1 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: What epics way up. But Angela ye, I'm Angela yee. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: Jasmine Brand is here, My guy dj Nor is here. 3 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 2: That's right, like I should be. 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,159 Speaker 1: And we have the owners, the founders of Cocomo and 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: Brooklyn and I know y'all hearing me talk about Cocomo 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: all the time. But keV and Ria are here, welcome, 7 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: thank you for having you. And they are by the way. 8 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,600 Speaker 1: I just want to put this out there. They are married, Okay. 9 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,599 Speaker 1: They are a couple of running a business together, which 10 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: in itself is a job you know. 11 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 3: You deserve like a prize or an award. 12 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: I made both of them some espessials. I want to say, 13 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: keV is ahead, yes, drinking. 14 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 3: To it, and I will say, Ange your your your 15 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 3: situations that you make are a little on the strong side. 16 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 4: You to agree, but they are. 17 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 2: Yes, it's. 18 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 5: Strong, but it is. 19 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: So let's talk about it though, because Kokomo, I feel 20 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: like when you guys first open, I actually during the pandemic, 21 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: because y'all did open during the pandemic, which we'll discuss. 22 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: The first time we went there was with Michael Kay 23 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: Williams yep. And we actually filmed something there with Michael 24 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: Kay Williams and it was about police relationships with the community, 25 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: and so there was some young women there because I 26 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: think a lot of people don't talk about the young 27 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: black women who have to interact with the police. And 28 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 1: it was a great open conversation that he actually initiated, 29 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: and he kept being like, Angela, when are you available. 30 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: We're going to do this around your schedule. So let's 31 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 1: talk about you guys opening during the pandemic and how 32 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: difficult that was. 33 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 6: Yes, it was unexpected. 34 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 7: I mean everyone would say that, but it's like we 35 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 7: planned on opening probably March thirtieth, and then we found 36 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 7: out probably like second week in March that the whole 37 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 7: world was about to shut down. 38 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: Because I'll never forget March thirteen, three one three day, 39 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: I was in thet trade and. 40 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 4: I think I hit you like, hey, are you gonna 41 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 4: be able to get back? Like, I don't know if 42 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 4: you're gonna be able to go out. 43 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:04,919 Speaker 5: None of us knew what was about to happen. 44 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 7: Yeah, So it was a real crazy time for us 45 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 7: because number one, I was nine months pregnant as well. 46 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 7: Number two, it was our first business that we poured 47 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 7: everything into, like we just knew it was. It was 48 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 7: gonna work. And then when we got that message, it 49 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 7: was kind of like it was. 50 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 8: Kind of a time to like panic a little bit, 51 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 8: but a little we just we actually set a panic 52 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 8: and we kind of went to prayer a lot more. 53 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 8: You know, we're very goottly people, god fearing people, so 54 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 8: we kind of went to prayer and it was like, 55 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 8: we just gonna pray through this. We don't stay prayed 56 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 8: up and I ain't on front rida. It was definitely 57 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 8: the leader on the prayer, you know what I'm saying. 58 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 8: But I don't really worry a lot about things. I 59 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 8: kind of like feel like if I put the muscle 60 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 8: into it, it's gonna work. 61 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 2: But with the prayer and the muscle and. 62 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 8: The hard work that we just kind of like put towards, 63 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 8: it was like, you know, COVID is gonna happen, but 64 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 8: we still gonna do what. 65 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 2: We gotta do. 66 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 7: But I would say, I feel like he's given the 67 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 7: the what's it called the version? 68 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, because it was Yeah, not only was it COVID, 69 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: but you guys were in a location in Williamsburg, and 70 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 1: if you know Brooklyn, you know Williamsburg does not have 71 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: no Caribbean restaurants at all, and that was a location 72 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: where a lot of businesses have been there prior to 73 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: you guys, and they did not work. 74 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 6: They did not work. 75 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 7: But then to add on to that, I was gonna say, 76 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 7: the whole George Floyd thing was happening at the same time, 77 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 7: so it was like a lot and we were about 78 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 7: to have our first son, like it was, Yeah. 79 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: There was a lot of mental health going on at 80 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 2: that time. I do remember that. I do remember times 81 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 2: on breaking down when we. 82 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 6: Were on he was crying throughout the whole labor and 83 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 6: I was like, are you crying? 84 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 2: Because I didn't know. 85 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 8: What was going on with me at that time, and 86 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 8: I realized that after I had put a post on 87 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 8: social media. I wrote like three pages about it on 88 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 8: social media about just kind of recognizing that this mental 89 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 8: health shit is real and just trying to be visible 90 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 8: and vulnerable to everybody else to be like it's okay, 91 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying. So at that time, with 92 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 8: the restaurant and the black rights movement, Black Lives Matters, 93 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,839 Speaker 8: and then just COVID and everything is happening and having 94 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 8: my first son all that once, I was just there, 95 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 8: like I remember holding my son on the staircase and 96 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 8: just crying. Ria came out through him like what's and 97 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 8: I'm like, I don't know. 98 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 2: But he. 99 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:18,280 Speaker 9: Can. 100 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 4: I ask what's your background? 