Latest / Best of Business / Mike's Minute: Is hospitality about how hard you're prepared to work?

Transcript

Mike's Minute: Is hospitality about how hard you're prepared to work? · Best of Business

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from Newstalk zed B. Follow
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: Proving life is what you make it. I walk into
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: a local restaurant right over the holidays. I know it well,
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: been there a million times. Italian's very good. Up at
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: this new owner. Who was this person? I inquired? He
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: came from Hospow. He told me had worked in the city,
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: but he and a mate had decided to, as he
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: put it, take a punt. It's better to be an
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: owner than work for somebody. I immediately admired him. The
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: restaurant had been put up for sale because it wasn't
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: making any money. Now that is a familiar story, of
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: course in Hospow, doom and misery and Hospow. And yet
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: I can tell you why this place hadn't made any money.
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: It was because it was only open five days a
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: week and only for dinner and for limited hours. At
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: that first thing our new owner did was one open
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: seven days a week and two open for lunches as well.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: He even opened Christmas Day last minute, did twenty covers
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: on Christmas Day on short notice. By the time we
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: left town, he was more than happy with how things
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: were humming. So is hospow and try trouble? Or are
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: there too many owners who don't want to do the work?
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: So over the holidays I noticed too many people who
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: weren't opened or won't open long enough. The cafe that
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: closes at four, you walk in at twenty two to four. Sorry,
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: kitchens closed? Why sorry? The sign on the door says
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: we're having a well earned break back on the third
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: of January or the sixth of January. This was in
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: tourist country, and let's be honest, I thought all of
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: New Zealand was supposed to be tourist country these days.
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: So how much pain is real and how much of
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: life has made harder is simply by not trying hard enough?
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: Is David Seymour right? There are two camps in this
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: country these days, the change makers and the ones who
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: who sort of opened but not really and then wonder
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: why things are a bit slow. Our mate at the restaurant,
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: my better is, will make a good go of it,
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: because one he's invested, and two he is determined, and
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: three he did a couple of things the others could
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: have done but they didn't. Winners and losers most of
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: it is about choice.
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: For more from news talks'd b listen live on air
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: or online, and tear shows with you wherever you go
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: without podcasts on iHeartRadio