Randon Morris | Entrepreneur Characteristics

Randon Morris : There are some entrepreneur characteristics that are common among anyone who strives to start and run his or her own business. These characteristics are found in entrepreneurs at any age, in any industry, and at any socioeconomic level.Commitment : An entrepreneur has to be 100% committed to his or her idea, vision, product or service, and business strategy to achieve his or her goals.

Confidence : Entrepreneur symptomatic like confidence go hand-in-hand with commitment. Entrepreneurs have to believe in themselves and believe in what theyre doing.Creativity : Entrepreneurs are creative by nature.

They have a knack for seeing things from a different perspective than most people, and then developing an inventive product or service to improve other peoples lives and businesses RELATED QUESTION Why do restaurants' owners choose uncomfortable chairs for their places? What are you expecting, a massage chair?Restaurants choose chairs for a variety of reasons.

Big issues include durability, cost, appearance, and convenience. Convenience breaks down into various things you need the chair to do: ease of cleaning, scooting around during service, and hopefully stacking well when you put extra chairs in storage or clear the room for cleaning or special events. Durability is a huge issue.

When my restaurant first opened we had 120 or so fairly attractive chairs from a restaurant supplier, and 10 or so designer chairs from. Those poor designer chairs, they were all broken within a few weeks. You see, living room quality chairs just dont work in retail, industrial, or hospitality settings.

Theres common wisdom, possibly an urban myth, that restaurants intentionally make seating uncomfortable so that people will leave. This makes no sense to me. You want people to be happy, to stay, and to eat more.

But you dont want people to get too comfortable. A plush large comfy chair that people will sink into is just not the right posture, image, or attitude for fine dining. A coffeehouse, maybe, but even so there is another problem.

The nasty. Soft permeable fabrics, chairs with cushions, etc. , catch debris, and liquids soak in.

That encourages dust, mildew, little critters, and worse.Image: lobby of the former Monaco Hotel in San Francisco. These chairs are comfortable, but they are nasty, and will not possibly work in a restaurant.

Okay, heres my story. A number of years back I was in the living room of San Franciscos much-missed Monaco Hotel. As I got up to leave I noticed that my keys were missing and figured that they had probably fallen into the chair cushion.

I reached my hand down there, and, just, yuck, it was like Flash Gordon and the Wood Beast (Flash Gordon Official Clip - The Wood Beast). I found lots of food particles, things were wet, my hand got dirty, there was stuff that had probably been living in the chair for years. And not even the consolation of any free coins