101 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 3: What will allow you to prepare for going into business 102 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 3: to a restaurant business, which is really. 103 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, because I know keV as a chef just basically 104 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: certain dinners that I've been at, hosted, been honored at, 105 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: You've been the head chef for those. 106 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 2: I know him as a promoter. Yeah, so we all. 107 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 5: Having a background in marketing for restaurants. 108 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 8: Marketing, Yeah, the chef life was something I got into 109 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 8: from We started off doing nightlight promotions, which you know, 110 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 8: and then we kind of started, you know, night life 111 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 8: was kind of up and down, you know what I'm saying. 112 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 8: So we wanted to kind of come back in a 113 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 8: game with something new. So we started cooking our own 114 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 8: food and figuring out like, you know, people love food 115 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 8: and people love the party. So we jump back and 116 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 8: jumped on that day party wave early and then we 117 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 8: were like, you know what, We're going to switch this 118 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 8: whole thing around and just give people all different types 119 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 8: of Caribbean food and just mix it with everything and 120 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 8: just infuse everything and that's kind of how I got 121 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 8: in the kitchen and I got started hosting parties, so 122 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 8: you know, mostly like the main host. And you know, 123 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 8: I got to give props to my boy Omar. He 124 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 8: was the main chef, but he taught me a lot 125 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 8: of color and every stuff I know to this day, 126 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 8: so you know, I got to pay homage to that 127 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 8: in that relationship. 128 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: And Omar owns the rest of our Omar's kitchens that 129 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: you guys frequent also, so that's Dopean it's in Manhattan downtown, 130 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 1: the number that we both the number one spots in 131 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: New York City's. 132 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 5: Yeah. 133 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: And even in your downtime, I seen you promote Omar's kitchen. 134 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 8: Oh yeah, man, I always love you, know what I'm saying. 135 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 8: We got to you gotta remember where you come from, 136 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying. So I always people try 137 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 8: to divide us all the time and try to start 138 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 8: things between us. But you know we sort of loved 139 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 8: like yo, come by me, go by Omar. 140 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 141 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 5: No part to get a reservation, as you know. 142 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 3: So that's if you know Angela, you can you can 143 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 3: try to hit her to get a reservation in your 144 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 3: and I will say this, Kevi. 145 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 5: Don't always hit back right away because I'll be like, hey, I. 146 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: Was gonna come there, because I also don't like to 147 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: pop up at places. But I do appreciate the fact 148 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 1: that people will hit me up. Somebody just hit me 149 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: now about reservations, and if I can make it happen 150 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: like I will. Is that annoying when people you know. 151 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 8: I'm gonna I'm gonna be honest for certain people like yourself, 152 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 8: I'm gonna keeping a huntre real. It's not annoying, you 153 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 8: know what I'm saying, because we go back. You know 154 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 8: what I'm saying, You go back to the start of mind. 155 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 3: And I don't be like you don't like to make 156 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 3: a big fuss because we went last time and you 157 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 3: didn't even tell me we were coming. 158 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 6: Yeah. 159 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:46,360 Speaker 1: I sometimes if it's like super early, I came right 160 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,159 Speaker 1: when it was opening, sounds like we should be fine 161 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: at that time. But if it's like you know, Sunday brunch, 162 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 1: I might be like, hey. 163 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 2: A lot of people do it. 164 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 8: A lot of people go there and say that you know, 165 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,080 Speaker 8: we we we know Kevin Ria and you know, we 166 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 8: here for reservation and they didn't even speak to us, 167 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 8: and so you know, my staff gets little annoyed because 168 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 8: they call us like fake celebrities and stuff like that Hollywood, 169 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 8: and I'm like, nah, it's not like that. But you know, 170 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 8: when you own a restaurant and you know people know you, 171 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 8: and you know you put the you made those connections 172 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 8: and you built those relationships, there's times when you have 173 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 8: to accommodate people. So you know, I love it because 174 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 8: there's other places that are not getting phone calls. 175 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, you got to make that phone call because 176 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 5: you may not. 177 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: You guys, you know, being married and like you said, 178 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: you were pregnant nine months pregnant when the restaurant opened, 179 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: all right, So for you just being a mom and 180 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: having to deal with that and you can't be off 181 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: when it comes to working and owning a restaurant. 182 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 5: So what was that experience like for you? 183 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of women that call in and 184 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: they're like, look, I have a family, I have a baby. 185 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: I don't know how I can go back to work. 186 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: What was that experience like for you? 187 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 7: Well, I mean that's kind of why I chose this 188 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 7: route because I didn't want that kind of pressure. 