Power Smoothie Aventura

Its hard to figure out where it all started for me in business. I wasn’t on my way anywhere in particular. My spine had just retired from plumbing after i spent five years getting licensed. I was an unemployed, single father living on the kind of savings that lasts weeks, not months. I was back in college after working High-rise construction when i got a call from my sister. Our friend Aaron Burke was selling his Smoothie Shop, and the idea would not leave China’s wheelhouse.

She wanted to see what would happen if a Corporate Executive and a Licensed Plumber opened a restaurant. The idea sounded like the set-up to a very funny joke, or the premise of a bad TV sitcom, but i couldn’t tell which so I agreed to it and our first Corporation was born.

Nothing worth doing is ever easy. However, the challenge of being an independent business is NOTHING in comparison to being a restaurant of any kind. The difference between opening a shoe store and opening a restaurant is the difference between caring for bricks and caring for babies. The day you stock the shoe store, your real work is behind you, but your restaurant (like any baby) needs things, makes waste, and requires constant attention.