Decision had to be made... Decision was made !...

Well since a while we, I, had to make a decision... As I already wrote, I had a pretty bad year over all since June 2006 and I came out of it, this May, particularly tired and mentally drained, resulting in lack of motivation, boredom, and need of "changes"... Other factors and criteria were also entered into consideration, particularly the slow down in local economy due to the huge gap between the two currency St Martin depends on : the Euro and the US Dollars. Obviously this gap is not soon to be reduce, and we sincerely believe it will depend on a new US administration, next year, to re-establish a "strong" dollars as it was in the general past. It is obvious, due to this reason that the economy won't get better in St Martin, and specially in the French side, where our actual business, Tabba Khady is located.

For all those reasons we came to a conclusion and made THE decision : Tabba Khady will go to sleep for an undetermined period of time starting this mid December... The lease on the building ends by the end of December and we decided to do not renew it. I know, it was not an easy decision to be made, but with the US Dollars hitting toward 1.50 Euro at the fixing by the end of this year, and per consequence 1.55 or 1.56 at the change point, it is not worse trying to make business for living anymore... When the gap will be reduce to close to the now old "1 to 1" and the situation will be resolve, then Tabba Khady may reborn from its ashes at another location.

In the mean time, I am contemplating different option regarding my future :

The first one would be, "Tabba Khady" is going "private"... I mean establishing myself as private chef and cater to our former clientele at their own place (Villa, timeshare condo, private condo or rental...), proposing a panel of 3 or 4 courses menu based on our actual "Carte", with the same quality standard that we are used to provide in our establishment.

The second would be to work for another establishment in any function available as I am 100% polyvalent (multivalent...) in restaurant industry.

The third one would be a total change of career, but this one is the one where I am still unsettle on which orientation my career should take.

I am pretty sure that few of my readers may be disappointed by this decision, but believe me, it wasn't taken lightly, and it is a very personal decision. I can agree that the best of the three options for some of my readers would be the first one, as they would still be able to enjoy a good meal with the Tabba Khady standards... But how many of them would be willing to hire a private chef for an evening while in vacation ? It is what I have still to find out before making this choice.

I am a bit sad about it, but like with everything else which happened in my life since last year, I just have (and will) to get over, and move on...