No. 05 - Doing the (home)work

How we jump started our restaurant concept phase

About a month ago, we took a trip to Europe (for R&D, obviously!). It was full of inspo, but more on that in a later issue. On our way back from London, the Gatwick airport security had everyone repack all their toiletries in their official, designated, clear plastic bags. I get pretty anxious in airport lines and will do anything to move through them as swiftly as possible to avoid slowing other people down (another way my people-pleasing tendencies show up lol). So I frantically pull out all of our toiletries and haphazardly shove as many bottles as I could into the baggies. Meanwhile, Louis is sloooowly sliding each bottle perfectly in place and somehow ends up with all the white capped bottles that fit like an aesthetic, monochromatic Tetris. Once finished, he laughs while holding up both our plastic bags and says Gemini brain vs Virgo brain.

Even before we started this restaurant project, I was cognizant of my working relationship with Louis. We are not married, but he is my life partner and a lot of people will say that adding the title of business partner can complicate things. It’s one thing to support your partner in their endeavors, but it’s a whole other thing to work alongside them, creating, deciding, and collaborating on ideas with two VERY different brains.

IYKYK! Technically, both methods got us through the security line with no issues, so I would say, one is not better than the other… just different.

It always sounds like a good idea! You get to work with your best friend, what could go wrong? Well, you really don’t know what it will be like until you do it; I got a sneak peek at just how different we are when we tasked ourselves with putting ideas down on paper and creating our restaurant deck. In today’s issue, I’ll be sharing some pages from our deck and how that exercise set us off on our own identity crises.