John Mackey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Netflix, within a mile of that location.
So this was like streaming headquarters for the whole United States.
Guess what happened after COVID?
Nobody came back to work.
And so it was a ghost town there.
There was nobody there.
HBO's was just empty.
Apple was going to build another 575,000 square feet onto that.
They canceled that project.
So pretty much every retailer in that center has failed now.
And the other restaurant that opened up also failed.
So we had to walk away from it, canceled out.
So that was a big write-off for us.
We lost a lot of money there.
But it was also a vegan restaurant.
And so the little cafe we have in El Segundo is not vegan.
No.
We might call it plant four.
It's got a lot of plant, but you can add in grass-fed beef.
We get all our meat from Whole Foods, by the way.