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The Black Effect presents features honest conversations and 18 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: exclusive interviews, a space for artists, everyday people and listeners 19 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: to amplify, elevate, and empower Black voices with great conversations 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: make sure to listen to The Black Effect Presents podcast 21 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: on I Heart Radio, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 22 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: your podcasts. Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I am your host, 23 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. Every week, every episode, I tell everybody to 24 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: stop reading other people's success stories and start writing your own. 25 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 1: People always talking about gifts and passions. If you have 26 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,319 Speaker 1: a gift, lead with it and don't let your age, friends, family, 27 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: or coworker stop you from planning or living your dream. 28 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: Let me repeat that one more time. Don't let your 29 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,639 Speaker 1: age people here fifty six to just stop friends. Friends 30 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: don't know your dreams. Friends don't sleep in your bread. 31 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: Friends don't know your sorrows. They're only your expectations. Stop 32 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: listening to family. Family is what do your family and 33 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 1: co workers? Coworkers A coworkers You get fired, the coworking 34 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: on more, you get laid off, the gets coworking on more. 35 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: So you stopped planning and living. You green Based on 36 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: those people. On my show, I interview celebrities, CEOs, entrepreneurs, 37 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: and people I like to call industry decision makers. My 38 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: next guest is Marcus Davis. He's an HBCU graduate of 39 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: Texas Southern University. He is chief steward of the Breakfast Club, 40 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: host of Fish, Grits and Politics. It's entrepreneur, restaurant owner 41 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: and what I love about him, He's a motivational speaker, 42 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 1: the spirited entrepreneur on mastermind behind the Breakfast Club Reggaehud Cafe. 43 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 1: Marcus Davis is best known for his charismatic and you 44 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: see it too. I love this dude for many years 45 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: when I had my comedy clube, I just love listening 46 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: to Motor Radio. He's the love laughing at me, but 47 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: I love listening to him on Sunday mornings. He's authentic. 48 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: He loves customers who really understand the value of what 49 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: he's trying to do from them. He's committed. Everything starts 50 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,919 Speaker 1: with a K commitment community he serves. The success of 51 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: his restaurant has led to the development of branding consumer 52 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 1: with a K products for the home that include the 53 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: Breakfast Club Coffee, which I got along with the waffle 54 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: and pancake mix, which I don't have no more have 55 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: to re order because I used it all. I ate it. Okay, 56 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: It's that easy to make. So for a savory season 57 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: he mixed I got some mixing. If you got the video, 58 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: you're watching us on TV Video one. I got it 59 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: all on my desk because I love promoting something that 60 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: is successful. He's not celebrating. Get to check this out 61 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: in September or one. It all started twenty years restaurant 62 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: service to the community with a cave. Please welcome to 63 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: money making conversation. I like to call him the chief 64 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: steward of the Brakfast Club. My friend Marcus Davids, Hey, Marcus, Hey, Marcos? 65 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: Was that too long, man? Because you know we're battling 66 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: off a man. Don't say that long intro? Because I 67 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: like to think of christ Mattick when I introduced people. Man, 68 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: how was that? Man? You laid it out, brother, and 69 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: I appreciate it. You laid it out way. I appreciate it. 70 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: I appreciate it much. We think the thing. I gotta 71 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: go way back, you know, to twenty one. I knew 72 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: I was in l A at the time. Steve Harving, 73 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: I was doing radio in l A. So we were 74 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: starting our dream. And when you start a dream, it 75 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: always is just something just doing. There's no set where 76 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: you're gonna be five years from now, ten years from now, 77 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: or even twenty years from now what you are right now? 78 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: What was the plan when you just owned those stories 79 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: twenty years ago of the breast? What was the plan? UM? 80 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: You know? In in nine nine, I set out and 81 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: and UH wrote the vision and made it plain. I 82 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: envisioned us being a staple for the city of Houston. 