I was in the restaurant business for nine years. I know it all too well. By the time my wife and I left, we managed five successful restaurants and we each worked 70 hours a week. I started as a dishwasher in college and became the Regional Manager after college and moving up the ladder.
The government doesn’t limit the number of restaurants. There are thousands of restaurants in Colorado. There are not thousands of ranches that work with outfitters. In Colorado, our Federal Permits for outfitting on public land are limited and there’s a moratorium in many areas. This is to prevent overcrowding.
It is very competitive for the ranches as well. If an employee quits, he probably isn’t easily going to find new ranches to lease. He’s going to try to take them from another outfitter. If one of my restaurant employees quit and started a restaurant, he wasn’t going to kick us out of our building. It’s a totally different industry and I have a lot of knowledge of them both.
I have great relationships with lots of other Colorado outfitters and guides. We don’t step on each other’s toes very often. I was elected to our association BOD several
http://essaypapers.reviews/ times by my peers and have been a stakeholder on several public working groups with the federal and state agencies over my 32 year career. I was a BOD for the United Sportmen’s Council of Colorado. The last several years, I have taken a step back from boards and politics due to family commitments, grandchildren and personal hunting. My employees are very important to me and I have taken some of them on trips.