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Overcoming the Odds: Tells us he wanted to be more than a Waffle House cook, now owns popular dinner supper clubs. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My Girl, Karen Bridge, Contemporo Orchestra or Leader Adams, Get there,
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  Speaker 1: with my show. I got some wonderful guests because they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell me about mistakes I made with my business
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  Speaker 1: because they're successful with their business. My guest, who's up
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  Speaker 1: front right here, is one of the co owners of
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  Speaker 1: the Perfect Note. It's a dinner shupper club featuring live
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  Speaker 1: concerts in Atlanta, Georgia. That's where it's located, as well
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  Speaker 1: as in Birmingham, Alabama, the Big Ham. Each location specializes
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  Speaker 1: in Southern classics on their menu and music. The caters
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  Speaker 1: to grown folks ages thirty and up. Please bucking the
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  Speaker 1: money making Conversations masterclass Tremaine Thompson.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, my brother, man, I'm doing wonderful. While
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  Speaker 2: we are such a great introduction, I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: to respond.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're gonna respond, and I got that. I got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things to say to you, my man,
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  Speaker 1: because you know the thing about this show, mister Thompson,
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  Speaker 1: owner of Perfect Note, and the other owners who.
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  Speaker 2: Sir, my wife Karen. So that's what we call.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir. Absolutely, you know I'm not gonna get on
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  Speaker 1: this show and just call you the owner, okay, because
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be another conversation with the interview nions. Well,
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  Speaker 1: why you couldn't say my name? You're too busy?
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  Speaker 3: Well you think t K Productions stand for Okay, there
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  Speaker 3: you go.
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  Speaker 1: The brother I'm mad got married in eighty eight. I
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  Speaker 1: know the rules and I understand it and I get home.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm on hear it, I'm gonna hear it good
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  Speaker 1: because I won't say the right thing. How you doing, Sisily?
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  Speaker 1: That's her name. She's gonna get mad because I says
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  Speaker 1: her name on Rader. She's gonna get mad about something.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna tell you something, my brother, perfect note.
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  Speaker 1: Tell everybody what is the perfect note? Before we start
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  Speaker 1: talking about running a successful business? What is the perfect note?
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  Speaker 2: Got you?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 2: The perfect note is a basically you kind of summed
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  Speaker 2: it up with a dinner supper club. We've been in
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  Speaker 2: music all about lives, and our purpose is to be
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  Speaker 2: able to have grown folks for something for them to
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  Speaker 2: be able to continue to still. Do you know it's
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  Speaker 2: not a lot out here for us to grown folks
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do and do it with clarity
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  Speaker 2: and do it with quality. And what we produced, we
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  Speaker 2: produce concerts. You fully see them in for production concerts,
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  Speaker 2: and then while you're sitting in the same room, you
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  Speaker 2: actually have great cuisines as though you're sitting in a
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  Speaker 2: restaurant that's being serviced by our what we call our
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  Speaker 2: service attendance that be able to take care of your
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  Speaker 2: needs while you're sitting in your seats for the show.
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  Speaker 2: So dinner and show is our concept and it's been
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  Speaker 2: very successful for us as being one of the only
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  Speaker 2: multi location block owned business for entertainment venue.
