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Speaker 2: All right, God is welcome back. Earn your leads. Yip
Speaker 2: ya special special edition.
Speaker 3: Oh Man, energy is high.
Speaker 2: But before we start, but we gotta tell you to backstory.
Speaker 2: This episode, one of the one of the one of
Speaker 2: the people's favorites is episode number eleven. Darry Falcon restaurant
Speaker 2: owner from Baltimore to listen to the episode you're doing
Speaker 2: yourself with.
Speaker 3: Your minister, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: So when he came on, he uh, he was talking
Speaker 2: and he said a line, and he said this line.
Speaker 4: When we see that a young black kid is he's
Speaker 4: fifteen years old and he's six y.
Speaker 5: Nine and he could driple.
Speaker 3: We gotta make sure yo.
Speaker 5: We we we clamoring, like keep him out of trouble
Speaker 5: and make sure he get home.
Speaker 4: But when you see the young black entrepreneurs twenty years
Speaker 4: old who's selling nachos, you know, like my young man
Speaker 4: killer from Nacho Bang, he sell a nachos, you.
Speaker 5: Throw him to the wolves. Oh you know my cousin,
Speaker 5: my uncle, my cracking uncle. Can you sweep the steps up?
Speaker 2: Nah?
Speaker 4: Stop doing that, because they do that all the time.
Speaker 4: They tend to undermine the value of our entrepreneurs. With
Speaker 4: essentially our entrepreneurs, I created all the future.
Speaker 2: So when he said that line, when he said that line,
Speaker 2: I didn't really know what he was talking about. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I didn't really know what he was talking about.
Speaker 3: No one called it.
Speaker 2: He's like, well, man kill him, not Joe. He's telling
Speaker 2: He's telling nachos, and I'm like, all right, but but
Speaker 2: but so what happened was so when that clip, when
Speaker 2: the clip came out, I put the clip on Instagram
Speaker 2: and and my man, not your Bangers, he commented in
Speaker 2: the comment like, Yo, I'm the kid. I'm not you.
Speaker 2: I'm the kid he's talking about. I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: And then I looked on his page and I've seen
Speaker 2: he had like sixty thousand followers on Instagram. He got
Speaker 2: a whole movement going, and I'm like, oh, so now
Speaker 2: we connected the dots. So the dope thing about Your
Speaker 2: Leasure is that it's more than just a podcast. Is
Speaker 2: his storylines involved. It's a whole vib So from that,
Speaker 2: so we met him in person at our DC event.
Speaker 2: Him and his man a shot to out. They came,
Speaker 2: they came to our podcast, and they came to the workshop.
Speaker 2: And then from there he said, I'm not you said, bro,
Speaker 2: I know you are. So we had we had a conversation.
Speaker 2: And he's from Baltimore. So coming back to New York,
Speaker 2: we had to, you know, pass through Baltimore on our
Speaker 2: way back from d C. So we stopped at his
Speaker 2: spot and we ate and he was telling us his story.
Speaker 3: We gotta be to him. He's usually closed.
Speaker 2: The spot. We'll talk about that. He opened the spot
Speaker 2: for us. We ate and we had like an hour
Speaker 2: long conversation, like, Yo, you want to come on the
Speaker 2: podcast and he's like yeah. So he was in New
Speaker 2: York for DJ MVY and Caesars similar to them, shout
Speaker 2: out to them, y alumni, and afterwards came to E
Speaker 2: Yo Studios and this is where we are now. So
Speaker 2: first and foremost, thank you for sure, for sure. So
Speaker 2: all right, so my man, Nacho ban, what do you
Speaker 2: want me to call you? You want to call your government Hughie, Nacho.
Speaker 5: Hue, mister banger. I had to get my real name,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 2: So yeah. So the thing I like. The thing I
Speaker 2: like about Nacho is that a lot of people have
Speaker 2: been asking us, like, Yo, y'all got all of these
Speaker 2: moguls that have like one hundred properties establish but it's like,
Speaker 2: can you get like the up and coming entrepreneurs, Like
Speaker 2: because the thing about religions, we tell everybody's story, right,
Speaker 2: so like, yo, get an up and coming cat that's like,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, doing his thing, but it's
Speaker 2: still in the beginning stages. So Nacho fits that perfectly.
Speaker 2: Twenty three years old, and he had a whole booming
Speaker 2: operation going on in Baltimore with the with the food.
Speaker 2: He had the food truck, and then he had a
Speaker 2: ghost restaurant. We'll talk about what the ghost restaurant is.
Speaker 2: And then he had a really creative idea to like
Speaker 2: brand his food business with dancing and that went viral
Speaker 2: and like a lot of the musicians and all that.
Speaker 2: So he's a young entrepreneur coming out of Baltimore, So
Speaker 2: this is gonna be an exciting story.
Speaker 3: His story was just so compelling. When we said when
Speaker 3: we went to the spot, we were just like yo.
Speaker 6: Man, as we eat in the food that was delicious,
Speaker 6: by the way, it was just like, yo, we gotta
Speaker 6: get this kid up here.
Speaker 3: Man, y'all for coming man.
Speaker 5: You know, uh, I always say, never ever trust a
Speaker 5: skinny chef. You know, one bite tastes like love. But
Speaker 5: I had to get y'all get that one bite, man.
Speaker 3: That's all we needed.
Speaker 2: So all right, so can we can we take it
Speaker 2: back from the beginning? All right? So what's your story?
Speaker 2: How do you how do you get involved in in
Speaker 2: food in the food industry, and what's your what's your
Speaker 2: what's your backstory coming from Baltimore, what's your story?
Speaker 5: How it is? Just like you know, when I was
Speaker 5: at your podcast in DC, when I met y'all there,
Speaker 5: like I met my man, Ash Cash, he said, from
Speaker 5: cheese and chips, you know, sixty dollars to six figures.
Speaker 5: So I started, I started off, broke, started off. I
Speaker 5: ain't hand, I don't know what to do. She got
Speaker 5: out of hogh Schital I got out Jan fifteenth, twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5: I got out of I got out of high school.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, what's next for me? What's next? I say,
Speaker 5: you know, I had to bag of weed. I'm ready
Speaker 5: jug the weed off, get a half of Baby the Money.
Speaker 5: And I was on your Then I was on Instagram.
Speaker 5: I always say your is hitting your daily routine. Every day.
Speaker 5: I'm on social media every day. I'm looking at different people.
Speaker 5: So I got on the Food Network channel. I seen
Speaker 5: the play the nachos. I said, I can make that.
Speaker 5: It wasn't just an ordinary nachos though, like you just
Speaker 5: see nachos. It was like a crazy blend. And I
Speaker 5: was like, I can put that together. I can make that.
Speaker 5: So I went in my neighborhood, and I'm just telling
Speaker 5: people like, ooh, I'm ready, s I'm making some nachos.
Speaker 5: Y'all want something, y'all gonna buy something. Everybody like, yeah,
Speaker 5: a little spot cull Glover, East Baltimore. So I'm like,
Speaker 5: y'all gonna buy something. I be like, man, come on,
Speaker 5: make them I need though. So they were so hype
Speaker 5: because I burned the energy too. One thing I love
Speaker 5: is energy, so they love my energy. And I made
Speaker 5: the food. I went to get this hold up, let
Speaker 5: me go brun it back. I went to get to
Speaker 5: trades my aunt. And when I got to trades my aunt,
Speaker 5: I went nuts with the recipe. When nuts to the recipe,
Speaker 5: I started July to fifteen, twenty sixteen, only had sixty
Speaker 5: dollars to my name, sixty dollars. Walk to the market,
Speaker 5: grabbed the food, put the nacho together real good. I
Speaker 5: was like, what, I'm a car list. It's a banger,
Speaker 5: not your bangers.
Speaker 3: So you're talking about like literally like the iron trade
Speaker 3: that like if I put the foil on, like you
Speaker 3: didn't even have that first.
Speaker 5: I ain't have nothing. I just had a bowl that
Speaker 5: you buy a tortilla. Those doritos in it. Yeah, adding
Speaker 5: met ed the kso and I got to put a
Speaker 5: special sort.
Speaker 3: We're gonna get into that.
Speaker 5: We wanna tell you about the sauce. So when I
Speaker 5: put the sauce in there, it was a bang of
Speaker 5: for real, it started like that. So you straight out
Speaker 5: the house, the house, so you got the tray, you
Speaker 5: got that. Now you just walking outside like yo, nachos
Speaker 5: is here. So I mind you went to the neighborhood,
Speaker 5: be five. So I branded myself. I marked myself with five.
Speaker 5: Went mind you straight out the house, no hot water,
Speaker 5: no gas on. So we really in a band though
Speaker 5: I'm in my baby mama house, a band of baby
Speaker 5: still in her stomach and the oven. I had to
Speaker 5: come up with come kind of hustle. Hustle is how
Speaker 5: you used to carry your tree, life experience, how you
Speaker 5: survived through life every day. That's how I look at hustle.
Speaker 3: I mean, your story goes bad further though, go.
Speaker 5: Back further from like how I grew up. You know,
Speaker 5: I ain't grew up with love. I grew up with struggle.
Speaker 5: I grew up with struggle. No structure, you know, foster
Speaker 5: care from three to six, my brother as he introduced
Speaker 5: me to my mom. When I was six years old,
Speaker 5: he stole me out to foster care at home, the
Speaker 5: married couple that we was through foster care. He stole
Speaker 5: me out of there, introduced me to my mom. Shout
Speaker 5: out the big cat, you feel me? He introduced me
Speaker 5: to my mother. And when he introduced my mother, I'm like,
Speaker 5: all right, this is a mom. You feel me? Not
Speaker 5: saying this a mom. I just never under the mother before.
Speaker 5: I grew up with no father anyway, So when I
Speaker 5: first met a lady that, oh this mom, Okay, she
Speaker 5: was abused to the substance. So my stepfather was on
Speaker 5: her life. They want us from they you know, went
Speaker 5: to the courts. They want us back, me and my
Speaker 5: brothers and sisters. So when they want us, I started
Speaker 5: going to my mother house I was six years old.
Speaker 5: From there, she was abused to the substance, getting the
Speaker 5: hind things of that nature. Tool box locked the door.
Speaker 5: No curfee for me. I was outside the trenches.
Speaker 3: Six six years old.
Speaker 5: I caught the nickname kill, called the nickname killer. A
Speaker 5: friend of mine's, John B. Recipes, he gave me the
Speaker 5: nickname killer. I was just a bad little minace. I
Speaker 5: was a bad little kid in the community and minister
Speaker 5: of society. So it's real negative into the streets. And
Speaker 5: the name carried me to now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I mean when we spoke, it was like
Speaker 6: usually when the kid is like the kid, don't act
Speaker 6: that acts up all the time.