83 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: I envisioned us being UM synonymous with the city. I 84 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: envisioned us being known from UH coast to coach, from 85 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 1: the Pacific to the Atlantic. I envisioned us being an 86 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: intricate part of the community. I envisioned us being a 87 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: source of inspiration for community. Knowing where we stood in 88 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: this industry and what the opportunities UH were. UH, I 89 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: envisioned to feel that that that void. So I wanted 90 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: to create this concept UH step out on faith UM 91 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: and give Houston and and the after CORECT community what 92 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: it deserves. Well the what it deserves, what you brought 93 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: to the table. But when all when you have a 94 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: product and you have to charge people for that product, 95 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: that always leads to mixed emotions because especially in our 96 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: community and on the beauty of the breakfast club is 97 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: that if you get in line, it is one of 98 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: the diverse lines in the world is everybody that lined 99 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: his Spanish Whites, sometimes more whites in lives than blacks. Okay, 100 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: so he's serving that international customer that he wants and so, 101 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: but it didn't start out like that. And so making 102 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: that price point, how did that come into play? So 103 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 1: you can make sure you're comfortable with it because you 104 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: gotta make money, but you also have to make sure 105 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: the customer doesn't feel offended. So let me let me 106 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: address the first half of that. Right, you talked about 107 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: the diversity. I mentioned just a second ago that I 108 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: wanted to be uh synonymous with the city. I wanted 109 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,359 Speaker 1: to be an ambassador reflection of my city, and the 110 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: city of Houston is was and is a microcosm of 111 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: the United States. It is a very diverse, diverse city, 112 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: and I wanted the concept to be just as diverse. 113 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. I remember driving bankers and 114 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: potential investors crazy. When you know this as a businessman, 115 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: you know this. I will go into the banking or 116 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: business plan and uh, they would ask who is your 117 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: target audience, who's your target demographic? And I told them 118 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: anyone and everyone that wants to participate. We are inviting 119 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: to participate, and they would try and drill me down 120 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: or no, you gotta idementify target demographic, and I insisted 121 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: that I didn't that I wanted to do something different. 122 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: I wanted the city of Houston to be reflected in 123 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: the breakfast Club. And here's the example that I told 124 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: the bankers that never gave me any money. I wanted 125 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: a place where. I wanted a place where UH college 126 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: students from Malmma to Texas Southern and you have AGED 127 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: and Rice, and you have AGED Downtown and St. Thomas, 128 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: all surrounding UH universities surrounding the Breakfast Club. I wanted 129 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: them to sit in the same space where Fortune five 130 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,120 Speaker 1: hundred vps and c e O s sat for breakfast. 131 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: Because we're on the outskirts of of of downtown. I 132 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: wanted the folks in the medical center to come and 133 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: have lunch with the people who work on the light poles. 134 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: I wanted any and everybody that wanted to participate in 135 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: this concept called UH Fellowship. I wanted them in and 136 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: so UH that that's where that idea of the version. 137 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: Let me tell you something funny. I knew we had 138 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: arrived at what I had envisioned the bankers over Hill. 139 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: Now the investorgs to me Hill. Now, maybe that's why 140 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: none of them gave me any money, right right, right right. 141 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: I never forget one day seen um one of my 142 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 1: marketing folks. She could say, come here, you gotta see this. 143 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: This is this is what you envisioned. And I walked 144 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: outside and in the parking lot was a convertible Lexus 145 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: coop and the brother got out of He was clean, right, 146 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: That's like what Sean and I was like, is that 147 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: Rashawn mcdonne stopping. He was clean, And right next to 148 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: him this brother pulled up in a back home and 149 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: in his overalls and his boots, and he got out 150 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 1: and he stood writing line with that brother that was 151 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 1: in that our money. So now it's like that's the 152 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: breakfast club. Absolutely, But you know, it's really tragic how 153 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: people will everybody each food, you know what I'm saying, Marcus, 154 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: But still they act like, you know, okau, your food 155 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: has to have a certain market, you know. I I 156 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: don't know anybody who just don't eat breakfast, you know, 157 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: I think everybody eats breakfast, you know, but when you're 158 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: African American mayor walking in there, you must be just 159 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: targeting black people, Okay, And then once you say that, 160 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: then they're gonna trap you even more because they're gonna 161 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: tell you how much you they think you can make it. 162 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,319 Speaker 1: Once you say you just targeted, I marketed, they don't value. 