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Chuck Sillari

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
174 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

We put in some TVs, put in some draft bail lines, and that's really all we had to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

But the second location was,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

was a complete build-out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

It was an old, dilapidated convenience store right on Boylston Street in Boston on the campus of the Berklee College of Music.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

Is that why you did it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

You know, the location really wasn't 10 times better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

Our first location is awesome.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

We just really lucked out with the first location.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

The second location, I knew it had great potential.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

We had somebody that believed in what we were doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

They were willing to put up the money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

And, you know, based on the numbers that we were doing in the first place, we knew that it could sustain that type of investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

The first location, so if we're going, so I'll tell you right now, first year that we opened, we were doing maybe 700 grand out of a little tiny space in the first location.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

That was gross.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

That was gross.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

But you got to keep in mind, the place is tiny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

Per square foot, those numbers were like unheard of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

And now that same location.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

About 450 square feet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 521: $5.5M Burger Business, Gets Into Monthly Subscriptions with BurgaBox CEO Chuck Sillari

Okay, got it.