It's been an interesting week at work. Business is up, we're making money and things are good. We're coming off of Spring Break here in Daytona Beach and now we're in the middle of BCR (Black College Reunion). It was an event that had over 100,000 people in the past and now scrapes by on about 10,000-15,000 people tops. The city essentially started denying event permits to, I guess, control some of the rediculousness that was going on.
I'm not a person who throws around the term "racist" but it sounds it to me. It's really pretty uneventful but whatever.
The waterpark is off to a great start this year and I'm l00king forward to the summer. It's not every year that you can say that. This year is definitely an exception. I'm projecting a 21-24% across the board increase in sales and about an 8% reduction in operating costs. I thought the coinage was going to come from a major reorganization of how we're staffing the facility, but I don't think that's the total answer. I think if we pay more attention to our general operating supplies costs and closely watch how we're spending the R&M (Repairs and Maintenance) costs we'll do just fine. Food cost is another area of concern and I think Sysco is screwing me -- I'll handle them accordingly in another month or so at the food show. I'm actively shopping 2 other purveyors to see how bad Sysco is benind me over. I'm thinking Sysco will be in-line by May 1 or we'll cut WAY back on our ordering from them and transfer that business elsewhere. We'll see what they think about that. I made them a promise last year that if they screwed me, and I caught them on it, they'd be sorry they did. Stand-by for more on that front.
The weather is starting to turn bad so I should probably get off of the computer.
More later,
Joe
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