Michael Chernow
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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The evolution.
I put a plan in front of all these regulars, business plan.
And 14 of them wrote me $25,000 checks.
And that's how I started the meatball shop.
All the guys that watched me sort of grow at Frank, the restaurant, invested in the business.
And so we opened up the meatball shop and...
It was just crazy.
It was gangbusters.
You know, we projected to do like a million bucks our first year.
We did 4 million and... Is that with one shop?
One store.
Yeah.
A thousand square feet, all in, 38 seats.
It was nuts.
Because you're no longer operational in the meatball shop, correct?
No, I sold the majority of my equity at Meatball Shop in 2014.
And then started Seymour's, which is my second restaurant concept.
I kept equity in the business because I love the business.
But I...
Daniel, my partner, and I just couldn't see eye to eye.