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Regina Pradam

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
187 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

So, bought $5,000 worth of Microsoft stock, and sure enough, it was just that time when it split and split and split, and that turned into $20,000 in a matter of, I don't know, a couple of years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

I don't remember exactly what it was.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

What, we draw money on a credit card and buy stocks?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

I don't know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

I'm not too crazy about credit cards anymore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

I think ignorance is a blessing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

I didn't know any better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

My part of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

And then my husband, I think his mom.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

Helped, and then two other cousins, their parents helped.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

So we put in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

You know, what's interesting is nobody was willing to talk to us back then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

No, in terms of selling or leasing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

Because we were just these youngsters, you know, in our 20s who never had a restaurant industry background.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

Clay Pit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

you know i think when you look at when you look at a model like tarka it's top line projected growth okay when you look at a model like like a clay pit which is a one unit you know mom and pop in a way it's completely different actually um that's not even top line they look at bottom line i'm sorry because it's a one unit mom and pop they truly look at the bottom line and do so what were margins two times what was your margin in clay pit when you saw seven

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

Gosh, I want to say 15 to 18%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 387: Restaurant Founder Hits $2m+ Revenue, Doubling Locations

I don't know.