Speaker 3: It's like, that's what the neighborhood loves that. Now you
Speaker 3: become a young boy for everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I was. I was everybody's son. I was
Speaker 5: everybody's son everybody. I was everybody first kid.
Speaker 3: I like that, you said son, that's a New York.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I was everybody first kid before anybody started making kids.
Speaker 5: I was everybody's favorite little young and yo, he bad yo,
Speaker 5: but I won't go take them shop because he's dirty. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I was everybody a little young and they took
Speaker 5: me out, you know. But I always knew morals. I
Speaker 5: always knew not to still always knew how to respect
Speaker 5: the woman. You know them queens that you see God,
Speaker 5: respect her. I can't call out her name. I gotta
Speaker 5: respect her, but do that trial right now. I had
Speaker 5: my second friend in life, Cuffey, so my got coffee.
Speaker 5: He always like like he snup me in his house
Speaker 5: before and I was staying there. You know, my house
Speaker 5: wasn't no structure. When it rain, we felt that a rat.
Speaker 5: We lived through that. When the rat ran through the
Speaker 5: we was in a real vik. We was in the
Speaker 5: we call it vics the bandole. They was like the
Speaker 5: real real vegant home. Were sleeping in there and on
Speaker 5: the bed. When it ring, we felt that once again
Speaker 5: I seen the ring. I can see the sky looking up. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So my second friend, he always sleupp me in his house.
Speaker 5: My second friend of life, Cuffey was like six years old.
Speaker 5: This boy posed to had no company. You hear me.
Speaker 5: He sneaking me through the back door, Dug Biggie chip ver.
Speaker 5: He scared me him. He sneaked me in there. I'm
Speaker 5: staying with him. You know me, I ain't had nothing.
Speaker 5: So I stole his clothes, stole his shoes. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: I put it back when I came back in the house.
Speaker 5: It was a little dusty. But from there, that second
Speaker 5: friend of life, man, he just we went so far
Speaker 5: at I started his brand, notcho bangers, Like it was
Speaker 5: a brand for me.
Speaker 2: So what made you want to start? Not like coming
Speaker 2: coming from from adverse circumstances and coming off the street corner.
Speaker 2: What made you say, okay, I want to be an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2: Did that just happen by accident?
Speaker 5: It was I don't even know. I didn't know what
Speaker 5: I was doing. I was just blind to the game.
Speaker 5: I was blind to the lifestyle. I just had a
Speaker 5: vision to do so, like your fortunes and your daily routine.
Speaker 5: I'm on social media. I see a play the nachos.
Speaker 5: I told myself, I can make them. I put it
Speaker 5: together first. I started off with strat of cheese. I
Speaker 5: don't even know how to really make the case so
Speaker 5: real good, wipe it down. I was microwaven. My strength
Speaker 5: at one point in time wasn't even something tan or
Speaker 5: wasn't even grilling them. Just put the obay in a
Speaker 5: butter bowl, put the stripping, the throw them in a microwave.
Speaker 5: It's still a little tender when you buy it.
Speaker 3: No, no culinary school needed, no.
Speaker 5: School, no no school, No mother that taught me how
Speaker 5: to cook, No grandmother that taught me how to cook
Speaker 5: everything straight and learned from self?
Speaker 2: Who taught you how to cook?
Speaker 5: Myself? Like just trawling error. Yeah, try YouTube, you know
Speaker 5: how to make noodles, and uh so I just put
Speaker 5: the same season. I put in the noodles like I
Speaker 5: think the steak season. Go ahead, oh old Bay putting
Speaker 5: old band ahead. Oh yeah, it's a banger. So I
Speaker 5: get to mix it up. And from there, you know,
Speaker 5: I got the friends around. Shout out the young yankee
Speaker 5: A one band. Uh they get to eat in my food.
Speaker 5: He be like, bro, yeah, just the one in the
Speaker 5: neighborhood approve of it had twelve customers in one day,
Speaker 5: two hundred plus in one month.
Speaker 2: That's the first. That's the first.
Speaker 5: That's the first day.
Speaker 2: So you start all all right, So you start off
Speaker 2: you had sixty dollars and you said you had to
Speaker 2: borrow sixty right, Oh you asked for all and never
Speaker 2: cash that.
Speaker 3: So high school.
Speaker 5: I graduated high school. So we're going through the we're
Speaker 5: doing the resume and stuff. Since you get out of hospital,
Speaker 5: you want, I gotta get a job, a good one,
Speaker 5: so the plumber. I got the plomba. All this time,
Speaker 5: I went to school for one month. I graduated. I
Speaker 5: went to school for one month.
Speaker 3: Wait for well for the entree.
Speaker 5: I went to school. Yeah, and then I played the streets.
Speaker 5: So I really I was living through survival.
Speaker 3: So, like you said, in total one month total, one month.
Speaker 5: Basically I went for that last month in school.
Speaker 2: For the finals for the last year, for your senior years,
Speaker 2: last year.
Speaker 5: So I got with the Goddess counselors. I linked with
Speaker 5: the Goddess counsels. I linked up with the counselors like
Speaker 5: you know, the administrators. That that was able to help me.
Speaker 5: That was a I was a bad kid.
Speaker 2: So you went to school for a month and graduated, still.
Speaker 5: Had to pay my des They shut the school down
Speaker 5: the same.
Speaker 2: What did I what I say about public school easy
Speaker 2: that that this doesn't help. I said, as long as
Speaker 2: you as long as you showed up and then curse
Speaker 2: to teach you out, you got to be.
Speaker 3: But he didn't even show up.
Speaker 5: He show up a graduated anything. I did see this this,
Speaker 5: I paid the d's. I paid my four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: For like seeing trips and Captain Gown.
Speaker 5: Get to the trips. They just want the money. They
Speaker 5: wanted the money. I just paid. I paid the d's
Speaker 5: and I graduated. So the education that I did get
Speaker 5: out of there, the main thing I still learned from
Speaker 5: high school is the five W. So the five WS.
Speaker 5: Once I learned the five ws, it just took me
Speaker 5: everywhere like what I wanted to deal in life.
Speaker 2: So all right, so you asked the ball sixty dollars
Speaker 2: to start the business.
Speaker 5: D asks mebout sixty dollars. So my best friend we graduated.
Speaker 5: I'm doing a faster for. I'm doing the resumes and stuff.
Speaker 5: So we got to that fast for. I'm getting a
Speaker 5: lord like bothered because I'm like my mother gotta come. Oh,
Speaker 5: she definitely not coming.
Speaker 3: They got usign the papers.
Speaker 5: They got to sign the paper. So I'm like, man,
Speaker 5: this ain't gonna work out. I said, you know what,
Speaker 5: I ain't.
Speaker 2: Paying no debt.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna build my own depth. So I was always
Speaker 5: looking at debt like it was money. So I was
Speaker 5: like college, No, that ain't really for me. So for me,
Speaker 5: I was like, man, I'm a ready started. I'm ready
Speaker 5: started selling food on a grill. That was my main topic,
Speaker 5: like sell food on the grill. I told my best
Speaker 5: friend like, ma, I say, mar let me hold sixty dollars.
Speaker 5: I got you, bro never gave me the sixty. Two
Speaker 5: weeks later, I asked my baby mama. I asked my
Speaker 5: child mother, can I borrow the sixty dollars? She gave
Speaker 5: me sixty dollars and from there I made it.
Speaker 2: So all right, so it comes up. So you make
Speaker 2: this this dish and it becomes popular in your neighborhood.
Speaker 5: It becomes popular neighborhood, people.
Speaker 2: Start buying it up, and you get a consistent flow
Speaker 2: of people that's.
Speaker 5: Got assistant customers. So pull up to your house, they
Speaker 5: put up to my credit is where I live at?
Speaker 2: Okay, so all right, walk me through the first month.
Speaker 2: How's this first month? Player?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: How are you getting orders? Are they texting you? DM?
Speaker 2: And U like, what's it looking like?
Speaker 5: The DM? The phone calls? So I had the Instagram
Speaker 5: banging the phone calls, you know, the walkthrough, just because
Speaker 5: I started the neighborhood first. It was just in there
Speaker 5: I walked.
Speaker 2: So how old are you at eighteen? I was nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 5: Nineteen, straight out of high school nineteen July of fifteen,
Speaker 5: twenty sixteen. So that first datum twelve customers people that
Speaker 5: I post, I promoted on Instagram. The main ni how started.
Speaker 5: I took pictures with the customers like this with a
Speaker 5: good smile, and I posted on everybody that shot with me.
Speaker 5: I took a picture with them, and I took a
Speaker 5: picture of them, and I used social media as that
Speaker 5: platform as my documentary of life, every day life, my documentary.
Speaker 5: So I looked at social media and I put every
Speaker 5: picture everybody that shot with me with that day and
Speaker 5: through the whole month, I took a picture and post them.
Speaker 5: So by me getting hot, they was getting hot too
Speaker 5: because they were like, oh, he went that's my uncle,
Speaker 5: that's my aunt, that's my little sister, that's my kids.
Speaker 5: So everybody was like, I got to see what that's about.
Speaker 2: So what at what point do you really start to
Speaker 2: like like blow it up and.
Speaker 5: Google with six figures?
Speaker 6: Was because I had too much money in the shoe box,
Speaker 6: So you're taking the revenue in right straight.
Speaker 3: At that time, were charging five hours for taco, no.
Speaker 5: This, twelve dollars for a notcho. It was no wrap
Speaker 5: or not.
Speaker 2: Straight straight cash, straight cash. You didn't have a credit
Speaker 2: card process or.
Speaker 5: Somebody told me go to Walmart by a little square thing.
Speaker 5: I hit the square up on my and the square
Speaker 5: up on my joint phone to my phone starts swiping.
Speaker 2: Cards to how me customers? You averaging per day?
Speaker 5: Oh per day?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 5: I couldn't even count. I don't even I couldn't even count. Man,
Speaker 5: I was saying, like I can tell you, we was
Speaker 5: making ten bands a week, ten thousand a week, ten
Speaker 5: thousand a week. Saw me this by myself at the time,
Speaker 5: just straight out out the really out the band. So
Speaker 5: you're making ten thousand a week at nineteen years old,
Speaker 5: you got you got a nice thing going. And then
Speaker 5: at what point do you get the food truck? So
Speaker 5: I got a full van. I was still out of
Speaker 5: a caravan. I was out of regular little van banging
Speaker 5: around the neighborhood. First, like late night, I ain't closed.
Speaker 5: We always opened up from six pm to twelve am.
Speaker 5: So I opened up late. And that's some times everybody right,
Speaker 5: get off of work for the boom summertime here, so
Speaker 5: six or twelve at the twelve o'clock I did the
Speaker 5: night life. So I started doing the parties and stuff.
Speaker 3: So so you're pulling up the van after the club club.
Speaker 5: This is a good because I was pulling up in
Speaker 5: the van in the trenches where they where they selling
Speaker 5: the hard drugs. That were they selling drugs at I
Speaker 5: was pulling up on I was pulling up on the
Speaker 5: boys that was on the block. Because they ain't leaving.
