Rare to Well Done

by Gaynor Horton

Overview

I was compelled to write about this restaurant life, as twelve years of hospitality all by yourself is tough yet can still be rewarding.

The book fleetingly covers these twelve years and the encounters of the establishment and the public. It shows how everyone involved with money, food, or people in general have two faces.

Today the media shows that chefs are demigods when in fact, they are strange little beings tainted by the degradation caused from the hours they work and the substances they are known to use. Put this with food and people, and we certainly have a story to tell. This is mine.

Ducks Crossing was a small resort and restaurant as well as a wedding venue, and the stories told are true and certainly worthy of creating a series for TV. The book is about the rise to be the absolute best in the market and the obstacles placed by others while learning to stay calm, rational, and nonviolent, only to see the fall of your small empire caused by an unknown called progress.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781524521516
Publisher:	Xlibris AU
Publication date:	01/17/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	110
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

I Grew up in the 60's and I am a "baby boomer"

My career started by working in a bank at the early age of 16. I married young and have 2 beautiful children who are both married and between them I have 6 grandchildren. Both my children have interesting and successful careers and hopefully I have been some type of positive influence on them. I didn't work for a while then I worked in a bakery to help with the cost of living. We were in government housing for 9.5 years. I had always wanted my own home so I worked 3 jobs to save the deposit then moved in January 1984. I was at this stage a district sales manager and working 60hours a week as well had doing college (marketing)to better myself. I was growing tired so decided to venture into my first business so I mortgaged the house and bought a small general store and service station in the country. This business was not very good however with in 5 years it was flying. My husband had fought me all the way on these decisions but in the end he loved the place and the people but he was becoming very ill so we sold and went back to our home. The first restaurant I bought was just before he passed away so it was sold soon after. At 45 years of age I was widowed and a little lost. I did a bit of travel, built a new home negatively geared the first then bought a building in the local shopping center and created a hair salon and a coffee shop. About 5 years had passed and I met my present husband sold everything found I had accumulated about $1m and we set up Ducks Crossing with the help of the bank and now this story began and finished.