Full Transcript for Nick Carnes & Dan Haggerty: Manchester’s First Alcohol-Free Bar | Ep. 70

--> 00:03:30.830 The 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:31.310 >> Uh 00:03:31.320 --> 00:03:33.190 >> There's only 26 seats in here, and I 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:35.630 guarantee there's more than 26 women in 00:03:35.640 --> 00:03:37.270 this city of Manchester. 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:39.030 >> I mis- I miscounted the seats. 00:03:39.040 --> 00:03:41.030 >> That was the 00:03:41.040 --> 00:03:43.390 That was the opening quote from Dan on 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:45.110 the Sunday paper for the Union Leader. 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:46.030 >> Oh my gosh. 00:03:46.040 --> 00:03:47.110 >> Yes, sir. 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:49.750 Yes, sir. I I stand by that. I think I'm 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:50.390 correct. 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:51.229 >> At least we don't change our 00:03:51.239 --> 00:03:53.070 personalities when we do interviews. 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.310 >> I think there's two hospitals. Um, 00:03:56.320 --> 00:03:58.550 so I think yeah. 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:00.630 >> There's three. 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:02.070 There's three. Dartmouth. 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:03.390 >> Oh my gosh you two. 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:05.230 >> Dartmouth, Elliot, CMC. 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:07.470 >> Well, I only went to one so. 00:04:07.480 --> 00:04:08.150 Um 00:04:08.160 --> 00:04:10.110 >> That's okay. You know, for somebody 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:11.550 listening without Okay, it's 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:13.550 alcohol-free. Let's talk a little bit 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:14.590 more about that. I mean, how did you 00:04:14.600 --> 00:04:16.750 come up with the concept? How did you 00:04:16.760 --> 00:04:17.750 like 00:04:17.760 --> 00:04:18.630 walk me through it? 00:04:18.640 --> 00:04:20.910 >> Well, the concept of an alcohol-free 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:22.790 establishment 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:25.550 has it's people you know, the bigger 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:27.390 cities they've been doing it. 00:04:27.400 --> 00:04:29.070 It's been around. 00:04:29.080 --> 00:04:31.470 Um, I know that if someone who will 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.510 eventually hear or watch this will yell 00:04:34.520 --> 00:04:35.950 at us 00:04:35.960 --> 00:04:38.710 uh for not making making this 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:40.630 uh apparent even though it's our fault, 00:04:40.640 --> 00:04:44.750 but there was apparently a sober bar in 00:04:44.760 --> 00:04:48.550 Manchester in the '80s called Rebos. 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:51.230 Rebos, which is just sober backwards. 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:54.310 Um, I was like probably 00:04:54.320 --> 00:04:57.510 10 so I didn't go. But I was sober then 00:04:57.520 --> 00:04:58.018 too. 00:04:58.028 --> 00:04:58.950 >> [laughter] 00:04:58.960 --> 00:05:00.030 >> Um 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.190 but you know, it 00:05:02.200 --> 00:05:04.790 alcohol-free establishments 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:06.550 um there still aren't many. [snorts] 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:07.190 >> No. 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:11.550 >> at all. But just seeing just 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:14.710 seeing our people asking for mocktails 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:16.310 more and more and more, 00:05:16.320 --> 00:05:19.990 it becoming a higher point of sale and 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:21.670 in the restaurants 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:25.470 and just in general across the board uh 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.590 there's cool new products and there's a 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:30.430 reason for that because people want it. 00:05:30.440 --> 00:05:31.350 >> Right. 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:32.750 >> since we 00:05:32.760 --> 00:05:35.510 this is what we do, we wanted to give 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:37.670 give them a place 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:39.710 this whole other 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:41.830 group of people that maybe they'll go 00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:43.670 out as much or they don't want to go to 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:46.870 a place that has alcohol or or they're 00:05:46.880 --> 00:05:48.870 they only go out once or twice a month, 00:05:48.880 --> 00:05:50.110 they still 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:51.710 indulge if they want to, but they're 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:54.110 looking for an alternative to that. It 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:55.310 kind of 00:05:55.320 --> 00:05:58.270 was born out of that a few years back. 00:05:58.280 --> 00:06:00.110 And then being like, is this something? 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.590 Is this actually tangible? Is this a 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:05.110 real thing? Kept doing the research, 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:06.990 kept watching the numbers, kept 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:08.470 listening to customers. 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:10.590 >> Well, even the numbers for when you look 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:12.390 at New Hampshire State Liquor Store. 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:13.790 >> Yeah, that's crazy. 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:15.150 >> That that that's huge. 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:16.190 >> 47 s- 00:06:16.200 --> 00:06:19.430 >> I mean, 41,000 to 607. 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:19.830 >> Yeah. 00:06:19.840 --> 00:06:21.510 >> That's like that's insane. 00:06:21.520 --> 00:06:21.990 >> Yep. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.830 >> But now, I'm sure you've had or you're 00:06:24.840 --> 00:06:26.350 going to have people that are going to 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:28.550 tell you you're insane for doing this. 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:30.350 >> My immediate response to that is it's 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:32.630 not your money, don't care. 00:06:32.640 --> 00:06:35.630 That's we've had that since we started 00:06:35.640 --> 00:06:37.310 and 00:06:37.320 --> 00:06:39.030 I mean, we're thankful for the amount of 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:40.710 support that we've gotten. 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:42.790 We put videos up, we've had hundreds of 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.430 thousands of views, we've had 00:06:45.440 --> 00:06:46.990 tens of thousands of comments on all 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:47.950 those 00:06:47.960 --> 00:06:51.070 and it's like 90% positive. 00:06:51.080 --> 00:06:52.390 >> What are you saying to the people that 00:06:52.400 -->

00:06:53.870 tell you, and I'm sure that they've said 00:06:53.880 --> 00:06:55.870 this to you, it's not going to last and 00:06:55.880 --> 00:06:57.390 you're going to eventually have to start 00:06:57.400 --> 00:06:58.510 selling alcohol? 00:06:58.520 --> 00:07:00.110 >> If I can I can I 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:01.710 >> You can go first, yeah, please, by all 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:03.590 means. By all means. 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.030 >> Virtually no one says it in person. They 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:08.470 wait to do it on the internet. 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:09.950 Uh and so 00:07:09.960 --> 00:07:11.630 um 00:07:11.640 --> 00:07:13.630 I respond 00:07:13.640 --> 00:07:15.230 very 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:16.790 uh 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:19.310 not very often, but if someone's being 00:07:19.320 --> 00:07:22.070 like if someone is genuinely like, what 00:07:22.080 --> 00:07:24.710 the hell or I don't get this or I can't 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:27.470 fathom why this would happen or they 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:28.630 can't wrap their head around it and 00:07:28.640 --> 00:07:30.350 they're being like just genuinely 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.430 curious, I will answer it 00:07:32.440 --> 00:07:36.270 with a very nice data-backed response 00:07:36.280 --> 00:07:37.390 and 00:07:37.400 --> 00:07:39.230 do you know, someone's like, oh, you 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:40.150 know, a lot of people go, "Oh, it's a 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:41.430 juice bar." 00:07:41.440 --> 00:07:43.870 So, we don't respond to them. But, you 00:07:43.880 --> 00:07:45.750 know, if someone is genuinely curious 00:07:45.760 --> 00:07:47.830 and has no 00:07:47.840 --> 00:07:50.030 uh you know, it's just a I don't think 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:52.710 it's a very tough concept to get around. 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:55.190 You know, like Friendly's, the Red Arrow 00:07:55.200 --> 00:07:57.070 doesn't serve alcohol. You know, there's 00:07:57.080 --> 00:07:58.310 lots of places that don't do it. 00:07:58.320 --> 00:07:59.390 >> Uh if they do. 00:07:59.400 --> 00:08:01.950 >> I respond, "Which one?" 00:08:01.960 --> 00:08:03.470 >> All of them except for Manchester. 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:06.190 >> Oh, see, I don't go past the block over 00:08:06.200 --> 00:08:06.750 here. 00:08:06.760 --> 00:08:07.670 >> This one's the charm. 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.590 >> Well, of course. 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:12.470 That the Red Arrow doesn't serve. But, 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:14.590 you know, if people are genuinely 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.590 would like to know, if people are being 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:17.950 rude, it's like they're not going to 00:08:17.960 --> 00:08:19.590 come anyway, so 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:21.470 uh that's my response. What do you 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:23.230 think? 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:25.670 >> I mean, the way I look at it is between 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:28.630 the two of us combined, we have 00:08:28.640 --> 00:08:31.830 close to 40 years of experience, I

would 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:33.110 say. 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.550 Right around that. Um 00:08:35.560 --> 00:08:37.230 I would also With that being said, I 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:38.870 would say that we probably have a better 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:41.830 idea of what we're doing than people on 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:43.469 the internet that read 00:08:43.479 --> 00:08:45.230 that have one of an article. 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:46.829 Ultimately, it's anyone that says it's 00:08:46.839 --> 00:08:49.670 not going to work, it's stupid, it's 00:08:49.680 --> 00:08:51.750 just orange juice, whatever jokes they 00:08:51.760 --> 00:08:53.030 make, don't come. 00:08:53.040 --> 00:08:54.470 >> So, let's talk about some of these 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.950 mocktails. What can we expect? 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.190 >> Would it Would it be uncouth of me to 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:03.750 invite Angelica over? 00:09:03.760 --> 00:09:06.310 She's the bar manager, so she would be 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:08.231 the 00:09:08.241 --> 00:09:09.910 >> [laughter] 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:11.710 >> She She knows everything. 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:13.510 >> That's fine. 00:09:13.520 --> 00:09:14.310 Um 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:16.870 >> If not, we can You You want to throw in 00:09:16.880 --> 00:09:18.630 some ingredients? 00:09:18.640 --> 00:09:19.430 >> What? 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:20.590 >> Basically, what we're doing is we're 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:24.430 taking craft cocktails and we're We're 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:27.110 just removing the alcohol from them. 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:28.470 So, 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:30.230 it's not just We're not just squeezing 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:32.230 three different juices together. We're 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:35.350 creating our own shrubs, tinctures. 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.030 >> Kind of like what you do at Industry and 00:09:37.040 --> 00:09:39.270 and Stash Box. I mean, that that's sort 00:09:39.280 --> 00:09:40.310 of 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:42.270 >> But but even 00:09:42.280 --> 00:09:46.350 slightly on a grander scale because 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.630 because we want to offer a lot more 00:09:50.640 --> 00:09:53.150 of a flavor profile and since there is 00:09:53.160 --> 00:09:56.070 no alcohol, you know, we're we're coming 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:57.350 up with 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:59.430 you know, some combinations that you 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:02.270 that just you're just not going to see 00:10:02.280 --> 00:10:04.670 standard establishment that does serve 00:10:04.680 --> 00:10:05.150 alcohol. 00:10:05.160 --> 00:10:05.790 >> Okay. 00:10:05.800 --> 00:10:07.910 >> It's you know, and it and it pairs well 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:10.190 with our food 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:11.190 and on top [clears throat] of all of 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.390 that, it's the service above everything. 00:10:13.400 --> 00:10:14.510 So, 00:10:14.520 --> 00:10:17.430 it being the service industry after all. 00:10:17.440 -->

00:10:20.190 So, so it's it's the combo of all of 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:23.470 those things together. 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:26.670 >> A good example of this is 00:10:26.680 --> 00:10:29.190 for a basic cocktail menu, so maybe like 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:30.670 the the cocktail menu that's at 00:10:30.680 --> 00:10:31.790 Industry, 00:10:31.800 --> 00:10:33.830 the ingredients that go into that, there 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:35.670 might be one or two ingredients in each 00:10:35.680 --> 00:10:37.990 cocktail that you might not know. 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:39.870 You might not just know the name. You 00:10:39.880 --> 00:10:41.550 might not even know how to say it. And 00:10:41.560 --> 00:10:42.990 they explain it. 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:44.670 We have 11 00:10:44.680 --> 00:10:45.950 I don't want to say mocktail. We're 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:48.190 trying to lose that term, but we have 11 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:50.350 mocktails that are on our menu. Our 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:53.110 training guide for those mocktails is 99 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:54.750 pages. 00:10:54.760 --> 00:10:57.350 It is very intensive. Every single 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:01.070 ingredient it's a breakdown as to why we 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:03.390 use it the way that we use it, what the 00:11:03.400 --> 00:11:05.350 flavor profiles are. 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.310 Each drink that we create has comparison 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.550 notes to people that might be trying us 00:11:11.560 --> 00:11:13.350 for the first time and say, I like a gin 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.870 and tonic or I like French 75s. I I 00:11:16.880 --> 00:11:18.710 really love Manhattans. 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:20.870 We have comparable notes to all of 00:11:20.880 --> 00:11:23.550 those. We're not trying to replace 00:11:23.560 --> 00:11:25.630 booze. We're not trying to make you 00:11:25.640 --> 00:11:27.670 think that you're drinking booze. But we 00:11:27.680 --> 00:11:30.870 are creating tasty drinks 00:11:30.880 --> 00:11:34.830 that can also satisfy your cravings. So, 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:36.870 each drink has three food pairings with 00:11:36.880 --> 00:11:39.990 it that we would recommend. So, 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.430 not serving alcohol just off the bat, we 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:43.990 definitely start. 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:45.550 It's a little more challenging for us. 00:11:45.560 --> 00:11:45.990 >> Mhm. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:48.390 >> Um we have our clientele, we have our 00:11:48.400 --> 00:11:49.870 market, we've seen the support. We're 00:11:49.880 --> 00:11:51.790 not worried about it on that end. 00:11:51.800 --> 00:11:53.750 But, we also want to be able to explain 00:11:53.760 --> 00:11:55.750 everything to the fullest of 00:11:55.760 --> 00:11:57.790 if we put lion's mane in a drink, what 00:11:57.800 --> 00:11:59.710 are the effects of lion's mane? It's a 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:01.870 neurocognitive ability type thing. So, 00:12:01.880 --> 00:12:02.910 you wake up in

the morning, you have a 00:12:02.920 --> 00:12:04.230 little more clarity after you drink 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.950 these. Maybe something has a digestive 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.030 element to it, so you drink it after you 00:12:09.040 --> 00:12:10.630 eat. Then it makes you feel better and 00:12:10.640 --> 00:12:12.150 less bloated in the 00:12:12.160 --> 00:12:14.590 So, we're not diving into like the 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:16.590 health benefits and everything, but the 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:19.750 knowledge that our staff has on every 00:12:19.760 --> 00:12:22.750 single ingredient is par none. 00:12:22.760 --> 00:12:24.390 >> That is very impressive. 00:12:24.400 --> 00:12:25.670 >> rest of this industry, yeah. 00:12:25.680 --> 00:12:27.630 >> So, so like like you said earlier, I 00:12:27.640 --> 00:12:30.350 mean, it's not just juices. You're You 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:32.030 guys have a lot of thought into this. 00:12:32.040 --> 00:12:34.230 Now, you said something, you're trying 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:35.910 to get away from the word mocktail. 00:12:35.920 --> 00:12:36.590 >> Yeah. 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:37.990 >> What are you 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:39.510 >> Mocktail 00:12:39.520 --> 00:12:42.470 was a term that was created 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:43.829 to basically it's a it's a mock 00:12:43.839 --> 00:12:45.430 cocktail, which it makes sense, it's 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:47.270 very easy to say. 00:12:47.280 --> 00:12:49.590 I think it's a little derogatory to the 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:53.910 drinks that we create. That sounds super 00:12:53.920 --> 00:12:54.550 >> That sounds so 00:12:54.560 --> 00:12:55.790 >> I know, no, it sounds so 00:12:55.800 --> 00:12:56.990 >> You are so soft. 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.150 >> No, it sounds very pretend It sounds 00:12:59.160 --> 00:13:02.270 pretentious when I say it that way, but 00:13:02.280 --> 00:13:03.550 >> No, I get it though. 00:13:03.560 --> 00:13:05.710 >> the effort that we're putting in, it's 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:06.950 not 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:09.430 That's the if you read the headline to 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:10.910 any article that's been put out about 00:13:10.920 --> 00:13:12.150 this place 00:13:12.160 --> 00:13:14.750 and it says it's non-alcoholic mocktail 00:13:14.760 --> 00:13:17.190 bar opens in Manchester. 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:19.070 The immediate response is either people 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:20.550 are like, this is awesome, can't wait to 00:13:20.560 --> 00:13:23.110 try it. The term mocktail has kind of 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:25.750 led to the negativity that we're getting 00:13:25.760 --> 00:13:26.710 at this point. 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:28.950 >> It's easy to It's easy to say it sounds 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:31.590 like cocktail but with an M, but they're 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:34.110 really I mean, to sound even more 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:36.270 pretentious if I could. 00:13:36.280 --> 00:13:39.430 I mean, they're craft curated 00:13:39.440 -->

