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Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

216: How Perseverance & a Letter of Honesty Saved this Pizzeria (Nick Sarillo of Nick‘s Pizza & Pub) ⭐

Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

Careers, Business:careers, Business

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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0:00.0

Pizza Pizza Pizza Pizza Pizza

0:07.0

Hey guys just letting all you cool people out there know that yes this is not a regular

0:11.0

video on my channel. I just decided to make this when I was searching up on YouTube for

0:14.3

pizza pizza, little scissors clips and I realized that there are none so I decided to make

0:17.7

this video just to rectify that so now there is a full compilation of the little scissors

0:21.3

guys saying pizza pizza. Now that exists I've done one good deed in my life so far and this

0:26.4

has been it. I know there's a lot of restaurants but why not have a restaurant where you could

0:31.9

do both. Who said you can't do both? You could actually take the whole family out, the kids

0:37.0

get treated like first class citizens and you could have good quality food so that's

0:42.7

what really drove me to look at the opportunity to open a restaurant myself. I sent that letter

0:50.2

out and it's amazing what happened next. I learned that all those years of success I had

0:59.1

gave me a false sense of success and I didn't have enough cash in the bank. I didn't have

1:03.5

enough reserves. I wasn't looking at my balance sheet. I think the other struggle I came

1:09.4

across a lot is the first times I had people coming up to me and asking for a raise that

1:18.0

didn't feel right to me. I was like why are you asking me for a raise? I didn't like that

1:22.5

permission thing so my first question back to them was I don't know should you get a raise?

1:29.7

Then saying you got to come with me I want to go on another one and she was like no I

1:34.8

don't want to do that so I started doing more of my own we did less together and one thing

1:40.9

led to another. Hello I'm Nick Cyrillo and believe it or not I'm 58 years old right now and

1:50.8

mostly in the restaurant business here I'm actually in the Crystal Lake restaurant next

1:55.7

pizza and pub in Crystal Lake I also have another restaurant next pizza and pub in

2:00.9

Elgin as well so the restaurant business is what I've been in for the last 25 years

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