Germany

“They send us Heineken that's outlawed in Germany because of Germany's strict beer purity law, and the Becks they send us isn't the same Becks they have in Germany. They add forbidden adjuncts to it.”

“We have a joint venture in Great Britain and France and Germany where we own with our partner half, that's about 60 stores, and then over here we own about 450 out of the 1400.”

“They send us Heineken that's outlawed in Germany because of Germany's strict beer purity law, and the Becks they send us isn't the same Becks they have in Germany. They add forbidden adjuncts to it.”

“Out of the, out of about 14, 1500 restaurants, we have a joint venture in Great Britain and France and Germany where we own With our partner, half. That's about 60 stores. And then over here, we own about 450 out of the 1400.”

“I bought their whole brewing side, so didn't get their packaging equipment, but bought the brew house, and paid Basically the scrap value 15,000 dollars to buy all the equipment, and we spent more, more than that crating it and shipping it back to the U.S.”

“When we first started the business, a hundred percent of our supply chain was in California. And then of course, as we started to grow and I decided, okay, look, this is actually going really well. I want to go into eyeliners, eyeshadows, all these, I want to …”

“Aviation is a relatively small fraction but that few percent is still more than the country of Germany.”

“In the early days, I had to pay half at the time of order, and half at the shipping date. So basically, I had to pay a hundred percent of that inventory before it even left Germany, or on the day that it left Germany.”

“This mat was engineered as the backing for AstroTurf to be durable and to have a certain amount of stretch, but not too much stretch, and a certain amount of cushion, but not too Soft, not too cushiony. And in the same factory that, that the carpet underlaymen…”

“I would say at least half of that capital, those kind of early rounds of capital went to Germany to you know, sort of build out the factory, the plan.”

“The place where brewers from all over the world look for inspiration and innovation is not Germany. It's not Belgium. It's not England. It's America. We are teaching the rest of the world how to make great beer.”

“Casper and I, we you know, attacked the German, Austrian, and Swiss market. I think it was year one and two. Not very successful until I think it was Casper coming, you know, and saying, hey, all these retailers are actually, you know, they're runners, you kno…”

“It's a really, we call it a highly engineered polymer, and it was made in Germany, so we had to ship it across the ocean, and then we had to cut it and shape it, and it was four and a half dollars.”