00:13:41.350 non-alcoholic 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:43.230 beverages. They're 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:44.390 It's They're even They're more 00:13:44.400 --> 00:13:46.270 complicated than the food recipes. No 00:13:46.280 --> 00:13:47.870 offense to Josh or chef. 00:13:47.880 --> 00:13:49.670 >> My bad, dog. We're going to talk about 00:13:49.680 --> 00:13:50.190 that next. 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:51.990 >> They require You know what I mean? We're 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:54.750 literally like soaking, straining 00:13:54.760 --> 00:13:56.030 macadamia 00:13:56.040 --> 00:13:58.630 turning that into a syrup, then put 00:13:58.640 --> 00:14:00.470 running it through cheesecloth, making 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:03.070 sure that it is smooth, making sure 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.390 there are no impurities, and that's just 00:14:05.400 --> 00:14:08.510 for one ingredient. And, you know, 00:14:08.520 --> 00:14:09.510 that's 00:14:09.520 --> 00:14:11.670 it's taking those things. It's creating 00:14:11.680 --> 00:14:12.910 It's creating flavors. 00:14:12.920 --> 00:14:15.270 >> of like you're foraging all your your 00:14:15.280 --> 00:14:16.710 ingredients. Yeah. 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.030 >> The our downfall is we can't hide the 00:14:20.040 --> 00:14:21.950 taste of the drink with booze. 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:22.750 If you go somewhere and you're like, 00:14:22.760 --> 00:14:24.990 "Oh, this This tastes like [ __ ] but 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:27.390 there's 9 oz of tequila in it, you're 00:14:27.400 --> 00:14:28.529 probably not going to complain." 00:14:28.539 --> 00:14:29.110 >> [laughter] 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:30.510 >> We put it in a drink alcoholic for 00:14:30.520 --> 00:14:32.270 >> Yeah, that's what you want. If we put 00:14:32.280 --> 00:14:34.190 one of our beverages out and it doesn't 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.230 taste good, we're starting from scratch 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:37.350 again. 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.950 So, it's there's a lot more pressure 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:41.590 into 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:43.630 what we create in here and the way that 00:14:43.640 --> 00:14:45.350 we present it as well. 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.950 Cuz that's That's the thing. I can make 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:50.829 10 drinks, one of them can taste like 00:14:50.839 --> 00:14:52.550 [ __ ] You're like, "Ah, you know what, 00:14:52.560 --> 00:14:54.470 man? It's okay." Like my my Jack and 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:55.870 Coke 00:14:55.880 --> 00:14:57.750 I think the syrup's flat on the Coke. If 00:14:57.760 --> 00:14:59.190 we put out 10 drinks and one of them 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:01.390 tastes like [ __ ] we're remaking. 00:15:01.400 --> 00:15:02.270 >> It's a never any bad 00:15:02.280 --> 00:15:03.510 >> Well, I I mean, I think it's impressive 00:15:03.520 --> 00:15:05.710 where you said your book is 99 pages 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:07.670 long. So, you're you're not just like 00:15:07.680 --> 00:15:09.150 like you said, it's not This isn't 00:15:09.160 --> 00:15:10.470 juices. This is a lot of elements to 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:12.550 come into There's a lot of elements. 00:15:12.560 --> 00:15:15.670 >> Booze Booze can stay on the shelf or in 00:15:15.680 --> 00:15:18.190 your basement for 30 years, and it'll be 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:19.510 fine. You can open it up and drink it 00:15:19.520 --> 00:15:20.030 again. 00:15:20.040 --> 00:15:21.270 >> Our product cannot. 00:15:21.280 --> 00:15:22.750 >> We make You know, we're making a 00:15:22.760 --> 00:15:26.110 pistachio syrup that's made out of food. 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:28.790 It has a shelf life. You know, it it can 00:15:28.800 --> 00:15:31.270 only we need to figure out, okay, how 00:15:31.280 --> 00:15:32.590 many of these drinks are we going to 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:34.110 sell this week? Well, you don't want to 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:35.990 make too little because it's a long 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:37.510 process to make it. 00:15:37.520 --> 00:15:37.910 >> Right. 00:15:37.920 --> 00:15:39.190 >> You don't want to make too much because 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:40.350 if you don't use it, you have to throw 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.030 it out, which also sucks. So, it's it's 00:15:43.040 --> 00:15:44.950 not just 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:46.790 pouring juice. 00:15:46.800 --> 00:15:47.910 >> So, not just a juice. 00:15:47.920 --> 00:15:48.790 >> Right. Right. 00:15:48.800 --> 00:15:50.950 >> It's really a liquid kitchen. That's 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:51.630 what we're doing. 00:15:51.640 --> 00:15:51.910 >> Yeah. 00:15:51.920 --> 00:15:53.590 >> Yeah. We have to account for food 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:54.630 spoilage and all that. 00:15:54.640 --> 00:15:55.870 >> I really am. 00:15:55.880 --> 00:15:57.630 >> Yeah, for spoilage we have to account. 00:15:57.640 --> 00:15:59.990 There's so much of that. If I buy a case 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:02.350 of Titos, every single bottle of that is 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:03.270 fine. 00:16:03.280 --> 00:16:05.790 If we buy a case of 00:16:05.800 --> 00:16:07.590 let's say 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:08.550 >> Pathfinder. 00:16:08.560 --> 00:16:11.390 >> Yeah. So, we buy a case of Pathfinder, 00:16:11.400 --> 00:16:12.670 every bottle of that is fine, but when 00:16:12.680 --> 00:16:14.630 it gets mixed with something, 00:16:14.640 --> 00:16:15.910 you're going to be able to tell if this 00:16:15.920 --> 00:16:17.430 is something is off. 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:19.310 Whereas alcohol hides taste, hides 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:22.270 smell, hides everything. So, we have to 00:16:22.280 --> 00:16:23.390 be 00:16:23.400 --> 00:16:25.430 we're going to be on our game. That's 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:28.470 That's as as much as we can put it. 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:30.550 People can kind of think, going back to 00:16:30.560 --> 00:16:33.470 the the juices and oh, it's it's just a 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:35.790 boring place. It's 00:16:35.800 --> 00:16:36.990 it's not boring. 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:38.590

>> Those people are few and far between. 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:39.350 >> Right. Right. 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:40.030 >> And it's 00:16:40.040 --> 00:16:43.150 >> It's so intricate and so much attention 00:16:43.160 --> 00:16:44.110 to detail. 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:46.390 >> When you walk in from 00:16:46.400 --> 00:16:48.150 the attention to detail on the design, 00:16:48.160 --> 00:16:50.750 which color scheme, all that was Dan. I 00:16:50.760 --> 00:16:52.750 had to hold him back a little bit cuz 00:16:52.760 --> 00:16:54.070 I'm a minimalist and Dan is very 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:55.990 eccentric. That's Stache and Industry, 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:57.110 beautiful places. 00:16:57.120 --> 00:16:58.470 >> It's a nice blend of the both of you 00:16:58.480 --> 00:16:58.990 guys. 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:01.590 >> Yeah, it's a good and that's it worked 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:02.829 for the room. Where if you go to 00:17:02.839 --> 00:17:04.470 Mokkapot, 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.790 Mokkapot is one big open space and we 00:17:06.800 --> 00:17:08.429 could have as much fun as we wanted 00:17:08.439 --> 00:17:10.309 there. There's different elements from 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:11.910 both of us that are in there. 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:13.790 This was so small that we really had to 00:17:13.800 --> 00:17:14.590 come 00:17:14.600 --> 00:17:15.829 and 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:18.110 put together, but from the attention to 00:17:18.120 --> 00:17:19.750 detail on space 00:17:19.760 --> 00:17:23.030 to the drink to the food to the service 00:17:23.040 --> 00:17:25.670 to every single part of it we have to be 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:27.069 on our best game. 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:28.790 And that's why if 00:17:28.800 --> 00:17:29.990 people want to tell us it's not going to 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.550 last whatever it's you don't understand 00:17:32.560 --> 00:17:34.950 how much effort we put into it 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:37.550 to ensure that it does last. 00:17:37.560 --> 00:17:39.310 >> So let's talk about the food. 00:17:39.320 --> 00:17:41.270 >> Yeah. Oh, I'd love to. 00:17:41.280 --> 00:17:44.230 >> So we're going to have all these amazing 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:44.990 drinks. 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:45.510 >> Mhm. 00:17:45.520 --> 00:17:47.590 >> What is the food going to be like? 00:17:47.600 --> 00:17:50.990 >> So to kind of go with the flow and the 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:54.430 the theme of what we're what we're doing 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:55.990 here is 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:57.150 it's a 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:00.030 comparatively to Cheesecake Factory it's 00:18:00.040 --> 00:18:02.717 a it's a smaller menu. Uh 00:18:02.727 --> 00:18:03.590 >> [laughter] 00:18:03.600 --> 00:18:04.110 >> again 00:18:04.120 --> 00:18:05.470 >> Jeez, yeah. That that one's like the 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:07.310 biggest menu in the whole world. 00:18:07.320 --> 00:18:08.910 >> We'll probably have we'll probably have 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:11.270 like 12 to 14 dishes 00:18:11.280 --> 00:18:11.790 >> Okay. 00:18:11.800 --> 00:18:13.670 >> Um at any given time. 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:15.150 >> Tapas style? 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:15.390 >> Uh 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:17.350 >> Entre shareable? Okay. 00:18:17.360 --> 00:18:19.950 >> Shareable shareable or you know 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:21.750 I always tell people at any of the 00:18:21.760 --> 00:18:23.230 restaurants just keep eating until 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:24.470 you're full. 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:26.590 Oh, these things look good to me. Order 00:18:26.600 --> 00:18:27.110 them. 00:18:27.120 --> 00:18:30.350 >> So again kind of like industry stash? 00:18:30.360 --> 00:18:32.390 >> You know because it's a social 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:34.070 atmosphere. It's certainly not going to 00:18:34.080 --> 00:18:36.350 be a T-bone steak broccoli mashed 00:18:36.360 --> 00:18:37.790 potatoes. 00:18:37.800 --> 00:18:39.750 It's going to be 00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:41.150 dishes that are put together with 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:42.550 thought to 00:18:42.560 --> 00:18:44.670 kind of mirror what you're getting in in 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:46.430 drink form. You know, all the 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:48.790 ingredients are there for a reason. And 00:18:48.800 --> 00:18:51.070 it's meant to be lively. You know, it's 00:18:51.080 --> 00:18:53.670 it's meant it's meant to 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:57.030 start conversation. Our chef Josh is 00:18:57.040 --> 00:18:58.150 Hawaiian. 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.190 So he's going to be bringing a couple of 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:02.710 like traditional 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:05.230 >> Oh, cool. That's different. 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:06.070 >> Hawaiian style dishes 00:19:06.080 --> 00:19:06.790 >> Yeah. 00:19:06.800 --> 00:19:10.230 >> a little bit of fusion dishes as well. 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:11.630 You know, where he's taking a little bit 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:13.990 elements from the island and adding it 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:16.670 into some kind of what more people will 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:18.350 recognize around here. And then we've 00:19:18.360 --> 00:19:21.350 got some dishes that we came up with 00:19:21.360 --> 00:19:22.750 that we just 00:19:22.760 --> 00:19:24.270 that you know, the ones you make like in 00:19:24.280 --> 00:19:26.030 your kitchen at 2:00 a.m. And you're 00:19:26.040 --> 00:19:28.870 like, this ah, this sounds pretty good. 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:29.910 But then you make it work and it 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:30.790 actually is good. 00:19:30.800 --> 00:19:33.750 >> Yeah. Can Can you give me any hints of 00:19:33.760 --> 00:19:34.990 anything or 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:36.550 >> I mean the biggest one that we're going 00:19:36.560 --> 00:19:39.910 to probably have is going to be the spam 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:42.630 pineapple arancini. 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:43.790 >> Spam 00:19:43.800 --> 00:19:45.470 pineapple arancini. 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:48.750 >> With a roasted pineapple sweet and sour

00:19:48.760 --> 00:19:49.790 sauce. 00:19:49.800 --> 00:19:50.670 >> Holy crap. 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:51.470 >> And that 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:52.670 >> That sounds amazing. 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:53.710 >> Pretty good. 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:56.870 >> Most of our dishes are vegan. 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:58.950 One is an oyster mushroom focused dish. 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:01.430 One is a chimichurri focused dish. 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:03.350 The tuna poke bombs. So, we take 00:20:03.360 --> 00:20:05.470 everything in a tuna poke ball. We wrap 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:07.630 it into a thin tofu wrapper and then 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:08.710 little 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:10.470 little slice of tuna right on the top. 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:11.590 >> Wow. 00:20:11.600 --> 00:20:12.110 >> The whole point 00:20:12.120 --> 00:20:13.310 >> But not the poke that you get at the 00:20:13.320 --> 00:20:13.750 mall. 00:20:13.760 --> 00:20:14.430 >> Definitely not. 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:16.670 >> Like the the traditional 00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:17.190 >> Okay. 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:17.750 >> traditional 00:20:17.760 --> 00:20:18.310 >> Ah, so 00:20:18.320 --> 00:20:20.950 >> The whole point of the menu is 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:22.790 every single thing you order, 00:20:22.800 --> 00:20:24.110 if there's four people at your table, 00:20:24.120 --> 00:20:26.150 you need four plates. 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:27.230 If there's two people, you need two 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:28.950 plates cuz every single item that comes 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:30.430 out, you're going to want to hey Travis, 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:31.990 hey Travis. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:33.430 So, that's 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:35.430 the whole point of this environment too 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:37.390 and the menu and the drinks is to start 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:38.830 conversation. 00:20:38.840 --> 00:20:40.790 And that our food menu is going to do 00:20:40.800 --> 00:20:43.750 that. And I think that's where 00:20:43.760 --> 00:20:45.110 from the articles that we've done in the 00:20:45.120 --> 00:20:46.750 past, I don't think anyone has touched 00:20:46.760 --> 00:20:47.990 on the food. So, you're actually the 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:48.750 first person that 00:20:48.760 --> 00:20:50.150 >> Yeah, thank you for that. Everyone just 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:53.190 wants to talk about if it's a if it's a 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:56.030 sustainable business model. I think 00:20:56.040 --> 00:20:57.150 >> I think a lot of people don't think 00:20:57.160 --> 00:20:58.950 we're doing food. 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:00.470 >> Yeah, a lot of people don't realize that 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:01.510 we're 00:21:01.520 --> 00:21:02.430 a real restaurant. 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:04.150 >> It's a restaurant. Everyone thinks we're 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:06.030 a mocktail bar. 00:21:06.040 --> 00:21:07.430 But uh 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:09.670 Well, at least you get the the pork 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:11.390 belly poke bowls. Wait till I come. 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:12.510 >> I can't wait. 00:21:12.520 --> 00:21:13.230 >> Yeah. 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:14.470 So, it's a very 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:16.310 >> oh my goodness. Spamming. 00:21:16.320 --> 00:21:16.670 >> Yeah. 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:17.990 >> Pineapple. 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:20.750 >> They're wicked good. And similar similar 00:21:20.760 --> 00:21:22.190 to 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:23.950 all the beverages we create, it's about 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:25.750 90% of it we have to make everything by 00:21:25.760 --> 00:21:26.790 hand. 00:21:26.800 --> 00:21:28.870 Same thing goes for the kitchen. 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:29.670 >> I love that. 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:31.510 >> buying anything pre-made, everything 00:21:31.520 --> 00:21:33.830 gets touched by Josh. 00:21:33.840 --> 00:21:34.990 He knows how to 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:35.470 >> Spam. 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:37.590 >> Is he from around here? Or 00:21:37.600 --> 00:21:39.710 So, from Hawaii, but has he been here 00:21:39.720 --> 00:21:40.870 for a while? Or 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:42.470 >> He's been here since 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:43.070 4 months. 00:21:43.080 --> 00:21:44.670 >> Oh, okay. So, 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:47.070 >> So, he came to New England for this 00:21:47.080 --> 00:21:47.710 concept. 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:48.790 >> Oh my goodness. 00:21:48.800 --> 00:21:50.150 >> to get him a really good 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:50.910 winter jacket. 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:52.230 >> Yeah, as a Christmas present, I think. 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:52.750 >> Yes. 00:21:52.760 --> 00:21:53.750 >> Yeah, I don't think he's ready for the 00:21:53.760 --> 00:21:55.150 cold. 00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:55.630 But, uh 00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:57.910 >> Yeah, oh boy. That does that for sure. 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:00.710 >> And that's I think I really I actually 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:02.390 appreciate you touching on the food item 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:04.190 because no one's asked. 00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:04.910 And we've done a couple 00:22:04.920 --> 00:22:05.910 >> That's kind of crazy. 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:07.270 >> Yeah, we've done some pop-ups on the 00:22:07.280 --> 00:22:09.310 mock pot side, and the people that have 00:22:09.320 --> 00:22:10.430 come in have been our day one 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:11.790 supporters. 00:22:11.800 --> 00:22:13.750 And they've tried They don't know it 00:22:13.760 --> 00:22:15.230 yet, but they've tried the entire menu 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:17.270 just by all four pop-ups. We were three, 00:22:17.280 --> 00:22:18.870 three, and three. Three, three, three, 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:21.710 three food items, three mocktails. 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:23.750 So, they've tried everything. We've done 00:22:23.760 --> 00:22:24.910 our tweaks on it. We've taken the 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:26.190 feedback. 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:27.670 But, yeah, I think that's that's the 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:29.670 missing piece to everything. They

think 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:33.350 that they think we're selling $14 00:22:33.360 --> 00:22:34.310 cups of juice. 00:22:34.320 --> 00:22:35.750 >> Right. Well, you're going to prove them 00:22:35.760 --> 00:22:37.710 wrong. I can't wait to see that. 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:38.510 >> Of course. 00:22:38.520 --> 00:22:40.430 >> So, when people walk in, what is it that 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:42.430 you want them to feel? 00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:43.030 >> Welcome. 00:22:43.040 --> 00:22:46.470 >> Yeah. As soon as you walk in the door, 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:47.590 I just want you 00:22:47.600 --> 00:22:49.150 I mean, I want you to feel like you made 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:51.470 the right decision. Like before you As 00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:52.870 soon as you walk in, you're going to get 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:54.910 greeted. Hey, how you doing? You know, 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:56.270 just like 00:22:56.280 --> 00:22:57.990 just like your friendly your friendly 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:00.090 neighborhood non-alcoholic bar. 00:23:00.100 --> 00:23:00.390 >> [laughter] 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:02.670 >> Come on down. You know, it's 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:03.990 again it 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:05.390 we've sat 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:08.870 whenever I do design, whenever Nick's 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:12.150 trying to get comfy, we've sat in every 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:14.470 I've sat in every seat in here like 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:16.150 >> hilarious. 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:17.350 >> You know what I mean? 00:23:17.360 --> 00:23:19.670 Like this there's a two top right next 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:23.430 to us that's out of out of view, but 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:24.470 like 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:26.870 we could have put a four top there and 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:30.310 packed a few more seats in, but the feel 00:23:30.320 --> 00:23:33.710 of that corner was oh, this is like this 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:35.750 should be a two top table. This is an 00:23:35.760 --> 00:23:37.270 intimate little table. This is going to 00:23:37.280 --> 00:23:40.230 be the desirable spot for someone who is 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:43.350 maybe on a first date. And you know, 00:23:43.360 --> 00:23:45.310 they wanted a little bit more privacy. 00:23:45.320 --> 00:23:48.350 The banquettes here. This is This was 00:23:48.360 --> 00:23:50.830 built so you can have multiple different 00:23:50.840 --> 00:23:51.430 parties 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:52.870 >> Separate or together. 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:54.670 >> comes in, we can put them all together. 00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:57.430 Everyone can see everything and you can 00:23:57.440 --> 00:23:59.710 see everything from all angles including 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:01.510 outside cuz it's all windows. 00:24:01.520 --> 00:24:02.510 >> Right. 00:24:02.520 --> 00:24:04.110 >> And you just We want to feel like you're 00:24:04.120 --> 00:24:06.710 in our like you've come right into our 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:07.790 kitchen at our house. 00:24:07.800