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  Speaker 1: Now from New York. From a lifestyle standpoint, born and
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  Speaker 1: raised in Houston, Texas now and this type of setup
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  Speaker 1: I've seen several times in experienced in New York, you know,
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  Speaker 1: So what made you believe? And you started in Birmingham first, correct,
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  Speaker 1: that's correct, and then you moved your location to Atlanta. Now,
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  Speaker 1: tell us about the Birmingham experience. What motivated you because
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  Speaker 1: it's smaller market, so you you you're cultivating and somewhere
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  Speaker 1: safe taking business risks launching in a market with a
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  Speaker 1: smaller or you know, African American share, and I apologize,
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  Speaker 1: you're probably drawing a diverse audience because you're talking about jazz.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about a lot of diverse music as well
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  Speaker 1: as a great food menu. Tell us why you started
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  Speaker 1: in Birmingham and then saw the desire to shift to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess we kind of have to backfuttle just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. Is we started it in Chicago, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: me and my wife. That's how TK production started. We
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  Speaker 2: were just concert promote so we did gospel. Gospel was
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  Speaker 2: our main ingredient, uh to where we did a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the tours, a lot of the concerts in Chicago,
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  Speaker 2: And that's kind of how we created our name. And
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  Speaker 2: our name was based off of our company was based
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  Speaker 2: off of our character. So we knew that without a
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  Speaker 2: shadow of a doubt, if the company went down, we
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  Speaker 2: went down, because that means we didn't live up to
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  Speaker 2: our character's standards and our kingdom building standards were just
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  Speaker 2: serving kingdom business. So our whole thing is. Then when
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  Speaker 2: we moved to Alabama in two thousand and eight, then
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  Speaker 2: that's when me and my wife got married. In two
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  Speaker 2: thousand and seven, we decided to move because her mom
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  Speaker 2: had passed away. So we moved and then we had
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  Speaker 2: a high agus for probably about maybe four years, and
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  Speaker 2: we just got tired of not having anything to do right, know,
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  Speaker 2: and so we agreed, we said, let's go back to
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  Speaker 2: our roots. And our roots was music and because we
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  Speaker 2: knew the healing and the love and the passion for
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  Speaker 2: music that we had, and we did our first concert
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  Speaker 2: in bessemer Alaba, Bama called Intimate Jazz and Conversations. And
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  Speaker 2: when we did that, we brought in Gerald Off right
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  Speaker 2: was our kickoff artist, and nobody knew us and so
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  Speaker 2: but we knew we had a good product. We presented
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  Speaker 2: that product. It packed out day one and the rest
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  Speaker 2: was history after that. And that kind of cultivated to
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  Speaker 2: create us to be able to birth perfect note and
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  Speaker 2: that's when we birth first because we grew so tremendously.
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  Speaker 2: We opened the doors. We found out that people loved
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  Speaker 2: to sit in the same atmosphere to be able to
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  Speaker 2: eat some food. And we didn't have a restaurant at
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  Speaker 2: that time. We were just utilizing a banquet facility.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: They used to come in there and we set up
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  Speaker 2: the chairs ourselves, we set up the tables ourselves. It
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  Speaker 2: was just me and my wife. We went involve Linen's
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  Speaker 2: to be able to decorate the atmosphere as a as
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  Speaker 2: a kind of like a jazz supper club, and we
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  Speaker 2: created the atmosphere, you know, and then people didn't see that.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the show, you know, we had
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  Speaker 2: to break down one hundred and stuff, well three hundred
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  Speaker 2: and some seats about ourselves as well too, So it's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of dignity and to be
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  Speaker 2: able to super facilitate and see our goal and now
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  Speaker 2: Perfect Note happens, and then we opened up our venue
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixty. That's where Perfect Note was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: We know that's a wonderful story, and it's a story
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  Speaker 1: about putting the work for your dream. I remember that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the journey to get there is always fun.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you look back on it because staying there
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  Speaker 1: is a lot of work. It really is. My wife
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  Speaker 1: and I was talking about the other night about that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being successful. Really it's hard beginning to be successful.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun, you make mistakes, you laugh about it, but
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  Speaker 1: when you get up there's when you really see the competition.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about that journey. You talked about the start, but
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  Speaker 1: talk about that journey Perfect Note and then come into Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. So it's if I could just sum it up
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  Speaker 2: at a high level, the journey has. If we did
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  Speaker 2: not have God on our side, the journey would have
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  Speaker 2: been a lot more difficult and we probably wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: here today. But just to be able to stand the
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  Speaker 2: test of everything that we've been through COVID and you know,
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  Speaker 2: all of the ups and downs of the business. We
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  Speaker 2: definitely probably couldn't do that. But what we did, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he dived in because our home goal and motive was
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  Speaker 2: not about making and I know the show and let's
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  Speaker 2: kind of goes sound kind of crazy because I'm on
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  Speaker 2: the money making show. But it wasn't motivated by that.