Speaker 5: They making their money right there. So I feed them
Speaker 5: right there with the nachos.
Speaker 2: Now, I've seen it on Instagram. I saw it a
Speaker 2: year ago because I'm observing when you when you when
Speaker 2: you hit us. I looked at your page and I
Speaker 2: look back like twenty seven weeks and I saw him like,
Speaker 2: all right, these kids heavy in the streets right now
Speaker 2: and then. So but the thing I like about this
Speaker 2: is that you have no formal training. But it's like
Speaker 2: sometimes common sense goes a lot further than just you know, college, right,
Speaker 2: So it's like you know, if you know, if you
Speaker 2: ever been to a club, you know that people are
Speaker 2: hungry after the club they eat, you want to go
Speaker 2: to diners. That's why in New York, like the food
Speaker 2: trucks are real big. So it's like you have your
Speaker 2: own makeshift food truck, and you know what time the
Speaker 2: club closes, you know where people are at at three
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 6: After you've consume all that liquid, you've got to have
Speaker 6: some food in your stomach. Right, So that's what I said,
Speaker 6: Like Max Maxwell said this, but this is true.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: You took an imperfect action. You had no idea what
Speaker 3: you were going to do. I'm just gonna do it.
Speaker 5: I'm just going to do it, you know. Fearless. I
Speaker 5: was just feeless because the manage. I'm still trapping out
Speaker 5: my house. I'm in Baltimore City. You know, I'm happy
Speaker 5: my name was good enough. And that lifestyle, you know,
Speaker 5: growing up that that's what helped me out as well,
Speaker 5: because people respecting me from from the lifestyle growing up,
Speaker 5: you know, because I have respect and I gave him respect.
Speaker 5: So growing up they had that respect that the one
Speaker 5: robbed the house anything like that, We was good that
Speaker 5: and I all praised me to a law. That's the
Speaker 5: biggest thing, you know, got to put a law first.
Speaker 5: I was praying. I was on my dean. I praised
Speaker 5: so much by me praying a lot. That's what God
Speaker 5: dank is connected. So I always walked fearless. The only
Speaker 5: fear I had was a fear of a law.
Speaker 2: So after the after the truck, right, I was the van.
Speaker 2: Don't even get so after So you got the van,
Speaker 2: You got the van. Now you you you're selling out
Speaker 2: of your house and you your mobile.
Speaker 5: So I'm preparing it wasn't It wasn't. No hot plate
Speaker 5: in the van and nothing. We just got a van,
Speaker 5: got a wrap with the Nacho Bangal logo. I'm preparing
Speaker 5: the food and I'm preparing the food and I'm putting
Speaker 5: it into the inner van, so you you're prepping like for.
Speaker 2: So it wasn't really it wasn't really a food truck.
Speaker 2: It was just the.
Speaker 5: It was like it was like advertising what I like
Speaker 5: going to a billboard. All we got doing the marketing
Speaker 5: on Instagram. I'm advertising on the van. So the police
Speaker 5: either beat the horn, beat beat what y'all got in there?
Speaker 5: Be hungry?
Speaker 3: They nothing that is hungry.
Speaker 5: So that's built our clientele with the offices and things,
Speaker 5: built our client on the streets because well that's not
Speaker 5: your bang up and pulled up over beat the horn.
Speaker 5: So you know, we were just feeding people.
Speaker 2: I got one for you, shout out a hot bad
Speaker 2: giving you the food on the road, pull up to
Speaker 2: you in traffic and we ain't know what that station
Speaker 2: with me, were just driving catch you in traffic literally literally.
Speaker 2: All right. So the next time we're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: the scaling model, ghost restaurants and where you go from there,
Speaker 2: dance moves as well. Here we get to that, all right.
Speaker 2: So okay. So you start out the bendo you you're
Speaker 2: you're selling hot plates. Yeah, and.
Speaker 5: The hand not choked bangers.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 2: Then and then you get the van. You wrap it
Speaker 2: with your your logo you put put before the van.
Speaker 5: It was a regular little caravevan. So first I'm gonna
Speaker 5: shure have my mentor. I got two mentors in life,
Speaker 5: one Uncle T. Number two is Dark Falcon. You have
Speaker 5: to be real careful of people you call your mentors. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you have to be careful when you call your mentors
Speaker 5: because they gotta live up to a lifestyle that you
Speaker 5: actually can live by and follow through. Uncle Tea is
Speaker 5: my life coach. Dirk is my financial advisor. He's my mentor.
Speaker 5: He's everything I need as being the entrepreneur in the
Speaker 5: restaurant industry. So I go to Dark Falcon for everything
Speaker 5: in that in that nature, and Uncle T I go
Speaker 5: for everything that I need. You know, how to be
Speaker 5: a father, how to how to maintain you know, my health,
Speaker 5: my wealth. You know Uncle Tea and Uncle Tea his
Speaker 5: daughter came.
Speaker 3: To the crib.
Speaker 5: She's like, I want some nachos, and he was like,
Speaker 5: where out the house? I'm not going in there house
Speaker 5: like a trap like a trap house. He was like, no,
Speaker 5: they sell nachos in there. So Uncle t came in.
Speaker 5: He came, He came in my spot, him and his daughter,
Speaker 5: and he was like, wow, I see how this kid
Speaker 5: got it. So he see how I got the got
Speaker 5: everybody in line waiting on their food and stuff. The
Speaker 5: line is literally lined up out the house all the
Speaker 5: way inside to the kitchen. So he come in and
Speaker 5: see the operation. He bring his best friend Tony with him.
Speaker 5: So before they leave, I'm like, Uncle Tee, look, look,
Speaker 5: hold up, let me get these people out of here
Speaker 5: before you leave me. Let me get these people out
Speaker 5: of there. Don't leave me yet. So he waited. You know,
Speaker 5: I made him extra nachos because they waited for the
Speaker 5: wait his bestroom like, man, what are some lamp chops?
Speaker 5: I didn't want no food out of those trap house.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, man, listen, it is the best nachos ever.
Speaker 5: So Uncle Tea and them they waited for me. I
Speaker 5: told I ran Uncle tat I got you out of
Speaker 5: the kitchen. I said, man, look, man might get evictim.
Speaker 5: Man like you don't got no house, no store front
Speaker 5: or nothing. Uncle Tea like, look, my best friend Tony.
Speaker 5: He just got past all the expections and days you
Speaker 5: can ask you your restaurant in here. So Uncle Tea
Speaker 5: told me the time to come the next day. I
Speaker 5: was there before everybody got there. I would have so dedicated.
Speaker 5: I had that that hustling me, like I gotta get here.
Speaker 5: So they let me in the storefront. I came in
Speaker 5: there with with three thousand dollars, came up front with
Speaker 5: three thousand dollars, you know, walked to the storefront while
Speaker 5: he was ready to getting victied because I wasn't paying
Speaker 5: nobody else's debt that was on her mother. Like, I
Speaker 5: wasn't paying nobody else's debt. I wanted to Yeah, this
Speaker 5: is my child mother, and she was still pregnant at
Speaker 5: the time. I'm like, look, we rather get an apartment.
Speaker 5: I'm not paying for your family debt at all. I'm
Speaker 5: getting about here. We got a room in here.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 5: We're getting about of here. So she was with whatever
Speaker 5: I was with at the time. So Uncle t was like, man,
Speaker 5: I like you kid, so tell tell you this is
Speaker 5: not his store. This is his best friend's store. So
Speaker 5: his best friend like, man, you're not put that kid
Speaker 5: in my store. So I got babysitting for like good
Speaker 5: seven months before they either gave me keys, So I
Speaker 5: had to wait for them to open the door, had
Speaker 5: to they had to lock the door behind me.
Speaker 3: But they let you have the store.
Speaker 5: They let me have the store only opened up from
Speaker 5: six to twelve though, the same time when they when
Speaker 5: they when they were closed, when they were closed, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: they did the breakfast time. So they did breakfast from
Speaker 5: like nine to nine to five.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: So you open up, you open up a restaurant pretty
Speaker 2: much make shift restaurant and somebody else's restaurant.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I was like I was using their kitchen.
Speaker 5: I was using it, paying them around. I was playing
Speaker 5: one thousand a month.
Speaker 2: Okay, but you can only use it at night time.
Speaker 2: They didn't trust you, then I trust me. They had
Speaker 2: to open the door, close the door.
Speaker 5: They had to lock it closed because look, you got
Speaker 5: a young kid, nineteen years old. Yeah. I don't know
Speaker 5: what this kid into, but you know, I had to
Speaker 5: build my trust with from now, and I built that
Speaker 5: relationship with you.
Speaker 2: So how do you how do you meet Dery Falcon?
Speaker 5: So, Drek Falcons, I met Dark out of Sharif brother
Speaker 5: Sharif Man good brother, good Muslim brother, own a lot
Speaker 5: of restaurants. His story is similar to minds how he
Speaker 5: started his restaurants and his empire and the restaurant industry.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, so he ain't got a lot of
Speaker 5: time on his hand, so he couldn't really meant to me.
Speaker 5: So Dark he passed me to dark Man. Dark was
Speaker 5: just like inspired ration. I'm like, I can relate. He
Speaker 5: was relatable around my age, talk, my tone, low key
Speaker 5: with everything. He in his vibe, in his vibe, and
Speaker 5: i felt this vibe and his energy, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 5: this is what I'm trying to do in life.
Speaker 3: They need.
Speaker 5: The main thing he taught was system, save yourself, time,
Speaker 5: energy and money. Taught me system.
Speaker 3: You said when he walked into your store, he was like, Yo,
Speaker 3: throw everything out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, throw everything out. He walked to my store, throw
Speaker 5: everything out. This is not what you're doing.
Speaker 3: This is not how you wanna at that time. What's
Speaker 3: the story looking like?
Speaker 5: Your store looking like a trap? I saw, I knew
Speaker 5: it was the house, so a lot of customers in there,
Speaker 5: you know. So Dark was like, I'm gonna come back
Speaker 5: on a day when it's not open. What did you close?
Speaker 5: I sound like I'm a little bit don I'm gonna
Speaker 5: come back. What did you not open? What did you
Speaker 5: close on? That's what were gonna come so mind you,
Speaker 5: I ain't know the problem of margin, not the business.
Speaker 5: I ain't know how much portion to put it in
Speaker 5: our chows. I ain't know nothing. So Dirk came in
Speaker 5: there for free and scaled my restaurant.
Speaker 3: So you just literally out here doing did you even
Speaker 3: know what a profit margin was?
Speaker 5: That? I don't know what a profit margin was. I
Speaker 5: ain't know no numbers or anything. That's why it's good.
