Everyone is happy about their career and business success stories. I will tell you about my file.

He worked in a dining room and went from cook to technician. I have a good relationship with the owner of the business, retirement age. There were great prospects to become his founder, and then e. o.

And here, I have a brilliant idea - to sell the products of the dining room in vending machines. I found special ones that could heat hot food containers on their own and leave cold salads. He told the director, he found out the cost of renting in the halls of several business centers, estimated the cost of this device, and decided to take the risk, buying, to begin with, one device.

So, they installed, they launched. We went to watch this evening and ate almost everything. It is success! Rapidly reimbursed, the director generally takes all the funds from the dining room budget, that is, even from the salary fund and buys several devices for all the money, while there are no niches of freedom and competitors. There are office centers without dining rooms. Start and wait.

The next morning, the driver returns with bad news—of all the devices very few bought lunch. Only the first one is 100% satisfied. Well, we don’t think people have tried the summer, the holiday season.

On the second day, in general, they stopped taking food, except for the leader - the first, you have to unload and throw away all unbought food every day, and there are a few boxes... We load at a minimum, we go with the director to watch - there are no cafes or dining rooms nearby, the people walk with boxes. They tried to buy themselves, the devices were glucose and did not accept many banknotes, or from the tenth time. We pin the service center, the appliances repair in a hurry, we wait further.

A few days have passed and the situation has not changed. Again, we check ourselves - it does not give the delivery, it glutes and hangs. Again, we are fighting with the waiters. A few more days pass.

We are selling in the first place! Just one day, straight to zero. And on the day of salary to employees... no money, not to hold for something - in a couple of days the purchase of raw materials for the needs of the dining room. Because of the holidays, the revenue of the dining room and so on zero, there are no banquets.

The salary day. Employees stand in line and declare - without money we simply won't work.

We cut off the delivery time of lunch to customers (the lion's share of profit, and competitors down, and we are so far from the ideal and often cut off).

One day, all our customers are refused delivery. The chef and I try to cook something personally, we don’t have time.

A few more days pass, some of the chefs have already resigned - near full of food with conditions not worse than ours, they take the staff immediately. Rental of equipment. We have to dismantle them all, take them to our warehouse, and try to sell them (not done).

It takes two weeks - we just work in the dining room, the turnover is only enough to maintain existence (we do not pay the rent to the dining room with a small budget. of arrangement). Here is the call:

Hey, did you put the food machine in that center? Where did they clean? I loved eating there! And breakfast and lunch, and for the whole family took for dinner!

So, it turns out that only one man ate to the ouri from our machine))