Starting Yet Another Business

So here I am back in the states to help my mom start up yet another restaurant. This will be our third one in recent years. Come to think of it, the name of the restaurant is rather fitting as it is to be called THR33 (read simply as THREE).

Let me take us back a few weeks to fill you in on how we got here.

When my mother first called me from Georgia to tell me that she was considering opening another restaurant, she implied that it was going to be a small establishment serving only noodles; sort of like a fast-food pho joint, if you may. However, as the calls were becoming more frequent and more developments were being made, I was beginning to figure out that it’s not quite what she was trying to make it out to be. She was conferring with me as to what to name it. I told her, I’d need to know more about the concept she had in mind. This is kind of how the conversation went:

Me: “What is the concept that you had in mind?”
Mom: “It’s going to be fusion Thai, Japanese, and American.”
Me: “What?! I thought you said it was going to be small.”
Mom: “It’s not exactly small. It’s a bit bigger than Mai Thai.” (That’s the first restaurant we opened and is still in business).
Me: “What?! Mai Thai is pretty big! Mom, what exactly are you getting yourself into? Moreover, what are you getting us into?”

Over the course of many phone calls, I began to discover that the restaurant would not be fusion (as my mother had a misunderstanding of what fusion is), but would feature food from the three countries stated above. I quickly became busy and stressed with trying to find a flight home and getting everything ready on my end in a matter of two weeks.

Upon my arrival, my mother brings me to check out the location and the restaurant itself. I did a quick tour and soon discovered that not only is it bigger than Mai Thai, it is pretty much twice the size! Boy has my mother really gotten us into it this time.