Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, August 4th.

Today on Forbes, the $100 million family-owned Greek restaurant empire taking on Nobu and

Carbon. It's lunchtime. taking on Nobu and Carbone.

It's lunchtime in midtown Manhattan,

an estiatorio Milos is bustling.

Inside the modern Greek restaurant that opened in 1997, a stone well from Crete a

modern Greek restaurant that opened in 1997, a stone well from Crete,

circa 1700, Greet's guests,

and a cascade of whole fish, prons,

and shellfish is displayed on a spotlighted mound of ice.

Emerging from the hum of business diners eating grilled octopus

is Kostas Spiliadis,

the 78-year-old founder of this flagship

and the restaurant empire behind it.

He sits down at a white tablecloth lined place setting and contemplates the freshest selection of the day.

Spiliatus begins to share the story of how he expanded the original

Milos in Montreal into an iconic New York seafood restaurant as well as ten

others spanning from Las Vegas to Dubai.

Four more, including in Palm Beach and Toronto, are nearly open.

In Greece, Spiliatus owns a boutique hotel in Athens,

as well as two yachts available for charter.

Those businesses are only the start of how he has been diversifying his luxury hospitality

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