Friday, September 3, 2010

Opening a Restaurant

For those of you who don't know- Wes and I have been making his Mom's famous eggrolls every other week since May. Surprisingly we have done very well with them and I'm beginning to rethink my stand-point on how I felt about opening up a restaurant.
For as long as I can remember, Wes has wanted to be his "own boss" by opening a restaurant and selling his Mom's excellent food. However, I kept telling him things like -it's not a good idea, that it probably would not work out the way he thought it would, that we could never afford it, it would be a lot of work, etc. Then this summer we started selling egg rolls to Wes's friends work. The first week we had an order for about 20 dozen and I thought, "this will never happen again." Then two weeks later we got an order from the same office for 32 dozen! Two weeks after that they ordered some more and I thought, "let's see how this will go over with some of our Facebook friends." So I posted on Facebook that we were selling egg rolls and the response has been overwhelming. We sold over 300 dozen in about 2 and half months and we continue to get requests all the time. In fact, we're making some more for Labor Day and instead of people ordering 1 or 2 dozen they are ordering 3 or 4 dozen.
So back to my original thought. Wes and I are seriously contemplating opening a restaurant that serves vietnamese cuisine with a focus on egg rolls. It would definitely be risky and very scary and I'm not quite sure how we would gather the money to do it, but at the same time it is exciting to think about. Who knows maybe it wouldn't go over the way we think it would, but the fact that we are selling so many egg rolls to our friends alone, makes me think that we might have a good chance at this restaurant thing.