Speaker 5: The networking could I don't even know what networking was. Literally,
Speaker 5: I just knew you, all right, that's a customer that
Speaker 5: was supporting. But then when I got with Dirk, I
Speaker 5: learned what the consumers was, what the supporter was. You know,
Speaker 5: cosumans is someone who buy supporters and people that's going
Speaker 5: to actually tell you what you're doing good and what
Speaker 5: you're doing wrong and how you're able to scale this
Speaker 5: and be better. So one thing, Darky came in, he
Speaker 5: scaled the restaurant. He's like, you gotta make some changes
Speaker 5: in here. You had to really build things, you know,
Speaker 5: portions things that nature. You have to really learn how
Speaker 5: to portion your items, how to really scale it. And
Speaker 5: once I learned how to scale it, it changed my life.
Speaker 2: So like, what do he like? What's some of the
Speaker 2: things that like? The key things that he taught you.
Speaker 5: The key thing he taught me was the right down
Speaker 5: the measurements. The measurements that the meat, you know, six
Speaker 5: ounces for that, that's the bang of three ounces for
Speaker 5: the chicken rap. You know this, how you scale to
Speaker 5: put this amount of strimping there? Because I was feeding
Speaker 5: them with shrimp strip? How do you want to get
Speaker 5: that my seatpood off for three dollars right right?
Speaker 3: You're thinking, like your overhead gonna be real high doing this.
Speaker 5: So I had a I got a nice easy menu
Speaker 5: like the like my food cause he taught me the
Speaker 5: food costs of things like bro your food cost is low,
Speaker 5: you're giving too much out, You're just doing the mods.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, man, I don't know this lifestyle. I
Speaker 5: just know how to hustle. I know how to trap,
Speaker 5: take a risk and prosper. That's all I knew at
Speaker 5: the time, take a risk and proce with trap. But
Speaker 5: that helped me how to grow man get rid of
Speaker 5: your old wage.
Speaker 3: So that at that time, right, you was doing ten
Speaker 3: thousand in the house. Now you got the store front. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we're getting more.
Speaker 5: So maj is over here now. So you got BG,
Speaker 5: You got employees. You have a rent that I didn't
Speaker 5: add no problem when I was dolls. So all this
Speaker 5: stuff is new to me, another paid rent. I ain't
Speaker 5: had my own apartment or nothing yet. Yeah, employees, that's crazy.
Speaker 5: I had some employees, man, shout the rock cam Taja.
Speaker 5: I had some good employees.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: You know, it was actually customers at one point in time,
Speaker 5: and I made my employee. I told one girl how
Speaker 5: to run a cash resident. We ain't even had no
Speaker 5: cash RESI it was the money in the box. Still,
Speaker 5: I'm in the store with the dollars, going to buy
Speaker 5: dollars here, files here, ten's here, twenties here, hundreds right here,
Speaker 5: undneath this other box.
Speaker 3: With the calculator, with the caula, every item like that.
Speaker 5: You know, she liked that. She don't know anything else,
Speaker 5: just the cash, right, So I told her to meet
Speaker 5: the cash region and make the juicus for the people.
Speaker 5: And that's how we're going to rock out.
Speaker 2: So at what point do you leave there because you
Speaker 2: got your own You got your own spot at one
Speaker 2: point too, right, what restaurant, it's not a restaurant storefront.
Speaker 5: No, this is my storefront, just the one so atterwards
Speaker 5: the guys and stuff. Mister Tony, he had a crew
Speaker 5: in there for the breakfast time and lun lunch and
Speaker 5: almost dinner.
Speaker 2: Then I came in to ye're pretty much sharing her
Speaker 2: two restaurants restaurants in one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but they failed first and tip and learning, so
Speaker 5: I learned off of them. I understand Cashy's acronyms failed
Speaker 5: first and tip and learning, so once they fail, I
Speaker 5: had to realize that could happen. The restaurant closed the
Speaker 5: yeah they pa So I'm like I came back to it.
Speaker 5: Another problem. It is like Tony, look, man, I know
Speaker 5: y'all ain't really doing good. Can I get up there?
Speaker 3: Can I get that? You want to take that time?
Speaker 3: Can I get that time?
Speaker 5: So it was a big hump for me, like all right,
Speaker 5: because a lot of people couldn't get to me at
Speaker 5: six now, so how much is it right now? The
Speaker 5: rent went up a thousand dollars, But you got it.
Speaker 5: It's your spot twenty five everything mins, whatever, that whatever
Speaker 5: I want to do, I open up on twelve. So
Speaker 5: I opened up from twelter twelve.
Speaker 6: But that took sixty seven months of trust plus them failing.
Speaker 6: And now you're saying, let me, I'm gonna take some
Speaker 6: opportunity maximizing.
Speaker 2: So what happens?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: So you're up, You're open. It's your spot now, twelve
Speaker 2: to twelve, your show. How's how's it working for?
Speaker 5: It was going amazing. It was it still is amazing.
Speaker 5: It was going amazing.
Speaker 1: My man.
Speaker 5: It every day I'm cooking up, I get to see
Speaker 5: that lunch crowd. So we need a hospital, John Hawkins.
Speaker 5: So I get to see that crowd come. I get
Speaker 5: to see all these this new crowd come, so that
Speaker 5: bring that fresh money. I wasn't never saying out of
Speaker 5: the house, how old were you?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 5: I was twenty twenty yep, so twenty twenty years old,
Speaker 5: So I'm looking at twenty years old. I'm in the
Speaker 5: kitchen every day. You know, it got overwhelmed. And then
Speaker 5: because I got so many cousins, so I had to start,
Speaker 5: you know, hiring people and things that nature. So coffee
Speaker 5: was always shotow I got coffee. He was always promoting
Speaker 5: and things. So I'm trying to give him money like
Speaker 5: couve teen's two hundred.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I love how you promote. He ain't wanted no money.
Speaker 5: Keep your money, bro, so coffee to start coming there,
Speaker 5: giving me your hand with things. Then he turned to
Speaker 5: my partner.
Speaker 3: Yeah just from the ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so all right. So that was two thousand and fifteen, seventeen,
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. So twenty seventeen, you up and running and
Speaker 2: like what are you selling? Like what's now? What's you have?
Speaker 5: The Nacho bangers? You have the Bang of raps, you
Speaker 5: have the Bang of Juice.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 5: You had to like bang of juice. No, we ain't
Speaker 5: even the tacos yet, so we had the Bang of Juice.
Speaker 5: It was just three items on the menu. Then uh
Speaker 5: Maji ran the cross dark dark say six items. He
Speaker 5: taught me how to measure my items out, itemized my
Speaker 5: items on the menion. Because I looked at his minion,
Speaker 5: I'm like, it's a little bit of stuff, but it's good.
Speaker 5: So I looked at his meniu and I started like,
Speaker 5: all right, look, I'm start with six items. Now six items,
Speaker 5: so I put the rap I put the Nacho banger first,
Speaker 5: made the raps, the juice, the cheese steaks, the coffee bulls,
Speaker 5: and the fries. So I made six items. What's the
Speaker 5: cuffy ball? The couffee balls, like a homemade mashed potatoes,
Speaker 5: real steak, not the fake steak. The bowl that I
Speaker 5: carry you tos caso in there with the sauce every day.
Speaker 5: May well extra love, you know what I'm saying. May
Speaker 5: extual love, love, extual love. So when you bite this comfortable?
Speaker 2: So all right? So you so so now you still
Speaker 2: got you still got the po van at that time.
Speaker 5: No, yeah, I still got the van at this time. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So all right, so now you got delivering too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're delivering as well. So now you gots we
Speaker 5: delivered like to events and things and you ain't delivered
Speaker 5: like this regular on the street because we both was
Speaker 5: in the kitchen.
Speaker 3: Then.
Speaker 2: So now you got the van and you got the store.
Speaker 2: How much money you bringing in a month from the
Speaker 2: whole operation?
Speaker 5: Man? So ten ten a week. We was being in
Speaker 5: like a good fitty k forty forty forty a month,
Speaker 5: forty a month. Yeah, twenty years old, winning, net winning,
Speaker 5: doing what's supporting? Now?
Speaker 2: So after the after your expence it how much you
Speaker 2: I know at that time, I know that's understand and
Speaker 2: I respect that because it's like what you told us before,
Speaker 2: like that kind of hurt you later on. And that
Speaker 2: happens with entrepreneurs all the time too, where it's like
Speaker 2: they don't know how much, especially if you young, you're
Speaker 2: getting money. It's like, I don't know, but it catches
Speaker 2: up with you down the line.
Speaker 5: It catch up with you down the line. So uh,
Speaker 5: come with that. You know, when I got to the
Speaker 5: six figures, spar I told you had to google what
Speaker 5: six figures was. I even had to google where the
Speaker 5: father was, you know, not not growing on. No father
Speaker 5: in my life had to google, like all right, this
Speaker 5: what the father is? Right down the steps of what
Speaker 5: fathers do, right down with six figures. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: it's only six Zipo was like like, for it's only
Speaker 5: one hundred k. Literally, I said, okay, And I learned that.
Speaker 5: I started looking at my numbers doing a clover. So
Speaker 5: I went to a bank, you know, shout out the
Speaker 5: a April Diva style, she's on the block. So this
Speaker 5: when I got the mindset of a millionaire. Blocks. That's
Speaker 5: how blocked twenty four hundred I'm on how block now,
Speaker 5: so mind you. So it was a it was so
Speaker 5: mind you. So somebody gave me game, you know, the
Speaker 5: customers give me gaging, the customers around the neighborhood. Somebody
Speaker 5: sat on the house. I'm sitting outside somebody like, you know,
Speaker 5: you're on a millionaire block. Right it's a black it's
Speaker 5: a black owned block. Right here. I say what you
Speaker 5: mean by that? He said, April, right there, that's millionaires,
Speaker 5: he said. The pawn shop right here, they are billionaires.
Speaker 5: He said. The next restaurant next to you, dare millionaires.
Speaker 5: He said, what that makes you said, the next millionaires?
Speaker 3: Fact facts.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, you know, I go, I go higher.
Speaker 5: Aple Dealer Styles. You know that's wild Wife shout the
Speaker 5: wild so Al. That's one of my female mentors as well.
Speaker 5: You got three female mentors. You have Aple Devon Styles,
Speaker 5: you have Shana she counting. You have my mom a kid,
Speaker 5: my mother kid. I met her through through the trenches,
Speaker 5: for real, you know, through the trenches. She was one
Speaker 5: of the queens in the in the neighborhood. That really
Speaker 5: taught me everything.
Speaker 6: So you are twenty years old, You've brought in forty
Speaker 6: thousand dollars. You're not eve really sure what the numbers are?
Speaker 5: What are we doing?
Speaker 3: What are we buying?
Speaker 5: What? Oh? So we buying all types of cars, Mandy,
Speaker 5: the baby just was born, so pants and wipes.
Speaker 2: That was serious?