--> 00:24:09.270 >> I love them over. 00:24:09.280 --> 00:24:10.830 >> Don't worry, we got everything already 00:24:10.840 --> 00:24:12.510 ready for you. You just sit down and 00:24:12.520 --> 00:24:13.670 have a nice time. 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:15.630 >> Will there be some outside seating, too? 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:16.390 >> Eventually. 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:16.710 >> Yeah. 00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:17.710 >> Eventually there will. 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:18.110 >> Yeah. 00:24:18.120 --> 00:24:19.310 >> We want to 00:24:19.320 --> 00:24:21.270 kind of get everyone comfortable with 00:24:21.280 --> 00:24:23.070 the lay of the land before we start kind 00:24:23.080 --> 00:24:24.510 of jumping and expanding out. 00:24:24.520 --> 00:24:25.310 >> Yeah. 00:24:25.320 --> 00:24:26.830 >> It's the one thing I want to feel every 00:24:26.840 --> 00:24:28.590 time I walk into a restaurant is 00:24:28.600 --> 00:24:29.790 welcomed. 00:24:29.800 --> 00:24:31.830 And not just someone saying, "Hi, how 00:24:31.840 --> 00:24:33.150 are you? How many people are dining 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:34.110 today?" 00:24:34.120 --> 00:24:36.750 It's the genuine care of, "Hey, how are 00:24:36.760 --> 00:24:39.150 you? How are the kids? Are we dining 00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:41.030 solo tonight? Did we we get a sitter 00:24:41.040 --> 00:24:42.390 tonight?" Like 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:44.790 that's the hospitality aspect 00:24:44.800 --> 00:24:45.510 >> It's big. 00:24:45.520 --> 00:24:47.110 >> of restaurants. I think it is so 00:24:47.120 --> 00:24:48.510 >> It's the only thing that's going to make 00:24:48.520 --> 00:24:50.470 this whole industry survive. 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:51.390 >> It's true. 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:53.270 >> If you don't care about the people who 00:24:53.280 --> 00:24:54.590 walk in the door and you just see a 00:24:54.600 --> 00:24:56.230 price tag 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:59.590 and you see a dollar sign between 00:24:59.600 --> 00:25:01.190 anyone that comes in and how many people 00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:02.550 are there, 00:25:02.560 --> 00:25:04.830 you're never going to last. 00:25:04.840 --> 00:25:06.270 You're not going to and that's 00:25:06.280 --> 00:25:08.430 >> Building relationships, right? I mean 00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:08.870 >> think that's 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:10.830 >> There's not a lot of other reasons to be 00:25:10.840 --> 00:25:12.402 in this business. 00:25:12.412 --> 00:25:13.470 >> [laughter] 00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:14.230 >> That's it. 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:16.630 >> It's certainly you have to love it. And 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:17.870 I think 00:25:17.880 --> 00:25:20.150 not just here, uh you know, this might 00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:21.110 be 00:25:21.120 --> 00:25:23.550 this might be the first time anyone is 00:25:23.560 --> 00:25:26.390 trying any one of our concepts. 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:27.710 If so, you're missing out on the other 00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:28.870 ones, but 00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:29.190 >> Definitely.

00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:30.110 >> That's what we do at all our That's what 00:25:30.120 --> 00:25:30.750 we're going to talk about them. 00:25:30.760 --> 00:25:32.070 >> That's what we do at all our other 00:25:32.080 --> 00:25:33.990 spots, you know, it's the first and 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:36.910 foremost, you walk in 00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:39.870 you you can tell in 10 seconds if you 00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:41.910 want to be in there or not, you know, if 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:43.670 it's not for you, you know that right 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:44.950 off the bat. 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:48.190 If you're a weary road traveler and you 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:50.870 just want to sit down and just chill 00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:52.990 out, we'll let you chill. If you're 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:55.710 ready to talk and tell some stories, so 00:25:55.720 --> 00:25:58.590 are we and that's the same thing here. I 00:25:58.600 --> 00:26:00.350 think it's it's just that inviting 00:26:00.360 --> 00:26:01.990 aspect of it, you know, that's why 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:04.870 people go out. Why would you buy a $14 00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:06.830 glass of juice when you could just make 00:26:06.840 --> 00:26:08.790 it at your house, you know? 00:26:08.800 --> 00:26:11.190 Uh that's that's the whole point. 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:12.663 >> going to taste like [ __ ] 00:26:12.673 --> 00:26:12.870 >> [laughter] 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:14.030 >> if we don't make it, but 00:26:14.040 --> 00:26:15.670 >> That's right. That's right. 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:17.150 >> that's I think you nailed it, Dan. 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:18.710 That's the 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:21.030 the whole point of going out and going 00:26:21.040 --> 00:26:24.750 to a restaurant or going to a bar or 00:26:24.760 --> 00:26:27.190 a show, anything you do is for the 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:29.830 social aspect and the entertainment. In 00:26:29.840 --> 00:26:31.830 hospitality and restaurant scene, we 00:26:31.840 --> 00:26:33.870 have to provide both of those things. 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:35.790 We're not singing and dancing. It's not 00:26:35.800 --> 00:26:37.670 Texas Roadhouse doing the dance every 30 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:38.110 minutes. 00:26:38.120 --> 00:26:40.150 >> sir. I will be dancing quite a bit. 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:41.350 >> You can dance all you want. 00:26:41.360 --> 00:26:41.870 >> Thank you. 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:44.110 >> What's the song? 00:26:44.120 --> 00:26:46.030 >> Well, if we're going to Texas Roadhouse, 00:26:46.040 --> 00:26:48.033 it's Boot Scootin' Boogie. 00:26:48.043 --> 00:26:49.190 >> [laughter] 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:50.630 >> I used to work there. 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:51.630 >> Did you really? 00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:53.030 >> That's where you started, right? 00:26:53.040 --> 00:26:53.470 >> funny. 00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:53.910 >> No. 00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:54.470 >> No? 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:55.390 >> No. 00:26:55.400 --> 00:26:56.310 >> Uh 00:26:56.320 --> 00:26:58.270 no, I don't know if I would have made 00:26:58.280 --> 00:26:59.190 it. I don't know if I would [laughter] 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:00.310 have kept doing this if that's where I 00:27:00.320 --> 00:27:01.910 started. 00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:03.790 >> You must know the book uh Unreasonable 00:27:03.800 --> 00:27:04.550 Hospitality. 00:27:04.560 --> 00:27:05.790 >> Of course. 00:27:05.800 --> 00:27:06.790 >> Isn't he amazing? 00:27:06.800 --> 00:27:07.390 >> Yeah. 00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:10.150 >> He's like my idol. That guy is just I 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:11.510 went to one of his conferences. 00:27:11.520 --> 00:27:12.150 >> Was he good? 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:13.430 >> Amazing. 00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:14.310 Like 00:27:14.320 --> 00:27:15.390 stupid. 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:17.070 Unbelievable. 00:27:17.080 --> 00:27:18.350 >> I worry about people that write books 00:27:18.360 --> 00:27:20.910 about hospitality and like this industry 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:22.590 when they get up on stage and talk like 00:27:22.600 --> 00:27:25.310 a seminar. I always worry that's like 00:27:25.320 --> 00:27:26.350 >> No. 00:27:26.360 --> 00:27:27.710 >> Did you live it? Did you live it? 00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:29.190 >> You should go. It's called the summit 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:31.270 and you should go. Like it is so well 00:27:31.280 --> 00:27:32.510 worth it. It's not even funny. It's 00:27:32.520 --> 00:27:34.350 amazing. I was blown away. 00:27:34.360 --> 00:27:37.150 >> I'm always surprised that that anyone 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:39.550 who writes a book on 00:27:39.560 --> 00:27:42.750 the business or hospitality in general, 00:27:42.760 --> 00:27:44.030 I always think they should be like this 00:27:44.040 --> 00:27:45.670 big. 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:48.110 The fact that they can edit it down to a 00:27:48.120 --> 00:27:51.310 readable, palatable book is crazy cuz 00:27:51.320 --> 00:27:52.790 it's like never-ending. You know what I 00:27:52.800 --> 00:27:54.310 mean? 00:27:54.320 --> 00:27:55.150 >> Yeah. 00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:55.750 >> I could write a book 00:27:55.760 --> 00:27:57.110 >> Only only a handful of us want to 00:27:57.120 --> 00:27:58.670 actually read and listen to that the 00:27:58.680 --> 00:28:00.350 whole time, too. So, I guess it's a 00:28:00.360 --> 00:28:03.270 >> I could write a novel just on this week. 00:28:03.280 --> 00:28:04.550 Just [laughter] on the week. 00:28:04.560 --> 00:28:08.230 >> So, I came in um during the taco tour. I 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:10.390 had one of your pork belly tacos, which 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:13.590 was amazing. And you were very gracious 00:28:13.600 --> 00:28:16.430 with me and my my my crew that I had 00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:18.670 came in and gave us like a little tour. 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:21.790 And you were so excited to show me the 00:28:21.800 --> 00:28:23.009 bathroom. 00:28:23.019 --> 00:28:23.870 >> [laughter] 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:25.990 >> Let's talk about that. Like the

00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:27.030 bathroom. 00:28:27.040 --> 00:28:31.550 >> We needed one really really eccentric 00:28:31.560 --> 00:28:32.070 piece. 00:28:32.080 --> 00:28:33.510 >> The bathroom is very important. 00:28:33.520 --> 00:28:37.070 >> So, it's it was a 5 by 5 room. 00:28:37.080 --> 00:28:38.830 It's a tiny bathroom. 00:28:38.840 --> 00:28:41.350 It's 8 ft tall and we kind of sat here. 00:28:41.360 --> 00:28:43.550 It's like we can't put a table in here. 00:28:43.560 --> 00:28:45.950 There's no there's no sunlight at all. 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:47.350 Sometimes you get a bathroom, you open 00:28:47.360 --> 00:28:49.390 the door, you get a little sunlight in. 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:51.310 Plants are out of the question. 00:28:51.320 --> 00:28:52.310 So, 00:28:52.320 --> 00:28:55.030 what are we doing with the bathroom? 00:28:55.040 --> 00:28:57.230 And originally, I wanted tarot card the 00:28:57.240 --> 00:28:58.830 floor 00:28:58.840 --> 00:29:01.150 and epoxy over it. 00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:03.310 And I threw that out to a couple people 00:29:03.320 --> 00:29:05.510 that are in the in that world, very 00:29:05.520 --> 00:29:06.870 astrological people. 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:07.590 >> Oh. 00:29:07.600 --> 00:29:09.310 >> And uh I was chewed out. 00:29:09.320 --> 00:29:10.670 >> That was a no-no. 00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:12.870 >> "How dare you step on the cards?" And I 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:14.390 said, "Well, I'm going to put them on 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:16.230 the wall then." And then I cut them up. 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:19.870 But it was 780 00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:22.110 individual tarot cards. 00:29:22.120 --> 00:29:23.830 And we wallpapered the bathroom. 00:29:23.840 --> 00:29:24.590 >> And who helped you out with the 00:29:24.600 --> 00:29:25.030 bathroom? 00:29:25.040 --> 00:29:25.750 >> I 00:29:25.760 --> 00:29:28.230 That I That was my project. 00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:30.110 >> I said, "I'm not helping with that." 00:29:30.120 --> 00:29:30.670 >> Yeah. 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:33.150 And it's just it gives it this When you 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:35.110 go in there, it's similar to what Dan 00:29:35.120 --> 00:29:37.350 said about small space, but there's 00:29:37.360 --> 00:29:38.590 three different It's almost like there's 00:29:38.600 --> 00:29:39.750 three different rooms in here. 00:29:39.760 --> 00:29:40.550 >> I love it. 00:29:40.560 --> 00:29:42.310 >> When you go into the bathroom, it's 00:29:42.320 --> 00:29:44.750 extremely calming from It's a very dim 00:29:44.760 --> 00:29:45.830 light. 00:29:45.840 --> 00:29:46.670 You're not going to be able to see 00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:48.190 anything in there, which we might have 00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:49.230 to change, but 00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:50.350 >> We're going to put a selfie light in 00:29:50.360 --> 00:29:50.630 there. 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:52.550 >> We are going to put a selfie 00:29:52.560 --> 00:29:54.070 selfies, everyone. 00:29:54.080 --> 00:29:56.310 >> Did I tell you about my son's bathroom 00:29:56.320 --> 00:29:58.150 at his place? I didn't tell you about 00:29:58.160 --> 00:29:58.790 that that night. 00:29:58.800 --> 00:29:59.870 >> tarot carded? 00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:02.110 >> No, no, no, but he doesn't own it 00:30:02.120 --> 00:30:03.550 anymore, but he used to own Hap's Roast 00:30:03.560 --> 00:30:05.550 Beef in um 00:30:05.560 --> 00:30:06.230 >> Really? 00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:07.190 >> Portsmouth. 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.870 Hap's Roast Beef. That was 00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:11.430 He wasn't the original. He He had had 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:13.110 had it for 3 years. He just sold it like 00:30:13.120 --> 00:30:14.790 maybe a year ago. 00:30:14.800 --> 00:30:17.590 And I mean, he's my kid, a little 00:30:17.600 --> 00:30:18.870 quirky. 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:21.190 And when you walk into his bathroom in 00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:23.510 there, it cuz you know, you walk into 00:30:23.520 --> 00:30:24.910 Hap's, it's just you go up, you order, 00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:27.150 you sit down, it's tables, it's not you 00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:29.110 know, fancy or anything like that. You 00:30:29.120 --> 00:30:31.070 walk into that bathroom, and it is like 00:30:31.080 --> 00:30:33.750 you were going into a Boston speak easy. 00:30:33.760 --> 00:30:36.470 Like he did it up like And that's what 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:37.390 that reminded me of. 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:38.910 >> Yeah, I saw it on What did you eat 00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:40.070 today, sir? 00:30:40.080 --> 00:30:40.990 >> I know. 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:43.030 Yes, he went in and yeah. 00:30:43.040 --> 00:30:45.350 put it on an episode of like would you 00:30:45.360 --> 00:30:46.670 [ __ ] in this bathroom? 00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:49.230 >> There are so many bathrooms. 00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:52.230 He made it on so many bathroom forums. I 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:54.750 didn't even know that that even existed. 00:30:54.760 --> 00:30:56.470 His bathroom was like rated number one 00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.270 like so many times. 00:30:59.280 --> 00:31:00.910 >> It's one of the most important parts of 00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:01.070 a restaurant. 00:31:01.080 --> 00:31:01.670 >> Yeah. 00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:03.390 >> Yep, the front door and the bathroom. 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:05.390 >> So everybody, make sure when you come in 00:31:05.400 --> 00:31:07.070 you go use the bathroom. 00:31:07.080 --> 00:31:09.070 Love it. 00:31:09.080 --> 00:31:10.830 Oh, I'm I'm going to before I leave for 00:31:10.840 --> 00:31:11.430 sure. 00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:13.510 >> What I imagine and like our running joke 00:31:13.520 --> 00:31:16.390 now is someone's going to go in there, 00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:17.590 they're going to sit down on the toilet, 00:31:17.600 --> 00:31:18.310 and they're going to look up and be 00:31:18.320 --> 00:31:19.590 like, "Oh my god, the death card's 00:31:19.600 --> 00:31:20.516 looking at me." 00:31:20.526 --> 00:31:21.270 >> [laughter]

