To be honest, you may want to re-evaluate your school choices. I'm talking local schools like UCI, Pepperdine, and so forth.
Keep in mind that you need more corporate ("office job") experience, otherwise your chances are going to be slim. I'm sure managing a restaurant can be crazy stressful and hard - and something that 99% of MBA types won't have the ability to do, but the adcoms are looking for people who coming out of school can also be attractive to recruiters.
And to be honest, even if you're going into the food industry post-MBA in a corporate position, the recruiters are still going to be wary of hiring you because they will wonder whether you can translate your prior experience "in the kitchen" (figuratively and literally) into a more staid office environment. Yes, you may have worked in an unrelated job as a technical recruiter in the past, but a recruiter may discount that (especially since it was only a year, and most of your career to date has been at a restaurant, and in a family business no less, which will then give recruiters more cause for concern as to whether you can work in a more formal environment).
What could also work for you perhaps is looking at part-time programs.
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