Speaker 5: Uh, you know, buying new cars, buy my child mother
Speaker 5: a new car. Panning rent off for like a year,
Speaker 5: you know, so I'm paying every cord. I'm paying rent
Speaker 5: off for a quarter worth? Oh right, yeah, this is
Speaker 5: how much? It's a thousand a month right here?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 5: Boom, still paying a landlord, so paning rent for the store.
Speaker 5: So these are bills now, so I'm starting lying. Okay,
Speaker 5: this has been paying employment. Didn't know the food costs,
Speaker 5: So I'm messing up money on fool cause just paying
Speaker 5: too much for food. I'm paying too much for food.
Speaker 5: I'm paying too much for employment because I ain't no
Speaker 5: no better.
Speaker 3: So when you went to full day, how many employees?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Now I like the label. So it's only two employees now,
Speaker 5: you know, want to do the cash here and want
Speaker 5: to do everything that was the portions, the the prep,
Speaker 5: the prep, the portions.
Speaker 3: You know me, Ernest, what's up?
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Speaker 2: At that time, right, yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like half day you had like two and
Speaker 3: then oh yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: So it was always like I have full employees. Every
Speaker 5: four employees a day, you have twelve to six. That
Speaker 5: was that was two employees six to twelve. That was
Speaker 5: two employees.
Speaker 2: How much was you paying them?
Speaker 5: I was paying them like be real, man, I didn't
Speaker 5: even know what the what they call it.
Speaker 3: Wait wage was at the time. They was just love me.
Speaker 5: That's my boss. I'm young, I'm a boss. I had
Speaker 5: to google with the boss was so you know, I
Speaker 5: was paying like two d fifty and then I know.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even like I said, Sat, You're just paying
Speaker 2: them like just on something. Just street get two hundred
Speaker 2: fifty a head like that now answering that also a
Speaker 2: lot of time people people don't understand, like what you
Speaker 2: said about paying freebody for them, what you said about
Speaker 2: paying the rent up front is it's hard to understand
Speaker 2: if you've never seen that before. But I've seen it before,
Speaker 2: like when somebody had money and they moved too like
Speaker 2: a nice condo and they paid a whole year. They
Speaker 2: pay like twenty four thousand dollars up front up front.
Speaker 2: But it's like, obviously for somebody that's like educated on finance,
Speaker 2: it's like you could have used that for a damn
Speaker 2: payment of a house, right, But coming off a street corner,
Speaker 2: you're not thinking like that. And like I said, I've
Speaker 2: seen people do that before.
Speaker 5: I wasn't thinking that. That's time man. So uh, all
Speaker 5: that time, I'm wasting so much money, Like it was
Speaker 5: just money's going waste. I didn't know what it was
Speaker 5: going to waste, but I just knew it was money going.
Speaker 5: It was blonde.
Speaker 2: So at what point do you all right? So you
Speaker 2: get the you get the whole the whole city, in
Speaker 2: the frenzy with the and that. But then you started
Speaker 2: a dance or the.
Speaker 5: Notchr banger dance. This this will happen right we in
Speaker 5: the we in a car, wend a month, ten hand
Speaker 5: a month, tenna month. So then my boys a one
Speaker 5: ban and young like not your bangers, not your bangers.
Speaker 5: So you hearing the song, not your banger song. It's
Speaker 5: a one bane, So he like, not your bangers, not
Speaker 5: your bangers. We got beef, we got strength. One bite
Speaker 5: tastes like love. You can't even get it with cheese,
Speaker 5: your bangers. Yeah, with a Davi of sour cream, Dad Dad,
Speaker 5: with a David sour cream Dad Dad. So these guys
Speaker 5: in the car bumping had these my friends. So being
Speaker 5: got a studio in this house. Any make beats and everything.
Speaker 5: So a one beans straight going going to the studio
Speaker 5: cook up. He cooked up. I was cooking nacho. He
Speaker 5: cooking up beats. So he go cook out, Like what
Speaker 5: you what you mean you cook it up?
Speaker 3: I'm cooking up a beat.
Speaker 5: So they got in the studio, manyng inkey on the
Speaker 5: ad libs, and a one bans fired that thing. And
Speaker 5: to this day, man, we're still rocking concerts with that song.
Speaker 5: And after that, I just put a little dance together
Speaker 5: like this.
Speaker 2: We're gonna put the clip on YouTube.
Speaker 5: So Nacho banging dance went bavo. So all that's what
Speaker 5: attracted all the youth, you know. Then that's what got
Speaker 5: my foot into like speaking engagements with the youth, you know,
Speaker 5: how you started your business and things. Because all the
Speaker 5: kids start doing my dance. It was a dance, you know,
Speaker 5: even that dance he made it on Ellen shout the
Speaker 5: A one chops and number A one trail A one.
Speaker 5: Leak them them boys right there. They start doing a
Speaker 5: dance and that put the city in a friendly like
Speaker 5: they went on Ellen with that dance like.
Speaker 3: That was a crazy all right.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so the dance, the dance goes crazy. Like
Speaker 2: I said, once again, I see because I do my research.
Speaker 2: I don't just I don't. I don't just I don't
Speaker 2: just listen to what people say. My research, and I've
Speaker 2: seen it. I saw it with my own eyes. I
Speaker 2: saw it in Morgan State. I saw it in the
Speaker 2: clubs in Baltimore. I saw the kids in the neighborhood
Speaker 2: doing it, and it was a it's a thing, like
Speaker 2: it's like a real thing in Baltimore. So from there,
Speaker 2: more and more people know who you are now because
Speaker 2: they know you from the even if they don't know
Speaker 2: your food.
Speaker 5: They so after the dance, you know, shout to Cuffey.
Speaker 5: That's my guys, my brother Cuffey Sauce. He came up
Speaker 5: with this thing called sauce. He went vying famous off
Speaker 5: the sauce with the W that's a three ws ce sauce, sauce,
Speaker 5: sauce sauce. So that's coffee stat right there. So that
Speaker 5: put the city in the whole nother level because now
Speaker 5: you have a hashtag that you actually say sauce. So
Speaker 5: when people see it's like sauce, you feel me. And
Speaker 5: that's what get our attention. It's a bangle for real,
Speaker 5: So we're catching you are you'll be this, Oh that's
Speaker 5: the sauce boys, sauce. It's a bangle for real. Like
Speaker 5: that's it was a catchy phrase to get people like
Speaker 5: now you if you don't even know it's now you're
Speaker 5: able to say one word and get us to smile,
Speaker 5: you know. So and that was catching because you know,
Speaker 5: I the same famous people. I didn't even know what
Speaker 5: to say. So, but if I know somebody got a
Speaker 5: crazy slogan, I'd be.
Speaker 3: Like, oh yeah, I can say something like yeah, it's
Speaker 3: a banger for real.
Speaker 5: It's a banger for real.
Speaker 2: So at what point, So you're blowing up in the
Speaker 2: streets and you're blowing money fast, yes, and you got
Speaker 2: the dance.
Speaker 3: What I was, Yeah, understandable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you but but at one point you realized
Speaker 2: that you had the real things in and become more organized.
Speaker 2: You met an account or something like that. That what
Speaker 2: happened with that?
Speaker 5: I met a financial advisor and how you meet him
Speaker 5: through April a style so financial advisor the cold growth.
Speaker 5: She's working the back of America at the time.
Speaker 3: So she was like, you are credit cards?
Speaker 5: What is that credit? You got credit card?
Speaker 2: I'm like, what is that?
Speaker 5: She's like, you don't got no credit? Like, man, what
Speaker 5: is credit? She broke the whole thing down to me,
Speaker 5: only spend twenty percent of this and do this, do that.
Speaker 5: I'm like, slow down for me. How do I start? Yeah,
Speaker 5: she said, first she got to open the bank account
Speaker 5: and put like five hundred dollars in there. Said, I
Speaker 5: don't deal with no banks. I'm in a shoebox.
Speaker 2: You keep your money in the shoe box.
Speaker 5: And keep my money in the shoe box inside plastic
Speaker 5: bags with every date on it. So I write the
Speaker 5: date of what I made the money. It's still out
Speaker 5: the store. So I write on the paper, oh this date,
Speaker 5: put the put the money that we made that day.
Speaker 5: Seal a bag up, put it in the shoe box.
Speaker 3: Real shoe box money real.
Speaker 5: So every month is a month of box or this
Speaker 5: this not you box god. That month that's April. There's
Speaker 5: not your box God. That's June. It's not your box god.
Speaker 5: That's month the month. So every box, I know what's
Speaker 5: in there because I'll be like, all right, that's three
Speaker 5: d it's only seven hundred that Oh all right, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna take that a zip my bag out. That's a
Speaker 5: dollar for the print.
Speaker 3: Alright, trap is anonymous.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I was out there, so it's like, no,
Speaker 5: you have to stop that. So she brought me in
Speaker 5: a bank. I'm so confused whole time. I ain't no realistic.
Speaker 5: I'm really building a relationship with the bank now, so
Speaker 5: they actually know me now. So she helped me build
Speaker 5: that relationship with the bank. To this day, she don't
Speaker 5: work there anymore. She had another bank, and the bank
Speaker 5: still love me, you know. So from there in mind,
Speaker 5: I'm still out the shoot. I'm still out the box.
Speaker 5: Pull my money into the store. So she she put
Speaker 5: me on game with the clover system. That's the pos.
Speaker 5: She put me on game like how to really start tracking?
Speaker 5: Cause I got employees. Now, come on, people still, so
Speaker 5: I'm not really knowing where money going. I'm just knowing
Speaker 5: if I make this quarter. My goal a day was
Speaker 5: eight hundred to one thousand dollars a day.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: When I got the store from had to learn like,
Speaker 5: all right, this one I'm gonna mate. I was making
Speaker 5: past that though it was scary.
Speaker 3: But oh yeah, I ain't thinking about that. People probably
Speaker 3: just yeah, but the.
Speaker 5: Love you know, off of love them that they not
Speaker 5: I did, I know. So she put the clover system up,
Speaker 5: taught me how to get the clothes cloth is a
Speaker 5: pos system. Track your money now.
Speaker 2: You know how much money comes in.
Speaker 5: To track everything now how much money come in. You
Speaker 5: can make invoices on it everything, so you can even
Speaker 5: do ads on there, like everything. So track my money
Speaker 5: down and things.
Speaker 3: She taught me that.
Speaker 5: She taught me how to credit card work, unsecured, secured
Speaker 5: credit card, all that financial literacy that I actually needed.
Speaker 5: She took our time with me. So she brought everything
Speaker 5: now on black and white on a piece of paper.
Speaker 5: She had just break it down. Do this, that's how
Speaker 5: you want to spend it. Things that nature This is
Speaker 5: a fecal sport she taught me everything you know, shout
Speaker 5: at her. She got a company called be More Savvy.
