Beaufort is a go!

A lot has happened since my last update... mostly because my last update was so long ago.. sorry. Uh some of the biggest and best news to share is we finally have financing for the Beaufort location! woot! Yes for a while, a long while, we were continuing the Beaufort project with out financing.. We've mainly been using money from Masato's to pay for stuff in Beaufort. Problem is that Masato doesnt make enough money to fund some of the big expenses we have coming up for our build so we had to get some outside financing.. OH and costs have been getting ridiculous.. Its amazing how many fees, deposits, taxes or what ever you have to pay to start a business.. We had to do this pre construction meeting with a bunch of Beaufort officials and it was basically a "how many fees can we think of so we can squeeze as much money out of these chumps as possible" meeting. LAME!

Rent a center is no more! Now there is only Junsei Japanese Cuisine! Well... new business coming soon at least. We actually have a really sweet coming soon banner with our logo up right now but uh, I forgot to take pics of it last week. I'll post it up next week I swear!

With Rent a center gone we are currently in the demolition phase of our build.. Basically clearing out all the old crap from the inside. NO ACTUAL BUILDING ALLOWED! We should get our building permit this week..I hope. We currently have a contract with our building contractor that says the restaurant will be completed 3 months from the time we get our building permit! That means i think we'll be open sometime in October... sheesh thats a long time.

Here's the logo i guess we decided on.. what do you think? i threw this together in like 3 hrs.. Just found a bunch of other restaurant signs and then started pulling ideas out of them to form this. I wish we had spent more time iterating on it but I always get told we need stuff last minute and no one here ever gives me any feed back. I hope it doesn't suck too hard. All this stuff will be tweaked some more but the main elements are final.

The guy whos building our sign really liked the design. err of course he might just be saying that so we give him money.. When the sign is built onto the restaurant it will be self lit.. like with neon and lights on the inside instead of the exterior lights currently shown.. i had to use the exterior lights cause i didnt know how to create the proper lighting effects in MAX.

Hey look whats scheduled to open in a few weeks!

Jeez this place looks insanely nice huh? Like so nice you would never want to eat there right??

Freaking gigantic! Our spies have told us they will have 18 tables vs our 14 and their sushi bar will be a lot bigger than ours.. they also apparently pay their bus boys over 10 bucks an hour vs our 6.25 an hour... err actually 6.55 an hour as of yesterday. All of their staff are paid more than ours.. ouch.. but here's the thing.. their food is gunna have to be very expensive.. i cant imagine them being able to make any money charging our prices.. with the cost of building that place and all of the extra payroll costs there's no way!

The era of people waiting over an hour to eat at our restaurant will soon be over..

I gotta admit their sign looks really cool! what do you guys think? No im not talking about the state farm sign.. the Miyabi sign!!

Well thats all i got for this post.. now onto the random crap that i throw in so you feel like you guys are getting your moneys worth..

Doesn't this look like some bad model special effect from an old movie?

I think this is a well composed picture.. every once in a while I accidentally snap one. Does anyone want to see what my foot looks like after its been bitten by fire ants??? I hate fire ants. WTF! Why are there fire ants every where in Savannah? Why do i keep getting bitten by freaking fire ants!?

Finally, uh, Hey uh would anyone else like to blog with me on this blog?? I suggested this to some people before but never really pursued the idea. I'm just thinking it could be cool cause i cant update this very frequently and I'm sure lots of other people have interesting stuff to share.. Come on it will be fun.. You could post about anything.. If anyone is interested lemme know.