Edible Arrangements

“So we didn't bring on any investors, even though by 2006, 2007, many people are interested in buying into the brand or investing in the brand. And I had many offers of private equities wanting to get involved. I just didn't see any benefit of it at that time s…”

“About six hundred million.”

“When I hired that team and all these things that we had automated and put into systems, ah, we were, by 2004, 2005, we were selling 300 stores a year.”

“Anybody that's thinking about getting in a franchise should realize that it is a relationship that you are actually now getting into a partnership with another entrepreneur. You're gonna have to spend a lot of time listening and making sure and inspiring and h…”

“I never, you know, we did it one at a time, so it was all word of mouth, so up to our first 10 or 15 shops, it was all word of mouth, because I was more concerned with doing it right”

“I never had to give anybody the money back because people loved it.”

“About 1300, close to 1300.”

“Towards end of 97 and beginning of 98. I started to send it out to friends and some thought it would be great, but majority of them thought it wouldn't work.”

“We had to take a little money and make a lot, and now people want a lot of money so they can lose a lot, You know, it's sort of like, yeah, our burn rate is three million dollars.”

“I shared the idea and he said, you know, stay in your flower business. This is crazy. Who would buy? Fruit on sticks in a basket, especially for the price you're selling it. But every time we sent it to a customer, the customers would call back and said, can I…”

“I couldn't borrow a 120,000 because I went and wrote a business plan, wanted to borrow a 120,000 dollars. I put it together, waited about six weeks, and I got a rejection letter saying that we just don't believe in the concept, we don't think it'll work, and i…”

“Anytime somebody introduces something that I think I would compromise my promise with him, I always, you know, step back, saying, no, wait a minute, this has worked really well, I've stayed true to this”

“We, you know, the stats that people gave you was for every 10 stores. You have to have an employee that that's managing those 10 stores. We could only afford one for a hundred.”

“We bought in a concept called Roti, which is a modern Mediterranean and then- Out of Chicago, right? Out of Chicago, yeah.”