Before you open a restaurant in Sinville
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Of course being a successful businessman is a good thing. What a ridiculous comment. Success in business creates wealth for you, your family, the people you employ and their families, not to mention the shops you and they in turn spend their extra money in.
Oh, and it provides a product or service that people want.
How can that not be a good thing?
Oh, and it provides a product or service that people want.
How can that not be a good thing?
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EU regulation mate.alanclarke72 wrote: How can that not be a good thing?
So Laud John is actually kind then? Or is he just mean to morons?
"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
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Bopulalanclarke72 wrote:Of course being a successful businessman is a good thing. What a ridiculous comment. Success in business creates wealth for you, your family, the people you employ and their families, not to mention the shops you and they in turn spend their extra money in.
Oh, and it provides a product or service that people want.
How can that not be a good thing?
Coca Cola
McDonald's
Blah Blah
It's what type of business, and how it is run. It is not only about making money. Anyway stop avoiding my point about them being in the main cunts here. lol
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Do you walk around drunk all the time? Are they all in fact legendary "Top Blokes"?
EDIT Damn I should have quoted Scobienz as he deleted his post about how wonderful the KOW's business men and LJ are. IHO.
EDIT Damn I should have quoted Scobienz as he deleted his post about how wonderful the KOW's business men and LJ are. IHO.
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I can be a cunt, no doubt about it. You have to be if you are in business.Mr Lovejuice wrote:Do you walk around drunk all the time? Are they all in fact legendary "Top Blokes"?
EDIT Damn I should have quoted Scobienz as he deleted his post about how wonderful the KOW's business men and LJ are. IHO.
I have just looked at my books and have been 95% full for the past 10 days.
I came back tonight and found my bar was full with at least 12 drinkers and I do not discount my drinks.
Oh and NO social media advertising required as per your apparently sage advice.
If I am a right cunt all the time my business would be like most in SHV, empty right now in the depths of low season.
My business works when I am not there as RobW said, he has stayed there when I am away.
So Mr advice giver, care to address my questions as to your experience to offer advice on business in SHV and to me?
Note to self: Must be nice to morons.
Did the customers stay or leave when you showed up?LaudJohn wrote:
I can be a cunt, no doubt about it. You have to be if you are in business.
I came back tonight and found my bar was full with at least 12 drinkers and I do not discount my drinks.
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LOL Cambo,actually i found its better with the boat trips that i am not seen when the customers are around,as i always get the crazies,telling me i should clean up the lake of rubbish,or how poor the floating villages are,like its my fault:)cambo wrote:Did the customers stay or leave when you showed up?LaudJohn wrote:
I can be a cunt, no doubt about it. You have to be if you are in business.
I came back tonight and found my bar was full with at least 12 drinkers and I do not discount my drinks.
i tell them yes when i first came to Cambodia the lake had no rubbish and the floating villages homes where made of gold,now look:(
the only real time i am on the boat with guests is when expat mates go out
Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on what is perceived as 'cunt-ishness'LaudJohn wrote:
I can be a cunt, no doubt about it. You have to be if you are in business.
Would like to visit your place when next time in SHV, LaudJohn. Not much of a drinker tho.
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LaudJohn, what's the name of this amazing establishment that you run?
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Worked for me.Gilmore wrote:8. Sell up to 500% of shares in the business to gullible fools; preferably ones based overseas, so they can't observe what is happening. Don't make a profit or, if you do, don't tell your partners. Sell the business and keep all the money yourself, but tell your partners that the business was seized, due to bankruptcy, and you and them have lost all money invested. Open another bar/restaurant/hotel and repeat the modus operandi. Happens all over SE Asia, including Sihanoukville.
That would be one of cunt-ishness manifestations.tuk-tukfish wrote:Worked for me.Gilmore wrote:8. Sell up to 500% of shares in the business to gullible fools; preferably ones based overseas, so they can't observe what is happening. Don't make a profit or, if you do, don't tell your partners. Sell the business and keep all the money yourself, but tell your partners that the business was seized, due to bankruptcy, and you and them have lost all money invested. Open another bar/restaurant/hotel and repeat the modus operandi. Happens all over SE Asia, including Sihanoukville.
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The naivety is strong in this one.Mr Lovejuice wrote:Haha! Thanks for my morning laugh. You seem to think being a successful business man is a good thing? Most I have met here have been right cunts. I don't know you, so Ill reserve judgment.LaudJohn wrote:Let me get this right.Mr Lovejuice wrote:
I never set up a business. I built a small house with lot of space around it.
You have never set up a business in Cambodia.
You have never had a dozen Khmer families reliant on your business skills for their survival.
You have never paid Cambodian taxes.
You have never held a business licencel
You have never tried any form of advertising for a business in Cambodia.
You have never sold a going concern in Cambodia.
