Excerpt from a YouTube interview where Donald Burns and another speaker discuss business growth—from having no location to operating two stores—and scaling a payroll to over 30 people (including roles like graphic designer, social media manager, legal, CPA). The conversation touches on opening additional locations and the interviewee's continual drive to expand.
How big's your team?
I have. I have over 30 people on my. Is.
Five years.
I mean, that's between. Oh, I know. That's between two stores. You know, graphic designer, social media manager, legal, cpa. Like, it's a lot of people on payroll. You know, I actually sometimes look at it. I'm like, wow, this is just freaking amazing that I did this, you know?
Yeah. Especially from where we came from, you know, sitting there on a, you know, an empty floor, no location. And then now, I mean, you got two locations, just opened a second location. Is there a third location in the works?
There's always something I'm working on.
I know you. I know you. You don't. You don't ever settle. You don't ever rest.
No. And, you know, I'm so honored to have create something that has such organic attention, like on social media, which catches the eyes of landlords and developers, and so you just never can say never, because you just don't know.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