00:31:21.280 --> 00:31:23.310 >> What does that mean? Like the death 00:31:23.320 --> 00:31:24.790 card. They'll have to Google it. And 00:31:24.800 --> 00:31:26.510 it's right next to the ten of cups and 00:31:26.520 --> 00:31:28.310 the six of pee. 00:31:28.320 --> 00:31:30.190 So it's just going to like 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:32.230 What it we had to make something that 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:34.470 was that stood out. We wanted something 00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:34.710 to stand 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:37.150 >> I love it. I think it's it's awesome. 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:39.150 >> People go in there and the bathroom 00:31:39.160 --> 00:31:41.870 before we touch it to now 00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.630 it was like a 1980s office in there, but 00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:47.350 they didn't drywall anything. It was 00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:50.190 just that thin plywood. It was gross. 00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:50.830 >> Yeah. 00:31:50.840 --> 00:31:52.510 >> But now you go in there and you take a 00:31:52.520 --> 00:31:53.990 selfie and every time someone puts up a 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:55.030 selfie they're like, "Oh, that's a 00:31:55.040 --> 00:31:55.590 without that." 00:31:55.600 --> 00:31:57.150 >> Selfie, that's that's awesome. I think 00:31:57.160 --> 00:31:58.190 that's so 00:31:58.200 --> 00:31:59.510 I love that. They are of course they 00:31:59.520 --> 00:32:00.830 are. And then they're going to of course 00:32:00.840 --> 00:32:05.270 put it on social media and 00:32:05.280 --> 00:32:07.350 Exactly. 00:32:07.360 --> 00:32:09.830 >> This episode is powered by Belmont Hall 00:32:09.840 --> 00:32:11.607 and Restaurant in Manchester. 00:32:11.617 --> 00:32:11.710 >> [music] 00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:14.270 >> Family owned for over 90 years. They 00:32:14.280 --> 00:32:16.710 serve up classic American breakfast, 00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:18.150 lunch, and brunch [music] 00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:20.470 seven days a week made fresh from 00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:22.390 scratch in their kitchen. Think 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:25.430 pancakes, French toast, eggs Benedict, 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:27.830 pan fries, all the comfort food done 00:32:27.840 --> 00:32:29.750 right. [music] But Belmont Hall is also 00:32:29.760 --> 00:32:32.350 home to a full function hall ideal for 00:32:32.360 --> 00:32:33.270 showers, [music] 00:32:33.280 --> 00:32:35.670 parties, corporate events, or any 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:39.910 celebration. Open 6:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:42.390 every day and Fridays they stay open 00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:45.310 till 8:00. Find them at 718 Grove Street 00:32:45.320 --> 00:32:48.910 in Manchester or at belmonthall.net. 00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:51.150 Keeping [music] it simple, affordable, 00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:53.550 and delicious. 00:32:53.560 --> 00:32:55.510 >> Okay, so let's talk about, you know, 00:32:55.520 --> 00:32:57.190 Nick, you you're running Shoppers. 00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:57.830 >> Yeah. 00:32:57.840 --> 00:32:59.270 >>

Anything new or exciting happening at 00:32:59.280 --> 00:32:59.790 Shoppers? 00:32:59.800 --> 00:33:01.910 >> Well, July, if we didn't have enough 00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:03.830 going on, I 00:33:03.840 --> 00:33:06.030 I am a firm believer that every 5 years 00:33:06.040 --> 00:33:08.190 something should be refreshed. 00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:10.030 We were on year seven there and I said, 00:33:10.040 --> 00:33:11.910 "Fuck it, let's renovate." So, I painted 00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:13.110 everything 00:33:13.120 --> 00:33:14.790 dark blue, made it more of that 00:33:14.800 --> 00:33:17.310 Boston-esque sports bar feel. 00:33:17.320 --> 00:33:18.390 >> We were just in there. 00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:18.790 >> Yeah. 00:33:18.800 --> 00:33:20.510 >> I did notice that and it looked really 00:33:20.520 --> 00:33:20.910 good. 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:24.350 >> Yeah. So, I found uh I found this faux 00:33:24.360 --> 00:33:27.270 brick B wall type stuff to put up. So, I 00:33:27.280 --> 00:33:29.590 did good amount of brick in there. 00:33:29.600 --> 00:33:32.190 Once the summer's over, I have all the 00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:33.870 high top legs put everything in the back 00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:36.110 to high top, so we're just trying to 00:33:36.120 --> 00:33:38.270 build that Boston-esque sports bar that 00:33:38.280 --> 00:33:40.030 we should have been the whole time. 00:33:40.040 --> 00:33:41.470 And 00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:42.910 obviously, there's a lot of us that are 00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:44.030 involved in there. A lot of us are 00:33:44.040 --> 00:33:46.790 creatives. Sometimes our minds don't 00:33:46.800 --> 00:33:49.150 line up accordingly. 00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:51.710 >> This is That happens. 00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:52.390 That happens. 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:54.070 >> Whatever you wanted to say, said. 00:33:54.080 --> 00:33:55.098 >> No, it's just 00:33:55.108 --> 00:33:56.350 >> [laughter] 00:33:56.360 --> 00:33:58.950 >> So, there's a Shoppers in Waltham. It's 00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:01.950 been there for 87 years and it's always 00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:04.030 worked. You know, we came up here, we 00:34:04.040 --> 00:34:06.150 thought, "Hey, it works down there, it 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:08.629 should work up here." And we've busted 00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:11.750 our balls for 7 years and it works, 00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:13.149 but there's more that we can get out of 00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:14.990 it and we kind of sat down together as a 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:16.990 group and said, "All right, we've tried 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:18.190 this, we've tried this, we've tried 00:34:18.200 --> 00:34:19.629 this. What do you What do you think 00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:20.710 would work?" 00:34:20.720 --> 00:34:22.750 We said, "Well, let's repaint it, let's 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:25.230 wrap the walls, let's dive heavy into 00:34:25.240 --> 00:34:26.909 sports." And that's kind of what we've 00:34:26.919 --> 00:34:28.710 done. So, football season is what I'm 00:34:28.720 --> 00:34:30.669 looking forward to and I'm going to get 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:32.950 a real test to see like 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:35.590 did it work? Is it Is it cooler or is it 00:34:35.600 --> 00:34:37.030 like a better vibe? So. 00:34:37.040 --> 00:34:38.790 >> We had a darn good burger there, too. It 00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:40.110 was very good. 00:34:40.120 --> 00:34:42.258 >> That is good. It was very good. 00:34:42.268 --> 00:34:42.869 >> [laughter] 00:34:42.879 --> 00:34:44.790 >> It was It was really good. It really 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:45.149 was. 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:47.110 >> in If I'm ever in the kitchen, which is 00:34:47.120 --> 00:34:48.710 Tuesday days 00:34:48.720 --> 00:34:49.990 still throwing down in there, get a 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:51.389 pizza cuz I make 00:34:51.399 --> 00:34:52.310 >> Ah, okay. 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:53.110 >> throw That's 00:34:53.120 --> 00:34:54.990 >> I did see pizza on there. I went on 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:57.030 Sunday to support Deadproof. There was 00:34:57.040 --> 00:34:58.630 no way I was going there at 9:00 cuz I'm 00:34:58.640 --> 00:35:01.190 in my PJs by 6:00. 00:35:01.200 --> 00:35:02.030 >> I I was 00:35:02.040 --> 00:35:02.950 >> we're going to go and 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:04.230 >> your card was there? 00:35:04.240 --> 00:35:05.470 >> Oh, I left it, yeah. 00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:06.910 >> center was like, "Hey, someone left a 00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:08.150 card for you." I looked at it and I'm 00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:09.830 like 00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:11.710 I was like, "Oh, were they nice?" 00:35:11.720 --> 00:35:13.630 They're like, "Yeah, she was very nice. 00:35:13.640 --> 00:35:15.190 She kept filming herself, though." I go, 00:35:15.200 --> 00:35:16.910 "Yeah, that's [ __ ] Carol, dude." 00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:18.710 >> I wasn't filming myself. I was doing a 00:35:18.720 --> 00:35:19.350 reel. 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:20.249 >> Hell yeah. 00:35:20.259 --> 00:35:20.510 >> [laughter] 00:35:20.520 --> 00:35:22.030 >> That's what I'm talking about. 00:35:22.040 --> 00:35:22.630 >> okay. 00:35:22.640 --> 00:35:24.030 >> They'd all learn. 00:35:24.040 --> 00:35:24.830 They'd all learn, yeah. 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:27.470 >> That's funny. That's funny. So, in the 00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:29.630 end, now you're part of Industry East? 00:35:29.640 --> 00:35:29.950 >> Yes. 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:31.110 >> And Stashbox? 00:35:31.120 --> 00:35:33.390 >> Yeah. Jeremy and I 00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:35.830 >> 50/50 at those spots. 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:38.150 They're going great. Actually, um 00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:39.750 >> We got to talk about the glizzys. 00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:41.550 >> Yeah, you can absolutely talk about the 00:35:41.560 --> 00:35:43.590 glizzys. 00:35:43.600 --> 00:35:46.790 We're going We're in year six now, so I 00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:48.510 don't know if we talked about this on 00:35:48.520 --> 00:35:50.830 the last one I was on, but we've been

00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:52.910 doing the wiener of the week since we 00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:54.190 opened. 00:35:54.200 --> 00:35:55.390 I don't know. On top of the ones that we 00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:57.830 always have. So, it's got to be whatever 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.750 that math works out to. What's 6 * 52? 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:03.110 52 00:36:03.120 --> 00:36:03.750 >> A lot. 00:36:03.760 --> 00:36:06.070 >> It's a lot. So, I mean, we've done well 00:36:06.080 --> 00:36:06.550 over 00:36:06.560 --> 00:36:07.030 >> Yeah. 00:36:07.040 --> 00:36:11.830 >> well over 300 custom weekly hot dogs 00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:13.950 there. 00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.230 You know, and it never intended it to be 00:36:16.240 --> 00:36:17.110 the hot dog 00:36:17.120 --> 00:36:18.310 >> But it's caught on. 00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:19.790 >> But it is, and so, you know. 00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:20.390 >> on. 00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:22.910 >> It's It's going great. You know, we we 00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:25.390 Our restaurant You can't create a space. 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:27.190 You can create a restaurant. You can 00:36:27.200 --> 00:36:30.110 create a bar, and have it be the way you 00:36:30.120 --> 00:36:31.790 want it to be. 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:33.870 But eventually it shapes itself. 00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:33.990 >> Yeah. 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:35.190 >> Your customers shape it. 00:36:35.200 --> 00:36:35.630 >> Yeah. 00:36:35.640 --> 00:36:36.470 >> Your staff shapes it. 00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:38.030 >> Sometimes it's not what you You know, 00:36:38.040 --> 00:36:39.790 even maybe here. You know, maybe you'll 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:40.670 have to You know, 00:36:40.680 --> 00:36:43.150 >> going to kind of relate it to that. Like 00:36:43.160 --> 00:36:45.430 here, you know, we have our you know, 00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:47.350 our vision of you know, we have our 00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:49.230 menu, we have our drinks, we have the 00:36:49.240 --> 00:36:50.470 look. I mean, the look's not going to 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:53.150 change that much because it took 00:36:53.160 --> 00:36:55.190 [ __ ] 9 months to get it done. 00:36:55.200 --> 00:36:55.950 So, [laughter] 00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:57.470 but you know, 00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:00.190 you know, perhaps it become you know, 00:37:00.200 --> 00:37:02.270 maybe a couple of Josh's like custom 00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:04.150 dishes or 00:37:04.160 --> 00:37:05.630 are his recipes they have and maybe it 00:37:05.640 --> 00:37:06.990 becomes 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.790 maybe it becomes known as the Hawaiian 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:09.110 place. 00:37:09.120 --> 00:37:10.750 >> Right, exactly. I mean, cuz that's 00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:11.590 unique. 00:37:11.600 --> 00:37:11.950 >> bar. 00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:13.110 >> see that around here. 00:37:13.120 --> 00:37:15.790 >> No, that's And I I I I think it's 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:17.750 There's no tiki bars in the state. 00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:20.750 >> Yes, Casey's. I was just at one last I 00:37:20.760 --> 00:37:22.190 was just at one last night. 00:37:22.200 --> 00:37:22.510 >> Where was that? 00:37:22.520 --> 00:37:23.230 >> Casey's. 00:37:23.240 --> 00:37:23.990 >> Casey's? 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:24.670 >> Rum Shack. 00:37:24.680 --> 00:37:25.070 >> Oh, they 00:37:25.080 --> 00:37:26.670 >> You never been to their tiki bar? 00:37:26.680 --> 00:37:27.470 >> No. Well, they 00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:28.950 >> I don't drink. 00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:29.950 You got to go 00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:31.150 >> I got to Look, I 00:37:31.160 --> 00:37:32.110 >> Go and have a juice. 00:37:32.120 --> 00:37:34.910 >> I've had my fair share of trouble 00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:35.836 getting in. 00:37:35.846 --> 00:37:36.550 >> [laughter] 00:37:36.560 --> 00:37:38.750 >> They have an amazing tiki bar out back. 00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:39.990 We were just there last night. That's so 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:40.550 funny that 00:37:40.560 --> 00:37:42.190 >> See, I thought it was All right, so 00:37:42.200 --> 00:37:44.030 that's my my apologies on it. 00:37:44.040 --> 00:37:45.950 >> You got to go look at it. Go check it 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:46.190 out. 00:37:46.200 --> 00:37:47.710 >> I've seen it. I thought it was just the 00:37:47.720 --> 00:37:49.350 setup for the outdoor bar. I didn't 00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:49.630 realize 00:37:49.640 --> 00:37:50.670 >> It is. 00:37:50.680 --> 00:37:52.270 >> But is it like a tiki oriented 00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:53.510 >> Oh gosh, yes. 00:37:53.520 --> 00:37:55.750 Totally. Like it's like you're in Key 00:37:55.760 --> 00:37:56.670 West. 00:37:56.680 --> 00:37:57.590 >> Looks like we're going to 00:37:57.600 --> 00:37:59.150 >> Yeah, you got to go check it out. You 00:37:59.160 --> 00:38:00.510 got to go check it out. You got to go 00:38:00.520 --> 00:38:01.230 check it out. 00:38:01.240 --> 00:38:03.310 >> But yeah, I think yeah, like I said, 00:38:03.320 --> 00:38:05.190 indus- industries 00:38:05.200 --> 00:38:07.110 we have we can do we just do whatever we 00:38:07.120 --> 00:38:09.510 want there. And like [laughter] 00:38:09.520 --> 00:38:10.270 >> And it's working. 00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:12.230 >> It works. It's 00:38:12.240 --> 00:38:13.750 you know, we just 00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:15.470 >> Stash Box off also. 00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:18.150 >> Yeah, you know, the staff our staff at 00:38:18.160 --> 00:38:20.270 all those places they um 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:21.990 we kind of let them 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:23.350 do their thing, you know? Like if 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:25.150 something absolutely sucks, we just go, 00:38:25.160 --> 00:38:27.550 "Nope. That's awful. 00:38:27.560 --> 00:38:29.630 Sorry, man. Not going to work." But that 00:38:29.640 --> 00:38:32.190 rarely happens, and if something is not 00:38:32.200 --> 00:38:34.870 going going to fit into, you know, the 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:37.510 the rest of the menu, you'll modify it. 00:38:37.520 --> 00:38:39.510 You

might put it on the back burner. 00:38:39.520 --> 00:38:41.510 Hey, let's let's revisit that, you know, 00:38:41.520 --> 00:38:42.670 but it's 00:38:42.680 --> 00:38:45.310 everyone has a say in in in what goes on 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:48.590 the menu for food, for drinks, for 00:38:48.600 --> 00:38:49.270 everything. 00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:50.830 >> I think that's so important, cuz it 00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:52.910 makes them feel that they're part of it, 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:54.430 you know? The the line cook in the 00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:56.630 kitchen isn't just a line cook. They can 00:38:56.640 --> 00:38:58.590 be creative, which is important. 00:38:58.600 --> 00:39:00.390 >> cares a little more, you know? Like, 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:03.230 "Oh, this is my place. Like I 00:39:03.240 --> 00:39:06.230 when I come in to work here, not to like 00:39:06.240 --> 00:39:07.750 that's my drink on the menu. Pride in 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:08.390 the work. 00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:09.230 >> Exactly. 00:39:09.240 --> 00:39:12.110 >> And then cuz, you know, the guests, they 00:39:12.120 --> 00:39:13.870 realize that, too. Oh, who's working 00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:15.750 tonight? I'm sure everyone has their 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:18.190 favorites, right? But 00:39:18.200 --> 00:39:19.470 doesn't matter what night you go in, 00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:21.150 because everyone that that's there is 00:39:21.160 --> 00:39:24.470 going to make your night fun. And that's 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:27.390 in this in these trying ti- restaurants 00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:28.230 are hurting. 00:39:28.240 --> 00:39:29.630 >> Yeah. It's hard. 00:39:29.640 --> 00:39:31.590 >> Yeah. Things are everything's up. 00:39:31.600 --> 00:39:32.070 >> It's tough. 00:39:32.080 --> 00:39:34.550 >> I mean, my [ __ ] electric bill is more 00:39:34.560 --> 00:39:36.790 than my rent over there, which is 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.310 insane. That's insane. You know, 3 years 00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:41.110 ago, it was 00:39:41.120 --> 00:39:43.390 it was less than half the rent. Now it's 00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:45.670 more than the rent. Like it's it's a 00:39:45.680 --> 00:39:47.150 it's a tough game out there, and the 00:39:47.160 --> 00:39:49.350 only like I think I touched on it in the 00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:52.270 when we first sat down today, it was 00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:54.990 the only thing that's going to 00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:56.190 the only thing that's going to keep it 00:39:56.200 --> 00:39:57.990 going is hospitality. 00:39:58.000 --> 00:39:58.390 >> Yeah. 00:39:58.400 --> 00:39:59.950 >> Yeah. So there are places that are 00:39:59.960 --> 00:40:00.870 You're right. You got to step it up. 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:02.110 There are places that are 00:40:02.120 --> 00:40:04.350 >> that are making it through, 00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:07.510 they're like that's going to be 00:40:07.520 --> 00:40:09.470 Yeah, people I hope everyone realizes 00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:09.590 that. 00:40:09.600 -->

