I grew up working at a very successful family owned restaurant and landed in tech after college. The two can’t be any different. Owning a restaurant is a lifes

I grew up working at a very successful family owned restaurant and landed in tech after college. The two can’t be any different. Owning a restaurant is a lifestyle in ways that working in tech never would be. There is no free time, there is never a day off, there is no exit in sight. It’s 80-100 hours in per week, small margins, and frequent turnover. Can it be profitable? Yes. But it requires as much, if not more domain expertise as anything else, including doing a startup. And, there are far fewer people out there talking about the valuable details of doing it correctly - very different from the startup world.