I have worked for this business for a little over 4 years, I started as a Chef de Partie in their main (franchise name family style) restaurant for a year then became Head Chef of their new place next door serving street food tapas style dishes, we’ve developed a really good rep and even earned an Emerging Business award in our small town, but the problem is the other place is always their main focus, the bread winner, and because we are a smaller place catering to a more certain taste we will never be as busy etc and we are always in their shadow to the owners, they’ve basically never worked in with us or put in the effort to build us up and when we have average weeks it’s always made to feel like it’s our fault. It’s like have a small boutique store next to a huge franchise shop we just can’t complete with share numbers and figures. I’m proud of what we do and love my small team who are super passionate and motivated and none of us we leave each other in the weeds (unlike next doors team, nowhere near as passionate) and I have had almost total freedom of creativity, but I’m drained, I’m tired of putting my heart and soul into a business that just isn’t the owners priority and if I try bring up any concerns or don’t just nod and agree they treat me like I’m just being difficult for the sake of it. Iv been offered a job back at my previous job that I was Sous Chef at (number 1 in town for context) as what would basically be third in charge I could see myself ending up sharing the load with the head and the current sous chef. Would this be a bad move? Part of me doesn’t want to give up on this place that I have basically created but I also know I’m going to face the same issues over and over if I don’t. The owners at my current place also aren’t chefs so they are just a bit clueless and just about money and getting wage cost as low as possible to the point where I’m not allowed enough time to do everything. The owners at my original job are a husband and wife chef and FOH team who are way more hands on and not stressing their team about that stuff. Do I take a drop on position or do I stick it out in the hopes we can break out of our rut (not dead but also not as busy partly due to COVID and no tourists I think) and the owners will change