It's been grand

Earlier this year we closed our doors and became another restaurant statistic. I run through the woulda coulda shouldas and don't see anything major we could have done differently. Minor tweaking but nothing that would have made a positive cash flow. We were located in an aging downtown that was in the process of being revitalized but not fast enough to keep us alive. And then the recession hit. A double whammy. We closed in February and our rent was going to go up 20% in March.
It's a relief to be out. My feet don't hurt anymore and although we lost beaucoup bucks the hemorrhaging has stopped.
Speaking of hemorrhaging.... Someone else has taken over the restaurant with a different concept. Less expensive menu and a busy catering business on the side. I have a good friend who owns a business across the street and she tells me she has known she has esp since she was a child. When we owned the restaurant she told me she sometimes saw a spirit in the dining room who was dressed as a banker. (We were located in a former bank) She said he seemed benign and was monitoring the premises. Now that the new owners are in whatever spirits are present are disturbed and she sees the restaurant's windows covered in blood.