You have never owned a registered company in Cambodia and dealt with share transfers etc.
You have never been the first to do anything in business in Cambodia.
You have never had a six figure investment in a business in Cambodia.
You have had businesses in Cambodia (SHV) for well over a decade.
You have never bought an existing failing business and turned it around into something profitable.
I guess you do not even have a work permit.
Yet you are expert enough to try to give business advice; especially to me.
Please correct me if I am wrong with any of the above.
I don't have shit when concerning LJ's longevity in running a hospo business in Cambodia (let alone Sihanoukville) but here's the hard and simple truth spoken by myself, who ran a business in pp for 18 month: as a foreigner you're essentially fucked from the beginning. Here's why:
a) You're white so the following things are going to be more expensive:
- Rent's higher
-Staff salaries (presumably you're market is going to be predominantly barangs and this requires English speaking Khmer staff - they're vital to the business and can demand more)
- Licensing: a lot of the time the local fuzz will expect you to have an additional 'Tourism Licence' cuz, y'know, you're catering to tourists (I never had any licences cuz I worked out that the dude who checked them clocked off at 4 and I didn't open until 7)
- The fuzz themselves: every holiday welcomes a new excuse to come to your place of business, hand out-reached, demanding cash.
b) You're unlikely to speak the language (fluently)
- Need a plumber, new supplier ect? Gonna take you an entire fucking day to organize
- You can't understand a word your staff is saying. Try taking suggestions on how to improve your business when they don't bother to tell you because it's too hard for them to do so.
c) You're earning a pittance in an industry that is world-wide renowned for 4-6% profit margins on a good day, and yet, everyone thinks you're making bank judged on their spend per visit. I remember years ago being at Garage and hearing this knob bitch about JM for "underpaying his staff (jm always remunerated his staff above and beyond in my opinion) because, like, yer know, he must make a fucking fortune. You just bought a burger for $4.50 and I bet he sells 100 a night" - Even if that were the case: IT'S CALLED OVERHEADS YOU FUCKING NONCE! Beef costs money. Buns cost money. Lettuce. EVERYTHING.
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What do you do for a living these days, tuk-tukfish?tuk-tukfish wrote:The naivety is strong in this one.Mr Lovejuice wrote:Haha! Thanks for my morning laugh. You seem to think being a successful business man is a good thing? Most I have met here have been right cunts. I don't know you, so Ill reserve judgment.LaudJohn wrote:Let me get this right.Mr Lovejuice wrote:
I never set up a business. I built a small house with lot of space around it.
You have never set up a business in Cambodia.
You have never had a dozen Khmer families reliant on your business skills for their survival.
You have never paid Cambodian taxes.
You have never held a business licencel
You have never tried any form of advertising for a business in Cambodia.
You have never sold a going concern in Cambodia.
You have never owned a registered company in Cambodia and dealt with share transfers etc.
You have never been the first to do anything in business in Cambodia.
You have never had a six figure investment in a business in Cambodia.
You have had businesses in Cambodia (SHV) for well over a decade.
You have never bought an existing failing business and turned it around into something profitable.
I guess you do not even have a work permit.
Yet you are expert enough to try to give business advice; especially to me.
Please correct me if I am wrong with any of the above.
I don't have shit when concerning LJ's longevity in running a hospo business in Cambodia (let alone Sihanoukville) but here's the hard and simple truth spoken by myself, who ran a business in pp for 18 month: as a foreigner you're essentially fucked from the beginning. Here's why:
a) You're white so the following things are going to be more expensive:
- Rent's higher
-Staff salaries (presumably you're market is going to be predominantly barangs and this requires English speaking Khmer staff - they're vital to the business and can demand more)
- Licensing: a lot of the time the local fuzz will expect you to have an additional 'Tourism Licence' cuz, y'know, you're catering to tourists (I never had any licences cuz I worked out that the dude who checked them clocked off at 4 and I didn't open until 7)
- The fuzz themselves: every holiday welcomes a new excuse to come to your place of business, hand out-reached, demanding cash.
b) You're unlikely to speak the language (fluently)
- Need a plumber, new supplier ect? Gonna take you an entire fucking day to organize
- You can't understand a word your staff is saying. Try taking suggestions on how to improve your business when they don't bother to tell you because it's too hard for them to do so.
c) You're earning a pittance in an industry that is world-wide renowned for 4-6% profit margins on a good day, and yet, everyone thinks you're making bank judged on their spend per visit. I remember years ago being at Garage and hearing this knob bitch about JM for "underpaying his staff (jm always remunerated his staff above and beyond in my opinion) because, like, yer know, he must make a fucking fortune. You just bought a burger for $4.50 and I bet he sells 100 a night" - Even if that were the case: IT'S CALLED OVERHEADS YOU FUCKING NONCE! Beef costs money. Buns cost money. Lettuce. EVERYTHING.
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