I’m a good production manager underpaid by about 10k on the average in the largest Midwest city; the buyer who ran a 37% food cost making 120k left as the bosses that be were coming down on him hard. I took it over with no raise, and it’s been a month. I’ve lowered food cost by 10% (not spending about $20k/week. Still nothing, I talked to my culinary director and he said 3 months. I’m mad at myself and I don’t know who else to be mad at. I’m tired, working an average of 80hrs/week waking up at 4 or 5am. I’m annoyed and I don’t know how to knock it into these people beyond leaving. The benefits are crap and I have to be on my wife’s insurance. I’ve been a chef for the last 15 years and my knees are crap; I FINALLY get a desk job and it’s the same crap just in front of a computer. I’m tempted to pull a Scarface move from Half-baked but I have a 5 year old, a mortgage, and a baby on the way. Eff this company.