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For your mental health – This is a business, we exchange money for services, that is it. This isn’t life or death, and your personal/professional image should be based on how well you do your job, that is it.
My advice is this: become AMAZING at reporting and communicating. Close the loop on conversion tracking and report performance, and what you are doing to improve. Make solid recommendations and then distance yourself from running a restaurant. If a client isn’t happy when you have given it 100%, then they are not right for you anyway.
In my 20+ years running businesses, the most problematic clients are almost always the ones that have other shit going on. I always point to this residential developer I worked for. Every client meeting/WIP, their team of 5 rinsed me and pointed out holes in my results. 10 leads? “not enough and they would have found us anyway”…. 15 leads “not enough, wrong demographics, no money etc etc…” I stopped after 3 months because they could not be pleased. They went into administration a few months later. It’s like Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nighmares. All those restaurants went under, despite his efforts to save them, because there was more wrong with them than a new menu and a lick of paint.