163 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: So that's always smart to hear that on this show, 164 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: and coming from a person who said, no, I my 165 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: brand and my customer base will be everybody if you 166 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,079 Speaker 1: hold on to that dream and don't let anybody just 167 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: do your dream. That's why I say up top, don't 168 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,839 Speaker 1: let nobody alter your dreams and your plans. You know, 169 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: so going I started this thing off talking about bitch 170 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: and a couple of concepts. I want to make sure 171 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: that we worked through today. Brother. You know, I'm a 172 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,599 Speaker 1: son and grandson and great grandson of Baptist preachers, so 173 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: I have I have my points, right, I got my 174 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: not absolutely, I love it. You know. When you called me, 175 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: said rich Shot that we're talking Mark David based and 176 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,959 Speaker 1: used to Texas. So you get part great breakface and 177 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: part motivation depending on what day you get him. When 178 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: he called me to shop, you said the twenty years 179 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: is coming up. I can come back. I said, Marcus, 180 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: you don't have to push this conversation when you want 181 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: to come on, so get the preacher brother. And and 182 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: here's why I thought that was important. Man, When I 183 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:05,079 Speaker 1: when I started this business, when I started working on 184 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: the plan, I ran into all the statistics, right, all 185 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: the statistics that see it restaurants has the highest failure 186 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: rate along along with clubs and bars. Right. Uh, it's 187 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 1: a miracle to make it pass the first twelve months. 188 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: It's a miracle to make it past twenty four months. 189 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: If you hit five years, you're doing something miraculous. And 190 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: here we are four times that, sitting on our twenty 191 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: year anniversary, twenty years of inspiring entrepreneurship in the city 192 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: of Houston. And that's a testament to a number of concepts. 193 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: And that starts with the first thing that you said 194 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: opening was vision right and believing whole hardening who you 195 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: are and what you've been called and created to be, 196 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 1: and not letting anybody deter you, because absolutely positively, folks 197 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: will try to deter you. Now, it's not out of anything. 198 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: And I'm not big on this hater thing and people 199 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: hating on you and stuff like that. What I am 200 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: big on is understanding why they don't agree with you 201 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: or why they don't see what you see. Your vision 202 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: that was gave to you, that was given to you, 203 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: was only given to you. The Creator made it, Taylor 204 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: made specifically for you, and it is not and it 205 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: has not been exposed to the rest of the earth 206 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,199 Speaker 1: because you're the one responsible for developing it. You're the 207 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,599 Speaker 1: one responsible for going into the dark room, taking that 208 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,319 Speaker 1: negative and turning into a positive. I know, I'm speaking 209 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: foreign language because we don't develop a lot of feeling anymore, 210 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,319 Speaker 1: but you get the concept right, that picture that the 211 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,719 Speaker 1: creator gave to you. You are the person responsible for 212 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: going into the dark room and developing it. So the 213 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,319 Speaker 1: people that that that don't say a man in your corner, 214 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: the people that do not agree with you, the people 215 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: that are not backing you up, it's not because they 216 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: have any ill will. It's because they haven't gotten the 217 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: picture that you're responsible for painting. And that's the most 218 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: important thing is that you have to be willing to 219 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: understand that it all from fall back on you. So 220 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: a lot of people, when they have their dream, they 221 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: want people to or sorry for him when they're doing bad, 222 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 1: and they want to be excited for them when they're 223 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: feeling good. I keep a medium roll in my whole 224 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,319 Speaker 1: approach to life. And plus I don't try to share 225 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,079 Speaker 1: too much excitement. And I never share failure because sharing 226 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,599 Speaker 1: failure with somebody when they feel you're supposed to be successful, 227 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: will only create doubt in your circle. And so that 228 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: is what happened a lot during the pandemic, because we 229 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: had a year Twitter where there was nothing but doubt, 230 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: there's nothing but uncertainty. They shut down your business, like 231 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: all businesses around this country for two months. How did 232 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: you come out of that with the same enthusiasm that 233 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: that that natural enthusiasm I see all the time, and 234 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: you for your business to breakfast club that was your 235 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 1: primary business, of course, but how did you survive? So 236 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:45,599 Speaker 1: you know, it was only one of the things that 237 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: I'm grateful for. There's a there's a thing going around 238 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: on social media and and and it's interests and said 239 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: I I asked for courage, so I was giving things 240 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: that would frighten me in order to develop the courage. 