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Arman Oganesyan

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“They loved it. But the second day when we went back, we're like, okay, we have to get more serious. So we got back, and we obviously didn't have that many customers. So the first thing we did is we cooked like three chicken tenders, we cut them up into little pieces. And me and Tommy kind of like walked around the block. And, you know, there was like a few, there was like Jumbo's clown room, which is a pretty popular burlesque bar down the street. And they had a long line. So we went and we kind of started handing out pieces of chicken to people in the line, whoever would take it. And what was really cool is a lot of the people came back like a couple hours later. You know, that second day we might have made like $80, $90 or something like that. But we were like, wow, like, dude, they were all real people. Like nobody was like girlfriends or friends. There's real people that came in from either trying to sample or just passing by. And then the third, again, the third day, even more people came by. People, you know, would bring a friend and be like, this is the place I tried yesterday. And it was really good.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we did an initial test run the day before. It was on the first. And we posted that we're going to open up at seven, but we really opened up at like eight. Obviously nobody showed up because on IG with like 50 followers. And my girlfriend was there, Lola, with three of her friends, and they were our only customers for the night. And they bought four meals and we paid $40 that night.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The first day we had literally like a few tables that we got from our parents, a $150 fryer, an easy up. We had a heating lamp for the fries. And pretty much that was it besides like, you know, all the sheet tray trays and stuff for like spicing.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dave wanted to, we're like, because once we got the official location of the pop up, right? Me and Dave were like, oh, we should apply for all of our paperwork before we get started. And then Tommy was like, he's like, we're not going to get paperwork. He's like, nobody's going to give us paperwork to open up on a street. He's like, we either do it or we don't.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we're like, we have no equipment, we have no nothing. He said, Okay, how much money do we kind of have? And we all kind of like I had like a few hundred bucks that I had saved up. Dave's like, well, I'm getting my paycheck in like a day or two. And he was going to quit anyway. So he's like, I'll have like a few hundred bucks. And then Tom's like, okay, I'll cover whatever's left. So we had like a bunch of like $900 that we set 900 bucks.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First, he said no. He's like, You guys could have it for free. He's like, you guys have one spot for free. Yeah. And then Tommy was like, let's just do it. And he's like, and funny enough, it was like early morning. He's like, let's do it tomorrow. And we're like, what do you mean tomorrow? He's like, okay, he's like, we have the spot, right? We're like, yeah, he's like, we have the recipe. We're like, yeah. He's like, so why don't we do it tomorrow?”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so Tommy's parents had a little flower shop in Hollywood and like this little plaza. And Tommy's like, well, I could potentially maybe talk to the landlord to see if he'll, you know, give us a little space there. And we asked him about it. And so he's like, I can give you guys a little parking lot space across the street in this parking lot plaza where we eventually ended up. And it's funny because we didn't like it. We're like, dude, we're like, it's not visible. We're like, it's dirty. We're like it's a parking lot. Like this place isn't right at all. You know, we're like, this is not going to work here.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we really wanted him to try Dave's. Even way before we were in the pop-up or anything, as we were still talking about the foundational stuff, one of the things we're like, okay, once we're ready, we need to have Farley come and try the food and write an article about it because we're like, that's what's really going to blast us off to the next level. We saw what he had done for other restaurants and we kind of understood that like if our food was good and we had good operations and we can kind of get that little boost from him where people know us, then we can kind of ride that wave.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. I mean, we used to go to all the restaurants you would suggest, right? So he had a very big pool on people in LA. Like when he would recommend a place, like people would go there.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that kind of became our goal now. It was like, okay, now we're doing a pop up. That was our thing. You know, we planned a lot of different things around it, like Farley.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So obviously, again, just like everything else, we realize we're pretty in over our heads when it comes to being able to afford a food truck. So as we were getting closer to having the recipe more or less finalized, we started kind of like looking into what a food truck actually costs. It was way, way, way, way over budget. Like there's no way we could afford it. So, I remember I was having a talk with one of my friends, Ed, and because he used to own a chicken wing place, and I was just kind of trying to ask him for advice, like what he would suggest. And he's like, well, have you guys ever considered doing a pop-up? So we're like, well, that's not a bad idea. We're like, we could probably start a pop-up a lot faster. We could save some money through it. And maybe within a year of working this pop-up, we could afford a food truck”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, and then when we cooked it and we tried it, we're like, dude, this tastes so good. We're like, why don't we just use this? And then obviously we added a little bit more recipes to the pickle juice, but the pickle juice eventually became our brine. And it was like accidental discovery.