The Pizza Parlor layout simulation actually hit home for me. I was in this type of situation as a teenager. My parents ran a pizza parlor in the small town that I grew up in. We did not have the Success and issues that Mario had in the simulation. We did not even have a mall in our town. The problems we ran into were a little different. We had sore surge times and days. Prom nights, Homecoming and high school game nights were the big nights. The streakiness was difficult to forecast. I was asked to be the chief financial officer of the store. I did not feel adequate for the position at the time though. It is not just a principle of making sure that everything balances. The practice of ensuring that total assets= the liabilities + the equity is only a part of fair and basic accounting principles. (fasb.org) This is why I felt it was more important to get some school under my belt first. "The Pizza Shack" burned down in the middle of my first year of college.