241 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: I asked for uh strengths, so I was giving heavy 242 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: weight to carry in order to make me stronger. I 243 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: don't know where it came from, but I thought it was. 244 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: It was, it was pretty elegant. The reality of it 245 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: is the Breakfast Club. Not only we celebrating twenty years 246 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: in business, two decades of inspiring entrepreneurship on the corner 247 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: of Travis and Alabama, but we are also proving what 248 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: it means to be battle tested. Right. The pandemic was significant, right. 249 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 1: It was a very significant, spectacular event and and detrimental 250 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: to a lot of businesses. One of the things that 251 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: I am grateful for is that it was not our 252 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,959 Speaker 1: first rodeo was at our first pandemic, of course, but 253 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 1: we opened this business underpression. We opened this business when 254 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 1: the streets we wanted construction. We opened this business on 255 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: the heels of Hurricane Allison, which hit our building before 256 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 1: we got to serve sale one grid. We opened this 257 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 1: business when Hurricane I was here and Hurricane Harvey came through. 258 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 1: We opened this business and in ruin crashed. We opened 259 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 1: two weeks before UH nine eleven hit, which was a 260 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,040 Speaker 1: big deal because because downtowns in a lot of it 261 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 1: is took a decline because folks are scared to go 262 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: into work if you work in a major metropolitan city. 263 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 1: So we on the on the heels of in run 264 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: crashing uh nine eleven happening, Uh, Alison. Then I then 265 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: you had that little thing in two thousand and seven 266 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: where gas was sky high. Yeah, the other thing where 267 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 1: food jumped up two thousand seven, two thousand and eight, 268 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: bringing in the recession where folks are getting laid off 269 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: left and right. Uh. You move on down to Hurricane 270 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: Ike where we were closed for five whole days, and 271 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: then Hurricane Harvy. We are battle tested at thirty seven eleven, Travis, 272 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: and that's what prepared us for what came forward in one. 273 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: We've been through the Royal rain, We've been through the storm, 274 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 1: and my team, uh, we we've developed a certain amount 275 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: of diligence where we can perform under the pressure. Our 276 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: metal has been tested. I'm so grateful uh that we 277 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: that that we had the ability to uh to perform, 278 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: and I'm extremely grateful. Catch the is that the community 279 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: right uh saw fit to sustain us during that time. 280 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: And that's what good will would do for you. After 281 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: you do good and writing just by the people, then prayerfully, 282 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: most times off times they will respond, they will. And 283 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: I'm fortunate that the people responded uh to what we 284 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: needed them to respond to. But let's just change something 285 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: about Marcus Davis and his his personality, his willingness to 286 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: answer the call for promotional opportunities. You know, when I 287 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: just Steve harvest Shaw owned National Syndication called Marcus, he 288 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: didn't like, go let me think about it, what time? 289 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: What do you want me there? Because he you understood 290 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: the value of the moment and a lot of people 291 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 1: understand the value of the moment. But more importantly about Marcus, 292 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: he knows how to take up possitively advantage of that moment. 