Restaurant Punk

March Showers, April Flowers: Opening Petunia BYOB


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Ok, so the title of this episode may not go along with the conventional saying, but we think it’s pretty d**n impressive how quickly Noelle, Peter, and Lena pulled together their brand-new restaurant, Petunia. While March had its fair share of showers (read: tears), the grand opening in April was met with rave reviews from the community. In this episode, Noelle, Lena, and Liz explore a few of the many challenges of opening a new restaurant, with questions including:

  •  Would you rather have one server, one busser, and a food runner, or two servers who can manage all three jobs?
  • When you have all new hires, how do you instill the culture and energy that you’ve envisioned?
  • Should the owner be in the front of the house all the time in a new restaurant?
  • How do you navigate hiring friends when you’re a new business owner?
  • Does Noelle’s mom know that she’s moving back to Cape May this summer?
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