09/17/2024
Metathesiophobia – the fear of change
Insanity – “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting differerent result” – Albert Einstein. With those two concepts in mind…
We opened The Guest House on January 18, 2018. We operated for 2 years close to the model we had in mind – a cozy restaurant serving simple, fresh food, local beers and wines and craft cocktails. A place where the neighbors could come for lunch, brunch, dinner. That was all upended in March 2020 as it was for everyone when Covid entered our lives and changed things forever. We have spent the last 4 ½ years trying to navigate this new world. Two years as the restaurant we dreamed of, more than twice as many as something else. It can’t be news to anyone that the labor market has shifted – perhaps no industry has been affected more by a lack of labor as the restaurant industry. Supply chain issues, cost of goods, etc etc etc. We have spent these last 4+ years trying to operate The Guest House as we did in Februrary 2020. At least with the hope that we could return to that time. It’s been 4+ years of trying to bang a square peg into a round hole. We’ve tried all sorts of things to bang it in there. We tried a hammer. Then a mallet. Then a sledgehammer. Finally, it dawned on us that perhaps no matter how hard we swing, the square peg just isn’t going to fit in the round hole. What we’re doing and been doing isn’t working – on any level. Not financially. Certainly not in terms of quality of life – physical, mental, emotional. So, we’re going to pivot with what we’re doing here. We are going to embrace change. Experts tell us that change is actually really good for us – it gives us the potential to grow, to learn, to discover new opportunities. ***Continued in the Comments***