Speaker 5: She's building teaching free financial literacy to the community of
Speaker 5: Baltimore City. So and I definitely invite her to all
Speaker 5: my events about entrepreneurship so she could teach financial literacy
Speaker 5: to the world. And once she taught me that financial
Speaker 5: literacy part, it gave me a break. So I started
Speaker 5: really calculating my money, stop learning what the spread she
Speaker 5: was and things of that nature, through the through everything
Speaker 5: with the Clover system. So every day I'm on a
Speaker 5: Clover system looking like, oh right, I made that. Then
Speaker 5: I got strict with my money. I got strict with
Speaker 5: the employees that I had because now I'm looking at
Speaker 5: it like, oh hold up, invatory was hi, but we
Speaker 5: made this. No, who's stealing there? So I started getting
Speaker 5: back in the store roal heavy. I started watching my
Speaker 5: numbers and through then still money, still being missing inventory
Speaker 5: like this. So I'm like, all right, She's like, you
Speaker 5: have to get an accounting I can't keep helping you.
Speaker 5: You got to you have to keep books. She told
Speaker 5: me download quick books and thangs that nature. So I'm
Speaker 5: downloaded quick books. Come on, I ain't know what accounting was,
Speaker 5: and then she told me you got to pay them
Speaker 5: this much money. So I'm like, huh oh, they get
Speaker 5: a budget out my money. No, what's that app So
Speaker 5: I start doing the quick books myself. Dangs got overwhelmed because,
Speaker 5: oh man, I'm getting booked for all type of shows
Speaker 5: due to the dance. I'm getting booked for the shows
Speaker 5: and they just want you to show up for the nachos.
Speaker 5: I'm getting booked, not for the catering. I'm getting booked.
Speaker 5: We are getting booked. Me and coffe y'all getting booked
Speaker 5: for the shows, the entertainment parts. Then after the entertainment,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start picking up the mic. So I started
Speaker 5: hosting as well, like one two one two, hold up,
Speaker 5: I start going crazy and the mic as well, so
Speaker 5: that club saying so notacho bangers, y'all, it's the bang
Speaker 5: of voice. So we get to going crazy and the
Speaker 5: mic and just getting booked for entertainment. So with that,
Speaker 5: it was like I couldn't do quick books no more.
Speaker 5: I'm getting all this kind of money coming in now,
Speaker 5: sol receipts, I'm going shopping, I'm saving every seat. I'm
Speaker 5: taking a picture of every receipt that I get, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, this need to me. Every store I
Speaker 5: go to, I'm like, oh I need to receive the
Speaker 5: gas station I need to receive Yeah, for everything I spend,
Speaker 5: I need a receipt. So all my friends looking like
Speaker 5: what you can getting receipts for I'm saying, bro, you
Speaker 5: buy past shoes, make sure you give me your receipt.
Speaker 5: I know a guy who used to do that. Every
Speaker 5: time we would go out, He's sitting next to you, Yo,
Speaker 5: we would go out. He was like for years and
Speaker 5: I was like, yo, bro, what's And then I finally
Speaker 5: was like, oh that's why he's keeping the receipts like anytime,
Speaker 5: like he wouldn't even eat, Like, yo, let me.
Speaker 3: Get your receipt. I was like, ah, great, got it.
Speaker 5: So I start saving my receipts, and all my friends
Speaker 5: to this, not not to this day, but around that time,
Speaker 5: they used to give me the receipts and stuff, and
Speaker 5: I had a shoe box with the receipts to shoe
Speaker 5: botched all the receipts the days that I spent. So
Speaker 5: I started I was my own account and then as
Speaker 5: I know, so I was booking my own stuff and
Speaker 5: putting everything in order. So I got that's I learned
Speaker 5: order and I was putting everything together. Then it was
Speaker 5: got too overwhelmed. So I had to get an accounting
Speaker 5: and I started lining my money when the accounting taught
Speaker 5: me how to calulate my money. Then after that I
Speaker 5: got an assistant because I couldn't keep up with their
Speaker 5: account anymore because I'm moving the state to state now
Speaker 5: through the entertainment of the nachos. So I'm going to
Speaker 5: state to state, I'm going DC, I'm going to Atlanta.
Speaker 5: I'm going all over just to sell nachos, doing pop
Speaker 5: ups everywhere, and I'm meeting different people on I'm networking.
Speaker 5: So I got me an assistant. Shout out to Patty.
Speaker 5: So patby breaking everything down, I taught him the whole format.
Speaker 5: It was so when I first thing I did, I
Speaker 5: built a confidential form. Before you walk into my store,
Speaker 5: before you walk on the back, you have to sign
Speaker 5: a confidential form. Then I'll write a doctor member where
Speaker 5: someone was trying to get taught to Blue Ibby, but
Speaker 5: they had to sign a non disclosure form an NDA.
Speaker 5: So I had a friend. I had a girl called
Speaker 5: my sister MONI and she was like, yeah, I know
Speaker 5: how to write that. Write them up, said make me
Speaker 5: want for Nacho Bangers. So she made me an NDA
Speaker 5: form for nachal Bangers. So people had to sign a
Speaker 5: confidential form the nonage closer application. So I started getting
Speaker 5: in tact with everything, like okay, all right, just then employment,
Speaker 5: so the accountant was like, hey, you can start putting
Speaker 5: what you want to do uh ten ninety with your employees.
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, I want to pay their own taxes.
Speaker 5: So I started getting smart. Then she's like, do you
Speaker 5: want to get wt's. I'm like, yeah, that's more and smarter.
Speaker 5: I'm happy that I had an accountant with the accounting.
Speaker 5: I had a financial literacy lady that taught me everything
Speaker 5: that the account was supposed to did. So it was
Speaker 5: like I had somebody watching the accountant as well, you
Speaker 5: feel me. I had my assistant watching my money from
Speaker 5: the employees. Then I had my accountant watch my money
Speaker 5: for my assistant, and I had the financial literacy lady
Speaker 5: watching the accounting because that's why already built a relationship
Speaker 5: with the bank flow. So I had people I heard
Speaker 5: her watching all everything I go through, Like okay, so
Speaker 5: I don't get caught up. You feel me.
Speaker 3: There's really quick. Why did you need a nondisclosure?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: None closes because the sauce, the recipe. You have to
Speaker 5: be real careful n that we talk about here, you know, yeah, yeah, literally,
Speaker 5: you know you got plank things in the world. We
Speaker 5: like SpongeBob and mister Crab. You can't come get this
Speaker 5: secret form. This is a sauce. So you know, we
Speaker 5: have to start so you know, everybody, a lot of
Speaker 5: people start having that's on their resume. That's why I
Speaker 5: had to start being careful because now this is a brand,
Speaker 5: this is a business. People want it's hot. People want
Speaker 5: to just work for us for the name. So I
Speaker 5: had to catch it, like nah, it's a little strict.
Speaker 5: Now we're gonna do interviews. We want to hire you
Speaker 5: like this. This is the protocols, how you want to
Speaker 5: come in, It's how you want to operate. You know,
Speaker 5: we won't give We want to do our best with
Speaker 5: Chick fil a service have cho similarly, you know, just
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 2: That's the fact, all right. So in the last second,
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about few things, but once about ghost restaurants.
Speaker 3: You got something special with that, Yeah, sure, all right.
Speaker 2: So now we're gonna talk about something that's interesting. So
Speaker 2: you all right? You what happened to the van? He
Speaker 2: got crashed up?
Speaker 5: So like a random wow, So about the van? So
Speaker 5: coffee coming like bro bro, bro, Like yeah, what's wrong?
Speaker 5: Come down? Man, I got side the van crash. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna call you right back. I said, similar little text like, man,
Speaker 5: sim of your location. I pulled up on a van.
Speaker 5: Oh child, look at that investment. Child, look at that investment.
Speaker 5: You know how he is?
Speaker 3: Man, We will get it right back. Man, we getting
Speaker 3: to it. Were the bag of boys. I'm like, you right,
Speaker 3: you're right, You're right.
Speaker 5: So me then, and I got an LLC with no
Speaker 5: insurance on the vehicle. I'm like, oh, are we good?
Speaker 5: You know we got Yeah? It bit me in my
Speaker 5: ass and the wards. So yeah, the banger bang got
Speaker 5: crashed up. From there, set me down a little bit,
Speaker 5: and I ain't sit down for a tea long. I
Speaker 5: grabbed me a smart car, so I gotta grab me
Speaker 5: some more eye candy. So that was an eye candy
Speaker 5: for the neighborhood. I'm a big deal in a smart car.
Speaker 5: Looked like shack in a smart car. So I'm driving
Speaker 5: around in a smart car with the with the this
Speaker 5: was the corridor one, so the drop top you hear me,
Speaker 5: and a smart cause I'm driving around the smart car.
Speaker 5: Nacho Baggers, y'all. So I'm yelling, Nacho ban you got
Speaker 5: something in there? Yeah, I'm pulling up on curves. I'm
Speaker 5: going crazy with the smart car serving Nacho's out the
Speaker 5: smart car, So that ain't stop us from being mobile.
Speaker 2: So all right, so then so then so this is
Speaker 2: something that's really really interesting. I actually just learned about
Speaker 2: a concept called ghost restaurants, which is actually very popular
Speaker 2: in New York City, Boston, DC, like metropolitan areas where
Speaker 2: he's trying to start a restaurant and man, and the
Speaker 2: rent might be fifteen thousand dollars a month. So it's
Speaker 2: like you don't have enough money a lot over it,
Speaker 2: but you can start a ghost restaurant. So you was
Speaker 2: actually doing this before you knew what a ghost restaurant was, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Actually I was doing it right out the crib before
Speaker 5: I knew what it was. Good brother Mine's al came through.
Speaker 5: He was let me know, like, man, it's a ghost restaurant.
Speaker 5: Like what he was like, this concert right here? What
Speaker 5: you're doing is a ghost restaurant, Like, man, break it
Speaker 5: down to me, show me. You know, I always gotta
Speaker 5: get the details.
Speaker 3: You love to learn, Man, I love that.
Speaker 5: I gotta understand where you get the information from. Showed
Speaker 5: me the source. So he broke the source down. L
Speaker 5: don't do too much talking. He pull it up and
Speaker 5: show you right in your face. So I'm looking it up.
Speaker 5: I'm like, wow, this one thing I said, I seen
Speaker 5: the I read it. It was it was, it was
Speaker 5: a company. It was two guys started the company.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: They running nine kitchens out of two storefronts. What yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm running back ghost restaurants. They running nine restaurants out
Speaker 5: of two storefronts.
Speaker 6: So it could be like somebody selling Chinese food, somebody's
Speaker 6: selling Italian, somebody sellinganadas, all in the same kitchen, all
Speaker 6: in the same kitchen only for one roof.