189 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 6: And it hits different when. 190 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 7: You know you're working for your own you're working for 191 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 7: your own family. You're doing it to build that, to 192 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 7: build that generational wealth. So the motivation is different. So 193 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 7: I didn't need an alarm clock to get up to 194 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 7: this day, I don't need alarm clocks to get up. 195 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 7: I get up five thirty, six thirty. I'm up because 196 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 7: I know the goals. I know what I'm working for. 197 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 7: So even when it when it gets hard and I'm like, damn, 198 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 7: like I'm tired, like I'm seriously tired, I get up. 199 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 6: There's no choice. I have three kids, three mouths to feed. 200 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 5: How do you have did that back to back to 201 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 5: back back out there? Their son? 202 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, they're little, little there's another one. 203 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 2: Three. The three was hard. 204 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 3: Man, I manage having keeping your relationship together and then 205 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 3: also working together. 206 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 5: She said that he gets nerves. 207 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 2: We're just probably getting each other's nerves the whole way here. 208 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 2: But you know what I mean. 209 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 8: But I mean, like we love each other. You know 210 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 8: I'm saying, we know what the like we said, we 211 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 8: know what the goal is. We know we're doing this 212 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 8: for our kids, and we know we're doing this to 213 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 8: this is this is this page one of our story. 214 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 215 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 8: There's many more things to expect from us, you know, 216 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 8: many more things that we're working on. So I mean 217 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,839 Speaker 8: hopefully those things will you know, be you see those 218 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 8: things in the future and we speak those into fruition 219 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 8: and everybody will see what the hard work is for. 220 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying. Because we work hard, you 221 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 8: know what I'm saying. But at the end of the day, 222 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 8: we know it's worth it, right, and the little the 223 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 8: little bickering and things that we have, we go to 224 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 8: bed at night, we pray every morning. We pray together 225 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 8: at nighttime. You know what I'm saying. We know that 226 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 8: if we're mad, it's just it's a part of a relationship, 227 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 8: like if you, if you, it's a part of. 228 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 2: The journey, you know. 229 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 1: And finances are so important in a relationship. Now people 230 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 1: also think I'm gonna open this restaurant, I'm gonna make 231 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: some money right away. How long does it take because 232 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: they always say in a business it takes like three 233 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: years before you turn a pack. Even just from the decor. 234 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: You know, you guys have amazing like candeliers, wall paper. 235 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 5: It's a beautiful space. 236 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: And I can tell you guys put a lot of 237 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: money into it, but that also means it takes a 238 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: long time to return to profit. So when you guys 239 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 1: think about that, right, have you turned a profit yet? 240 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: Have you turned that corner yet? Or is it still 241 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:17,680 Speaker 1: like a work in progress, because sometimes people think it's 242 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: packed all the time. I can't even get a reservation. 243 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: They got money m hm. 244 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 6: I mean I would say we have. 245 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 7: However, we decided to do that business model where you 246 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:30,479 Speaker 7: just throw it back into the business. 247 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 5: You can't pay yourself. 248 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,199 Speaker 1: You got to pay everybody else before you get paid exactly. 249 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 7: And not only that, we want to grow, We want 250 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 7: to expand. Like we just opened ox. 251 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 5: Kale and we plan that's a takeout place. 252 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's starting to take out. 253 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 4: What's ox kill? Tell us what's what's what's the cuisine? 254 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: Because when I tell people ox kill, like you mean 255 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: call yeah, it's solid with me, solid salad kill salad 256 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: with ox I. 257 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 6: Mean here we have that, got. 258 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 2: It? It's on the menu. It is. 259 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,560 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's Caribbean food, but it's a cleaner take on 260 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 7: it because in the Caribbean culture, we use a lot 261 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 7: of fatty stuff that makes the food taste good, but 262 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 7: it's affecting our bodies in other ways. 263 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 6: We didn't want to. 264 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,440 Speaker 7: Continue to perpetuate that whole, you know, unhealthy eating, so 265 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 7: we decided to come up with the concept that still 266 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 7: has all the good flavor, but cutting out a lot 267 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 7: of the oils and the fats that we typically find 268 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 7: in Caribbean food. Hence the name ox kille. You still 269 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 7: get the flavor of the ox, but you got a cut. 270 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 4: Around the corner and carry out. 271 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 8: And I want to say two more things on that. 272 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 8: So Ria came up with that menu. She worked directly 273 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 8: with our chef. They you know, they did they thing 274 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 8: on that. I was very proud of Rhea when she 275 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,839 Speaker 8: she came like, this is the whole May like, wow, this. 276 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 2: Is amazing, exactly like this is my chef. My chef 277 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 2: brought it to life. 278 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 8: We fly out to Trinidad to get some more insight 279 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 8: on the culture that the chef candre for that for sure, 280 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 8: and one of the one of the most important things 281 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 8: about We have this new innovation with this giro. So 282 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 8: it's like a gyro and a rosy combined together. So 283 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 8: that's really good. So we're doing that with Land. We're doing. 