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  Speaker 2: It was motivated by serving. And so when we knew
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  Speaker 2: how to serve, the money came because we served the
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  Speaker 2: people in regards to where we were looking at him
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  Speaker 2: to only that magnitude. So when COVID came, all of
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  Speaker 2: our fellow partners and people fell through the wayside, and
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  Speaker 2: I prayed and my wife prayed. We said, God, what
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  Speaker 2: is it for us to do? We don't want to
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  Speaker 2: close our doors. We got employees, we got people. So
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  Speaker 2: he said take it out to the streets, and we
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  Speaker 2: took it out to the parking lot. We had no
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  Speaker 2: drive ups or anything like that, no way to really
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  Speaker 2: kind of forecast about the goals or how to even
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  Speaker 2: do it. We just did it. We fed the people
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  Speaker 2: for five items they could students for five dollars that's
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  Speaker 2: how we started it out and Man Rashan, they came
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  Speaker 2: and packed out the parking lots and droves and listen,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and God just stared with me. He said, listen,
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  Speaker 2: when this is over, how you've reached out to the community,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to reach back out to you. And we've been.
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  Speaker 2: They've been feeding us every since when we fed them.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I truly understand your story and I really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your story. And money making conversation isn't about the money.
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  Speaker 1: It's about the story. It's about the journey. And I
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  Speaker 1: in and you make it about the money, then you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make the missed while you're doing it. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of times, what's the motivation? What's the end goal? Because
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  Speaker 1: I'm a community debased person. Tremain and to hear that
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  Speaker 1: story lets me know why you want and while you
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  Speaker 1: give back to you trifold tenfold, and that's what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: when you're talking about serving them a product and asking
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  Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, that's right. So that's how what happens. We
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  Speaker 2: start seeing ourselves being a tourist attraction. And so when
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  Speaker 2: actually we had an article that came up in the
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  Speaker 2: Huffington Post and we did not know anything about it,
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  Speaker 2: but this lady we found out later that they put
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  Speaker 2: us on the radar and they put us at one
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  Speaker 2: of the top one top businesses in the US to visit.
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  Speaker 2: And because we was wondering, it's like, wow, why you know,
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  Speaker 2: we don't even harready have our uncle folks here. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Every time I act because i'm
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  Speaker 2: host too as well as well as cook, as well
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  Speaker 2: as do everything else that's provided for the business to
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  Speaker 2: ensure that it goes. But when I'm hosted, I ask
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  Speaker 2: people where they are. And I've been hearing this point.
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  Speaker 2: I've been here in Atlanta majority of the time. And
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  Speaker 2: so that's what kind of motivated us to spread our
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  Speaker 2: wings and stand out on faith once again to go
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  Speaker 2: to Atlanta, because we had people that will come all
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  Speaker 2: the way to Birmingham to visit us from Atlanta, and
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  Speaker 2: so we said, I'm okay, you know, that's that's where
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  Speaker 2: we need to reached out from where we need to
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  Speaker 2: go and that's what we end up doing. We end
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  Speaker 2: up going there and spreading our ways. Open up right there, Marietta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: And you know it's been there for ten months now
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  Speaker 2: and you know we're having fun. It's growing, and of
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  Speaker 2: course there's anything, but we're having fun.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're doing what you're supposed to do. And first
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  Speaker 1: of all, Perfect Note wonderful name for a business. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to Tremaine Thompson, one of the co owners. He
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  Speaker 1: owns it with his wife, Black owned business. But when
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  Speaker 1: he comes back, you know, we won't talk about that
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  Speaker 1: menu because I'm a food guy, Tremaine, I got to
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  Speaker 1: know what about the food, my friend? Okay, But also
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about the mistakes I made when
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  Speaker 1: I opened my business because that's important to people. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they look at people they think they're successful. You're successful.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of bumps in their success. Because I
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  Speaker 1: want you to hear my story and then we can
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  Speaker 1: share it to the listeners so they won't make the
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  Speaker 1: same mistakes. Talking to Trumaine Thompson, one of the owners
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  Speaker 1: of Perfect Note one is based It originally open in
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen in Birmingham, Alabama when it became a tourist attraction.
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  Speaker 1: Now is available going on ten to eleven months in Atlanta, Georgie.
