We have the same wonderful group of employees we had from last year to today.  I expected that we would ride out this year, and this economy, with the same employees. It is just not going to work. My employees are very stressed and concerned. Sales have soared this January and February.  We are at a breaking point where service will suffer unless I add more carry out and sales people. I made a decision this last week to add an experienced salesperson on the weekends and add load up help during the weekdays and the weekends. This is a rather odd feeling when I fully expected that we would have a flat or down year. Our sales are up 40% over last February. Whoda thunkit?

       We are committed to service and have to back that up with enough employees to get the job done. My son made me aware of the employee stress when he half-heartedly threatened to quit because of the rigors that Spring was exerting upon him. Truth be told, Spring really has not got here yet. We can ill afford to give bad service to those that make our paychecks possible.

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