284 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 3: Like Postmates and and ubers and stuff. Yet for that location. 285 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 5: And you know what else I do with those apps? 286 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,079 Speaker 1: I see where it's cheapest, because sometimes it's a different 287 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 1: price depending on which I'm so cheap, I go on 288 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: all the. 289 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 5: Cheaper hair so we can absolutely yeah, no, absolutely, all right. 290 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: So I want to also talk about the black parties 291 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: that you guys have. Yeah, so tell me how that 292 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: all started, because like you're from your origins, your Jamaica, 293 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: all right for you? 294 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 5: And Grenador? 295 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 8: Right? 296 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 5: Is that correct? Panama over here? All right? Master over here, 297 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:10,319 Speaker 5: omaha over here. 298 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 7: No, let's not do that. 299 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 4: Who has better food Jamaica? 300 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,559 Speaker 2: I don't know what would you what? 301 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 5: You say? 302 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 2: You had the dangerous? 303 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 5: Different? 304 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, have more, they got more rioty, but we. 305 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 4: Still who has the better flavors? Though? It is okay? 306 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 2: All I think that. 307 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 6: Absolutely you guys. 308 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 2: I'm gonna say this, what we do, we do the 309 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 2: best and nobody can say listen, they can't. 310 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,119 Speaker 9: We go like me for Trinidad is like the doubles 311 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 9: and the road like that, right, But then when it 312 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 9: comes to Jamaica, the jerk chicken chicken. So like you 313 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 9: both have great food, we do like I'm not gonna override. 314 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 2: Jamaica stewed chicken for Trinidad. I'm not going to Trinidad 315 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 2: and order jerk chicken like I'm not gonna do that. 316 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get courried. 317 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 6: Yeah. 318 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 2: It's all because they both got great. 319 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 5: Food, make good job. 320 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 9: I don't even you never went to a Jamaican restaurant 321 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 9: and got a roadie, That's what I'm saying. 322 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 4: Never she said that I never will, and. 323 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 6: That's the where you need to go for certain make 324 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 6: Jamaican food y, not like how we mean. 325 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: But that's what's beautiful about saying the owners of Negrilla Trinity. 326 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, but. 327 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 3: They have origins and both places. Is the best of 328 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 3: both worlds for your restaurant. 329 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: Carry out this flat bread. 330 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 5: By the way, let's talk about the flat bread. 331 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, the flatbreads are something that we were when 332 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 8: we first opened a restaurant. We saw the oven there, 333 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 8: we me and me and it was like, how can 334 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 8: we put dishes on these flat breads? And I was like, 335 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 8: I want to really put things that I grew up 336 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 8: eating on the flat breads, like the aki. I never 337 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 8: seen it on the flatbread before. Kyler Lou rosta pasta 338 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 8: flat bread flatbread. There's only one place in brook and 339 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 8: you can get that, all right, not the other place. 340 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 5: That's where I go. 341 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: I get the pasta flat bread all the time as 342 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: an appetizer and we share. 343 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 5: It and then we order our dishes. 344 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,359 Speaker 2: But you gotta. 345 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 4: Go get no maino for not have ever gone to 346 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 4: your restaurant? 347 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that you ask me where should I 348 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: go eat you guys? Cocomo is always on the list 349 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: because I think other than just the food being. 350 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 5: Great, it's also a vibe. 351 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: Yes, you know, and I think that's important, is the 352 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: vibe that people can feel when they come to a restaurant. 353 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: The music is lit, the whole feel of it. It's 354 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: a beautiful space to be in. The service is amazing. 355 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 1: All of those things are not an easy atmosphere to. 356 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 7: Create, correct And that kind of brings us back to 357 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 7: the block party. 358 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, so talk about the Black party, because when I 359 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: tell you that Black Party, no, I've only so I'm 360 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: always there like on other days because for some reason, 361 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: I'm never here on the weekend. But I'm always like, 362 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: I got to make it to the Black Party Sunday 363 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: or it's on Monday. 364 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 8: It's we do a Memorial Day Monday and Labor Day Monday. 365 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 8: So we just like everything else we do. Like when 366 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 8: we open this restaurant, people told it's not to open 367 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 8: it on on Kent app because no one was gonna 368 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 8: come down there. 