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  Speaker 1: He knows I'm a foodie guy. And when I say
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  Speaker 1: he knows, that's Tremaine Thompson, one of the co owners
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  Speaker 1: of Perfect Note. And you know, I go to the website,
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  Speaker 1: tell everybody about the website, tell her about retell the
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  Speaker 1: hours operation because I want to make sure people understand
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  Speaker 1: about the Perfect Note and it is a must go
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  Speaker 1: to venue.
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  Speaker 2: So we're open right now. It's Wednesday through Saturday. That's
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  Speaker 2: from five to basically five to eleven, and we kind
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  Speaker 2: of do it a little bit different. It's based off
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  Speaker 2: of how the shows go.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And then on Sundays we have a great Sunday brunch
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  Speaker 2: from twelve to five with music happening at one o'clock
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  Speaker 2: and three o'clock and the website is perfect. Note live
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  Speaker 2: atl dot com. Once again, that's perfect. Note live dot
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  Speaker 2: com to be I'm sorry, it's perfect. Note live atl
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  Speaker 2: dot com. They can be able to go right there
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  Speaker 2: to our website. And then we're getting ready to start
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  Speaker 2: lunch next month. We're getting ready to lunch lunch. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, anybody who looking for that lunch crowd, that's.
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  Speaker 1: What what day is that gonna be when you start
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  Speaker 1: launching lunch Cause I want to come back. I want
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  Speaker 1: to I want to be one of the one of
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  Speaker 1: the first customers in for that lunch day. I have
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  Speaker 1: been said yet.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So we're looking at Live. Let's got the calendar
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  Speaker 2: right here. It is that first win and on side
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  Speaker 2: of second it's the July tenth.
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  Speaker 1: Will like okay, cool, yes, sir, you're like that, okay, awesome.
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  Speaker 2: From eleven to three, from Wednesday through Friday, eleven to three,
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday through Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And that's about expanding the you got a venue, you
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  Speaker 1: got employees. Now you're looking to take advantage of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that rent's being paid anyway, and so it's another
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  Speaker 1: hours right there, just to do it right with potential customers.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, sir, Yes, sir, we have to. Hey, I've
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  Speaker 2: learned a long time ago. They said, if you have
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  Speaker 2: square footage that you're not using, then you know that
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  Speaker 2: that's money you're not making. So we have to you know,
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  Speaker 2: we got square footage that we're not using. We have
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  Speaker 2: a kind of like a private area that seats about
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  Speaker 2: fifty people and it's a perfect size for lunch to
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  Speaker 2: be able to do table turns for lunch. And so
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  Speaker 2: we all decided collectively to be able.
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  Speaker 1: To do that brun What is brudge? Should that worry brunch?
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  Speaker 1: B are U and h what exactly that Sunday brunch?
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  Speaker 1: Excite me right now, Tremaine.
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  Speaker 2: So if you get a little bit of breakfast and lunch,
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  Speaker 2: that's when we pull out our You know, if I
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  Speaker 2: had more time, I definitely tell you my backstory of
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: even how I got into the food industry.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, this is your show right now, this is your talk.