293 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: And that's really I'm not saying that's one of the 294 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: rememberable moments in your business, but you have a lot 295 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: of them in there, like with Oprah, Steve Harvey's talk 296 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: about how you and let me just tell y'all strategically, 297 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 1: I may have asked him to come on to Steve 298 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: Harvey talk show, but he had a strategy as to 299 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: why he was coming. My correct, Marcus, But I mean, 300 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: you're you're absolutely correct. And I know this is I 301 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: know this sounds a little far um, but there was 302 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: a time where you didn't have the world at the 303 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: touch of a button. That was a time when you 304 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: didn't have the East Coast and the West Coast available 305 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: to you via Twitter, re Instagram, their Facebook. That was 306 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: a time where you had to bust your butt in 307 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: order to get that type of recognition, and you had 308 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: to also be lucky, uh as a result of the 309 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: good work that you've done, right, So the hard work 310 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: that we put in, uh, combined with relationships that we 311 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: had built, uh allowed us to have opportunities where someone 312 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: like yourself did pick up the telephone and say here 313 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: we go. Yeah, it was it was, It was all 314 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 1: right real quick. So at the time they had this 315 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: morning show on on radio, was the time John the 316 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: Morning right now? That that was I don't were you 317 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: in radio then, because it's a one or two point one? Yeah? Yeah, so, 318 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: uh the time Join the Morning Show. And I sat 319 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 1: there and thought, Man, how in the heck am I 320 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 1: gonna get on the tom join the morning Show. I 321 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: ain't got to them joining the money, right. I know, 322 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: I can't run national advertise, right, I don't have Twitter 323 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: and I don't have i G so I can't push 324 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,880 Speaker 1: these buttons. So I came up with this idea, and um, 325 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: the idea was to go buy a hundred to Neon 326 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: Bright Neon shirts and to pass them out to a 327 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: hundred of two people standing in line and tell them 328 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: to wear that shirt. And if I see you wearing 329 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 1: that shirt, then I'm buying you grits after the end 330 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 1: of the show, and man went all one hundred and 331 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: two of those folks lined up in front of the 332 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 1: Breakfast Club after that show, and then your boy j 333 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: Anthony came through and they start mentioning this on on 334 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: on the show, and Tom start mentions on the show, 335 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 1: and then I was like hot, damn rashun and called 336 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 1: we will be right back with restaurantur motivational speaker, founder 337 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: and CEO of the Breakfast Club in Houston, Texas, Marcus Davis. 338 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 1: It's finally here, the season of celebration. 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Welcome back to money making Conversations 372 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: as I continue my conversation with restaurant tour motivational speaker, 373 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: founder and CEO of the Houston based Breakfast Club restaurant, 374 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: Marcus Davis. See strategy, I always tell you you haven't 375 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: have a strategy, but you gotta have the product and 376 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: you gotta have the service. Okay, So so when you 377 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: come there now, it might be a lie. Guess what, 378 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: that's what I have a proper you're popular, but they 379 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: friendly as soon as they see you. Soon as you're 380 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 1: coming that door, air conditioning, work the menu and they 381 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: all go and go, hey, we don't have that on 382 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: the menu today, not not not at the Breakfast Club. 383 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 1: If it's on the menu, they got it and it 384 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,879 Speaker 1: served quick because because black restaurants get because we have 385 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: to say that too. You know, black restaurants can't get 386 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,400 Speaker 1: a bad restaurant, and our Black people will carry bad 387 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: news faster than good news. And so now let me 388 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: let me, let me, let me put a pin in 389 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: that because I have I have to say this right, 390 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 1: and I'm not stating what you're saying is is untrue. 391 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: It's absolutely true. But it's also true of none black restaurants. 392 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: So I went to a restaurant. I went to a 393 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: restaurant the other day that was none black. Owner was 394 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: right on and it's made the chain and out of 395 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 1: a things on the menu they didn't have, they only 396 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: had three of them. Right. But we're conditioned to believe 397 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,119 Speaker 1: a certain thing about our businesses. That's a condition to 398 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: believe about the other uh business all. All I'm saying 399 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: is we gotta keep that same energy. So when Popeyes 400 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: tell you they ain't got uh no more chicken, then 401 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: you know we gotta keep you know, it's terminal terminal 402 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: a where you were on hold? Can I can I 403 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 1: go back to somebody say, because I don't want to 404 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,199 Speaker 1: miss it. You mentioned you mentioned about the product, right, 405 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: you you mentioned about having the product getting in that 406 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: space where people make the calls and you get some 407 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: national recognitions one thing. But having the product to get 408 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: you there is a whole another thing. And the three 409 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: things that that that I share with my team from 410 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 1: day one, these are my my key principles for success. 