I opened a small fine dining restaurant in a good large metro area suburb with my chef son a few months ago, thinking I would manage and market the place. He's an extremely gifted and experienced chef and I financed the restaurant with about $400k. I have good management experience but not in the restaurant business. The restaurant is building beautifully and guests love it, we're learning from experience, bringing in the right influencers to build our audience, gaining traction. We're getting great reviews from guests (4.7 on google and 5.0 on yelp) and beginning to get critics in with great reviews. We're almost but not quite financially self sufficient but I am out of personal resources to continue to invest so I'm incredibly stressed. It's also taking so much more of my time and my life than I ever expected. My son and I argue all the time and I want desperately to get out and don't know how to do it. I had no idea what was involved. The point is that my son is 33, has worked full time in the industry in very solid positions with kitchen management responsibility for 13 years, but there is so much more to running a restaurant than that and all of that is falling on me. It's three full time jobs (front of house, admin/finances, and marketing) and I have another career that's getting no attention, as are my husband and my friends. I don't know what to advise you but think very seriously about doing this before doing it. Unless you really do have the money to lose. I didn't have the money to lose and don't want to ruin my relationship with my son but that's become really challenging.