Why Do I Stress Out About New Menu Roll-Outs?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

That’s me on a new menu roll-out day.

Fortunately, that’s not my very well organized chef/hubby today. He’s calm.

But me…

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Can anyone else relate?

Things always go well. He’s always done everything he needs to do. But I still feel stressed just thinking about all the changes that are currently going on for him and his restaurant group. (Even as I type this I feel like I need to take a deep breath.) I think it’s because that despite being married to a chef for 21 years, I have never worked one minute in a restaurant. It’s all I can do to successfully meal plan and shop for our family of 5. So I just can’t imagine how it all works.

Part of my stress this time is that they also rolled out a new website today to go along with the new menu (and new on-line ordering system and new POS system…lots of new happening today.) I did the website and hit a small blip after I transferred it. It was resolved before they opened today and wasn’t a big deal, but that added to the stress that I felt, knowing what a big deal today is for his company.