Sean Feeney

on paper and watching myself cross them off and as i would cross them off i would set new ones and over time i would look back on those small attainable goals and what i was now trying to achieve was just awesome and greater and i think that helped me gain confidence in myself

and give me momentum that I could be the best partner for Missy.

I could confidently say, I know you're going to be the greatest artist.

I'm going to be the greatest operator.

And together now, we're going to treat people the right way.

Because I could close my eyes and look at these numbers and know how we're doing.

She can close her eyes and create what she wants to create.

It's what we know we can do in our sleep.

And then we're able to now come together and treat every single human

the way they should be treated by us.

A lot of people, when I told them what Missy was going to be, they thought I was insane.

Missy is one mile away from Lilia.

And we decided early on that we're selling a lot of vegetables and a lot of pasta at Lilia.

It became our most sought after items.

And originally, we only had four pastas on the Lilia opening night menu.

We were really trying to make it about protein and wood fire.

But it seemed from the very beginning, and because what she really loves is pasta, that's kind of what resonated with people.

And so when we did Missy, it was like, let's just focus on vegetables and pasta.

And I thought it was genius because nothing was ever going to be replicated from Lilia.

There was not going to be a menu item from Lilia on the Missy menu.