00:40:10.590 >> Yeah. That's true. 00:40:10.600 --> 00:40:11.950 >> everyone realizes that that's going to 00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:14.550 be the thing that makes it through is 00:40:14.560 --> 00:40:16.870 the place where you feel 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:19.350 welcomed and like it's your place. Like 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:21.870 when you walk in, oh, this is my spot, 00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:22.470 you know? 00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:23.190 >> Yeah. 00:40:23.200 --> 00:40:24.190 >> Those are the places that are going to 00:40:24.200 --> 00:40:24.910 make it. 00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:26.510 >> And also the ones that have like a $3 00:40:26.520 --> 00:40:28.430 million bankroll. Those places are 00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:28.670 probably 00:40:28.680 --> 00:40:30.230 >> That also helps. 00:40:31.520 --> 00:40:33.750 >> But we can't all be so lucky. 00:40:33.760 --> 00:40:36.470 >> So, the two of you, first you started 00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:37.910 with Mokkapot, so the two of you have 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.110 Mokkapot together. How did this 00:40:40.120 --> 00:40:42.270 relationship start? Like how 00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:45.310 >> to know the real story of how we 00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:46.670 Well, Dan and Angie started the 00:40:46.680 --> 00:40:47.430 Mokkapot. 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:47.790 >> Yeah. 00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:51.190 >> We just joined them 00:40:51.200 --> 00:40:52.910 and gave them the bigger space. 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:53.270 >> Yeah. 00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:55.950 >> But this Well, acquiring that was our 00:40:55.960 --> 00:40:57.190 first venture together. 00:40:57.200 --> 00:40:57.910 >> Yeah. 00:40:57.920 --> 00:40:59.550 >> Well, I did work for Nick for a little 00:40:59.560 --> 00:40:59.950 bit. 00:40:59.960 --> 00:41:00.470 >> Yeah. 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:01.230 >> So did Jeremy. 00:41:01.240 --> 00:41:02.950 >> Jeremy and Dan worked at Chop. 00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:03.950 >> Oh, really? 00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:06.230 >> So, the way we met, this is one of the 00:41:06.240 --> 00:41:07.670 best stories. 00:41:07.680 --> 00:41:09.550 >> It's really good. 00:41:09.560 --> 00:41:13.190 >> It was We opened on July 1st 19, which 00:41:13.200 --> 00:41:14.670 was a Friday. 00:41:14.680 --> 00:41:17.710 On Sunday, I get a phone call. 00:41:17.720 --> 00:41:19.430 And it's to the bar, so I answer the 00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:20.670 bar. 00:41:20.680 --> 00:41:23.550 And it's just this voice 00:41:23.560 --> 00:41:26.030 that says, "Hey, uh 00:41:26.040 --> 00:41:29.430 I was just like wondering if you guys 00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:32.750 like are open?" 00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:34.950 And it took so long to ask the question 00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:37.190 that I forgot where I was, and I said, 00:41:37.200 --> 00:41:38.710 "Why the [ __ ] would I answer the phone 00:41:38.720 --> 00:41:41.030 if we weren't open?" And that is 00:41:41.040 --> 00:41:42.590 word for word. 00:41:42.600 --> 00:41:45.310 And all I got was, "Ha ha. All right, 00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:47.270 man. We'll see you soon." And it was 00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:49.790 Jeremy calling asking if we were open 00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:52.510 yet. And I think you guys had just 00:41:52.520 --> 00:41:53.710 started 00:41:53.720 --> 00:41:55.390 >> Yeah, we had just started 00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:57.550 >> demo where Industry is. 00:41:57.560 --> 00:41:58.550 >> Yeah. Okay. 00:41:58.560 --> 00:41:59.350 >> So, then 00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:00.350 >> We were hungry. 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:03.550 >> Dan and Jeremy come in, and I walk over, 00:42:03.560 --> 00:42:05.590 and Jeremy starts He says, "Hey, man, 00:42:05.600 --> 00:42:06.630 what's up?" I'm like, "Are you the one 00:42:06.640 --> 00:42:07.670 that called?" He says, "Yeah." I was 00:42:07.680 --> 00:42:09.030 like, "All right, this makes sense. You 00:42:09.040 --> 00:42:10.590 guys seem all right." 00:42:10.600 --> 00:42:12.350 So, we get to like shooting the [ __ ] 00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:14.870 and then orders a uh 00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:16.910 He's like, "I'll take a a large fat boy 00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:19.630 pizza, bee hive burger, 00:42:19.640 --> 00:42:21.670 and uh we'll do a steak and cheese." 00:42:21.680 --> 00:42:22.710 He's like, "All right, man, sounds 00:42:22.720 --> 00:42:24.110 good." He's like, "Extra mayo." I'm 00:42:24.120 --> 00:42:25.990 like, "All right, cool." Start walking 00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:27.470 away, and Jeremy goes, "Oh, can I 00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:29.710 actually put some food in, too?" 00:42:29.720 --> 00:42:31.030 Turn around, I'm like, 00:42:31.040 --> 00:42:31.899 "What?" 00:42:31.909 --> 00:42:32.510 >> [laughter] 00:42:32.520 --> 00:42:33.750 >> Hungry. 00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:35.550 >> And that was Danny ordered all for 00:42:35.560 --> 00:42:37.470 himself. I was like, "Dude." So, I go 00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:39.110 back, I'm like, "What the [ __ ] is up 00:42:39.120 --> 00:42:40.414 with these guys?" 00:42:40.424 --> 00:42:40.910 >> [laughter] 00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:42.350 >> So, I bring the food over, and then I 00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:43.550 start like really talking to them. I'm 00:42:43.560 --> 00:42:45.430 like, "Oh, these guys are men." And they 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:47.670 tell me about industry, and how they've 00:42:47.680 --> 00:42:49.510 been they worked at Birch for a long 00:42:49.520 --> 00:42:50.910 time, and they're still there, but 00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:52.190 they're opening their own venture, and 00:42:52.200 --> 00:42:53.950 all this stuff. So, we just kind of 00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:55.270 became friends through that. 00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:57.790 >> Okay. So, how long ago was that? 00:42:57.800 --> 00:42:59.030 >> This was 7 years ago. 00:42:59.040 --> 00:42:59.950 >> Okay. All right. 00:42:59.960 --> 00:43:02.190 >> And the food was good, so we went back. 00:43:02.200 --> 00:43:03.230 >> Yeah. 00:43:03.240 --> 00:43:05.150 And then again, and again, 00:43:05.160 --> 00:43:06.950 and then at some point, you guys

were 00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:08.190 like, 00:43:08.200 --> 00:43:10.510 >> During COVID, we couldn't There were 00:43:10.520 --> 00:43:11.550 There was no place to work. 00:43:11.560 --> 00:43:11.950 >> Yeah. 00:43:11.960 --> 00:43:14.230 >> And we were still building over there. 00:43:14.240 --> 00:43:16.950 So, we didn't have any money, and we had 00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:19.590 no place to work. But Choppers was big 00:43:19.600 --> 00:43:20.990 enough. 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:21.550 Uh 00:43:21.560 --> 00:43:22.630 >> We could space everything out. 00:43:22.640 --> 00:43:24.299 >> Everything could be spaced out. And 00:43:24.309 --> 00:43:25.390 [clears throat] they had the outside as 00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:25.830 well. 00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:28.870 >> everyone. So, I went from 28 staff to 00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:30.230 six. 00:43:30.240 --> 00:43:30.870 >> Wow. 00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:33.110 >> Pre-COVID to post-COVID. So, I was 00:43:33.120 --> 00:43:35.310 working doubles all day. My boy Tom was 00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:36.950 working doubles with me all day, and we 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:38.670 were just getting burnt out. 00:43:38.680 --> 00:43:40.030 And then Danny and Jeremy are coming in, 00:43:40.040 --> 00:43:41.110 and I'm like, "Yo, you guys want to just 00:43:41.120 --> 00:43:42.510 like pick up some shifts here?" 00:43:42.520 --> 00:43:44.670 >> Really, please God, yes. 00:43:44.680 --> 00:43:45.950 >> So, uh Danny and Jeremy worked at 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:48.310 Choppers for maybe like 00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:49.910 3 months max. 00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:51.910 >> I worked on Wednesdays. 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:52.550 >> Or business. 00:43:52.560 --> 00:43:54.070 >> Jeremy worked Yeah, Jeremy worked 00:43:54.080 --> 00:43:56.190 Tuesdays, and I worked Wednesdays. I 00:43:56.200 --> 00:43:58.030 don't think anyone remembers that at 00:43:58.040 --> 00:43:58.430 all. 00:43:58.440 --> 00:43:58.870 >> No. 00:43:58.880 --> 00:43:59.590 >> That's right. 00:43:59.600 --> 00:44:01.030 >> they're like, "Yo, our place is almost 00:44:01.040 --> 00:44:01.950 done, peace." I was like, "All right, 00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:03.270 see you guys." 00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:04.870 And then we returned the favor, and we 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.830 were going to Industry every night. 00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:09.430 Every single night. 00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:11.750 >> So, that's how you guys met. Okay, I 00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:12.270 love it. 00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:14.190 >> But then I think at some point in the 00:44:14.200 --> 00:44:17.110 past 5 years, Dan had 00:44:17.120 --> 00:44:18.350 brought it up. He's like, "Dude, I would 00:44:18.360 --> 00:44:20.510 love that see y'all pub spot. I would 00:44:20.520 --> 00:44:23.070 love that corner spot. That'd be sick." 00:44:23.080 --> 00:44:24.470 So, I was like, "Yeah, dude, I would do 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:25.510 that with you. I do that with you, 00:44:25.520 --> 00:44:28.270 whatever." And our careers grew and grew 00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:30.590 and grew over the past few years. 00:44:30.600 --> 00:44:33.030 And we actually went out to dinner. We 00:44:33.040 --> 00:44:35.110 were at Viale. 00:44:35.120 --> 00:44:36.910 We had brought it up again. We were just 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:39.030 just shooting the [ __ ] 00:44:39.040 --> 00:44:41.230 Two guys in restaurants, whatever. 00:44:41.240 --> 00:44:43.110 And 00:44:43.120 --> 00:44:44.910 we walked to this corner. Dan went to 00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:46.830 Industry. I walked home. 00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:49.230 And the minute I got into my house, I 00:44:49.240 --> 00:44:51.310 said said hello to my wife and I get a 00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:53.230 phone call from Dan. 00:44:53.240 --> 00:44:54.910 And I'm like, "What's up?" He's like, 00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:56.710 "It's for sale." I'm like, "What the 00:44:56.720 --> 00:44:57.950 [ __ ] are you talking about?" He's like, 00:44:57.960 --> 00:44:59.590 "It's for sale." 00:44:59.600 --> 00:45:00.350 So, 00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:01.830 >> Yeah, we literally were talking about it 00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:02.990 like 00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:05.230 10 minutes beforehand. So, it's kind of 00:45:05.240 --> 00:45:06.350 wild. 00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:08.550 Kismet? Is that what the kids say? 00:45:08.560 --> 00:45:08.950 >> Kiz- 00:45:08.960 --> 00:45:10.070 >> Was it kismet? 00:45:10.080 --> 00:45:11.030 >> What the 00:45:11.040 --> 00:45:11.590 What? 00:45:11.600 --> 00:45:12.950 >> you know, when something's supposed to 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:14.750 happen, then it happens. 00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:16.670 >> I think that's called manifesting. 00:45:16.680 --> 00:45:17.910 >> Well, now I 00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:19.270 >> we're both wrong. But I'm probably 00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:21.390 closer to being right. 00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:21.910 Uh 00:45:21.920 --> 00:45:23.110 >> No, I think kismet. I think you're 00:45:23.120 --> 00:45:23.870 right. 00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:25.030 >> It is. Yeah, it is. 00:45:25.040 --> 00:45:26.870 >> Angelica, you throw some Is kismet a 00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:27.441 thing? 00:45:27.451 --> 00:45:28.030 >> [laughter] 00:45:28.040 --> 00:45:29.990 >> It's kismet. 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:30.910 >> Right. 00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:31.910 >> Well, we would have We would have had to 00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:34.990 manifest it beforehand. But anyway, 00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:36.950 uh now it worked out and then 00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:38.150 >> all our ducks in a row. 00:45:38.160 --> 00:45:39.030 >> It was one of those things where we're 00:45:39.040 --> 00:45:40.790 like, "Do we do it?" 00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:42.630 And you know how those things go. It's 00:45:42.640 --> 00:45:44.750 like, "Well, you got to [ __ ] or get off 00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:46.590 the pot." And then you make that 00:45:46.600 --> 00:45:48.270 decision, and then you do it, and then 00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:50.950 you go, "Oh, [ __ ] Well, 00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:53.070 we sure have done

it, haven't we?" 00:45:53.080 --> 00:45:55.230 Uh you know, we had had the business 00:45:55.240 --> 00:45:56.710 plan for 00:45:56.720 --> 00:45:58.950 well, a light version of it, you know, 00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:00.630 like, "Oh, it'd be cool to do this. Oh, 00:46:00.640 --> 00:46:03.350 it'd be cool to do that. Mocabots was 00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:04.710 and still is crushing it. 00:46:04.720 --> 00:46:05.230 >> Yeah. 00:46:05.240 --> 00:46:08.230 >> They're this side This is only 1,600 sq 00:46:08.240 --> 00:46:11.310 ft. that you know, it would get slightly 00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:13.430 busy in here and it'd be log-jammed up 00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:15.430 all up front. It's like, "Man, why don't 00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:18.630 we just shut the bar down? The bar is 00:46:18.640 --> 00:46:20.070 The bar isn't anything like 00:46:20.080 --> 00:46:21.550 >> It It was It was a smart move. 00:46:21.560 --> 00:46:22.310 Definitely. 00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:23.630 >> they're the reason 00:46:23.640 --> 00:46:26.670 >> Dan and Angie from Mocabots are one of 00:46:26.680 --> 00:46:28.790 the biggest reasons why we wanted this 00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:29.990 space. 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:31.830 Cuz they know what they're doing. 00:46:31.840 --> 00:46:33.710 They're great people. 00:46:33.720 --> 00:46:36.870 And we've found it so easy to work with 00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:37.870 them. 00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:39.950 And at that point they needed help and 00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:41.510 they needed direction of like, "Hey, 00:46:41.520 --> 00:46:44.150 we're really busy and we're running out 00:46:44.160 --> 00:46:46.670 of options of like how we can rectify 00:46:46.680 --> 00:46:47.110 this." 00:46:47.120 --> 00:46:49.230 >> The Mocabots would would burn itself out 00:46:49.240 --> 00:46:51.670 on on this side. Like it had already 00:46:51.680 --> 00:46:54.190 gotten to the point where like you can't 00:46:54.200 --> 00:46:55.390 >> You can't fit any more people in here. 00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:55.950 >> Right. 00:46:55.960 --> 00:46:58.710 >> And you need you need the bigger side. 00:46:58.720 --> 00:47:00.110 >> Right. And it works. 00:47:00.120 --> 00:47:01.750 >> And you you have live music in there 00:47:01.760 --> 00:47:04.150 now? You have all kinds of I mean, 00:47:04.160 --> 00:47:06.510 that's amazing. It's been great. People 00:47:06.520 --> 00:47:07.510 talking about it. It's 00:47:07.520 --> 00:47:08.830 >> The comedy artists we're bringing are 00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:10.310 like New York headliners. 00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:10.950 >> Yeah. 00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:13.270 >> Like we're not We're If we're going to 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:14.350 do something, we're going to do it to 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:14.990 the fullest. 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:15.510 >> It's awesome. 00:47:15.520 --> 00:47:17.430 >> And that space is perfect for that 00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:20.710 because again, it's Okay, if I was 00:47:20.720 --> 00:47:23.630 coming into this coffee shop

