A quick note to prove I'm not crazy

One of my recurring themes of this blog is commenting on people who have no business being in the restaurant business. A specific example of this is my critique of The Lunchbox. Here's my direct quote

The Lunchbox strikes me as yet another Gainesville establishment run by someone with no business in the kitchen. Maybe they make their goose fat fries for superbowl parties and their friends say "oh, you should totally open a restaurant, you're such a good cook."

Now I'd like to quote you a passage from Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential

To want to own a restaurant can be a strange and terrible affliction. What causes such a destructive urge in so many otherwise sensible people? The easy answer, of course, is ego. The classic example is the retired dentist who was always told he threw a great dinner party. "You should open a restaurant," his friends tell him. And our dentist believes them.

So, you see, I'm not crazy. Since this is Gainesville and not New York, replace "dentist" with "former food service employee." Our former waitress or line cook gets it in their head that they could be running this place. They should be running this place. They quit their old job and blow a small business loan on an exercise in futility.