Hey, y'all, I'm in the Columbus airport in Ohio. Last time I was
here is about five years ago. I'm going to jump to the next
scene in this video to tell you a little bit about the journey
that we've been on with a brand that I work with, and how it all
started here in Columbus five years ago. So stay tuned
Hey, guys, look at that. Here's Migel. That's clickBACON. It's
Agave & Rye. All right, so I'm here in Columbus, Ohio, like I
mentioned at the airport, and as I kind of show you around the
store that they're doing their soft opening on Monday, they're,
12th loation, you're gonna hear some noises, they're still doing
construction. But I want to just kind of quickly tell you a fun
story. So these are all these are little private booths. The
art is just the artist they use, I'm gonna show you a picture in
a second, there's just insane. But if you're interested in the
menu or anything, you can look up AgaveAndRye.com so you can
learn more about kind of the food that they do. But about
five years ago, I was here in Columbus. And I met with the
owners of two restaurants, not Agave & Rye. And they were
struggling, the restaurants weren't doing so well. They were
really having some issues. And so it was a very, I'm just being
careful with my words, because I don't want to hurt anyone, or,
or saying anything that could potentially hurt anyone, but
they were lost. And after I spent three days with them, we
kind of realized that the way that they were doing business
needed to change. And so we got, we got to work on kind of making
some changes and things. And they also just realized that
they had just had the wrong concepts in the wrong locations.
And they had the wherewithal to, to basically walk away from
those two restaurants, shut down and take what they could and
start over and they they moved to a new city. A couple hours
away, they moved to Cincinnati. And they found a fun little
spot. And we developed a concept together called Agave & Rye. And
we opened it up kind of following the things that I
believe in team members first. Service, absolutely first
uncompromising on quality of food, not expensive, but
uncompromising on quality, very modern fun menus, but at low
price points or affordable price points. But again, five star
service, five star food, everything made from scratch,
and they blew it out of the water. I mean, just blew it out.
They worked so hard. They did such an amazing job. Look little
arcade. How fun is that? I'm gonna walk you through the
kitchen, and I'm gonna show you the last piece of art here. But
then it took off, and it's a great and you know, I don't want
to get into all the details. But four years later, we're back in
Columbus. This is their second location, they opened up another
location two weeks ago and Columbus. I didn't take
pictures, but I'll edit some video in from that they have.
But they opened up. Like I said, this. They opened up one
location in Columbus two weeks ago. And it's doing great. It
has five stars, five stars with 50 reviews on Yelp. Five stars
with over 50 reviews on Google, five stars on Facebook, they
literally have five stars, they've not gotten one review
less than five stars with a couple 100 reviews in two weeks,
which is just insane. But it's a testament to systems processes,
procedures training. I mean I couldn't even begin to get into
the amount of systems and processes and procedures that we
have built in this company over the last four years but to go
from from closing two restaurants to opening up a new
restaurant basically with whatever equipment you can get
out of your other two and credit card debt and those loan shark
debts to this I can't share numbers with you but the numbers
are insane. To this to 12 locations with four more or
three more on the slate for this year is just insane. It's just
insane. So I couldn't be more proud of the entire team. I
couldn't be more proud of the operations I couldn't be more
proud of everyone and just to see the lives change through
this brand is just unreal. But their artist. Their artist name
is Gio, he does all their restaurants. It's insane. So
look at this so this is Robin Williams. But from this side
it's Mrs. Doubtfire and from this side it's Robin Williams
and then you can't see because the box but it's all of his
movies there scenes from all his famous movies in the background.
So just just pretty insane stuff here but wanted to give you kind
of a quick update Chris say hi.
That's it. This is Agave & Rye. You guys have a great one.