00:47:23.640 --> 00:47:24.870 Okay, I remember them being on the 00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:27.150 corner. It was quaint. It was cute. Why 00:47:27.160 --> 00:47:29.750 did they move over here? Well, okay, so 00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:31.430 we got to make it nice for someone who's 00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:33.110 never been in there before. You have to 00:47:33.120 --> 00:47:35.510 make it welcoming. You have to also for 00:47:35.520 --> 00:47:37.990 the people who are used to this side 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:39.630 You have to Oh, I miss all the big 00:47:39.640 --> 00:47:42.470 windows. Yeah, but we made it We We 00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:44.550 added some stuff to it, too. So we want 00:47:44.560 --> 00:47:46.550 to take the regular customers from this 00:47:46.560 --> 00:47:47.950 side and still make them feel 00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:49.270 comfortable over there as well. 00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:49.790 >> Right. Right. 00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:52.190 >> And so that's why you get that kind of 00:47:52.200 --> 00:47:55.950 Central Perk Friends kind of feel to it. 00:47:55.960 --> 00:47:57.990 You have the couches, but then you also 00:47:58.000 --> 00:47:59.550 have the booths and then you have the 00:47:59.560 --> 00:48:01.950 high top and then you have the bar. So 00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:04.550 again, it's all those different sections 00:48:04.560 --> 00:48:07.190 to make it but it's one cohesive room 00:48:07.200 --> 00:48:10.590 and it multi-use having local 00:48:10.600 --> 00:48:12.630 musicians in there, local comics, local 00:48:12.640 --> 00:48:14.830 artists. We have a chess night. 00:48:14.840 --> 00:48:17.110 Wednesday nights chess night if you are 00:48:17.120 --> 00:48:19.270 people out there 00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:20.270 >> It is actually going on. 00:48:20.280 --> 00:48:21.590 >> Oh, cool. 00:48:21.600 --> 00:48:21.950 >> Yeah. 00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:22.550 >> That's cool. 00:48:22.560 --> 00:48:26.350 >> It's a fun space. Again, hospitality. 00:48:26.360 --> 00:48:28.630 Anyone Anyone can go in there. It's 00:48:28.640 --> 00:48:30.590 >> Yeah, and it it gave us a chance with 00:48:30.600 --> 00:48:32.750 the shop being open 7:00 to 4:00. 00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:34.910 It gave us the chance to execute on a 00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:36.430 lot of the community building things 00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:37.870 that we want to. 00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:40.190 So any event that we could put on that 00:48:40.200 --> 00:48:41.590 would bring people in and bring people 00:48:41.600 --> 00:48:44.430 together, that's our spot for it now. 00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:46.910 >> We just did a speed friending. 00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:48.470 >> Yeah, we did a speed friending event. 00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:49.830 >> speed dating. 00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:50.630 >> We didn't do it. 00:48:50.640 --> 00:48:52.350 >> We Well, we just hosted it. 00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:53.110 >> We hosted it. 00:48:53.120 --> 00:48:55.110 >> But I had never heard of it. 00:48:55.120 --> 00:48:56.470 >> I never heard of that either. 00:48:56.480 --> 00:48:57.870 >> I don't know anything. But like speed 00:48:57.880 --> 00:49:00.030 dating from the '90s. But it's speed 00:49:00.040 --> 00:49:02.310 friending. Alternative speed friending. 00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:03.150 But everyone's welcome. 00:49:03.160 --> 00:49:04.150 >> So not dating. 00:49:04.160 --> 00:49:05.990 >> No, just meeting 00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:08.510 meeting new people. 00:49:08.520 --> 00:49:09.750 >> Maybe kind of like have you heard of 00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:11.630 Seacoast Stories, the dinner club? 00:49:11.640 --> 00:49:13.870 >> Uh yes, it's like 00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:15.790 it's 00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:16.550 >> You know 00:49:16.560 --> 00:49:17.350 >> parallel. 00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:19.590 >> You know, I had been talking to Dan 00:49:19.600 --> 00:49:21.310 about doing a dinner club. I'm like, 00:49:21.320 --> 00:49:23.150 "Dude, it's a West Coast thing. 00:49:23.160 --> 00:49:25.630 You take It's the best networking you 00:49:25.640 --> 00:49:27.150 can get. You take all these people, what 00:49:27.160 --> 00:49:29.590 they do, you match them with people you 00:49:29.600 --> 00:49:31.790 might not. So the way I wanted to do it 00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:33.710 with Stashbox, whatever, then I see 00:49:33.720 --> 00:49:35.670 Seacoast Stories put it up. 00:49:35.680 --> 00:49:37.710 And in my head 00:49:37.720 --> 00:49:39.790 I'm active on social media but not that 00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:42.150 active. I go up, we post our own [ __ ] 00:49:42.160 --> 00:49:43.710 and then I'm off. 00:49:43.720 --> 00:49:45.790 So I see this. I'm like, "Dude, this is 00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:47.710 [ __ ] awesome." 00:49:47.720 --> 00:49:49.270 And they knocked it out of the park. 00:49:49.280 --> 00:49:51.110 They did it on a level I didn't even 00:49:51.120 --> 00:49:52.470 think of. They took a bunch of 00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:54.510 restaurants together, did the after 00:49:54.520 --> 00:49:56.310 party. I hit him up and said, "Hey, if 00:49:56.320 --> 00:49:57.790 there's anything I can help you with, 00:49:57.800 --> 00:49:59.590 like please by all means." And he 00:49:59.600 --> 00:50:03.070 crushed it. Crushed it. And it's a cool 00:50:03.080 --> 00:50:05.190 >> yet to go to one. I I I want to go check 00:50:05.200 --> 00:50:06.150 it out. 00:50:06.160 --> 00:50:08.550 >> cuz it's like we all do restaurant stuff 00:50:08.560 --> 00:50:09.950 and we all know each other in the 00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:12.550 restaurant game. But this puts you in 00:50:12.560 --> 00:50:14.470 contact with maybe a banker. 00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:16.070 >> Exactly. 00:50:16.080 --> 00:50:17.710 >> So you know what? Oh, I met 00:50:17.720 --> 00:50:20.270 Yeah, I met someone that like So really 00:50:20.280 --> 00:50:21.990 helped and that's I think that's where 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:23.830 networking is going. 00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:26.270 I mean I think the basic like, "Oh, 00:50:26.280 --> 00:50:27.750

we're going to We're going to meet up 00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:30.270 and hang out at a networking club." It's 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:31.830 like, "Yeah, but like if you're part of 00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:33.190 that group already, you've already met 00:50:33.200 --> 00:50:33.950 everyone." 00:50:33.960 --> 00:50:35.910 >> True. That's true. They're always It's 00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:37.670 always the same people. You're right. 00:50:37.680 --> 00:50:39.350 >> You need a way to get new bodies in 00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:40.990 there, new people in there and that's 00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:41.710 the way to do it. 00:50:41.720 --> 00:50:42.270 >> Mhm. 00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:44.030 >> So that's why I always put it to camera 00:50:44.040 --> 00:50:46.470 because I was literally a week before I 00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:48.270 saw C K O series put it up. 00:50:48.280 --> 00:50:49.030 >> Oh, that's cool. 00:50:49.040 --> 00:50:50.630 >> "Dude, we got we have to do this. We 00:50:50.640 --> 00:50:52.910 need to do this." And I'm happy that he 00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:54.430 did it because he 00:50:54.440 --> 00:50:56.230 he did it 00:50:56.240 --> 00:50:57.190 It's not often I'll say 00:50:57.200 --> 00:50:58.910 >> know him at all? Do you know him Okay, 00:50:58.920 --> 00:50:59.190 yeah. 00:50:59.200 --> 00:51:01.750 >> I saw Corrine with Stay Work Play on his 00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:04.150 podcast. I mean oh, this is cool like I 00:51:04.160 --> 00:51:05.790 like the setup with the podcast and then 00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:07.110 I saw they were doing the dinner club. 00:51:07.120 --> 00:51:07.630 >> Cool. 00:51:07.640 --> 00:51:09.510 >> But I'm happy he did it. He did it 00:51:09.520 --> 00:51:11.470 better than anybody I would do it. 00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:11.830 >> Cool. 00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:14.470 >> So it's I'm like very happy about it. 00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:15.070 >> Nice. 00:51:15.080 --> 00:51:17.110 >> was really weird timing. 00:51:17.120 --> 00:51:19.070 Really weird timing. 00:51:19.080 --> 00:51:21.150 >> All right, Nick. I need to ask you. You 00:51:21.160 --> 00:51:22.870 had posted 00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:24.510 a picture 00:51:24.520 --> 00:51:25.870 >> The picture. 00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:27.510 >> all of you guys. 00:51:27.520 --> 00:51:28.470 >> Yeah. 00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:29.910 >> How many are you? Five? 00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:30.470 >> Six now. 00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:31.670 >> Six. 00:51:31.680 --> 00:51:33.430 I've interviewed every single one of you 00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:35.190 guys. Anyway, 00:51:35.200 --> 00:51:37.430 what is with this picture? 00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:39.430 >> Just a bunch of guys having dinner, 00:51:39.440 --> 00:51:41.110 talking about restaurant stuff. 00:51:41.120 --> 00:51:43.470 >> I just love that I I have spoken with 00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:45.390 all of you guys separately and And you 00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:48.310 know, to see that picture is just 00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:49.470 I think it's great. I mean, it's 00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:49.870 awesome. 00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:50.670 >> There's a 00:51:50.680 --> 00:51:51.590 >> We get hungry. 00:51:51.600 --> 00:51:54.350 >> We do get hungry. We went into Los Reyes 00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:56.430 in Derry. I I will plug that. 00:51:56.440 --> 00:52:01.070 >> about that. Yeah. It's on my my list. 00:52:01.080 --> 00:52:01.750 Okay, cool. 00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:03.630 >> Uh which is actually 00:52:03.640 --> 00:52:06.350 a block away from the new Dip Roof. 00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:08.390 And uh 00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:10.510 we went in, no one we didn't tell each 00:52:10.520 --> 00:52:12.030 other what we ordered. We all just went 00:52:12.040 --> 00:52:14.830 up and ordered food. We ended up with 00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:17.430 four extra tables, and we ended up 00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:19.390 ordering the whole menu. 00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:20.190 Uh [laughter] 00:52:20.200 --> 00:52:21.310 >> It's the only way to do it when you're 00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:21.670 going out. 00:52:21.680 --> 00:52:24.630 >> But it was just like cuz I like I have 00:52:24.640 --> 00:52:26.350 my group of friends, Dan has his group 00:52:26.360 --> 00:52:28.510 of friends, Bobby has his We all have 00:52:28.520 --> 00:52:30.310 our own groups of friends. 00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:32.310 But none of them understand. No one 00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:33.830 wants to hear us all [ __ ] about 00:52:33.840 --> 00:52:35.830 restaurants. So, you all get together 00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:37.830 and [ __ ] about restaurants. Yeah. Yeah. 00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:39.750 In someone else's restaurant. In someone 00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:42.870 else's restaurant. And like we throw 00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:44.910 like we throw ideas out here and there. 00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:46.350 We come up with some new concepts and 00:52:46.360 --> 00:52:47.910 stuff. Are we going to execute on them? 00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:49.571 Probably not. 00:52:49.581 --> 00:52:50.030 >> [laughter] 00:52:50.040 --> 00:52:51.710 >> Yeah, I know. It's cool. I think it's 00:52:51.720 --> 00:52:53.830 awesome that you guys do that. I I I 00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:55.230 love it. I think it's great. 00:52:55.240 --> 00:52:57.110 >> That particular 00:52:57.120 --> 00:53:00.710 dinner date also took 6 months to That 00:53:00.720 --> 00:53:02.670 was rescheduled. 00:53:02.680 --> 00:53:05.870 That was scheduled like four times. 00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:07.950 >> We're all in this kind of business, so 00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:08.470 you know. 00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:10.750 >> It was born during the 00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:13.950 during the bonfire 00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:15.710 at Torch. 00:53:15.720 --> 00:53:16.910 So, we were all in there. We're like, 00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:17.870 "Dude, we should all get dinner 00:53:17.880 --> 00:53:18.110 sometime." 00:53:18.120 --> 00:53:20.150 >> Yeah. I loved it. When I saw that 00:53:20.160 --> 00:53:22.150 picture, I was like, "Oh my gosh, I love 00:53:22.160

--> 00:53:22.350 it." 00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:23.590 >> Yeah, I finally just made a group chat. 00:53:23.600 --> 00:53:24.910 I'm like, "We're getting together." 00:53:24.920 --> 00:53:25.910 >> Love it. Love it. 00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:28.150 >> Group text is way funnier than the 00:53:28.160 --> 00:53:30.350 >> I can imagine. Actually, I can't 00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:30.870 imagine. 00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:33.790 >> I will say this, we are 00:53:33.800 --> 00:53:36.990 Bobby is out of his mind in a good way. 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:37.710 >> Yeah. 00:53:37.720 --> 00:53:38.670 >> And uh 00:53:38.680 --> 00:53:41.790 he has a lot of fun ideas that were we 00:53:41.800 --> 00:53:42.790 are 00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:44.270 like blessed to be part of. 00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:44.750 >> Yeah. 00:53:44.760 --> 00:53:45.910 >> And so there's a lot of cool stuff. 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:46.230 >> guy. 00:53:46.240 --> 00:53:47.310 >> Yeah, there's a lot of cool stuff coming 00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:49.910 out. So it's nice to have 00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:51.990 like we I've had plenty of mentors in my 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:53.550 life. Dan's had plenty of mentors in his 00:53:53.560 --> 00:53:55.750 life. I have people that I mentor at 00:53:55.760 --> 00:53:57.390 this point. Dan has people he mentors at 00:53:57.400 --> 00:53:59.670 this point. We all do but it's cool to 00:53:59.680 --> 00:54:01.070 have like 00:54:01.080 --> 00:54:04.270 another mentor almost and like dude 00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:06.110 you've done crazy [ __ ] 00:54:06.120 --> 00:54:06.830 >> Right? 00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:07.990 >> We were supposed to get dinner on Monday 00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:09.230 and he got to and I got to fly out to 00:54:09.240 --> 00:54:09.710 Vegas. 00:54:09.720 --> 00:54:11.150 >> I know he's flying everywhere all the 00:54:11.160 --> 00:54:13.310 time. It's like crazy. Good for him. 00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:15.190 It's awesome. All right, before we move 00:54:15.200 --> 00:54:16.350 to the lightning round, is there 00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:18.710 anything that I didn't talk about 00:54:18.720 --> 00:54:19.110 >> lightning 00:54:19.120 --> 00:54:20.430 >> without 00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:21.910 that that you want people to know that 00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:24.270 maybe we we missed or or that you're 00:54:24.280 --> 00:54:25.950 thinking we got to say this or 00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:30.070 >> I just uh I hope everyone who is even 00:54:30.080 --> 00:54:31.070 you know, like I said there's going to 00:54:31.080 --> 00:54:33.190 be people that can't wait and are 00:54:33.200 --> 00:54:35.710 busting down the door and we thank you. 00:54:35.720 --> 00:54:38.310 Uh there's going to be people that are 00:54:38.320 --> 00:54:41.590 curious and uh you know 00:54:41.600 --> 00:54:43.350 might want to check it out. If you're on 00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:45.150 the fence, I'm pushing you over the 00:54:45.160 --> 00:54:47.910 fence. Let's go. Check it out. The it's 00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:49.950 it's going to be awesome. We we promise 00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:51.910 you. It's going to be super cool. 00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:54.790 Everyone that's involved in this, front 00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:56.910 of house, back of house, the people that 00:54:56.920 --> 00:54:59.790 you don't probably won't ever see that 00:54:59.800 --> 00:55:02.310 everyone has put a real lot of effort 00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:05.390 into this uh and we wouldn't do 00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:10.390 something if we weren't 100,000% 00:55:10.400 --> 00:55:11.950 uh and [clears throat] sure that it was 00:55:11.960 --> 00:55:13.670 going to be awesome. So 00:55:13.680 --> 00:55:14.550 come check it out. 00:55:14.560 --> 00:55:16.510 >> We're right here. You you can't miss us. 00:55:16.520 --> 00:55:18.670 We're on the corner of Elm Street and 00:55:18.680 --> 00:55:19.670 Elm Street. 00:55:19.680 --> 00:55:20.230 >> right. 00:55:20.240 --> 00:55:22.590 >> We're across from City Hall. So once 00:55:22.600 --> 00:55:24.830 you're done filing your complaints, come 00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:25.463 over here 00:55:25.473 --> 00:55:25.950 >> [laughter] 00:55:25.960 --> 00:55:27.870 >> and we'll not get you drunk. 00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:28.910 >> Do you know what your hours are going to 00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:29.950 be at? 00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:32.190 >> Starting hours are going to be Wednesday 00:55:32.200 --> 00:55:36.230 through Saturday. 5:00 to 10:00. 00:55:36.240 --> 00:55:37.670 Wednesday and Thursday and 5:00 to 11:00 00:55:37.680 --> 00:55:40.430 Saturday. And then 00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:41.750 we're going to see 00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:42.510 >> See what happens. 00:55:42.520 --> 00:55:44.550 >> It's It's always better to start off 00:55:44.560 --> 00:55:45.870 >> slow and then 00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:46.830 >> something and then 00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:47.390 >> Right. That makes sense. 00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:49.190 >> as opposed to be like, "We're going 7 00:55:49.200 --> 00:55:51.870 days a week, 11:00 in the morning till 00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:53.590 11:00 at night." And then And then 00:55:53.600 --> 00:55:56.590 taking that away from people who are 00:55:56.600 --> 00:55:58.350 like, "What happened to Sunday nights?" 00:55:58.360 --> 00:55:58.590 >> Right. 00:55:58.600 --> 00:56:00.670 >> Like, "Well, no one wants to work on 00:56:00.680 --> 00:56:01.430 Sunday." 00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:03.550 >> Yeah, consistency is key. 00:56:03.560 --> 00:56:05.270 That's what I love about Staff. It's 00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:06.670 open on Sunday. 00:56:06.680 --> 00:56:07.310 >> Which is 00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:08.510 >> so mad at me about that. 00:56:08.520 --> 00:56:09.310 >> Now 00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:11.190 Yeah, but I'm sure you're busy. 00:56:11.200 --> 00:56:11.710 >> Sundays 00:56:11.720 --> 00:56:13.390 >> And I'm sure it's worth it and it and it 00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:14.590 works. 00:56:14.600 --> 00:56:16.510 >> And it's like a Sunday crowd like we get 00:56:16.520