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So there was a lot of things like that, like our brine, like we spent weeks trying to figure out a brine, right? And, you know, Dave had like a milk brine and this, and nothing was right. And one day we were really tired and we're like, we're done with cooking today. And we had a few pieces of chicken left over. And I was like, yo, Dave, where should I put this? And there was like a Velastic pickle jar that was pretty much empty. And he dumped out the rest of the pickle juice. And he's like, put it in here. I'm like, oh, that's nasty, dude. I'm like, there's pickle juice in there. He's like, oh, no. He's like, it's fine. It's like chicken and pickle juice, not a big deal. So we put it in there and we left it in there. And when we came back like a few hours later and we took it out, it looked like the salts had almost worn away at the chicken and opened up all the muscles and made it so tender.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's so funny when you think about it. We did a lot of experiments. We're very spiritual people and we kind of always believe that the universe is helping us and guiding us. And a lot of weird things would happen like our logo, for instance. I remember we went to swap meet to buy like, you know, I think like a container for oil or something like that. And we're just like in a store that sells kitchen equipment. And there's one rubber chicken for sale there. And I was like, Dave, I'm like, what are the chances that there's a rubber chicken for sale at a store that sells kitchen equipment in swap meat and there's only one of them? I'm like, I feel like this is kind of meant to be, let's buy it. So we bought that chicken. And obviously that's eventually what ended up becoming our logo was that rubber chicken.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know what's funny is before that, we would have a lot of people try the chicken. So obviously, Dave had a lot of roommates. There was tons of people to try it and kind of give us feedback. So we had like a really good, almost like a testing group that we'd work with. And then we make this joke that once our parents liked it, because Armenian parents hate everything.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Fried chicken every day. And what's funny is Dave's roommate, John, was a vegetarian. So we'd go to like Dave's house with like a bunch of chicken and he would see us. And he's like, are you guys going to cook more chicken? And we're like, yeah, he's like, all right, just please clean up, dude. And we just like have like a bunch of chicken all over the place, like raw chicken. It was really fun.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know, man. And the way we were thinking about it is we wanted it to be a franchise and we wanted it to be this thing. We were trying to develop it from the ground up as a foundational restaurant to be very franchisable yet maintain very high quality. So we were like thinking all these things as we were in the house.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know, man. It was so bad. It was so bad. I don't know about that. And I feel like what worked really well with Dave's is we both had ideas that were kind of crazy, but we had each other to kind of bring us back down to Earth, right? Like I'd have like the fried gummy bears idea and he'd bring it down to Earth. And then Dave had more like gourmet ideas. He's like, oh, well, what if we made our own bread and pickled our own cucumbers? And I'd be like, yeah, but if we're going to be a franchise concept, you know, you can't ask your franchisees to.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I remember I'd have stupid ideas all the time. I was like, what if we put gummy bears in? I don't know where it came from, but he was like, first of all, he's like, you can't put gummy bears in oil because it's going to burn and separate. So there was a lot of, and that was the dumbest one, but there was a lot of ideas I had that I thought could work.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes Exactly, because the breast is a lot bigger, and the tendency kind of have like two little strips, right So we kind of eventually decided on the chicken tender. So it's really cool when I think about it, and that was so fun. But what our days would consist of is, you know, Day would wake up, he'd go to work. I wasn't working at the time, so I'd kind of hang out. And when he was done with work, like midday, we'd meet up and we'd go eat at a local chicken place that we'd find that we maybe haven't tried before, whether it was like a popular one or non-popular one. And we saw what we liked about their chicken, what we didn't. And then we'd go back to his house and we just started cooking our own, you know, and like working on a recipe. And then after we cooked, we'd sit and watch a documentary about chicken. You know, what could we learn from these documents? Yeah, you know, we're watching like people giving tours of their, you know, kitchens and how they cook their fried chicken and things like that. And then we take some of those ideas and go back and make another one. And we pretty much did this like every day for months.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“As much as we were inspired by them, we didn't want to copy them. We wanted to do our own version of hot chicken, right? So we thought to ourselves, okay, what's the one menu item that they don't have that's a piece of chicken that could be in both ways? And that was the chicken tender. It's part of the breast, but it's not the breast.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so we realized before anything, we kind of needed obviously a recipe and we needed a foundation for the restaurant. So we kind of, again, talked to ourselves like, well, what are the problems that we thought we saw with talent raise? One of it was a really big menu, right? But the reason their sandwich was so good is because they cooked it right before they gave it to you. It wasn't pre-cooked sitting in a heated area. And we realized people either like to eat chicken by hand, you know, kind of like grab it with bread and eat it by hand or they like to eat it in a sandwich. So we're like, what's one piece of chicken besides the breast? Because we kind of didn't want to do the same thing Helen Rays was doing, you know, we didn't want to.