All right, so I run this company called Hampton, which is a private community for founders and CEOs.

And on the back end of Hampton, members can log in and they can explore different perks we have. They can check out events near them. They can connect with each other, whatever. It's awesome. But the point is, is that like five years ago, this would have been impossible for me to do because I'm not technical or it would require me to hire a big tech team. But we really just use this platform called Bubble, which is basically a way to make these amazing web applications without running a single line of code. Now here's the thing, even though with Bubble you don't use code, it can be a little bit complicated. And so there's this agency that I love, it's called Zero Code. That's spelled Z-E-R-O-Q-O-D-E. They're the biggest plug-in builder for platform that creates web, mobile, AI applications without any code, which means it's super easy and fast to build custom solutions for CRMs, marketplaces, custom dashboards, and it's all without code, which means it's extremely affordable. And by the way, the member of

Zero Code, they are a member of Hampton, so I've gotten to know them, and a bunch of our community members have gotten to know them, and I've seen what they've had to say about Zero Code and using their company, they love it. So if you need any type of application built, and you want to use a no-code solution that I love and I endorse is called zero code. So that's

Z-E-R-O-Q-O-D-E.com.

Again, zero-code.com, and that's Code with a Q.

It's 100% true that having a single restaurant is a terrible business.

I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Opening a restaurant is a sexy idea that so many of us dream of doing someday. But making great food, that's the easy part.

The reality of the cash flow and the chaos can be brutal.

You need to be around eight figures, 10 million in EBITA profits to have an exit.

Most never get close to that. The ones that do are operating on a whole other level

which we're going to learn all about today. There's basically three ingredients that you need.

In this episode of MoneyWise, Guy Allen is going to show us exactly what it takes to survive in the food business.

The chaos, the turnover, the nights that never end, and the way for thin margins.

Restaurants chew people up, but Guy's building something different.

It's a model powered by a loyal online following, tight margins, and a concept built around sushi's cult-like appeal.

Guy is not a celebrity chef. In fact, he started out in real estate tech, but somewhere along the way, the precision of sushi, the control and the ritual of it, it became an escape for him. And he's now built a social media following around all of that. And then he's turned it into his business. My name is Harry Morton and this is Money Wise. This is not a podcast about starting up. It's a show about

the realities of running a big business and the money that comes with it. It's made for the community

of founders over at Hampton. We'll talk a little bit more about it in a minute, but if you're curious

about it now and you're a founder doing at least three million in annual revenue, go and check it out

at joinhampton.com.

So before we talk about kind of the whole restaurant side of things, you spent 12 years in real estate tech, right?

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