We recently connected with Jasmine Myrick and have shared our conversation below.

Jasmine, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. One of the toughest things about entrepreneurship is that there is almost always unexpected problems that come up – problems that you often can’t read about in advance, can’t prepare for, etc. Have you had such and experience and if so, can you tell us the story of one of those unexpected problems you’ve encountered?

One of the unexpected problems was thinking, and being told that my gas line was sufficient by my electrician and being told a week before my grand opening scheduled for the next week with city officials attending .the gas company ,told me that I need a gas line installed and they have to break the ground and it will take three months . It wind up taking an another year to open the restaurant . So for a whole year there was no revenue, and the bills still had to be paid .

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am co owner of a vegan restaurant I was introduced to this lifestyle by my father The uptown veg brand iconsists of a hard working family brand we stand by all of our dishes that you will receive the most healthy tasty vegan food

How do you keep your team’s morale high?

My advice for managing staff is to deal with staff as a family everyone is in this together having a business is not glitz and glam it is hard work ,and not all the time it’s not what social media put up In order for your business to thrive it needs to be your passion it will help you to stay motivated

Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?

My business partner is my father I’ve known him all my life he is my mentor I have never seen nobody work as hard as my father and sacrifice so much

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