Restaurant remodeling is going full steamed rice ahead!

Hello Out there again, yes twice in one week...yea I'm amazed at myself too (LOL),

This picture is quite telling of the goings on. I especially like the fact none of us has removed the closed sign. I would be willing to bet the guys will start turning it over while working.

Anybody want to cook in the kitchen? No, not cook the kitchen cook IN the kitchen.

Yes we've had a crazy past week. It has been quite exciting. Vince finally got to start the roof tearoff/near total remodel of our friends' Chinese restaurant, King Wah. The project is huge, especially for us as usually a small remodeler,we've had to gear up and plan the hell outta this for the past couple months. The whole project will cost around $900,000. Vince hired some awesome subcontractors (as with the fine economy, most everybody is out of work now-so really good help is abundant) and a few employees and they are all going to town on the project. Which means I am now a keeper-tracker of payroll, and all the Gi-normous papertrails involving the money. Ahhh, the headache part of the job. I will be at this computer a lot, I'm cutting back more massage hours. Good thing my brain functions like a spreadsheet. Me & Excel...we are one, once again. I knew all the years in research would come back to be useful some day. Really we've had some awesome help getting this project going on all ends (except that adjuster thorn), our suppliers have been great, not just because most of them don't have anything else going, but also everybody wants the restaurant back open and see Jenny & Jonny back at work.

Vince running the forklife and hauling sections of the roof to the flatbed.

The roof is removed. Gone. Bye bye. and framing has started. Here they took a big burned beam out and it was replaced with a new one.

This is one of those weird images, the stove floating off to? And you can see the new beam below it. Awwww. Ok so that is a weird sentiment, but I'd think it is like fixing a big boo-boo.

More to come...things will start to really fly on it now.