Kona Ice, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Kona Ice comes up
Advice Line with Tony Lamb of Kona Ice
- ▶ 1:02 Guy Raz My guest today is Tony Lamb, the founder of Kona Ice. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:15 Guy Raz He turned Kona ice into a national franchise. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:35 Guy Raz My guest today taking your calls with me is Tony Lamb, the founder of Kona Ice, a franchise of shaved ice trucks.
- ▶ 30:58 Guy Raz And today I'm joined by Kona Ice founder, Tony Lamb.
- ▶ 44:12 Tony Lamb I'm just watching it happen a lot in life, not just in Kona, but I mean, I've got franchisees that come in, they get a truck. 3 times in the scene
Kona Ice: Tony Lamb
- ▶ 2:00 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Tony Lamb went from a door-to-door vacuum salesman to founding Kona Ice, a franchise empire of shaved ice trucks that now number more than 1500 across North America. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:40 Tony Lamb Um, I ended up with a bunch of those trucks, and that was, that's kind of a segue into Kona Ice, because the billboard truck business was turned into a really nice side, but my wife still loves the billboard truck business, because it… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:26 Guy Raz So the idea for what would become Kona Ice really started a few years before you launched it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:16 Tony Lamb They're all buying Kona's. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:38 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Tony grows Kona ice from a few trucks into 1500, and then lands on another idea, which he thinks could be even bigger.
- ▶ 57:04 Tony Lamb He got laid off and, um, he decided he was going to get into Kona 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:53 Tony Lamb You know, our franchisees were just not skilled at being able to go through, and we were, we had a hotline, and we had multiple people just, we went after all the financial institutions that have loaned money to Kona franchisees. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:59 Guy Raz I mean, you've got 1500 trucks just in Kona Ice, um, three hundred and seventy five million dollars in, in system wide sales in 2023. 4 times in the scene