A Chat with John Economaki, Founder and President, Bridge City Tool Works

I've always had an upfront and honest relationship with all of my banks. I asked if we could restructure it as a long-term note, and take it out of short term, and they said I couldn't do that. So in January, a few months later, they called me up and said we needed to make progress on this note. I said, tell me how I'm going to do that. I showed them my daily and monthly sales and asked them how. They told me it was my problem.