411 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: Quality product, quality service, all the time. Quality product, quality service, 412 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 1: and do it every freaking time you unlock that do 413 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: that's not the same. Mistakes are not gonna happen. But 414 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: your goal, your mission, should be to make sure that 415 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:35,399 Speaker 1: every time you unlock the door, you deliver the quality 416 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,120 Speaker 1: product through the hands of great people. And you're doing 417 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: it each and every single time. Now, why is that important? 418 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: Because if folks come to the breakfast club today and 419 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: they go out and tell their mom and them and 420 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: their cousin them and niece and them, when leedsing them 421 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: come needing them, are gonna be expecting the same grits 422 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 1: that they got that there. You know that they aren't 423 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: told them around or that they got last time. And 424 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,360 Speaker 1: so you have to be able to deliver those things. 425 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 1: When I say quality product, whether that there is an attempt, 426 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 1: there's a temptation right to want to change and move 427 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: things around just because somebody come to you and tell you, hey, man, 428 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: I can beat you some cheaper, cheaper wings, and that 429 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: are they the same size, are they the same quality 430 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: of meat? Right? And will they be consistent? Those three 431 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: things are important to me before I before I jumped 432 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,119 Speaker 1: to price, because price is one side of it. But 433 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: if you've given me eight ounces wings one day and 434 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: two ounce squeens the next day, I can't deliver that 435 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: to my guests. If you're delivering me, you know, high 436 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: quality wings one day, or catfish one day and low 437 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 1: quality catfish another day, I can't deliver that to my guests. 438 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: You have to stay consistent in the quality that your 439 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: guests deserved. That's important that you say that because, uh, 440 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 1: you know, twenty years the quality product, quality of service 441 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: all the time, all the time. Consistency. Construction I got 442 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: day behind consistency. I forgot about that street construction on Maine. Man, 443 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 1: that was that was a terror. Man, when you was 444 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: dealing with that, you know, you know, look, look people, 445 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 1: you know that was a big deal back in there, right, 446 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: How are you surviving under construction? Man? We went in 447 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: knowing construction was coming, right, you know, I pulled the 448 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: Bernie on it. I was like, I ain't scared no construction. 449 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 1: That don't face me, right, I look, I looked forward 450 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: to the future, not the president tents. And what was 451 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: the future? Yeah, they told main because they were building 452 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:26,920 Speaker 1: the rail. The future was that was gonna be a rail. 453 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,719 Speaker 1: That's there. You get what I'm saying. You know, they 454 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 1: plowed Travis because they wanted to widen the street. I 455 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: could have looked and said, I can't go on Travis 456 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 1: because they're tearing the street up. The future was you're 457 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 1: gonna have a wider uh lane where you're gonna have 458 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: a wider street, more lanes with no potholes. You gotta 459 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,159 Speaker 1: look forward to the bigger picture and be willing to 460 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 1: take the sacrifice at the beginning or somewhere in between. 461 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 1: Now with all this great product, you know, you know, man, 462 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: you know you're killing that man. You need to be 463 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 1: cooking something looking at you know, like you know, first 464 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 1: of all, you know you know wife, you know she 465 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: likes to bake everything. Now you know so, and I'm 466 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: just tell you something. It say it's fried on the back. 467 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: It works great, baked because I hit I hit it 468 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: with some of mine. You know that some orl and 469 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: then put it on four hundred degrees. See, I would 470 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: tell you something. Man, what you're not gonna do is 471 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: stop me from eating great food. This is great seeds, 472 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: real simple, you know, put it, put it in that 473 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 1: or or you want to put butter on it, drop 474 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: it in there and put it in four hundred degrees. 475 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:32,120 Speaker 1: Then spray. That's what I'm saying. Spread with that olive. 