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  Speaker 2: You know. So I come from a corporate America and
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: when when my granddaddy always told me, he said, never
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  Speaker 2: get into anything that you don't understand. So I left
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  Speaker 2: corporate America before I was thinking about going into brick
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  Speaker 2: and mortar and went into waffle House my first full
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  Speaker 2: experience of what was well waffle House because I needed
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  Speaker 2: to learn how to cook, and I didn't realize what
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  Speaker 2: God was preparing me for. So I give my hats
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  Speaker 2: off to waffle House cooks because they cook everything, every
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  Speaker 2: protein you can think of except for prye on a
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  Speaker 2: two and three inch or a three foot grill. And
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  Speaker 2: I've learned how to speed cook and do all that,
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't know God was getting me in for
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  Speaker 2: preparation because we have to do that on that end
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  Speaker 2: when we're trying to serve one hundred and fifty people
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  Speaker 2: within two hours, So that's a hump in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: So I had to learn that skill expression to be
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  Speaker 2: able to teach my folks or teach my cooks on
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  Speaker 2: how to be able to speed cook, but make sure
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  Speaker 2: that it's all quality, it's done, and everything comes out
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  Speaker 2: exactly the way that you would do it in a
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  Speaker 2: fine dining or anything else in that regard. So that's
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  Speaker 2: how I got into the food part of it. And
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  Speaker 2: I'll run you know, hey, I hang with the best
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  Speaker 2: of them now, you know, not learning from my experience
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  Speaker 2: at waffle House, well, you know my cooking credit.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you got to because they cook under pressure because
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  Speaker 1: you're staring at them. Okay, you see what's going down
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  Speaker 1: right there. You can't cook any more intense pressure than
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  Speaker 1: at a waffle house. Now we're talking more than the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: owners of the perfect nut, no perfect note, And so
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  Speaker 1: I want everybody to understanding about the perfect note is
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  Speaker 1: that this dinner supper club the music for thirty and up.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Explain to us at the perfect note. When you said
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  Speaker 1: thirty and up, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: That's grown folks. You know, people who were tired of
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the clubs. Not nothing against the club So get me wrong,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: if we got any club owners, that's on the line tonight.
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  Speaker 2: But you know people who really kind of wanted to
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: transition to safe environment to you know, we don't have
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: hookahs or anything in that regards even against those things.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just to where you can dress up, you
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  Speaker 2: can come out, have a good time, you can mingle,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about you know, people just
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: all in your face, you know it just and then
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  Speaker 2: I love the part. This is what I really love,
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  Speaker 2: is how music brings all of your demographics together, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: all of your demographics there that we got Asians we
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  Speaker 2: got whites, we got you know, Hispanics. We got everybody
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  Speaker 2: coming under one roof. And they're creating culture, they're creating relationships.
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  Speaker 2: We've had people getting married because they've been coming in
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  Speaker 2: single and then they mingled and they left out and
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  Speaker 2: now they got wedding bells going on. So we've had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of them things come right there through our
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  Speaker 2: venue because it's just that place of presence. They feel good,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and with they service well. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: we call with the thirty and up, we call them
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  Speaker 2: grown folks the way you really can have a grown
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  Speaker 2: folks atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm one of those grown folks, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be there being a grown folks in quiet, eating, clapping
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  Speaker 1: when I was supposed to clap, dressed right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: walk being polite, opening the door when people supposed to
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  Speaker 1: get the door open, pushing it chair open when the
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  Speaker 1: chairs will be pulled back, all those good things. You know.
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  Speaker 1: When I opened my business way back in ninety two, trade,
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  Speaker 1: I just opened the doors.
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  Speaker 2: Brother.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have a budget, I didn't understand taxes. And
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  Speaker 1: I want you to explain to people the importanness of
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  Speaker 1: preparation when you when you have a dream but don't
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  Speaker 1: have a plan of operation attached to dream, please explain tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: The mistakes I made should never be repeated if you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to be successful long term in the business, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're doing with perfect note.
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  Speaker 2: And man, I'm glad you stated that it was very
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  Speaker 2: This road was a very difficult road to accomplish based
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  Speaker 2: off of because the resources was just not there. We
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: took all of our finances for one case, everything you
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: can think of that we can get loans, and we
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: extended it all into the business. You know, it was
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: either as they say, go all in or go home.
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  Speaker 2: So we didn't have really no other choice because if
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: we left it or we decided to throw in the towel,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: then that means that we're throwing in the towel of
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: everything that we put in. We're throwing in our whole life,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: you know, our whole life savings. So I'll say always, now,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: as I look at it in hindsight, it's always good
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  Speaker 2: to get a mentor somebody who has been in it,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: that went through the rough roads of the business, and
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: if they're willing to be able to share knowledge or
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: just be able to you know a mentorship you. I firmly, firmly,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: firmly expressed that you get behind somebody who can be
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: able to kind of lead you, because there's no book
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  Speaker 2: for us. You know, we don't have the same unfortunately,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: we don't have the same leisure as our other counterparts,
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  Speaker 2: just don't you know. And and they don't help give
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: a successful how to be successful book. Yeah, we can
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: go to Barns and Nobles and buy different books about
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: how to do certain things, but their templates because once
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: you get into it, you have to really find out
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: what your niche really is, you know, and and if
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be successful for you or not. It might
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: have been successful for them, but what is gonna be
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: successful for you? So always get figure out some kind
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: of foundation. If I do it all over again, I
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: will always assure That's why now I dig back. When
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: people ask me about business, how to get in it
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: or how to start it, I say, let's talk give
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  Speaker 2: a number. Information is free. I don't own it, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean, So why should I be trying
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  Speaker 2: to not give it? You know? That's the blessings. When
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Jesus walked through the lands, he didn't say just because
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I had all power, but I'm gonna go hold it
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  Speaker 2: until you you know, give me something, whatever it may be. Yeah,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: you have to give him of course your you know,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: your life standards. But at the same token, the blessings
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: was free, right, so if you wanted to receive those,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: those was given to you, you know, so you didn't
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  Speaker 2: have to you know, scrape or go through a lot
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: of red tape to be able to do that. All
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: you have to do is be willing, be willing and
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  Speaker 2: open and to be able to listen to whatever is
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: is needed. And so that's just kind of been our
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: road in our journey. But it wasn't easy. You know,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: it wasn't easy, and by no part of entrepreneurship is easy.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: And so that's that's kind of been our journey, right.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Well, we know it's a good journey because it's a journey
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: that you are sharing with us on this show. Is
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: a journey that gets me excited before we wrap up,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: tell us exactly, I know, it's Wednesday through Saturday, then
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: on Sunday it's Gospel Brunch. July tenth, you're going to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: be opening up for lunch from eleven to three. That's
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: an experience that you're not delivering right now, but you realize, hey,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: that's something we're available to do. In the Atlanta restaurant,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: which is right there in Mariatta, if you were familiar
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: with the Atlanta community. His restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama, which
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  Speaker 1: I would call it restaurant Perfect Note, which is a
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  Speaker 1: live dinner supper club which we hear music and down
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  Speaker 1: on fantastic food, is a stable because guess what, he's
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: from Chicago. You know. I always say, you know black
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  Speaker 1: people from the South that went north. He went north
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  Speaker 1: and they came back to the South. Now they went east,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: so they trying to conquer it. Now would that being said,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: are you going to open up more Perfect Notes around
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  Speaker 1: the country, Tremaine.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna lead however God leads to us, that's
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: where we're gonna go. We I think right now, if
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: we was able to take what all of the consumers
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: when they come in, they probably would have had us
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: in every neighborhood possible, all the way from here to
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  Speaker 2: you know, d C. So everywhere we go they want
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: a Perfect Note because of that experience. And I'm thankful
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  Speaker 2: and a honor to be able that we're just being
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  Speaker 2: able to be vessel was to provide that and give
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  Speaker 2: a safe haven for people to be able to fill
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  Speaker 2: the presence when they come in and feel comfortable and
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: want that in their own cities. So we are looking, yes,
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  Speaker 2: to answer your question. We are looking to spread our
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  Speaker 2: our our dream and our our our product to other cities,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: especially in Chicago. We got to go there. You know.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Nick Coleone was one of my good friends before he passed,
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  Speaker 2: and uh he was me and him was working on
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  Speaker 2: the deal to be able to put it in Schomberg
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  Speaker 2: and one in Schomberg right before he passed. So I
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  Speaker 2: owe it to him to still continue that dream and
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  Speaker 2: legacy to put that in for our jazz great that
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  Speaker 2: we lost.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Nick, I'll tell you what the city I want
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  Speaker 3: to thank you for coming on the show Perfect Note
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  Speaker 3: again Wednesday through Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: On Sunday, July tenth, will be open from lunch from
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  Speaker 1: eleven to three. The original location is based in the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ham that's Birmingham, Alabama. Tell your wife I'll see
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  Speaker 1: her soon. I will definitely shake your hands soon, my friend,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: and join a great plate of good food at the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Perfect Note and sitting back like a grown person supposed
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to be sitting back and joining some good music. See
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: you soon, my friend, and thank you for coming on
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