369 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 5: It's Williams FA, but like all the way. 370 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 8: Down and nobody wants Caribbean food. We were told not 371 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 8: to do the block party because it was on Labor 372 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 8: Day and it's violence and violence and you know, no 373 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 8: one was gonna come because of the Eastern Parkway and 374 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 8: things like that. But we've been able to bring a 375 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 8: vibe that was very much needed in the neighborhood. It's 376 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 8: something new, something new for the culture. And I think 377 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 8: a lot of times we try to as you know, 378 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 8: I'm gonna say urban people with black people, you know 379 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 8: what I'm saying. We try to say we try to 380 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 8: take down one thing to make something else bigger. 381 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 2: No, you can have Eastern Parkway. 382 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 8: There's a crowd for that, and there's people for that, 383 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 8: but you still come a Cokemon block party and we're 384 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,200 Speaker 8: still gonna thrive, and they're gonna thrive. We're gonna thrive together, 385 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying. So it's just like kind 386 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 8: of understanding that everybody can win. But the block party 387 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 8: is such an amazing vibe. You know, people coming there 388 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 8: with their kids. The restaurants open, you can get food inside. 389 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 8: You know, we have drinks outside food. We're doing jerk 390 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,439 Speaker 8: chicken on the grill. So we bring that culture back. 391 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 8: We bring we got the jerk poor, we got roa 392 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 8: tea outside. We did rotea last year. I mean this 393 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 8: past on Memorial Day. So it's it's it's the best 394 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 8: space for everybody to come to as a family and 395 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 8: still have an amazing vibe. 396 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 2: Like people are dancing. 397 00:17:48,640 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 8: It's like dance all the She already put me. 398 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 2: For Memorial and I'm there next year. 399 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 4: And coming to home. 400 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 3: You know. 401 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 8: We even had a double Dutch contest, the last one, 402 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 8: the one last year, but I want to say for 403 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 8: the one this year. 404 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 2: Sorry if I'm talking to Launerie. 405 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 8: The the one that we just did Memorial Day was 406 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 8: seven thousand people. We had seventeen thousand rps. We have 407 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 8: to turn it off and people were like DM and. 408 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 5: And we still it's amazing. 409 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: Made no fight as this because that is a very 410 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: white neighborhood. I don't know another way to say it, 411 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 1: but it's a very. 412 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 5: Did it used to be like that, but it's. 413 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: Neighborhood and so as far as your customer base and 414 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: people do they have issues with all these you know, 415 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 1: black people come in and come to cook them up, 416 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 1: but then a lot of white people are there also. 417 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,239 Speaker 5: Tell me what that's like, because that's also something that 418 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 5: you have to think about. 419 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 6: I think we only have one annoying neighbor. 420 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 5: That trust me. I know. 421 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 7: It literally calls thirty times in order to get it 422 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 7: shut down. 423 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,719 Speaker 6: But the police precinct, they really they love us. 424 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 3: You have a relationship with the police Ala you were 425 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 3: talking about earlier where. 426 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 2: We Yeah, the police. 427 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,359 Speaker 8: I definitely made a connection with Michael k and we've 428 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 8: always supported everything that the police have been doing in 429 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 8: the neighbor But I want to say the police ninety 430 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 8: four shout out to them and. 431 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 5: You know what it is. 432 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 8: It is, I know it is, but they embraced us. 433 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:28,680 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 434 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 8: They embraced us, and it was actually this community. I've 435 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 8: gone to other boroughs and I've seen how the police 436 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 8: deal with people in this in Williamsburg, I don't see 437 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 8: that we've had peaceful protests in the neighborhood. The cops 438 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 8: are kind of like directing you on which way to go, 439 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 8: asking you nicely, so you know what I'm saying. I 440 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 8: definitely think the NYPG used to take a page out 441 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 8: of Prect ninety four's book on playbook on. 442 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 2: How to deal with people in the community because they 443 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 2: do it well. 444 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 1: And even you guys bringing Caribbean culture into Williamsburg. What 445 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: is that like for the residents there, because, like I said, 446 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:58,919 Speaker 1: it is a very white neighborhood. 447 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 7: They've been reset Yeah, and I mean we can use 448 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 7: the block party as an example again, because let's be clear, 449 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 7: it's seven thousand people and probably ninety five percent are 450 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 7: black people in the middle of this affluent white neighborhood. 451 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 7: And most of them come by, they spectate, they enjoy 452 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,439 Speaker 7: the food, they are no complaints, and then they're asking 453 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 7: questions about Cocomo. What are the operation hours. They've just 454 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 7: been so receptive to us being there and the only 455 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 7: complaint that they have is that they can't get a reservation. 456 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 5: Yeah. 457 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 8: Cocomo means love, man, It's basically that, well, you know, 458 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 8: cocomo is this basically a representation of unity, love, you know, together, 459 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 8: It's love of culture, love of food, Caribbean love, of people. 460 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, that's what me and Real 461 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 8: represent and it also represents our love story. You know, 462 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 8: I'm saying the journey that we had to take to 463 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 8: get here and just kind of like bringing everything together, 464 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying. 465 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 5: So, oh, what is your love story? 