Tony Vanilla
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 23 Mar
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Coming up... My very great friend, Tony Vanilla.
He owns a wood shop in northwest Portland.
There's a ton of uncertainty after the whole fire, you know, with...
whether we were gonna get insurance payouts, if we were gonna be held liable for anything and get sued to death, or if we were even gonna be able to continue.
We probably lost a quarter million dollars worth of stuff in the fire.
We got a whopping $75,000 from the insurance company, which covered about a quarter of what we needed to really come back.
So we had to kind of think on our feet to figure out a strategy that would be way less capital intensive, but still produce a quality product at the level we needed it to be produced.
So around the end of October is when we started working with some local manufacturers to help produce the product.
My very great friend, Tony Vanilla, he owns a wood shop in northwest Portland, and he was the first one to call me and say, yo, let's get this done.
And then the other one I found through my wood supplier, Emerson Hardwoods, I just kind of called my rep and was like,
hey, do you know anybody who might be interested in doing this?
And maybe six hours later, I get a call from the owner of this shop, and we started off.
So our first immediate challenge was to build 200 pieces as fast as possible.
We got it done in about six weeks, which was pretty amazing.
That was kind of a huge accomplishment and kind of helped us feel like everything was going to be all right.
Our capacity before the fire was about 100 a week, and now we can do around 150 to 200 a week, which is really great because before we would have to kind of temper sales because we had to make sure that we could still make everything in a timely manner.
And now it's kind of given us the ability to kind of blow the doors wide open.
Starting December to this year, we're right back up to previous fire levels for sales, which is a huge relief because that was one of the things I was worried about is if we disappear from the world, are we going to be able to come back to where and match what we were doing?
And it seems like we were not only on the path to match what we were doing, but we're on the path to grow from that too.
Coming up... My very great friend, Tony Vanilla.
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