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I met Tommy and kindergarten, literally like the first day of kindergarten. So what's funny is the first day of kindergarten we fought and the second day of kindergarten we were like best friends and we've been friends literally ever since then so in the end it was pretty much me, Dave, Tommy and Tommy's older brother Gary that were kind of like on board to try this out”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So Dave was on board, and then what we kind of talked about is like, okay, well, we don't have too much money, but what we could probably do is ask a bunch of our friends and see if anybody is down and we can gather up. Our initial idea was get like seven friends or eight friends and all of us invest whatever money we have and we buy a food truck. But as we kind of started asking all of our friends, nobody was like everybody's like, no, why would I do that? I don't want to do that. Tommy was like, immediately is like, I'm down. I'm down with you guys. Like whatever you guys want, I'm with it. Let's do this.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I think what really convinced him is I remember telling him, and I told him I was dead honest when I told him, I'm like, look, dude, I'm like, you're an amazing chef. You know, the guy that started Halloween is a great chef. And look at the line he has when he with the sandwich he made. I'm like, if there's anybody in the world that can make a better chicken sandwich and have a bigger line, it's you. And I kind of saw a little flame in his eyes. He's like, okay, he's like, let's try it out. So we eventually obviously went to Helen. We tried it out. And again, he was like mind-blown. Like as a chef, I'm sure to him it was even crazier, like the flavor profiles and, you know, all the different peppers. So he was in it. He's like, I love it. He's like, I'm in it. Let's do it.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I remember when I told him, I'm like, hey, dude, I'm like, wouldn't it be interesting if we opened up a chicken restaurant? And I remember he's like, chicken. He was like, first of all, I was like, I don't even like chicken. He's like, I don't even eat chicken. And he's like, I'm so close to being a sush at my restaurant. And he's like, why would I leave that up? Yeah.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Restaurant is silly, but that's why I clicked that we had him because there was never a food or like a genre of food that me and Dave because me and Dave have completely opposite palates, right? I'm like fast food. I like fast food like Big Macs and things like that and junk food.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Brand new, yeah. I mean, it existed in Nashville, and Johnny had tried it, the chef of Helen Raise, and he liked it enough to bring it to LA. And then we tried it. So by the time we had tried it, it was really only in two places. And we saw how people, how much people love this food. Hot chicken is a great food. I mean, the mixture of all those spices, it's kind of hard to top that flavor, right? So over time, as I saw it, I'm like, that's when the restaurant thing kind of kicked in. And it was so funny because I was like, dude, I'm like, Dave is a chef, dude. I'm like, and it was funny that you said that. I was like, why haven't we like thought of anything like...”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I feel like even though they had a long line, I feel like there were some things they weren't doing that right. You know what I mean? And on top of that, I was like, yeah, fried chicken's its own category, but hot chicken is not. That's a pretty new category. It existed in Nashville.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and when people, so like nowadays people will always tell us like, oh, you guys should check out this place, they have a huge line, check out this place, they have a huge line. And what I always say is like, I'm like, it's not that hard to have a huge line. You can artificially have a long line. You can take orders slower. You can give them out slower until more and more people pile up, which shows like a true quality of a restaurant is having a long line, but getting through it really fast. Because that means you have besides having a lot of comps, you have really good operations. You're able to get all these customers their food in a reasonable amount of time versus people waiting three hours for, you know, a sandwich.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I've been in this situation where you're like in line and you're like, I know what I want. And you're like five people. It's like six people deep. And you're like, oh my God, are you kidding me? And then they bring the family members up and then everybody looks at the menu and they're talking, which, by the way, I have stood in a line.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know, and I was like, too, this is all for a chicken sandwich, and he's like, Yeah, and then as we got closer and we tried it, it was one of the best sandwiches I've ever had, you know, being a fried chicken fanatic, it was a great sandwich. So naturally I went back a few times and I feel like they had too much on their menu for the line they had. And I felt there were too many options because me and 95% of the people I knew on the line were just getting the sandwich.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's really close. So I loved fried chicken. That was like my favorite food, right? So one day one of my friends, Andy, is like, hey, there's this really good hot chicken place. We should go try it out. So we get there and there's like a four hour line. It was a huge line. Yeah. And I'm like, dude, this is all for a chicken sandwich.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, obviously, we had our parents that weren't putting pressure on us, but we can kind of see that they can't work as hard as they used to, right? So you have that pressure on you. You're obviously have a little bit of self-regret. You're like, should I have studied? Should I have stayed in school? Would it have been easier to do something? You start thinking to yourself, like, what life skills do I have? So you have, you do have a lot of anxiety. You have a lot of self-doubt. But at the same time, what's interesting is me and Dave always kind of had in the back of our heads that something is going to click for us one day. So it was like a mixed mindset, you know. There was a lot of like belief with a lot of doubt.