Week 9

I am going to start tracking the journey of Melange Hospitality Group and the Beignet Spot brand by marking it from the opening of Beignet spot Express, which opened September 28th 2024. It has been an absolutely crazy year. For some periods of time , I was negative money . When I say negative , I am not referring to having minimal asssets lots of debt . There were periods of time towards the later part of the year , when my personal accounts were negative . I was borrowing money from friends and family to buy groceries, pay rent and just get by. This was my current status as a married man and father. We are now at almost 2 months in operation and thing have been good. There has been a great reception to the brand but more importantly a great acceptance to my ideology of how to treat people. I have been burdenend by questions about the hospitality industry: Can a restaurant provide a great service and experience for both the guest but more importantly the team member? What does great work look like not from a task-orientated qualitative perspective but rather from a work perspective? What does profitable mean? What is the imperative of a work life balance at all levels of the restaurant group? These rumblings in my head have been driving me . The year is closing and without me being fully aware, the questions that have occupied my mind have changed seemingly overnight :I went from “how to I pay my apartment rent” to how to I scale this business? Those questions have drastically diffent concequences and timelines. One is a personal immediate problem to be solved. Its mere existence diminishes by ability on anything else with any real productivity. The later question is very outward focused and macro. The questions that mirror the later have been more and more prevalent and I find them quiet exciting. As the year closes , I have a lot to be gratful for. My next five years of my life and this nacent stage will be very exciting and transformational . I am looking forward to tomorrow.