Speaker 2: And so the thing with the ghost restaurant, correct me
Speaker 2: if I'm wrong. So you're serving you make food out
Speaker 2: of like a kitchen, like only your home kitchen. Take
Speaker 2: you out only and you you get like grub Hub
Speaker 2: or Uber Uber Eat post deliver. But when you order
Speaker 2: from Uber Eats, they have like a menu you don't
Speaker 2: necessarily know what the where these places aren't you just
Speaker 2: see Thai restaurant. These are the different things that we have.
Speaker 2: So now you literally make the food in your kitchen.
Speaker 2: You have rub hub, Uber eats come.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: The rest of the social media Instagram is your Facebook
Speaker 5: that people going on, you know, so your adveratising that.
Speaker 5: You know, you can set a website up advertise off
Speaker 5: of that. So one thing I did, you know, I'm
Speaker 5: already a platform on social media, So I started using Instagram.
Speaker 5: So I actually met a dude that was a chef
Speaker 5: and he do seafood real good. So I met him.
Speaker 5: You know what I do, I'm normally know how to hire.
Speaker 5: This was his profession. So I brung him around. I
Speaker 5: built the menu. I built the menu for six items
Speaker 5: against items. Again, built the menu up, and I put
Speaker 5: him to work. You know, but now I actually know
Speaker 5: confidential in da Here you go. It's another recipe. I
Speaker 5: cannot only had one employee, so he knew everything. You know,
Speaker 5: all you need is one it ain't it ain't too
Speaker 5: much walking and they take out only so the tablet
Speaker 5: is banging. He hitting every tablet pick up boom. Now
Speaker 5: you can do your time because you got but five
Speaker 5: minutes the week, ten minutes the week, door dash pick up,
Speaker 5: grub her pick up, you know, and take the food
Speaker 5: to the people and they drive.
Speaker 3: Off with it and they never have any idea that
Speaker 3: it's coming from you.
Speaker 2: And like you said, you can have seven different restaurants
Speaker 2: in one kitchen. One kitchen, Chinese, I got it, Pizzat,
Speaker 2: I got it, got.
Speaker 3: It, got it.
Speaker 5: So my main concept, you know everything, you got to
Speaker 5: be saved serving things that nature. You have to be
Speaker 5: you have to be teching, you know, licensed up and
Speaker 5: things that nature. Uh I mean. And also it's something
Speaker 5: you know, you got the pros and the cons. So
Speaker 5: the pros about it. You can do all that great things,
Speaker 5: but you have to make sure the package good. Like
Speaker 5: a restaurant, you have to package it good. It's still
Speaker 5: a restaurant, so you have to market it and ship
Speaker 5: it out right good. But the cons is that you
Speaker 5: can get bad reviews on Yelp.
Speaker 3: I hurt you.
Speaker 5: You can get yeah, so you can get bad reviews
Speaker 5: on Yelp or bad reviews on the on the grub hub.
Speaker 5: The door des because the drivers can take too long.
Speaker 5: You get it, so the drivers can take too long
Speaker 5: and mess your whole product. You can't control the drivers,
Speaker 5: can't control the drivers at all.
Speaker 2: So how do you get Like, if I wanted to
Speaker 2: start a cold restaurant out of my kitchen, how do
Speaker 2: I get on Uber? Eaves is like an application you
Speaker 2: gotta fill out.
Speaker 5: You have to fill application out. You have to have
Speaker 5: an EI in number. You know, you have to have
Speaker 5: the basics for a regular restaurant. You have to have
Speaker 5: the basics. So you have to fill out all that information.
Speaker 5: You know, they hit you back on the email. They
Speaker 5: do everything that that you're looking forward to how to
Speaker 5: open a restaurant. They send a cameraman out to take
Speaker 5: the pictures of your food.
Speaker 2: So every do they taste it, un taste it, but
Speaker 2: they make sure it's official.
Speaker 5: They make sure it's official. So what I always I
Speaker 5: do privatations. You know, any restaurant I create, I do
Speaker 5: privatass that way they can come. You know, my friends
Speaker 5: come over. They taste the food, all right, just the one. No,
Speaker 5: I don't really like this. It's it's two seasons, not
Speaker 5: a banger. So when I cook out for I'm like,
Speaker 5: all right, mate. I always say this. Sometimes people are
Speaker 5: dreams are tied to your success. So certain investments that
Speaker 5: you take, it's someone dreams tied into that.
Speaker 6: So you don't, I mean you have some like uncanny hours, right,
Speaker 6: So like yeah, so we want to talk about how
Speaker 6: much time is put into doing a lot of time is.
Speaker 5: Put into these restaurants. Man, only thing to come to
Speaker 5: a sleep is a dream. But you have to get
Speaker 5: your rest. And now I heard one thing like you
Speaker 5: rest your rest, so be careful with your time. And
Speaker 5: you definitely got to be careful with your health as well.
Speaker 5: So I definitely be tired. You know this, This restaurant industry,
Speaker 5: entrepreneurship definitely you know, put me in some sacrifices beyond
Speaker 5: my limits. I don't even see my children, you know.
Speaker 5: I got two young boys from one one years old
Speaker 5: and two years old, Shayne Kaber. So that that messed
Speaker 5: me on my my entrepreneur lifestyle. Running a restaurant, messed
Speaker 5: up my relationship with my child mother, you know, me
Speaker 5: and not having a time uh me not being there
Speaker 5: for my you know, for the family. I'm not even
Speaker 5: saying my kids because I'm running the restaurants and things
Speaker 5: of that nature. So that really hurt me too. Has
Speaker 5: been a young father. So I'm trying to get that
Speaker 5: freedom back as well, because okay, you got freedom from
Speaker 5: not working for nobody, but now you're taking your freedom
Speaker 5: from your family, like they don't even get to see
Speaker 5: So my freedom got took from like that because being
Speaker 5: an entrepreneur. So that's the cause of the restaurant industry
Speaker 5: as well, and entrepreneur industry that you don't even see
Speaker 5: your family because you work in until hours you're making
Speaker 5: doing this, so you become a slave of the money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the goal too, is to ultimately scale
Speaker 2: to the point where you don't actually have to physically
Speaker 2: work because you're really trading one boss for another. In
Speaker 2: that scenario, it's like, now the boss isn't mister Johnson,
Speaker 2: but the bosses Benjamin Franklin. Your boss's money money. So
Speaker 2: the goal is to actually be financially free to a
Speaker 2: point where it's not really about always say it's not
Speaker 2: about money, it's about freedom. About freedom, that's the most
Speaker 2: important thing. Peace of mind is you can't put a
Speaker 2: price tag on peace of mind. Can't put a price
Speaker 2: bag on peace of mind. You can't put a price
Speaker 2: tag on peace of mind. So my mindset now is like,
Speaker 2: you know, all that's took care of. Communication is number one.
Speaker 5: You got to learn to communicate and let these women
Speaker 5: know that's actually taking care of these kids. Let your
Speaker 5: sons know, let your family know. Like, hey, this is
Speaker 5: what I'm doing. I'm a sacrifice right now. Oh so
Speaker 5: now I do. I'm gonna get my kids three days
Speaker 5: out the week. I make sure I get them three
Speaker 5: days out the week. Like I pause myself. I get
Speaker 5: brother and mins that know the recipe and things and
Speaker 5: know how to run a restaurant. I get an employee
Speaker 5: and know how to run it, and I step out
Speaker 5: and be a fall as well. And that's my freedom
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 3: It's important, man, Like I know that struggle.
Speaker 6: Man, it takes a lot of balance, like not being
Speaker 6: there to make it to a parent teacher conference or
Speaker 6: not being there to check the homeworak. And I remember
Speaker 6: when my daughter got a we we had to went
Speaker 6: to Chicago and she failed spelling to us and I
Speaker 6: was like, damn, we wasn't there to study, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean? But having systems in place, having support,
Speaker 6: it makes it a lot easier and a lot.
Speaker 5: Easy because them kids is definitely a mental break for you.
Speaker 5: As well. He definitely bring another kind of energy, you know,
Speaker 5: that's that's that's free minds, that's fresh mindsets, because that's
Speaker 5: new smiles. So your children, you're looking at him, You're like, wow,
Speaker 5: he's my broke best friends. He's my broke best friend, so.
Speaker 6: I gotta really like yeah, I mean and in the end,
Speaker 6: you're doing it for them, right, So like anytime you
Speaker 6: feel tired, this is like, you know what I can't
Speaker 6: be tell because I know what the future holds for
Speaker 6: him and I know what the future holds for her.
Speaker 6: We're just gonna make this easier for them, you know.
Speaker 2: But it's also about overcoming adversity and taking imperfect action
Speaker 2: like Max Maxwell setting. It's like, the thing I like
Speaker 2: about your story is that it's real and it's not perfect,
Speaker 2: and that's that's the beauty of it, because it's like
Speaker 2: in life, nobody's ever perfect, right, And it's like for you,
Speaker 2: like you said, you had to google what a father Like,
Speaker 2: that's real, Like that's a real it's an honest no,
Speaker 2: but it's really because you figure you google everything if
Speaker 2: you don't know, if you don't know what the answer is,
Speaker 2: you google.
Speaker 5: It because you don't want guessing. And you know, I
Speaker 5: look at the man that was in my life. It
Speaker 5: was some great ones did, but I wasn't really consistent
Speaker 5: to learn from. I really couldn't. I really couldn't relate.
Speaker 5: I can relate to him from certain things that he
Speaker 5: was doing, but I took peace by piece because I
Speaker 5: had to still survive. So I was still in a
Speaker 5: survival setting as well. Like, oh he on a restaurant,
Speaker 5: he's doing this. Oh while he on a barber shop,
Speaker 5: he on a mechanic shot. Yeah, but they had employees already.
Speaker 5: I was too young to work, so I had to
Speaker 5: get on the trap.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Nippy said that man. He said, it's tough to
Speaker 6: thrive on. Yeah, And so as soon as you come
Speaker 6: out of survival mode, you're gonna learn you.
Speaker 5: Can get times to eat. You don't even eat, you know,
Speaker 5: I was. I was skinnier. That's why I say never
Speaker 5: trust a skinny chef, because when I was in that
Speaker 5: grind mold, it wasn't no eating. Had to survive. I
Speaker 5: really had to get in the churches. I really had
Speaker 5: to make it, do with it.
Speaker 1: Do.
Speaker 5: I really had to, like, you know, take it. Then
Speaker 5: I'm getting my young lady pregnant. We're both nineteen. She eighteen.
Speaker 5: It's a new born baby, right, bring a new life
Speaker 5: into the atmosphere of the world. I had to get
Speaker 5: on my grind. It wasn't no little boy, you're not
Speaker 5: little art no more. You're not you know, you becoming
Speaker 5: a man, but you're gonna grow. So I made two goals.