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, I mean, how is your just state of mind at that time? I mean, you're like, you know, 24, haven't really yet kind of figured out what you want to do, which is fine, totally normal. Nothing wrong with that if you're listening, you're 24, but it can create anxiety and you watch your friends and they seem like they have it all figured out, even though they don't. I remember that time in my life. How are you feeling at that time? Were you anxious”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, it wasn't originally Rampus. So obviously, as we were getting older and as comedy wasn't paying so well, and obviously as Dave realized being a chef doesn't pay that well. So funny enough, restaurants were never something we thought about. I had no knowledge in restaurants. But I think also because Dave and me had kind of talked about how especially the types of restaurants that he was working in, the profit margins were probably very small because of the type of prep that went into it and the quality of food that went into it. So it didn't seem like a, and again, me being a person that had no experience in food, I didn't think that I'd have any knowledge of how to help out Dave in any way, shape, or form.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, later on. So when we initially met, we met like right around middle school. And he was already very into food. And I remember obviously me and Dave hung out throughout the years. And, you know, every time I'd see him, he'd have like a bunch of cookbooks with him and he was like learning recipes and he'd work at a restaurant for like six months and he'd kind of like master the type of food and he'd move on to the next one and then he'd move on to the night and he was so passionate about food. So he was putting all of his effort into it.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then I kind of like leveraged that into doing some live shows, you know, like doing sketches and stuff. I eventually transitioned from that to doing stand-up comedy. I just didn't have like a direct path. I didn't at the time, I didn't understand how I can go from stand up to making money. And I was making no money. I was making like 50 bucks a night doing stand”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He just got there. That's so funny. Exactly. So there was like episodes like that. Yeah. So people were, there was more creative than what people were making. So it got some followers.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I was getting creative with mine. So I started making mine out of the box, and I was like, oh, it's an Armenian superhero problems. And Armenians have a problem of being late. So the superhero was always late to whatever he needed to say. So he never got to say the”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, so by the time I started auditioning, I was like 17 and a half For like a couple years, I did auditions up until maybe like 20. And then I was like, you know what? I'm like, I don't think I want to do comedy. So I started making vine videos and it really actually blew up. Like I got a lot of Armenian followers. And, you know, I was kind of popular and people really liked the videos.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. So right after I got out of high school, I went to a local acting school and then through the acting school, the teacher, I think immediately noticed that I was pretty good. So she recommended me to an agent. So, you know, I started doing a little auditions here and there. But I realized it was a lot harder than I thought it was. I think everybody assumes as soon as you start, you're going to get discovered and. It's obviously the reality is not like that. And so it was like a nice awakening.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you know what's actually really interesting about it is because Armine is such an old language and has so many different sounds. And growing up, I did like acting and comedy. So it really helped me with like learning different accents and learning different impressions because I was so used to pronouncing different sounds, you know. So it kind of like came in really handy as I got older.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it was cool. I mean, I used to not like it so much, but as I grew up, I realized how that really helped me. And, you know, if it wasn't for that, I might not be so fluent in Armenian.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My dad used to always say that you live in America, so you can learn English at any time. But if you forget how to speak Armenian or if you don't learn it, it's going to be really hard to learn it as you're older. So growing up, we were only allowed to speak Armenian inside the house.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I really hate standing in line. I'm just wired that way. I'd rather have a good enough cookie than wait two hours for the world's greatest cookie. It's just not worth the time to me, but I admit, I'm kind of an outlier. And how do I know that? Because every single day I pass people willing to wait for over an hour to eat that special thing, a cupcake, a croissant, a burger, bobati, gelato, whatever it is. These are people who are essentially telling you and me if you're not waiting, you're crazy. You're missing out. Now the thing is, if you have the power to generate this kind of line with your product, it better live up to the hype, because after two hours of standing, that cookie better blow our minds. If not, your business?”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We didn't actually, dude, so will we finish every night? Because it wasn't the best neighborhood, right? And throughout the night, what we do is we put our cache away in like a styrofoam container, like one of our to-go containers. So one of the nights we're cleaning up and then we get to Tommy's house and we're like, okay, we're like, who has the cache? So we can count it. And then Tommy's like, I think Dave has it. And I'm like, hey, Dave, do you have it? He's like, no, I thought you had it. And we kind of realized pretty early on that we probably threw it away with the other Cyroform containers. So we had to go across the street to our main dumpster, this big dumpster. And I jump in the dumpster. And the funniest thing is the money happened to be in the bag that we threw away our oil mix in. So the money was covered in like red oil. I mean, we were spending red money. It looked like we had robbed the bank.”
2024-06-10 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT