CAVA: Ted Xenohristos and Brett Schulman

Hey, before we start the show, a question for you. Do you ever get nervous when performing or speaking in front of an audience? Because I definitely do, and I have to stand in front of a lot of big audiences. Well, I recently interviewed Ellie Golding about being shy on stage. And even though she's a music superstar who's performed at Coachella and a royal wedding, She told me that She finds ways to break through the anxiety and be present in the moment. You can hear my conversation with Ellie Golding on my other podcast. It's called The Great Creators. Just search for The Great Creators with Guy Raz wherever you listen to podcasts, or go to thegreatcreators.com. And now

On to today's show. As we kind of got busier and busier We didn't really know what we were doing. We were bringing an octopus. And let's just say the octopus weighed 40 pounds. We would divide that by the ounces that we served, and we were like, great, we could serve octopus for six bucks. Well, we didn't take into account that once we cooked that octopus off, that forty pounds became eighteen pounds.

And so all the loss in that, we didn't capture that in the pricing, so we were really giving away octopus for way less than you could buy it anywhere in the world, probably. And we did the same for scallops and lamb chops, and uh we were kind of getting busier and busier and losing more and more money. Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. Build. Guy Roz and on the show today, how three childhood friends who grew up on Greek food launched a restaurant and found just the right guy to help them grow it. From a struggling sit down.

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