466 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 7: Oh? 467 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 8: Man? 468 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 2: You started now to. 469 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 3: Hear you know there's one version. There's one version's hear 470 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 3: your version? The right for the correct version? 471 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 6: Oh my god, I should stuff. 472 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 4: Okay, you go ahead. You're the talker. 473 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 6: Go ahead, the guy. 474 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 5: Who was in love with me. 475 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that You're closed. 476 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 6: No, he's gonna he's gonna say I'm lying. 477 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 5: So who like to first? 478 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 2: So it's real funny me or we have met twice. 479 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 8: The first time we didn't know we met, but that 480 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 8: was God trying to, you know, point us, to put 481 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 8: us together, but we kind of ignored it. 482 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 2: And we met at stage forty eight. 483 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,479 Speaker 5: Oh I remember that that. It's like I've been there 484 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 5: NIGHTCLUBB nightclub. 485 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 8: Yeah, this is when I was like big time promoting, 486 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 8: trying to take over the city and I did this 487 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 8: annual no Women Black party and whatnot, and. 488 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 2: She was there. She was there because you got invited 489 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 2: by one of the pros. 490 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 8: I was working with co workers and so we were 491 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 8: actually I was actually leaving that night and I saw 492 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 8: Ria in the office upstairs, and she wasn't supposed to 493 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 8: be in the office. 494 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 2: We was like this what we was counting the money 495 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 2: and doing all the business. 496 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 7: I think I should just tell my side. 497 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 6: I threw out, you do it at the office, so 498 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 6: let's be clear. 499 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 5: The office. 500 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 6: The whole gift so much. 501 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 7: Invited to the club by my coworker Mannie Hey Manny, 502 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 7: and I was traveling to Atlanta that same night. I 503 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 7: had early earlier friend had anyways, so I had my 504 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 7: luggage with me and he was like, why don't you 505 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 7: just put it in the office, come back when you're ready, 506 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 7: and you know, it's all good, and I'm like, okay, cool. 507 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 7: So the party is almost done, but I have to 508 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 7: go catch my flight, so I'm like, let me go 509 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,199 Speaker 7: to the room, wait for my taxi to come, and 510 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 7: then i'm a dip. In comes this guy, rude as hell, 511 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 7: sees me sitting there, doesn't even say a word to me, 512 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 7: speaks to the person that is in the room with me, 513 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 7: and goes people. 514 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 3: In his room and I'm like, excuse future wife, that's 515 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 3: your kids that's getting here. 516 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,400 Speaker 7: So he literally kicks me out the room. So I'm 517 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 7: in the middle of stage forty eight dragging my carry 518 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 7: on through the clubs. 519 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 2: So that's when I felt bad. And that's when I 520 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 2: felt bad because I saw I didn't know it. 521 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 6: He didn't come back and get me. 522 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 8: That's why I felt bad. But she had lucky. I 523 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,440 Speaker 8: seen her walking out and it was raining outside. 524 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 6: It was horrible. 525 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 2: The crazy part is the crazy party is I never 526 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:43,400 Speaker 2: looked at her. 527 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 8: I never looked at her face, and so she walked 528 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 8: out the door and I was dead. I was there 529 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 8: with my boy who's a photographer, and he was like, oh, she's. 530 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 2: Hot as hell, and I looked. I was like, oh 531 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 2: ship she was but. 532 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:54,399 Speaker 7: She hot. 533 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 9: Time. 534 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 7: So fast forward, I'm We're at a restaurant, Swede and 535 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 7: he had, Yeah, that's the restaurants to work. We had 536 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 7: this what's it called, uh, We're black History of guest 537 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 7: chef Tasting whatever, and he was a part of Omar's kitchen. 538 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 7: So that was one of the people that we hired. 539 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 7: I knew he was a part of it, and I 540 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 7: was like. 541 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 5: Yo, this that's the guy that kicked exactly. 542 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 7: I'm like, you know what, I keep a professional I'm 543 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,400 Speaker 7: at work. Boom bam boom, Like let's keep it cordial. 544 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 7: So he comes and then I'm like, why you keep 545 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 7: finding every excuse to talk to me because I don't 546 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 7: want to talk to you. 547 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 2: I didn't know what. 548 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 6: She was when you kicked out right, he was on 549 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:41,199 Speaker 6: my body? 550 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 2: Okay, I was, I was. I was. 551 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: You should have seen is that asshole could be a 552 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: future husband? 553 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 4: He was on my body? 554 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 8: So I asked that two days after the event, I 555 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 8: asked that out and you know, she said yes obviously 556 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 8: because we both had three kids later. 557 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 558 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 8: But the crazy part is that she knew about the 559 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 8: situation up until you think. 560 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 2: I think you told me on like a sixth date 561 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 2: or something like. 562 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 4: You didn't say nothing the first day, the first day, 563 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 4: it was. 564 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,919 Speaker 5: Like first day, And what did you think when she 565 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 5: told you? 566 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 8: When she told me on a third date or something 567 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 8: like that, I was like, what the hell are you 568 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,479 Speaker 8: talking about? Because she was like, we met before and 569 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 8: then she told me the situation. 