Brandon Marshall

So I was like, nah, I can't really rock with it.

So, you know, and I'm gonna just transition into Hattie Marie's, how that happened.

When I was about 13, 14 years old, you know, I was driving to the north side of town with my mom and we drove past a McDonald's and

I looked at that McDonald's and it was a weird feeling.

Something came over me.

I would say it was God because I feel like God speaks to me at different points in my life, at different junctures in my life.

And I literally heard, you're going to own a McDonald's one day.

And I was like, it was pretty strong, you know what I mean?

But obviously I put that to the side, just focus on bar.

But towards the end of my career in Denver, I remember that gut feeling I had.

And I was like, man, maybe I should see what's up with the restaurant industry.

Only because I got that, it was almost like it was like a loud, like God spoke to me in that moment.

And my mom was the one, because one of my best friends, his name is Jawan Thompson, I played with him in Denver, but his family owns this restaurant in Atlanta called Hattie Marie's.

And my mom went and tried it.

She was like, yo, you should check this out.

Maybe you could open this in Vegas.

And I went to try it out, I loved it, because it had barbecue, but it also had seafood, too.

And I'm like, yo, I can get ribs and catfish if I want to.

I can get gumbo, you know what I mean, brisket, mac and cheese.

And I was like, ah, maybe I'll just bring it to Vegas, because I don't think Vegas really got nothing like this.