Speaker 5: Won to build generational wealth. I want to prepare my
Speaker 5: death for my family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like it's like when I said, he's like,
Speaker 2: I wrapped the billions of queens Bridge, and that line
Speaker 2: is so dope to me because it's like, I have
Speaker 2: to see queens Bridges is a project. So it's like
Speaker 2: when he said I wrapped the brilliance of Queensbridge. It's
Speaker 2: like you don't necessarily say public housing and brilliant. But
Speaker 2: I think like his line, like you're living example of
Speaker 2: his line because it's like, without knowing it, you've shown brilliance.
Speaker 2: Like as far as you had the ghost restaurant, you
Speaker 2: just doing it. You don't know that's a ghost restaurant.
Speaker 2: You start the dance moveing, or you'll know that that's market.
Speaker 2: You start the restaurant out of your house. You just
Speaker 2: cooking food, you don't know that you're actually starting a
Speaker 2: real business.
Speaker 5: And also you know I'm saving lives or employment, that's
Speaker 5: a fact. You know, I'm really saving young lives du employment.
Speaker 5: I'm giving back to the community. These kids in Survival
Speaker 5: more got to take care the little sister, got to
Speaker 5: take care of the mother. And I'm really like, wow,
Speaker 5: they actually paying rent at wage seventeen fifteen sixteen what
Speaker 5: you can't even get a workman and you're paying bills.
Speaker 2: Nah, it's a real story in something like I said,
Speaker 2: the thing were legions that we try to highlight different stories,
Speaker 2: but it's important to highlight stories like this because it's
Speaker 2: like talking about young entrepreneurs and it's like you're already
Speaker 2: succeeding with very little resources. So it's like yeah, so
Speaker 2: it's like you're gonna get to where you need to
Speaker 2: go regardless, because that's just God's plan. But it's like
Speaker 2: what if what if you grew up in a in
Speaker 2: a middle class neighborhood, you might be the CEO of
Speaker 2: PEPSI right now say, because you're already brilliant. But at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, like I said, it's all
Speaker 2: part of the plan, So you gonna get there regardless.
Speaker 2: And I like what you said as far as the
Speaker 2: family too, because it's like that happens. See, this is
Speaker 2: something that it's not just you. We look at the
Speaker 2: forest list, you see half of the CEOs is divorced.
Speaker 2: I read phild Night's book. He was like, the biggest
Speaker 2: regret is that he wasn't there for his kids. Because
Speaker 2: it's like when you running a business on small or
Speaker 2: large level entrepreneur, a lot of times you can that
Speaker 2: can consume your life. And it's something that, like I
Speaker 2: said that, on a high level, small level people people
Speaker 2: struggle with that all the time. So it's like it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter if you run a fortune five hundred company
Speaker 2: or BODEGGA balance is something that everybody has to come.
Speaker 5: And catch the little when you go out to eat
Speaker 5: by yourself and you're going to eat with a friend,
Speaker 5: catch some little side conversations that people having with the balltender.
Speaker 5: So I actually learned how to get my kids three
Speaker 5: days out the week because I learned I heard from
Speaker 5: this man he was talking to you. I was in
Speaker 5: Ruth Chris, and he was talking to the bartender. He
Speaker 5: was like, yeah, so I don't get my daughter anymore
Speaker 5: only get a two days out the week. It used
Speaker 5: to be three. Man, I'm in a I'm over here
Speaker 5: eating my food, Like that's a good idea. I don't
Speaker 5: get them at all. I'm like, you know what, I'm
Speaker 5: calling my child mother. Hey, hey, I'm gonna start getting
Speaker 5: the kids three days out the week. Okay, where that
Speaker 5: comes from?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 5: I learned that. You hear me, I'm coming to get them.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna start getting them, all right, what your days is,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna figure that out. I was just start coming
Speaker 5: to get him three days out the week, all right.
Speaker 5: So we just went from there and I started getting.
Speaker 2: Them on the fly. And like I said, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's commendable because it's like how many people could
Speaker 2: survive in that situation of not even growing up with
Speaker 2: parents and like you know, literally being on your own
Speaker 2: at six years old. Like so it's like it's like
Speaker 2: it's like you're learning life on a fly, and it's
Speaker 2: really encouraging to even see a young entrepreneur Like when
Speaker 2: we saw you in Baltimore, it's like that's dope, like
Speaker 2: that you actually came to GC.
Speaker 3: And out of my man l, Man, my man L
Speaker 3: is like come on, he said, I bought the tickets.
Speaker 3: He said, well, we're going. Don't worry, you're going.
Speaker 2: But that's one of the dope things are It's like
Speaker 2: a business who who would have thought somebody like be
Speaker 2: listening to a business podcast, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's like we're with the street. Like it's a really
Speaker 2: dope situation because it's something that it's like people always
Speaker 2: you present people with with a better way, and they'll
Speaker 2: they'll go that way. Nine times out of ten the person.
Speaker 2: A lot of people will go that way. Some people won't,
Speaker 2: but a lot of people will go that way. But
Speaker 2: they have to be presented with it. They have to
Speaker 2: be shown it.
Speaker 6: And how many people are giving you the option or
Speaker 6: the opportunity to have a platform to say the story?
Speaker 3: Your story was uplifting? Your energy.
Speaker 6: I mean people, I mean Baltimore know your energy, but
Speaker 6: like the world going to see your energy after this.
Speaker 6: But your energy was so infectious. It's just like yo,
Speaker 6: this kid is a star.
Speaker 5: So they star power man like that star power seriously,
Speaker 5: like my mother time it was raining, you know, they
Speaker 5: shoot a movie in Baltimore. Shout out to meat Males
Speaker 5: and chaino. So they shooting a movie in Baltimore, Chalm
Speaker 5: City Kings produced by Will Smith and others. So they
Speaker 5: shoot a movie in Baltimore. So a friend of mine's
Speaker 5: come up there. Young Moose actually met meet Miles out
Speaker 5: of Young Moose. We camp there earlier with Sonny. Then
Speaker 5: I linked with the people that you know, you got
Speaker 5: the little side, people that feed everybody and things like
Speaker 5: what y'all got up here? What y'all got to eat?
Speaker 5: What y'all serving. It's like we just got little snacks, like,
Speaker 5: you know, chips and things that nature. I'm like, now
Speaker 5: y'all feed these people chips. These stars really eating chips
Speaker 5: and carrots. That said, man, I got something man. So
Speaker 5: the deal on the they had the food truck, the
Speaker 5: food did the food thing. He had a budget for food.
Speaker 5: So by me talking to me like, look, I got
Speaker 5: this budget, bring this amount of wraps up, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: say less, say less. So I went to my storefront.
Speaker 5: I got some wraps. It was pulling down dinner store raining,
Speaker 5: So tell coffee, come on. So I'm I'm feeding everybody.
Speaker 5: You know, I got the budget already. I'm feeding everybody.
Speaker 5: Had had two bags left. I had two bags for
Speaker 5: the raps like, so I'm walking see meat, I'm like meat,
Speaker 5: you hungry? Like what you got? Sam Man? I got
Speaker 5: chicken and shrimp rap beef and shrimp wrap? He like,
Speaker 5: give me the chicken and shrimp junt. So I gave
Speaker 5: him that one and were walking off. He's like, no,
Speaker 5: come get a picture like no record because he had
Speaker 5: his little outfit on no record. So Coffee took the
Speaker 5: picture for us and things that nature. It was raining,
Speaker 5: so we got ab out of there for real. The
Speaker 5: next day, ten am, I got a DM for Chino.
Speaker 5: Chino like me needs some bangers. Meet want bangers. So
Speaker 5: after meat meals again.
Speaker 2: You know what you know?
Speaker 5: Yeah that's my guy. Yeah, I grew up with Chino
Speaker 5: as well. So Chino hit like yo, meet me bangers.
Speaker 5: Said what okay, I'll hit you what I get. I'm
Speaker 5: on my way, you feel me? So that was definitely
Speaker 5: a milestone for me, feeding that guy, you know, feeding
Speaker 5: that good brother, and that made me my respect level
Speaker 5: so much more for him. And definitely reading his document
Speaker 5: like watching his documentary on Amazon made me cry, definitely
Speaker 5: made me shed tears, Definitely made me respect him as
Speaker 5: a human being so much and just understanding from the
Speaker 5: poverty and where I come from and how I grew
Speaker 5: up and understanding like the reform situation he's doing now
Speaker 5: for the world. It really whooked me up, woked me up.
Speaker 5: And when he ate that Nacho Banga twice, man, what
Speaker 5: you couldn't tell me nothing? One bite tastes like love.
Speaker 5: Y'all all at one bike.
Speaker 2: To our second Meat Mills story on the podcast. We
Speaker 2: gotta get meet on a good brothers for sure, for sure,
Speaker 2: so not your man. It was a pleasure. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Can you tell people your social media handles how to contact.
Speaker 5: You, how to contact Google? You can google na Cho Bangers,
Speaker 5: n A C h O b A, n G E
Speaker 5: r R s everything, pop up, videos, images, everything. Also
Speaker 5: follow me on Instagram at d I n Z y
Speaker 5: k I l A Linsey Killer, not Cho Bangers, Cuffee Sauce.
Speaker 5: That's all you have to do. You're gonna find us
Speaker 5: right there on all platforms.
Speaker 2: What's your spot? What's your spot?
Speaker 5: Twenty four twenty East Monument Street, Baltimore and Maryland. Make
Speaker 5: sure y'all stop there. If you're in Bostimole. What you're
Speaker 5: there for, what you're coming for? What connections you make
Speaker 5: make sure you come to the banger spot where one
Speaker 5: bite tastes like love.
Speaker 3: They're coming, they coming.
Speaker 2: Never trust a skinny.
Speaker 3: Chef, never ever, ever, ever, ever trust a skinny chef.
Speaker 2: Y'all are troy some housekeeping it on.
Speaker 5: And look, let me tell you all this though some
Speaker 5: of them goes restaurants and grew up habing door. Desh
Speaker 5: it be me.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Cho. No, we got a new name.
Speaker 3: Here we be Notcho.
Speaker 5: Yeah, here we be Nacho. So when I came up,
Speaker 5: that's the ar your ego name of me. I'm watching
Speaker 5: the Huie P. Newton story and I was like, Wow,
Speaker 5: this man was legend. So I'm like, my name is Hue.
Speaker 5: Now Here we be Nacho. So is Hue bang a
Speaker 5: Nacho man?
Speaker 6: Shout out to who Hui be Notcho man, And shout
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Speaker 2: I appreciate the book tip of this week. We got
Speaker 2: two books. The first book is Extreme Ownership by Jack
Speaker 2: O will Nick and the second book.
Speaker 5: Is How to Get Rich How to Get Rich Real
Speaker 5: Quick Dummy by a meanie Isaiah. She's from Baltimore, Maryland
Speaker 5: as well. Make sure I check out shout out to
Speaker 5: Baltimore man. You know we got bottomore.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of times and be more for sure.
Speaker 2: So all right, guys, thank you for rocking with us.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next week. Piece.
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