570 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 2: I was like, there's no way that was you. 571 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 4: Did you apologize? 572 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 2: I think I did. 573 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: I'm apologized, now now sorry. 574 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 2: Restaurant. Yeah, I think it was meant to be married 575 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 2: her nine months later? 576 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 5: So now, how did you how did you propose? 577 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 6: I was pregnant? 578 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 8: No, no, well, I proposed that at a restaurant. I 579 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 8: proposed that a restaurant. Kind of it kind of got 580 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 8: hot because everybody it was it was your friend, it 581 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 8: was your cousin's. Yeah, birthday dinner, and then with other 582 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 8: people that just kept showing up that had nothing to 583 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 8: do with her cousin, and I told them to stay 584 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,239 Speaker 8: outside and stay in the back, but kept seeing them 585 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 8: and it was like, what the hell is going on here? 586 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 8: So I ended up on proposing it and had she 587 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 8: They're doing the videography and everything, and that's how I 588 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 8: did it. 589 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 4: What did you you said? Nine months later? When did 590 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 4: you know that she was the one? 591 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 2: Oh? Like the first date, the first date that she 592 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 2: was two hours later? 593 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:22,920 Speaker 5: You were two hours good? 594 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 7: You deserved I didn't want to go, to be honest, 595 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:25,719 Speaker 7: you deserved that. 596 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 4: I loved. 597 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 2: To express number. 598 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 5: I felt like you guys were part of Was it 599 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 5: the Grammys? The gift back? What gift back? 600 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 2: Wasn't the Grammys gift bag? Yeah? That was huge I'm glad. 601 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 8: You're telling me, because I mean we were hoping that 602 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 8: it would be huge and we knew the significance of it. 603 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 8: But a lot of times you just do these things 604 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 8: and you kind of just like invest in the opportunity 605 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 8: and hope to see the feedback. 606 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 2: And I mean things have been flourishing. 607 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 8: We've had a few people come from the Grammys come by, 608 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,320 Speaker 8: and you know that was amazing just to be like 609 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 8: to get that visibility. 610 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: Do they get that with the Grammars that you gotta 611 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: certificate to come to Cocomo? Yeah, And like I said, 612 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: it's always a special place to me because I love 613 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: Michael Kay Williams so much and just the amazing positive things. 614 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: And he was like, we're going to Cocomo and that 615 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:24,920 Speaker 1: was my first time there. 616 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, he told everybody coming. 617 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, he did that. 618 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,919 Speaker 8: And just the under a year he turned into like 619 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 8: my mentor big brother, you know what I'm saying. You know, 620 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 8: he was just like he would call me, text me, 621 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 8: come by the restaurant. We would say outside, have long conversations. 622 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 8: He would pray for me, pray for my family. You 623 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 8: know what I'm saying. He kind of just like brought 624 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 8: everybody to the restaurant and he's like, we got to 625 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 8: support this couple. 626 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. He was an amazing dude. 627 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:48,360 Speaker 7: Man. 628 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 2: I love him to death. I'll never forget the impact 629 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 2: he had on me. 630 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 5: We love Michael. 631 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 3: Kay listen to Angela. Is he passed at Angela? Because 632 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:55,880 Speaker 3: Angela tells everyone about your. 633 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: I came there with Malcolm Mays the day that he 634 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 1: did the service. 635 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 5: That night after he was like, come on, we going 636 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 5: to Kokoma. I said, perfect. 637 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 3: She tells her friends, she tells everybody on the radio. 638 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 3: So this is a beautiful full circle moment. 639 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,959 Speaker 1: No, but honestly, like I love to support, you know, 640 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 1: not just a black owned business, but an amazing business, 641 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 1: but the couple who I feel like is you know, 642 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: I know, we hate to say a couple of goals, 643 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: but the fact that you've been able to raise three 644 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: children in the midst of all this, open a restaurant 645 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 1: in a place that people told you not to open 646 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: it because everything else failed prior to that, during a 647 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: time when everybody told you don't do that. I read 648 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: that you guys went through a depression, you know during 649 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: that time, because it's not easy, but to be flourishing 650 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: the way that you are and. 651 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 5: Running the business. We all know the restaurant business is 652 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 5: one of. 653 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: The hardest absolute places and businesses to succeed in. You know, listen, 654 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: DJ Nori has his Atomic Wings location. 655 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:58,719 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, in Brooklyn. You know, I got my coffee 656 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 5: shop in Brooklyn soon to being Coco. 657 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, I definitely need that coffee a lot 658 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 3: of lift people. 