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Stacy Madison

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“Yeah, but just to clarify that, it was basically a chicken Caesar rolled in a piece of pita bread. Got it. There were very few options. But we made ours were, you know, we had goat cheese, we had turkey and Havardi, and we had more upscale choices. So we prepared, we sliced all the meat, we put everything in a giant cooler, and then we went to downtown Boston. We would literally roll the cart up the street and put it on the corner of Chauncey and Summer Street, and we'd get a nice delivery to the corner and we'd throw the ice in the bottom and then we'd put out all of the ingredients and then we'd roll it up in the pita bread and then we had this big white piece of paper and we'd roll the sandwich in the white piece of paper and we'd twist the bottom. So people were walking around. It was almost like they had this big white club. And so it was really good because they'd walk away and other people would say.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The food cart, yes, was a cart with that was a hot dog cart. And we used to go out at night after the bars closed. And we did the sausage scene. We were cooking up and we were just trying to get money any way that we could so that we could revamp the cart. And once we collected enough money, then we put the cart in to a shop and I designed it, you know, made it pretty front and a beautiful green awning and we hollowed the whole thing out and made it almost into a deli counter and we served healthy sandwiches rolled in pita bread off of the food cart and then we made everything to order.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we decided to buy a food cart because we couldn't afford anything else. I think it was five thousand dollars and I worked with my sister who she owned a catering company in downtown Boston. She was a huge help, and I laid out the menu and she would look at the menu and tell me, you know, you have too many items on here. You're going to have too big of an inventory. You have to streamline this. She kind of always gave us that reality check on when that business sense. And at the same time, because now we learned you have to be in a facility.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going into this, I mean, you got to also keep in mind the reality of the fact that he's got $100,000 in student loans. I don't have a penny to my name.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, definitely. And it kind of picked me back up onto my feet after losing that other job. And Mark, even though he's getting his doctorate at this point, he always wanted to be a chef He came from a family of doctors, and it was kind of just that's what you're going to be. But it also meant that he was setting aside his dream of becoming a chef. So it was a really crazy decision, but we decided when we got back to Massachusetts, we would try something in the food business.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that didn't last long. Yeah, he was the health department. That was like, yeah, you are not doing this. If you want to do this, you have to get into a commercial kitchen and you have to. Etc., etc.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh no, it was just more of a, you know, you had a choice between two or three items. You know, we had seared tuna with a pineapple salsa and things like that. Needless to say, we were cooking in our apartment and got very quickly shut down. Some guy called or knocked on the door and was like, you can't do this.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we loved cooking. I mean, Mark was a total foodie, and we marketed to our building and the surrounding buildings that if anybody else wanted us to cook them dinner, that we would do that too. We called it condo cuisine.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was devastated. I never lost a job in my life. And then I remember speaking to my aunt who was in the restaurant business and she's saying, are you kidding me? Don't be so naive. They always hire people to get restaurants open and then they let them go. Ultimately, I circled back and said, Well, if I can work this hard for someone else, then why can't I do it for myself? And it's kind of funny because at that point Mark was still in his internship and we were in these high-rise buildings in downtown Honolulu and we were cooking meals for our roommate anyway. And we figured, well, why not just put a sign in the bottom of the building? And when people got home, they could, it was at the time of fax machines, they could fax over an order and we would just have their dinner ready.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We had this big opening with all the surfers, the local surfers in Hawaii and even retired surfers. They came and the owners of the restaurant were like, if we could pull this off, you know, you guys are going to get a big bonus and blah, blah, blah. And we did. I mean, we were, money was coming in left and right. And to the point that we had to stuff it in beer boxes and bring the cash down to the basement because they couldn't fit it all in the register. It was just crazy. So successful opening of the restaurant. A couple weeks later, I sat down with my general manager and said, how about the bonuses they were talking about? Do you know when they're coming? And he's like, well, let me meet with the owners and get back to you. Wait another couple of weeks, sat down with him again, and he said, well, I spoke to the owners, and they've decided that we need to let you go.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, Hawaii was an amazing experience. We lived in just this tiny box, and there was no kitchen or anything. And there was no bedroom. There was basically a cot. And we bought an electric walk. And we used to cook in the walk, we'd wash it in the bathtub. And eventually we found a roommate and she had a nicer apartment and we worked out a deal where we would take her second bedroom and in exchange for a lower rent, we would cook for her. And while I was out there, I worked at a restaurant and I got a job as an assistant manager. And the restaurant was going to open up a surf theme, you know, another location, a surf theme restaurant. And they said, Do you want to be part of that opening? And I said, Yeah, that's great, which thinking back, I'm like, wow, that was a great experience. I got kind of experience of learning to start a business”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Keep in touch. So he was still a friend and I talked to him all the time about my disengagement and all of that. He was super supportive and eventually our friendship led to dating and he was getting his PhD so he was doing an internship in Hawaii and said, well, why don't you come out to Hawaii?”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the girl was gone. She had gone gone, like never to return. I think she took off to Florida or somewhere. She never came back to work. She just kind of took all my stuff. But with Rick and I, it was kind of like the ring wasn't replaced immediately, even, and I don't care about the ring, even if it's just a cigar band or something like that, that it kind of took so long replacing the ring that it forced both of us to look at, should we really be doing this? Maybe this was a sign or something. And ultimately, yeah, we just decided maybe we shouldn't get married.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, that ended. I think it was just mutual. I think ultimately it was just not the right thing. I think we just both agreed. We had had the place picked out that we were going to get married. And it was kind of a bizarre story, but I went and I had a massage. I know it sounds like I'm going off on a tangent here, but it'll come back. I went and I had a massage, and the woman told me to take off all my jewelry and blah blah blah and I took it off. I put it in the dish, got my massage, and I got up and I went to get dressed and I was like, oh my God, all my jewelry is gone, including my ring, my engagement ring. And I was just, you know, it was from his family. It was like, I was just so upset.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, I worked in a group home for homeless, pregnant, drug addicted women, and I have to tell you, I mean, I loved the job. It was very rewarding. But at the time, I think I made $22,000 a year. And it was really paycheck to paycheck and very hard to survive on that kind of an income. So I decided to go and get licensed and be able to private practice, which eventually I did go on to do. But I found it very isolating. Know now I've got to go and I unlock the door and I do marriage counseling and then my evening is over. I've seen five or six patients and I close the door behind me and I go home. I put a lot of effort into getting those degrees and licenses and realized that ultimately it probably just was not for me.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He felt I should always become a social worker rather than go on to get my PhD and be a psychologist. He was like, oh, that's no profession for a woman. One thing that he said was smile and look pretty, and you will find a husband. You know, I don't want to make him sound like a jerk. And he was like a caring, loving man that put his family first, but he was also a product of the 50s.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thousand bucks No, they said no. Well, they didn't say no, they said no, not without equity. And we were like, equity. Equity in what? We've got nothing.”
2019-05-27 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT