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Chapter five

At the conclusion of our first week of business, things were looking to be in excellent shape. Tuesday, the second day of operation, had been the slowest, but business had, in general, been solid. We turned a large profit on our first night, and that had helped cover some of the less fruitful evenings. If we did this well all the time, we would probably manage to slide on by with minimum losses. I hadn't been expecting the restaurant to be a ball of fire right off the bat, and to instantly turn a profit, and it hadn't. I hoped that with careful husbandry, we would have small loses for a while, and turn the corner in about six months. Optomistic? Obviously, but I had hope, I didn't dare hope for an operating (as opposed to a net profit, which I expected would take years) profit any time sooner than six months because our little place was so far out of the way. As it turned out that first month of operation was the only one in which we've had an operating loss, over the course of all of these many years. The old joint did amazingly better than my wildest dreams, those dreams, as a matter of policy, being pretty far out in the jungle.

Still, at the end of the first week, I was looking for something that would give us a boost. I knew how the paying customer was, always looking for the next thing, and that running a restaurant is as much about the experience the customer has as anything else. That, after all, is the guiding principle behind Las Vegas: not just gambling, ...

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