476 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:37,120 Speaker 1: I can look hands, spray, code it four hundred degrees, 477 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: and by forty minutes later, bam, it's outstanding. This is 478 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: what I said to y'all. He see he just got fried, 479 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,640 Speaker 1: old school fried. Back here. I'm talking about young cat 480 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 1: right here. I baked all this great stuff, great chicken, 481 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: great fish. All that is beautiful. I put my I 482 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: put my season right here on my beans. That's why 483 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: I just love it. Because see, I would after myself 484 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: the other day because my wife wants sound that. She 485 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: was at the office and I made some beans, some 486 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: red beans, and I made some corn bread. He s's 487 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: what you put like? She said. She's a perfect clue. 488 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: She said, it's that that place he used to. I said, yeah, 489 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 1: she said, poor you get everything. I said, that's my boy, Marcus. Seriously, 490 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: I use your stuff. And she asked me what I 491 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: put in it because she's she's now she'sn't like meat 492 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,400 Speaker 1: in her beans anymore. So I just put this in here. 493 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 1: You know, I throw a little hallapeenions in there, you know, 494 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: pickle hallerpeen. It's a little stanger in there, and brother outstanding. 495 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: But you make a great product. You make a great 496 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 1: service to your customers. One other things you got on 497 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: Horizon right quick Markets before we close it out. Man, 498 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,400 Speaker 1: we got all the great things that we've been doing 499 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: for the last two years, we're gonna continue to do them. 500 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: We got we got a food truck coming out, so 501 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. We're working on a day of 502 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: inspiration where we're going to do our best to inspire 503 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:57,360 Speaker 1: Houstonians with local Uh Eustone with Eustonians. Right, Eustonians, inspiring Eustonians. 504 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: I had to get that out grid tacking my teeth. 505 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 1: But look what I'm saying, uh and and and more. Man, 506 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: When when a food truck comes out, we're gonna put 507 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 1: that bad ball on the road. We're gonna go on 508 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,560 Speaker 1: a little tour. I might even stop in your seat. Well, 509 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,439 Speaker 1: first of all, just let me know something, come get 510 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: it because I love good food. I'm gonna tell you, Marcus, 511 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: I do just this side of love it. I love 512 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: you and love what you're doing. On Mondays, I do 513 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: my motivation on Monday and I feature like last week 514 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,360 Speaker 1: was Risk, this week was Will Packer uh, and last 515 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,479 Speaker 1: week was Rick Ross. Just some of the names I feature. 516 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: I want to feature you, man on Monday in the 517 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: month of October. I want to celebrate your twentieth anniversary 518 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: with you with all my followers, man. And that's why 519 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,640 Speaker 1: I've been doing just right down all these great food 520 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: because you you're a great words smith. I like to 521 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,360 Speaker 1: write down what you're talking like you know, twenty years, 522 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 1: quality product, quality service all the time. So if I 523 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 1: have three hurricanes, a pandemic, street construction, and got now 524 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,880 Speaker 1: you got a food truck, hey man product, I'm gonna 525 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: celebrate you my own way with a big thank you 526 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: because when you started social media wasn't there, but it's 527 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: here now. So what's right a way for a friend 528 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: and to say thank you to another friend and an 529 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: entrepreneur who's making a difference in the community with a 530 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: k my Man Marcus lives Hey building with kinda one 531 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: grid at the time. That's what we're doing over here. Hey, Marcus, 532 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: thank you for calling me man. I always appreciate your brother, 533 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna send you a link to you so 534 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,640 Speaker 1: you know I do what I say. Man. But again, everybody, 535 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: spread that bad boy. If you don't want to fry. 536 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 1: You know I'm got a little old Just put this 537 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 1: bad boy into with with that meet up man, dip 538 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: that in the big old bowl. Check it up. You want, 539 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: put a little plastic bag so you can coat it 540 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: all up. Then hit it with all of our spray. 541 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: Just get off the chef in the store. Coat it 542 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: all the way around. Set that up in a four 543 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: hundred degrees I swear to you. Fourty minutes later. Outstanding chicken. 544 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: If you're a fish person, outstanding fish. If you want 545 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: a round the mill, get that white rice. Put you 546 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: some peto beans, all black eyed peas. Drop a little 547 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: hallapeno that's pickled in the hallapenos. Oh Lord, have mercy 548 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: breakfast club. You got making you. I'm just telling you 549 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: I love what you do. 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