Short excerpt from a YouTube interview about self-care for restaurant owners. SPEAKER A argues self-care is a necessity—'When you burn out, restaurant burns out with you'—and lists practices they use: yoga, meditation, breathwork, walking, and gardening. The exchange is conversational and reveals personal habits framed as essential to sustaining a restaurant.
Now, you know me, I'm really big about self care, managing stress, you know, being more like just being more like getting out of, like, being boxed in your restaurant all the time. So would you say you believe self care is a necessity or just a luxury for restaurant owners?
It's a necessity. It doesn't feel that way sometimes, but it's a necessity. When you burn out, restaurant burns out with you.
And how do you take care of yourself?
I do a lot of yoga. I.
Do a lot of yoga. You're like the yoga queen.
Meditation, breath, work. I love to go for walks. I love to be outside. I love to garden.
I didn't know you liked the garden.
Yeah.
I learned something new about you. I didn't know you liked the garden. That's pretty cool.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
