10/20/2022
Buying Hat Tricks was a bucket list life experience these past 7 years. It was something I wanted my daughter to look back and say “my dad did something cool” and that was my motivation. Pre-Pandemic my version of Hat Tricks took a lot of time, effort and money to build up the way I wanted it, it was extremely successful and I achieved all the goals I set for myself but it wasn’t easy by a long shot.
I loved the DFW Tribute Scene I help create, the comedy nights I created with Jamie Gravitt, the live band Karaoke with Time Machine, the Karaoke Nights with Dan Castiel, the School Of Rock, the Bike Nights, all the charity work I did for the community and I especially loved all those people in DFW that I brought a little bit of enjoyment to.
The Pandemic for me was “the end of the world as we know it.” I was told by most just to survive and I did just that. Most of the crowd that didn’t care about the pandemic also didn’t care about or respect my establishment which ruined it for me. That made me sad and depressed which started building up alot of resentment. I did give customers I liked and staff alot of warnings that I wanted out. Last year, I threatened to shut it down especially after the cooks I adored got jumped by the hood and quit which destroyed my food concept. I just got fed up with the post-pandemic crowd and started to hate what I did for a living.
Why did I shut it down? Why do you quit a job? It was still profitable, it wasn’t about the previous owner’s unpaid taxes he tried to stick me with, it wasn’t because I didn’t get gov’t money or because everyone else had a pandemic paid vacation. The local area crowd was just uncontrollable no matter how much I tried and it wasn’t my scene anymore so I didn’t care about it. I fell out of love with my business, then I finally hit my breaking point. All good things come to an end. So like the song in the video sung on my stage. “Its time I took some time alone and I feel fine”
