackin'chef
Bullshit, it is fuckin' true....California USED to be very business friendly. That all changed. Taxes started going up. Regulatory fees started going up, which in turn caused everything required to do business went up. Suppliers started charging more. Utilities started going up. Equipment started going up......Instead of tacking on unreasonable costs to my customer base, which would have no doubt affected the success, I had to let a couple of much needed employees go........When I opened a second venture in Vegas, the difference in the environment to do business was night and day.Yes, they were needed.....Had they not been needed, I would have never hired them in the first place.
Since you obviously got by without them, that's obviously not true.
Look, I've run a business before as well. I never had any employees. I worked very long hours and was reasonably successful until I decided the hell with it. I would have liked to hire someone else to take over half of the shit I was doing, but I didn't NEED to -- obviously.
Actually, one of the distinctions between a struggling business and a successful one is that the successful business can engage in a little luxury, like hiring people it doesn't absolutely need. In your business, if the food could get cooked promptly and well, the tables waited on promptly and politely, and the place kept clean and stocked, you had all the people you needed. Maybe not all you would have liked, but that isn't the same thing.