Donald Burns tells restaurant owners and chefs that glorifying endless work is a lie. He asks if you're happy, and if not, why you're settling for a life that's killing you instead of making changes.
Sacrificing your life for your restaurant. That's not noble. It's just stupid. You think being miserable is the price of success? If you do, you're dead wrong. You were not meant to be a slave to your own restaurant. But somewhere, somewhere along the line, you bought into this lie that this is as good as it gets. That happiness is just a dream for someone else. So I'm asking you, are you happy? If the answer is anything less than a yes, then it's time to make a change. It's time to stop settling. It's time start living.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
