Q the time. Yeah, we are. And I, I mentioned Lee, because she, she will factor prominently in, in the rest of the story of Culver's, which we'll talk about later, but, um, you essentially go back to your dad and say, hey, You remember that A&W that you sold in 1968? Why don't we buy it back and operate it? Is that, is that essentially what you said to him?
A Yeah, I, I was, we were both living in Madison at the time, and I went over to visit, and, uh, the story goes, Mom's on the couch reading the newspaper and watching TV, and Dad's at the kitchen table playing his favorite card game of solitaire, and, uh, Mom's within earshot of what our conversation is going to be, so I sit down with Dad. I said, Dad, help me out here. Let's buy the A&W back in Sauk City. Dad, the entrepreneur, uh, he immediately said, let's do it. Mom, on the other hand, not a risk taker whatsoever. She was crying, holy hell, and, uh, I, I tell the joke that, uh, we took a vote and she lost two to one, so. But the A&W, the original place had burned down that little shack, and the new prototype was built in its place, was seating for 74 inside, a canopy off the back with electronic ordering stations. So we bought something different than what we originally had, but we bought it back from the same gentleman dad had sold the old place to.
AI assessment note: “I said, Dad, help me out here. Let's buy the A&W back”