How far can trust really get you?

My employer allows me to do really anything i'd like to do in her business. I say that with an understatement, she trusts me enough to take care of her restaurant as she would. I came in to her restaurant on a whim because a friend of mine didn't believe i'd accept a job offer. I mean yeah it was just a busing job, cleaning tables and filling drinks not much but it led to more than I expected. I came in early for every shift, worked my hardest till my shift ended, and when the owner would mention needing something done I would always jump on it. I became reliable to the owner, I was her right hand guy doing anything and everything she asks. I'll be honest to everyone but my employer, I had no idea what I was doing. She'd ask me if I could fix something and I'd say of course! I do that kind of stuff for fun and in reality I was clueless. I would spend hours learning, and tinkering with what ever she needed and I surprisingly did the exact thing she wanted and more. The time I have worked there I grew this trust with my coworkers, the owner and to my surprise even the customers. I built this trust to a point where at the time I was 17 and the owner trusted me enough to handle anything and everything with out a single question to my actions or my reasons. The trust has grown since then to start allowing my to take care of her other businesses. I still find it so crazy to how far you can get off of hard work and a little bit of trust.

What small joke can grow to become

 The photo to the left is the first of the now soon to be three Ninjas Japanese Restaurants. We are located in a Shopping Plaza so you could understand there is little room for expansion.

Luckily!  We have a vacant spot right next door (to the right) to our little slice of business. It is roughly the same size of our current restaurant. I have jokingly brought this idea up to the owner for the past few years I have worked along side her. The time now more than ever seems prevalent to expand.

The business is growing from what I can tell form the number of customers we have from a day to day basis to the sales we have consecutively beaten from the ones from the previous years. I have yet to work the logistics of the proposal for the owner to show her how the expansion would benefit for the better and pull more of a profit for the establishment. The past few time I have spoken to her about an expansion she has seemed to grow more eager and willing to ponder the idea!

The Idea of Marketing?

   These Photo's show a recently built electronic billboard. it does a 10 second interval for each business that purchased a time slot.

       I am currently the manager of Ninjas Japanese sushi and Steakhouse, I worked on gaining a spot on this specific billboard and while I approached the owner with this idea she didn't feel like it was worth the money. The selling point I made was that on such a busy part of Hwy 31 it seemed like the most beneficial to the business for we are located on the entire opposite side of town. She believes in word of mouth for business but that can only get you so far.

       It showed me that some business owners just don't believe in advertisement. I guess its due to the fact they can not see a direct impact of profit or sales when spending revenue on such a static object, even though it has been tried and proven for many years.