--> 00:56:17.863 a lot of 00:56:17.873 --> 00:56:17.880 >> [clears throat] 00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:19.110 >> regulars who 00:56:19.120 --> 00:56:19.710 go 00:56:19.720 --> 00:56:20.750 >> down there but not Sundays. 00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:22.750 >> And I'm going to just say one thing cuz 00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:26.030 I'm old. Um, when we go out, I think 00:56:26.040 --> 00:56:27.790 that the people that when you open at 00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:30.430 5:00, you're missing a whole group of 00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:32.110 people. It should be 4:00. 00:56:32.120 --> 00:56:33.590 >> We tried that and then no 00:56:33.600 --> 00:56:35.390 >> But you didn't try it for long enough. 00:56:35.400 --> 00:56:36.390 I'm telling you. 00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:38.550 >> couldn't afford it. 00:56:38.560 --> 00:56:40.270 Are you saying if I had to ride anymore 00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:41.550 >> 4:00 instead of 5:00. 00:56:41.560 --> 00:56:42.510 >> 4:00. 00:56:42.520 --> 00:56:45.070 >> I'm telling you you are missing so many 00:56:45.080 --> 00:56:46.270 people. 00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:48.390 >> Uh, Shoppers is open 11:00 to 11:00 on 00:56:48.400 --> 00:56:50.150 Sundays, just saying. But we want to 00:56:50.160 --> 00:56:50.790 close 00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:53.070 >> so many people. I'm telling you. I I'm 00:56:53.080 --> 00:56:53.830 just 00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:55.870 >> Well, and 00:56:55.880 --> 00:56:57.190 And does it ever occur 00:56:57.200 --> 00:56:58.670 >> 4:00, 4:15. 00:56:58.680 --> 00:57:00.790 >> I like to go to my aunt 4:00. 00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:03.110 >> And is the scariest woman I've ever met 00:57:03.120 --> 00:57:04.710 in my life. I love her to death. 00:57:04.720 --> 00:57:06.190 >> And is awesome. 00:57:06.200 --> 00:57:07.270 >> She She is 00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:07.670 >> She 00:57:07.680 --> 00:57:09.350 >> the epitome of 00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:09.910 a 00:57:09.920 --> 00:57:11.150 hard worker all day long. 00:57:11.160 --> 00:57:12.350 >> Mary. Yeah. 00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:14.110 >> And she scares the [ __ ] out of me, but I 00:57:14.120 --> 00:57:14.750 love [laughter] her. 00:57:14.760 --> 00:57:17.070 >> I love being frightened by Anne. It's my 00:57:17.080 --> 00:57:18.779 favorite thing. 00:57:18.789 --> 00:57:19.150 >> [gasps] 00:57:19.160 --> 00:57:20.990 >> Okay, lightning round. 00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:22.790 First thing on the menu you you'd want 00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:25.070 me to order sitting right here. 00:57:25.080 --> 00:57:25.470 >> You already 00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:26.950 >> what I want you to say. 00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:28.350 >> You know what you want me to say? I'm 00:57:28.360 --> 00:57:30.270 going to I'm going to go with the spam 00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:31.430 and pineapple arancini. 00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:32.230 >> Yes. 00:57:32.240 --> 00:57:34.350 >> Scallion pancake tacos. 00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:34.830 >> Yep. 00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:35.670 >> Scallion 00:57:35.680 --> 00:57:37.390 >> Yeah, I didn't I didn't want to bust out 00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:38.390 officially on you. 00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:39.030 >> we want to wait. 00:57:39.040 --> 00:57:40.430 >> I knew you were going to lightning round 00:57:40.440 --> 00:57:42.830 me. I saved scallion pancake tacos till 00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:43.150 the end. 00:57:43.160 --> 00:57:44.830 >> I love scallion pancakes. 00:57:44.840 --> 00:57:46.870 >> what the inside of a dumpling? That's 00:57:46.880 --> 00:57:48.790 what's going to be in the taco. Scallion 00:57:48.800 --> 00:57:52.350 pancake has the shell, little hoisin and 00:57:52.360 --> 00:57:54.070 >> No, I'm just saying. Just a little soy 00:57:54.080 --> 00:57:54.350 sauce. 00:57:54.360 --> 00:57:56.550 >> Oh my gosh, I can't wait. 00:57:56.560 --> 00:57:58.110 What is your favorite mocktail on the 00:57:58.120 --> 00:57:59.030 menu? 00:57:59.040 --> 00:58:00.190 >> Truth serum. 00:58:00.200 --> 00:58:02.590 >> What is it called? Truth serum? 00:58:02.600 --> 00:58:05.510 >> Ooh, I don't know. 00:58:05.520 --> 00:58:08.630 Oh, man. 00:58:08.640 --> 00:58:10.310 I 00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:12.030 I have like four that are like all 00:58:12.040 --> 00:58:14.910 equally as good, but but because 00:58:14.920 --> 00:58:16.790 I'm kind of a basic [ __ ] I'm going to 00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:20.030 go with the bay. Go with the huberphone. 00:58:20.040 --> 00:58:21.910 Because it's just wicked good. 00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:22.470 >> All right. 00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:23.830 >> And it's pretty. 00:58:23.840 --> 00:58:24.550 >> Love that. 00:58:24.560 --> 00:58:25.310 >> Yeah. 00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:28.310 >> What's your favorite spot in this room? 00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:29.430 >> That table. 00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:30.070 >> This one right here? 00:58:30.080 --> 00:58:32.230 >> Yeah, the two-top behind the wall. 00:58:32.240 --> 00:58:33.470 It's the captain's chair. 00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:36.550 >> That is a great spot for sitting, but 00:58:36.560 --> 00:58:39.470 I've done now a couple articles and 00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:42.430 interviews from behind the service bar. 00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:46.550 And as as you know, a career bartender, 00:58:46.560 --> 00:58:48.790 that's actually my new favorite spot. Is 00:58:48.800 --> 00:58:50.470 working is standing behind there. 00:58:50.480 --> 00:58:50.990 >> Right over there. 00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:51.990 >> Yep, cuz you can 00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:52.670 >> I love it. 00:58:52.680 --> 00:58:54.270 >> You can see everything. 00:58:54.280 --> 00:58:55.670 >> Yeah. 00:58:55.680 --> 00:58:57.630 >> You can just see the whole you kind of 00:58:57.640 --> 00:58:58.190 like 00:58:58.200 --> 00:58:58.670 >> Vantage 00:58:58.680 --> 00:59:01.710 >> command the room from from that spot 00:59:01.720 --> 00:59:03.550 right there. It's pretty cool. 00:59:03.560 --> 00:59:06.550 >> Guilty pleasure meal. Are we talking, 00:59:06.560 --> 00:59:09.150 you know, Big Mac and a shake? 00:59:09.160 --> 00:59:10.390 Or what do we what do we talk?

00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:11.390 >> Oh, from anywhere? 00:59:11.400 --> 00:59:13.405 >> Yeah. 00:59:13.415 --> 00:59:14.830 >> [laughter] 00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:17.470 >> So wait, but it's a guilty pleasure. So 00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:19.150 >> It's my Yeah, it's a two-piece. It's a 00:59:19.160 --> 00:59:20.230 two-piecer for me. 00:59:20.240 --> 00:59:20.990 >> Okay, go for it. 00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:23.710 >> It's uh it's a Whopper with cheese. 00:59:23.720 --> 00:59:25.630 I have to go to Second Street. Whopper 00:59:25.640 --> 00:59:28.350 with cheese, pull out, take a right, go 00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:31.390 into Dairy Queen and get a a a Blizzard. 00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:32.510 >> Oh, I like the Blizzard. 00:59:32.520 --> 00:59:34.350 >> It's a little one-two punch. 00:59:34.360 --> 00:59:35.710 They're doing a drumstick Blizzard this 00:59:35.720 --> 00:59:38.670 month. We We consume a lot of Blizzards. 00:59:38.680 --> 00:59:39.430 >> Drumstick? 00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:41.990 >> Drumstick, like the like the 00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:43.710 the frozen ice cream cones that you can 00:59:43.720 --> 00:59:44.750 buy at the store. 00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:45.070 >> Okay. 00:59:45.080 --> 00:59:45.950 >> Break that up, put it in. 00:59:45.960 --> 00:59:47.070 >> Oh, okay. Cool. 00:59:47.080 --> 00:59:50.630 >> Not turkey drumsticks. 00:59:50.640 --> 00:59:51.790 >> I would try that. 00:59:51.800 --> 00:59:53.310 >> I know you would. 00:59:53.320 --> 00:59:55.750 >> So, guilty pleasure. 00:59:55.760 --> 00:59:57.030 Like that's not some like something you 00:59:57.040 --> 00:59:58.710 don't want to admit. 00:59:58.720 --> 00:59:59.030 Right? 00:59:59.040 --> 01:00:00.150 >> Well, just, you know. 01:00:00.160 --> 01:00:00.990 >> Cuz 01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:02.670 I like all kinds of junk food. 01:00:02.680 --> 01:00:04.750 >> something that something that you feel 01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:06.110 bad about eating after you eat it. 01:00:06.120 --> 01:00:07.830 >> Nothing at all whatsoever. I love it. 01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:08.270 >> Good for you. 01:00:08.280 --> 01:00:09.790 >> Can you Can you run everyone through 01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:12.150 your McDonald's order yesterday? 01:00:12.160 --> 01:00:13.950 Yeah, so I try not to eat McDonald's. I 01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:15.990 love McDonald's, but I try to eat like 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:17.870 try to keep it to like once a month. 01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:18.790 >> young. 01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:20.270 >> I was just wicked hungry yesterday and 01:00:20.280 --> 01:00:21.990 I've been running around. So, I guess 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:23.590 McDonald's is my guilty pleasure cuz 01:00:23.600 --> 01:00:24.670 right you're not supposed to like 01:00:24.680 --> 01:00:24.990 McDonald's. 01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:25.990 >> I love McDonald's. 01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:27.270 >> You're like, "No one likes McDonald's 01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:28.870 anymore." Well, prepare yourself. 01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:31.590 >> I got two fish fillets, 01:00:31.600 --> 01:00:35.470 a large fry, a McChicken add mayo, a 01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:38.070 McDouble add mayo. I was wondering if 01:00:38.080 --> 01:00:38.710 >> Is he serious? 01:00:38.720 --> 01:00:40.470 >> Oh, and a Big Mac. 01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:41.910 With extra Big Mac sauce. 01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:44.230 >> I ate it all. I had to go to the I had 01:00:44.240 --> 01:00:46.590 to go to the Ace up on Hanover Street 01:00:46.600 --> 01:00:49.350 and I ate it in the parking lot in front 01:00:49.360 --> 01:00:51.750 of the Ace Hardware like a piece of 01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:54.430 [ __ ] And but it was so good and I was 01:00:54.440 --> 01:00:55.587 so hungry. 01:00:55.597 --> 01:00:55.750 >> [laughter] 01:00:55.760 --> 01:00:57.670 >> And I ate it in probably in the I ate 01:00:57.680 --> 01:00:59.150 that in like 7 minutes with a Dr. 01:00:59.160 --> 01:01:01.190 Pepper. 01:01:01.200 --> 01:01:01.482 >> Okay. 01:01:01.492 --> 01:01:02.030 >> [laughter] 01:01:02.040 --> 01:01:03.830 >> Yeah. But I walk around a lot. I'm 01:01:03.840 --> 01:01:05.030 always walking around, so 01:01:05.040 --> 01:01:05.710 >> All right. 01:01:05.720 --> 01:01:06.950 That's okay. 01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:08.630 I asked the question. 01:01:08.640 --> 01:01:10.150 Um what is your coffee order at Mocha 01:01:10.160 --> 01:01:12.590 Pot? 01:01:12.600 --> 01:01:15.070 >> I don't drink coffee very much. 01:01:15.080 --> 01:01:15.630 >> Me, neither. 01:01:15.640 --> 01:01:20.430 >> But I usually go with a just a 01:01:20.440 --> 01:01:21.670 um 01:01:21.680 --> 01:01:25.910 black cold brew iced with extra shot in 01:01:25.920 --> 01:01:28.630 it and they make this coffee syrup over 01:01:28.640 --> 01:01:30.510 there which is just like a simple syrup 01:01:30.520 --> 01:01:33.230 but they use the spent coffee so it's 01:01:33.240 --> 01:01:35.990 like coffee flavored coffee syrup. 01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:36.270 >> Yeah. 01:01:36.280 --> 01:01:38.670 >> So you get a little extra buzz and a 01:01:38.680 --> 01:01:40.830 little it's just nice and I ripped that 01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:44.310 about 42 seconds and then I get sweaty 01:01:44.320 --> 01:01:46.390 and riddled with anxiety but it's 01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:47.910 totally worth it. 01:01:47.920 --> 01:01:50.030 >> I'm going with the classic Manchester by 01:01:50.040 --> 01:01:51.230 the sea. 01:01:51.240 --> 01:01:51.870 >> Which is? 01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:55.030 >> Little caramel, little sea salt. It's so 01:01:55.040 --> 01:01:55.870 good. That's 01:01:55.880 --> 01:01:57.190 >> It's like their number one. 01:01:57.200 --> 01:01:57.990 >> number one seller. 01:01:58.600 --> 01:02:00.270 >> Ah, okay. 01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:01.510 Can you get it decaf? 01:02:01.520 --> 01:02:03.470 >> You can 01:02:03.480 --> 01:02:03.910 I think you 01:02:03.920 --> 01:02:04.750 >> Get decaf? 01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:04.990 >> Yeah. 01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:05.910 >> I'll have to try that. 01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:06.630 >>

Yeah. 01:02:06.640 --> 01:02:09.350 >> Best lunch spot in Manchester? 01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:09.670 >> Oh. 01:02:09.680 --> 01:02:11.310 >> Oh man, I want to kick you. 01:02:11.320 --> 01:02:13.230 >> to let anyone know. 01:02:13.240 --> 01:02:15.430 >> My mine's B&B. 01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:16.150 >> Mhm. 01:02:16.160 --> 01:02:17.270 >> B&B? 01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:17.870 Well 01:02:17.880 --> 01:02:18.710 >> I love that. 01:02:18.720 --> 01:02:19.430 >> here. 01:02:19.440 --> 01:02:20.270 >> Yeah. 01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:22.630 >> But then my Can I do Can I do two? 01:02:22.640 --> 01:02:23.150 >> Yeah. 01:02:23.160 --> 01:02:24.910 >> It'd be B&B 01:02:24.920 --> 01:02:27.790 and then 01:02:27.800 --> 01:02:29.390 Ollie's. 01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:30.590 >> Ollie's is great. 01:02:30.600 --> 01:02:33.950 >> You know what I do enjoy? My my secret 01:02:33.960 --> 01:02:35.750 once a month 01:02:35.760 --> 01:02:39.190 is uh I go get the the Southwest chicken 01:02:39.200 --> 01:02:41.230 tender salad from Diz's. 01:02:41.240 --> 01:02:43.230 I sit up at the front window and I just 01:02:43.240 --> 01:02:46.030 eat it and I don't talk to anyone. 01:02:46.040 --> 01:02:47.590 And I just That's a good salad. 01:02:47.600 --> 01:02:48.790 >> They do a good job over there. 01:02:48.800 --> 01:02:49.510 >> Oh yeah. 01:02:49.520 --> 01:02:50.750 >> B&B is great. 01:02:52.040 --> 01:02:53.830 >> Breakfast sandwiches. We make breakfast 01:02:53.840 --> 01:02:54.870 sandwiches and their breakfast 01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:56.630 sandwiches are fantastic. 01:02:56.640 --> 01:02:58.590 >> You'll never go hungry at Diz's. 01:02:58.600 --> 01:02:59.510 >> No. 01:02:59.520 --> 01:02:59.830 No. 01:02:59.840 --> 01:03:01.830 >> They make sure you you are full. So 01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:02.270 good. 01:03:02.280 --> 01:03:04.630 >> It's date night. Where are you going? 01:03:04.640 --> 01:03:06.310 >> Ooh, date night. 01:03:06.320 --> 01:03:07.870 >> Is this in in Man- Are we doing 01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:08.670 Manchester? 01:03:08.680 --> 01:03:09.950 >> Wherever. Wherever. 01:03:09.960 --> 01:03:10.670 >> Wherever. 01:03:10.680 --> 01:03:11.790 >> I mean, you know, Manchester 01:03:11.800 --> 01:03:12.510 surrounding. 01:03:12.520 --> 01:03:13.910 >> Okay. 01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:15.790 >> Chicken Melanzana at Ignite. That's my 01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:16.670 go-to. 01:03:16.680 --> 01:03:17.350 >> gets that. 01:03:17.360 --> 01:03:17.990 >> It's the best. 01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:19.710 >> That or the chicken panini he gets. I 01:03:19.720 --> 01:03:20.470 get the mussels. 01:03:20.480 --> 01:03:22.270 >> Chicken and roast is my death meal. 01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:24.670 That's I've told Anne, death row meal. 01:03:24.680 --> 01:03:26.470 So, I need her to bring it. 01:03:26.480 --> 01:03:28.150 >> All right, I'm just being real with you. 01:03:28.160 --> 01:03:30.630 And and you can probably attest to this, 01:03:30.640 --> 01:03:31.830 but 01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:34.754

