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JOHN FOLEY: Cash flow is a major, major problem in the restaurant business, especially if your restaurant is busy. In 1992 I had a restaurant, and my brother-in-law came up from Dallas, he was a computer salesman at the time. He saw all the cash in my register, thought it was mine, went back to Dallas, and opened a restaurant. The first mistake that restaurateurs make is to think that everything in that register is theirs. And when it really isn't theirs-it's usually the government's, the employees, the chicken man, the meat man, and everything else. One of the first things you have to do is to make sure you have your budgets in order, so that you can justify your cash flow, and make sure that you pay everybody else first. The last person to get paid out of the register or out of the cash is the owner. But in most instances, in many instances, they are the first people to take the money out. And what happens is, at the end of the month, there's not enough money to pay anybody else.