659 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: But I always tell people when you you know, you know, 660 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: make Yeah. 661 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 3: And when she had a little bit too much drink. 662 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 3: She she likes to get behind the bar and like 663 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 3: to be a bar tender. 664 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. 665 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 4: And then she also likes. 666 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 3: To DJ when she's when she's taking it up a level. 667 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 4: Yeah. 668 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:32,719 Speaker 2: I want I want to say one more thing. 669 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 8: I want to make sure on top of what you 670 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 8: just said, I want to make sure I get red 671 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 8: of her flowers. So, like you said, she not months 672 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 8: pregnant opening a restaurant in Brooklyn black owned. You know 673 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 8: what I'm saying, youngest woman to open a restaurant in 674 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 8: that area, first Black woman to open a restaurant in there. 675 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 6: That's true. 676 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 2: No, it is true. It is true. I researched it. 677 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 4: Did you do a deep dive? 678 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 2: DM the DM whatever they want, you know the truth, 679 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. 680 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 8: And to do that while pregnant in COVID, you know 681 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 8: what I'm saying, not knowing where the world was going 682 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 8: to be twenty six when you open the restaurant five 683 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 8: twenty five, twenty five to open her first time entrepreneurs. 684 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 3: She's a mother's super shout out to my mother, definitely, 685 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 3: you know. 686 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 7: What I mean. 687 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 8: I just want to make sure I give the woman 688 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 8: in my life they flowers, and this is the woman 689 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 8: in my life, so she gets the flowers. 690 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: I love this and listen, I'm sure so many people 691 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: have tried to invest too, and you've been very intented 692 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: on making sure this day is black owned. 693 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 7: Yes, we're not only that family owned to family and 694 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 7: keeping in the family for sure. Definitely we have tribe. 695 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 8: Everything that glitters in gold. A lot of people come 696 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 8: to you with different offerings and things like that, and 697 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 8: sometimes we just got to be like we just kind. 698 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 3: Of and that's a blessing that you can walk away 699 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 3: from things that you don't want, like you don't you know, 700 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 3: some people have to take certain things. 701 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 4: You guys can walk away from things that don't make 702 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 4: sense for your business. It's a blessing. 703 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 8: We've been supported in so many ways, supported by Angelaue, 704 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 8: people like yourself, the industry, you know what I'm saying, 705 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 8: and just people that just kind of just love us. 706 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 8: And we both built that type of relationship where people 707 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 8: kind of believe in us and want to support us 708 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 8: because we've been genuine people, you know what I'm saying, 709 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 8: God fearing people, and we kind of just keep it 710 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 8: real and where. 711 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 2: I like to call us. You know, we're nice people. 712 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 8: You know, people like you know what I'm saying, So 713 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,959 Speaker 8: you know, people support us and it's good to have that. 714 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you guys so much for coming 715 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: through it. I appreciate y'all so much that like it's 716 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: a Cocomo type of night. But again, DJ Norris started 717 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: playing games. 718 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 9: Okay, we we we've been supposed to meet long time. 719 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 8: Okay, Wednesday Thursday, man, just pull up on me, man. 720 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 1: And if you want to get some take out ox 721 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,680 Speaker 1: Killed the newest latest venture is the way to go 722 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: because you know, I'm all about healthy, clean eating, so 723 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: I love. 724 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 5: That you guys are doing that too. 725 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 4: Don't come up here with no food next time either. 726 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was seeing that when I went, I was like, dah, 727 00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 2: we should have bought. 728 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 5: Something Patty or nothing. 729 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 2: Flaird. I want to let you know first that we 730 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 2: are opening the steakhouse. 731 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 4: What. 732 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 3: Yes, we opened this lok what area we wasn't really 733 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 3: ready to? 734 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 2: Here's this? Where is this green Point? 735 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 4: Where's green Point Inoklyn? 736 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: Yes, it's near Williamsburg. Yeah, but it's a great place 737 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: to open something because I don't feel like there's a 738 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: yeah when it comes to that, there's a lot of 739 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: other types of restaurants there, but for you to do 740 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: something in green Point is huge. 741 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 7: Yeah, green Point diversity coragulation. 742 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: I like these are destination spots because sometimes it's not 743 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: easy to get people to go out of their comfort 744 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 1: zone of their neighborhood. But to be able to say 745 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: I'm going to Williamsburg, I'm going to green Point, that's huge. 746 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 5: When is that opening next year? 747 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 6: Just let's just say next year. 748 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 3: Was very're talking about it like. 749 00:32:58,360 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 5: Doing the ground opening. 750 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:04,520 Speaker 2: All right, We're stuck with me now. 751 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 5: Thank you so much for coming through. You guys. 752 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: Check out Cocomo n YC. Make sure you guys go there. 753 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 1: Support black owned business. But the food is amazing, So 754 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: throw your diet to the side. It's way up, way up.