I think we usually end up at Shoppers. 01:03:34.764 --> 01:03:35.470 >> [laughter] 01:03:35.480 --> 01:03:37.590 >> Cuz we don't we don't get out much. So, 01:03:37.600 --> 01:03:39.990 if it's night time and shop the the 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:42.030 kitchen's open late. We go out late. 01:03:42.040 --> 01:03:44.150 >> Okay. Yeah, 11:00 on weekends. 01:03:44.160 --> 01:03:44.950 >> I like it. 01:03:44.960 --> 01:03:45.870 >> But 01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:47.110 there's 01:03:47.120 --> 01:03:48.470 there's something for everyone on that 01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:49.030 menu. 01:03:49.040 --> 01:03:49.590 >> Yep. 01:03:49.600 --> 01:03:51.550 >> Plus, I can crush mozz sticks. 01:03:51.560 --> 01:03:53.070 >> Mozzies. 01:03:53.080 --> 01:03:53.950 >> Nonstop. 01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:54.830 >> Num num num num num. 01:03:54.840 --> 01:03:58.230 >> What's a staple item in your fridge? 01:03:58.240 --> 01:04:00.430 Well, I mean, do you guys cook at home? 01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:01.030 >> Oh, yeah. 01:04:01.040 --> 01:04:02.590 >> Okay. Okay. 01:04:02.600 --> 01:04:03.310 Mayonnaise? 01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:04.390 >> Mayonnaise. 01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:07.070 >> Multiple different brands and styles of 01:04:07.080 --> 01:04:08.910 bottles. 01:04:08.920 --> 01:04:10.590 >> I'm a sauce girl. I I 01:04:10.600 --> 01:04:11.190 >> Up there. 01:04:11.200 --> 01:04:12.030 >> Daryl 01:04:12.040 --> 01:04:13.430 >> Sauces of all types of sauce. 01:04:13.440 --> 01:04:15.870 >> all the time with sauces. It's crazy. 01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:17.870 >> Um gouda cheese. 01:04:17.880 --> 01:04:19.510 >> Ooh. 01:04:19.520 --> 01:04:19.830 >> Okay. 01:04:19.840 --> 01:04:22.870 >> Best cheese to melt for a sandwich. 01:04:22.880 --> 01:04:25.150 >> I think I know this answer. Late night 01:04:25.160 --> 01:04:26.910 early person. 01:04:26.920 --> 01:04:28.910 >> Both. Both, yeah. 01:04:28.920 --> 01:04:30.750 >> I don't like being up early. I just have 01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:32.230 to be. 01:04:32.240 --> 01:04:34.230 But definitely so, late night 01:04:34.240 --> 01:04:36.910 >> What do you define as early? 01:04:36.920 --> 01:04:38.350 >> You know, I mean, are you an early bird? 01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:40.030 Are you Like I'm an early bird. I'm up 01:04:40.040 --> 01:04:41.270 at 5:30, 6:00. 01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:45.590 >> Late Late night late night personality. 01:04:45.600 --> 01:04:47.150 Early 01:04:47.160 --> 01:04:49.790 riser by force. 01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:50.350 But not happy. 01:04:50.360 --> 01:04:52.190 >> Well, you have a young daughter, so. 01:04:52.200 --> 01:04:52.790 >> 2-year-old. 01:04:52.800 --> 01:04:54.910 >> Yeah. I mean 01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:58.670 >> I'm like a 2:00 a.m. 7:15 a.m. kind of 01:04:58.680 --> 01:04:59.910 guy. 01:04:59.920 --> 01:05:01.390 >> Bed at 2:00, up at 7:00? 01:05:01.400 --> 01:05:02.270 >> Yeah. 01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:03.430 >> Huh. 01:05:03.440 --> 01:05:05.630 You You can live on that kind of amount 01:05:05.640 --> 01:05:06.630 of hours? That's it? 01:05:06.640 --> 01:05:07.430 >> Not for long. 01:05:07.440 --> 01:05:09.910 >> Not I mean, I'm a year in, so we'll see. 01:05:09.920 --> 01:05:11.590 Well, I'll let you know in 6 months. 01:05:11.600 --> 01:05:13.510 >> Oh my gosh. 01:05:13.520 --> 01:05:15.710 >> One word to describe the other guy as a 01:05:15.720 --> 01:05:19.430 business partner. 01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:21.630 >> Is bulldog one word? 01:05:21.640 --> 01:05:22.670 >> It is. It can be. 01:05:22.680 --> 01:05:23.590 >> Bulldog. 01:05:23.600 --> 01:05:25.750 >> Structured. 01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:27.590 >> Ah. 01:05:27.600 --> 01:05:29.150 Are you surprised by that? 01:05:29.160 --> 01:05:29.430 >> No. 01:05:30.700 --> 01:05:32.270 >> [laughter] 01:05:32.280 --> 01:05:35.390 >> He called me tornado Nick cuz I grab 01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:37.470 like the ADHD autistic, whatever the 01:05:37.480 --> 01:05:38.950 [ __ ] you want to call it, but I grab 01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:41.390 [ __ ] and I do it and then I put stuff 01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:42.950 down and then I grab something else and 01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:45.790 I just leave [ __ ] everywhere. 01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:46.590 >> Every day. 01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:50.550 >> But having a toddler is you know, very 01:05:50.560 --> 01:05:53.110 similar. It's train it's like training. 01:05:53.120 --> 01:05:54.710 >> True, right. 01:05:54.720 --> 01:05:58.070 >> I just blame the power tools. 01:05:58.080 --> 01:05:59.350 >> This has been great. This has been 01:05:59.360 --> 01:05:59.870 really fun. 01:05:59.880 --> 01:06:00.550 >> Hell yeah. 01:06:00.560 --> 01:06:01.150 >> Yeah. 01:06:01.160 --> 01:06:03.070 >> Thanks for hanging out. 01:06:03.080 --> 01:06:05.030 >> Before we go, just one more thing. I'd 01:06:05.040 --> 01:06:07.310 like for you guys to share like some 01:06:07.320 --> 01:06:09.030 kind of hospitality story. Might be 01:06:09.040 --> 01:06:10.830 something that that 01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:14.510 you gave or you listened or you know, 01:06:14.520 --> 01:06:15.670 >> Hm. 01:06:15.680 --> 01:06:18.430 >> My favorite hospitality advice that I've 01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:20.510 gotten in my career 01:06:20.520 --> 01:06:23.830 is the customer isn't always right. 01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:24.350 >> Okay. 01:06:24.360 --> 01:06:26.670 >> That's my That was the best piece I've 01:06:26.680 --> 01:06:27.510 ever gotten. 01:06:27.520 --> 01:06:28.710 >> I didn't know you were going to say 01:06:28.720 --> 01:06:31.990 that, but it seems right coming from the 01:06:32.000 --> 01:06:34.870 bulldog. 01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:36.830 >> It's situationally. 01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:37.630 Um 01:06:37.640 --> 01:06:39.270 I mean, I've had scenarios where 01:06:39.280 --> 01:06:40.950 >> I mean, I I I understand what you're 01:06:40.960 --> 01:06:42.550 saying. Totally. Of course. 01:06:42.560 --> 01:06:45.550 >> Obviously hospitality Once again, 01:06:45.560 --> 01:06:48.430 go above and beyond and do what you

have 01:06:48.440 --> 01:06:49.590 to do. 01:06:49.600 --> 01:06:52.470 I am a firm believer that there is a a 01:06:52.480 --> 01:06:56.110 point of no return where you can't make 01:06:56.120 --> 01:06:57.470 everyone happy. 01:06:57.480 --> 01:06:59.910 And it's completely okay not to not to 01:06:59.920 --> 01:07:01.910 be like, "Hey, [ __ ] you. Get out." 01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:04.470 but to to understand that the time that 01:07:04.480 --> 01:07:06.310 you're putting in is wasted at that 01:07:06.320 --> 01:07:09.790 point and you proceed on a very minimal 01:07:09.800 --> 01:07:11.070 level. So, 01:07:11.080 --> 01:07:13.110 >> You don't want to dumb down what you're 01:07:13.120 --> 01:07:15.110 doing for everyone else who likes it 01:07:15.120 --> 01:07:17.790 just cuz one person who will never be 01:07:17.800 --> 01:07:19.950 satisfied by anything ever. 01:07:19.960 --> 01:07:20.950 >> Yeah. If 01:07:20.960 --> 01:07:22.470 If someone sends a drink back, then 01:07:22.480 --> 01:07:23.750 sends their food back, then sends 01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:25.950 another drink back, and goes, and you 01:07:25.960 --> 01:07:27.630 continuously replace the drink, replace 01:07:27.640 --> 01:07:29.350 the food, replace the drink, try and try 01:07:29.360 --> 01:07:30.190 and try and try. 01:07:30.200 --> 01:07:31.190 >> You know, there's a way to fix that, 01:07:31.200 --> 01:07:34.190 man. You could just [ __ ] be better. 01:07:34.200 --> 01:07:36.230 >> Thanks, Stan. 01:07:36.240 --> 01:07:37.950 No, I just I I think there's there's 01:07:37.960 --> 01:07:40.790 scenarios that pop up that 01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:42.350 it's okay to understand that like, you 01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:44.550 know what? I have done everything I 01:07:44.560 --> 01:07:46.390 possibly can to make this person's 01:07:46.400 --> 01:07:48.110 experience the best. 01:07:48.120 --> 01:07:49.950 I don't think I can 01:07:49.960 --> 01:07:51.670 I don't think I can anything I do is 01:07:51.680 --> 01:07:53.750 going to change their mind. So, 01:07:53.760 --> 01:07:54.990 I'm not going to give you bad service. 01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:57.350 I'm just going to give you very blunt, 01:07:57.360 --> 01:07:58.550 "Hi, is there anything else I can get 01:07:58.560 --> 01:07:59.550 for you?" 01:07:59.560 --> 01:08:00.910 Okay, no. Oh, would you like another 01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:03.670 drink? Okay. It's not that over 01:08:03.680 --> 01:08:06.630 eccentric like, "Hey, so the other day I 01:08:06.640 --> 01:08:08.070 was over at like, it's not the 01:08:08.080 --> 01:08:10.310 storytelling the conversation." It just 01:08:10.320 --> 01:08:13.150 turns into a very corporate 01:08:13.160 --> 01:08:14.910 very corporate interaction at that 01:08:14.920 --> 01:08:15.030 point. 01:08:15.040 --> 01:08:16.430 >> Yeah. 01:08:16.440 --> 01:08:19.230 >> Do you have any story? Like any story? 01:08:19.240 --> 01:08:21.309 >> I have 01:08:21.319 --> 01:08:23.470 thousands of stories that I will not 01:08:23.480 --> 01:08:25.950 tell you right now. But, [laughter] 01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:26.710 I don't know if this 01:08:26.720 --> 01:08:28.070 >> that touched you or 01:08:28.080 --> 01:08:30.789 >> Well, okay. So, this I 01:08:30.799 --> 01:08:33.190 This is kind of like a 01:08:33.200 --> 01:08:34.950 a casserole. 01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:36.789 So, I kind of roll it all into one so 01:08:36.799 --> 01:08:40.990 that it's not a cop out answer. But, 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:42.269 um 01:08:42.279 --> 01:08:43.309 just 01:08:43.319 --> 01:08:46.150 from doing this forever, all of the cool 01:08:46.160 --> 01:08:48.190 things that have happened 01:08:48.200 --> 01:08:51.110 uh over over time, over the last 25 01:08:51.120 --> 01:08:53.150 years of me doing this. Like, 01:08:53.160 --> 01:08:55.630 not any one particular story, but I love 01:08:55.640 --> 01:08:56.870 when 01:08:56.880 --> 01:08:57.829 uh 01:08:57.839 --> 01:08:59.749 people come in People have come into the 01:08:59.759 --> 01:09:01.789 restaurant on their first date. 01:09:01.799 --> 01:09:03.710 And then they come in and then they have 01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:05.470 their engagement photo shoot at the 01:09:05.480 --> 01:09:07.430 restaurant and then they get married and 01:09:07.440 --> 01:09:09.230 then they come in with their 01:09:09.240 --> 01:09:11.030 two-year-old and they're dropping 01:09:11.040 --> 01:09:12.789 Cheerios all over the floor and they're 01:09:12.799 --> 01:09:13.910 like, "We're so sorry." And I go, "I 01:09:13.920 --> 01:09:15.349 don't give a [ __ ] 01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:16.749 I was here for your first date." 01:09:16.759 --> 01:09:17.070 >> Yeah. 01:09:17.080 --> 01:09:20.190 >> Like, this is the coolest thing ever. 01:09:20.200 --> 01:09:21.349 And 01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:25.150 and that stuff like that are um, you 01:09:25.160 --> 01:09:26.390 know, 01:09:26.400 --> 01:09:29.670 there was uh uh I won't say their names 01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:30.789 if they're going to be be on the 01:09:30.799 --> 01:09:33.430 internet, but there was this family uh 01:09:33.440 --> 01:09:36.910 who back in the day when I worked at um 01:09:36.920 --> 01:09:39.070 Stella Blue in Nashua. 01:09:39.080 --> 01:09:41.910 Their their son, I think, was like five, 01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:45.269 maybe. And he This kid had the palate of 01:09:45.279 --> 01:09:47.510 like a French chef, right? This 01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:50.390 five-year-old kid. He was trying, you 01:09:50.400 --> 01:09:54.390 know, prawns with, you know, Thai chili 01:09:54.400 --> 01:09:56.710 sauce. He was doing 01:09:56.720 --> 01:09:59.430 octopus. Five years old, this kid. 01:09:59.440 --> 01:10:00.550 >> Little spoiled. 01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:01.510 >> Um 01:10:01.520 --> 01:10:02.510 but 01:10:02.520 --> 01:10:07.150 um you know, fast forward like 12 years, 01:10:07.160 --> 01:10:09.150 the last week that Jeremy and I were 01:10:09.160 --> 01:10:10.670 working at The Birch, 01:10:10.680 --> 01:10:12.630

they came in. And I recognized them 01:10:12.640 --> 01:10:14.750 immediately, except for the son, who I 01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:17.070 did not recognize because he was like, 01:10:17.080 --> 01:10:17.950 >> Yeah. 01:10:17.960 --> 01:10:19.830 >> And I was like, "Holy shit." But like, 01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:21.670 that kind of thing. And they came in and 01:10:21.680 --> 01:10:23.710 they're like, "We just found out that 01:10:23.720 --> 01:10:25.710 you were working here and we wanted to 01:10:25.720 --> 01:10:27.390 come try it." And then they ordered like 01:10:27.400 --> 01:10:29.990 half the menu and they're and I said, 01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:31.310 >> "Well, we're opening another spot right 01:10:31.320 --> 01:10:31.590 here." 01:10:31.600 --> 01:10:32.950 >> And then they came in the first week we 01:10:32.960 --> 01:10:35.230 were open at Industry East and they were 01:10:35.240 --> 01:10:37.190 like, stuff like that. So, not one 01:10:37.200 --> 01:10:38.310 particular story, but 01:10:38.320 --> 01:10:38.830 >> Yeah. 01:10:39.280 --> 01:10:44.470 >> This we give everything to this this uh 01:10:44.480 --> 01:10:46.830 industry, but it gives it all back. 01:10:46.840 --> 01:10:47.270 >> All back. 01:10:47.280 --> 01:10:48.790 >> You know, you know, in a different way. 01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:50.710 So, that is the best part cuz a lot of 01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:51.910 [ __ ] 01:10:51.920 --> 01:10:54.070 and a lot of stories that I can talk 01:10:54.080 --> 01:10:56.590 about [laughter] off camera, but but 01:10:56.600 --> 01:10:58.990 like those that's that's the reason like 01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:00.590 that's the thing that puts you That's 01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:01.870 the thing that makes you get up every 01:11:01.880 --> 01:11:04.750 day. Hopefully today doesn't suck and I 01:11:04.760 --> 01:11:07.190 get to see some cool people and like 01:11:07.200 --> 01:11:08.830 that's the that's the thing. So those 01:11:08.840 --> 01:11:10.910 types of stories when that when that 01:11:10.920 --> 01:11:12.630 stuff happens, that's the coolest thing 01:11:12.640 --> 01:11:12.790 ever. 01:11:12.800 --> 01:11:14.190 >> I love the best part about what you said 01:11:14.200 --> 01:11:15.590 is when the Cheerios are all over the 01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:16.630 floor and you don't care. 01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:17.710 >> No. 01:11:17.720 --> 01:11:19.350 >> But that's what it's all about. It's 01:11:19.360 --> 01:11:20.950 like it's That's awesome. 01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:22.510 >> Yeah, absolutely. 01:11:22.520 --> 01:11:23.950 >> Yeah, that was way better than mine. 01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:24.950 That was way happier. 01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:27.014 >> Glad you went first. 01:11:27.024 --> 01:11:28.550 >> [laughter] 01:11:28.560 --> 01:11:30.030 >> Thank you guys very much. 01:11:30.040 --> 01:11:30.830 >> It was very fun. 01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:31.350 >> Yeah, I loved it. 01:11:31.360 --> 01:11:33.390 >> It was very fun. So yeah, so people, 01:11:33.400 --> 01:11:35.670 make sure you get out and come and check 01:11:35.680 --> 01:11:36.870 out without. 01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:37.390 >> She's right. 01:11:37.400 --> 01:11:39.150 >> Yeah. And by the time this airs, you 01:11:39.160 --> 01:11:42.070 should be open. You'll be open, so check 01:11:42.080 --> 01:11:43.750 them out. Make sure you tell them Beyond 01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:46.550 the Plate sent you and um 01:11:46.560 --> 01:11:47.230 I love it. 01:11:47.240 --> 01:11:48.430 >> We'll show in the bathroom. Take the 01:11:48.440 --> 01:11:49.470 mic. 01:11:49.480 --> 01:11:50.870 Take the mic. 01:11:50.880 --> 01:11:53.030 Uh, take the mic. Hold on. 01:11:53.040 --> 01:11:54.870 We have to We have to call You have to 01:11:54.880 --> 01:11:56.070 be able to hear Hold on, we're getting 01:11:56.080 --> 01:11:56.790 up. 01:11:56.800 --> 01:11:58.230 We're getting up. This is 01:11:58.240 --> 01:11:58.990 >> Who's all this stuff? 01:11:59.000 --> 01:11:59.830 >> I love it. 01:11:59.840 --> 01:12:03.510 >> It looks good. Oh, Dan's going 01:12:03.520 --> 01:12:05.190 There's still ladders in here. We're 01:12:05.200 --> 01:12:05.910 We'll be fine. 01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:10.590 >> Welcome to Nick's bathroom. 01:12:10.600 --> 01:12:12.070 Party of two. 01:12:12.080 --> 01:12:14.750 >> Party of two. 01:12:14.760 --> 01:12:15.990 >> Look at out. 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:18.390 >> Look at out. So hold on, Carol, get in. 01:12:18.400 --> 01:12:19.630 Carol, get in. Now it's a Now it's a 01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:20.310 selfie. 01:12:20.320 --> 01:12:22.870 >> You didn't even put the seat down. 01:12:22.880 --> 01:12:24.110 >> Listen. 01:12:24.120 --> 01:12:25.965 Down now. Needs to be cleaned. 01:12:25.975 --> 01:12:27.470 >> [laughter] 01:12:27.480 --> 01:12:28.670 >> I love it. I 01:12:28.680 --> 01:12:30.270 >> Beyond the Plate. 01:12:30.280 --> 01:12:33.080 >> Check it out.