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Eddie The Rock Star

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402 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

Whereas, of course, in my company, I'm making money. But so is everybody else. Everybody else is getting the share that they work for. And I think that's the best part about the culture that we have is everybody's growing. And if they want to invest money in the company, they open up a new city.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

For example, if you just graduated from a culinary school, you're coming in like, OK, I don't want to come work for you. You work for me for a few months. You show that interest.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

For example, if you just graduated from a culinary school, you're coming in like, OK, I don't want to come work for you. You work for me for a few months. You show that interest.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

For example, if you just graduated from a culinary school, you're coming in like, OK, I don't want to come work for you. You work for me for a few months. You show that interest.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

you actually mean it and then you want to become partner then we have the talks of like opening up the city for example we're not in like seattle you want to move to seattle and have our franchise there right now it comes with a food truck in any new city we open it comes with a food truck so you invest a certain amount of money the most that i allow my partners to become uh to get is like 30

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

you actually mean it and then you want to become partner then we have the talks of like opening up the city for example we're not in like seattle you want to move to seattle and have our franchise there right now it comes with a food truck in any new city we open it comes with a food truck so you invest a certain amount of money the most that i allow my partners to become uh to get is like 30

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

you actually mean it and then you want to become partner then we have the talks of like opening up the city for example we're not in like seattle you want to move to seattle and have our franchise there right now it comes with a food truck in any new city we open it comes with a food truck so you invest a certain amount of money the most that i allow my partners to become uh to get is like 30

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

But the minimum is like you can get as little as 5, 10% and just work. But it's going to be worth it if you go like a little more. And every city is priced a little different because of the market research of nearby cities. For example, we weren't in Vegas for a long time, but we were in L.A., we were in Phoenix, we were in Salt Lake City. And then Vegas was like booming with like...

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

But the minimum is like you can get as little as 5, 10% and just work. But it's going to be worth it if you go like a little more. And every city is priced a little different because of the market research of nearby cities. For example, we weren't in Vegas for a long time, but we were in L.A., we were in Phoenix, we were in Salt Lake City. And then Vegas was like booming with like...

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

But the minimum is like you can get as little as 5, 10% and just work. But it's going to be worth it if you go like a little more. And every city is priced a little different because of the market research of nearby cities. For example, we weren't in Vegas for a long time, but we were in L.A., we were in Phoenix, we were in Salt Lake City. And then Vegas was like booming with like...

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

Our chefs would drive from Phoenix to Vegas for events. So we opened up Vegas. And one of the chefs that would actually drive five hours for an event, he wouldn't even ask for gas money because he wanted to become a partner there. And I was like, no, you can't do that, dude. And I would still pay for it.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

Our chefs would drive from Phoenix to Vegas for events. So we opened up Vegas. And one of the chefs that would actually drive five hours for an event, he wouldn't even ask for gas money because he wanted to become a partner there. And I was like, no, you can't do that, dude. And I would still pay for it.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

Our chefs would drive from Phoenix to Vegas for events. So we opened up Vegas. And one of the chefs that would actually drive five hours for an event, he wouldn't even ask for gas money because he wanted to become a partner there. And I was like, no, you can't do that, dude. And I would still pay for it.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

for gas but it's like he would do it from like from his heart like he was like i want to help the company grow he's passionate yeah he's passionate and i was like okay you want to become partner he didn't even say anything and i actually was the one to offer him that i was like you already go in there a lot but you want to become partners okay let's do it and he had a lot of

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

for gas but it's like he would do it from like from his heart like he was like i want to help the company grow he's passionate yeah he's passionate and i was like okay you want to become partner he didn't even say anything and i actually was the one to offer him that i was like you already go in there a lot but you want to become partners okay let's do it and he had a lot of

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

for gas but it's like he would do it from like from his heart like he was like i want to help the company grow he's passionate yeah he's passionate and i was like okay you want to become partner he didn't even say anything and i actually was the one to offer him that i was like you already go in there a lot but you want to become partners okay let's do it and he had a lot of

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

Family members, young hungry guys that wanted to make some money and they came in for training and a couple months of training they started becoming chefs and now Vegas is one of our biggest locations. I love that.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

Family members, young hungry guys that wanted to make some money and they came in for training and a couple months of training they started becoming chefs and now Vegas is one of our biggest locations. I love that.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

Family members, young hungry guys that wanted to make some money and they came in for training and a couple months of training they started becoming chefs and now Vegas is one of our biggest locations. I love that.

The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
From $65K Job to a $20M Hibachi Empire: Eddie’s Unstoppable Rise

We have a lot of people in Miami.