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The B Team Podcast
Ep. 15 - Building Community Through Pizza and Milkshakes
Ever wondered how a small business can turn a natural disaster into an opportunity for community service? This episode of the B-Team Podcast brings you the inspiring story of Garrick and Bobbie, the dynamic duo behind Flashback Pizza and Milkshakes. These two passionate entrepreneurs postponed their grand opening to support their neighbors after a tornado hit downtown Rogers, Arkansas. Their resilience and dedication shine through as they share their journey from the closure of their previous venture, the Shire Gastropub, to the nostalgic and community-focused haven they've created today.
Imagine stepping into a pizzeria where the past comes alive, with trivia cards, arcade games, and even the bill presented in a Blockbuster VHS case. That's the magic of Flashback Pizza and Milkshakes, where Garrick and Bobbie have combined their deep roots in the pizza industry with a love for 80s and 90s culture. In this episode, we explore their commitment to making everything in-house and how their New York and East Coast heritage influences their culinary excellence. The nostalgic atmosphere isn't just a gimmick—it's a carefully crafted experience designed to bring families together in a world increasingly dominated by screens.
But the fun doesn’t stop at pizza. Dive into the fantastical world of their extravagant milkshakes, inspired by 80s and 90s classics like "ET" and "The Sandlot." We discuss the creativity and teamwork behind these concoctions and how they serve as a training ground for young workers. Garrick and Bobbie also share how they balance their corporate jobs, running a dog rescue, and managing a small farm, all while planning for the future of their restaurant, including potential expansion and themed events. Tune in for a heartfelt episode filled with community spirit, culinary innovation, and a dash of nostalgia.
Welcome to the B-Team Podcast. I am your host, josh Safran, with my co-host Atmaris and our permanent guest Rob Nelson. We're here every week to talk to you about all things Bentonville, bourbon and business. The B-Team Podcast Be here. Welcome to the B-Team Podcast.
Speaker 2:I'm your host, josh Safran, along with my co-host, matt Mars and our permanent guest Bob Nelson, bobby, yeah, I busted out the loudest Tommy Bahama shirt I could find, just to try to fit in with our guests.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't think you really do I mean, at least I'm in an effort A for effort A for effort, c for execution, par for the course with you Par for the course. But we're here every Thursday talking about all things Bentonville, business and bourbon and the past week or so, the last few days, we've had to tweak a little bit and talk about some really interesting and cool things going on in the community as far as helping folks that are very much in need. And I'm going to backwards pre-tornado and say I took my daughter for her birthday. She wanted to go to Flashback Pizza and Milkshakes and we have the owners here today. Two of the owners and my daughter was like Dad, this place is so cool and it was like pre-grand opening. It was soft opening place was packed, customer service was amazing, the arcade video games were cool. We were two straws drinking out of the milkshake and my daughter was like this place is awesome and uh, he was texting me pictures.
Speaker 2:He texted us and we're like we need them off the podcast they're kind of ridiculous milkshakes, right.
Speaker 4:I mean, the decor is kind of ridiculous.
Speaker 1:The whole thing is just so cool.
Speaker 4:The 80s and 90s was messy. Nothing was minimalist, right, it was crazy Just have fun.
Speaker 1:So we want to welcome Garrick and Bobby on today, two of the very talented owners of Flashback. You guys had a rough week, though we did, we did, we did.
Speaker 3:I think that all of downtown Rogers and northwest Arkansas throughout has really had a rough one, but you know, they say every cloud has a silver lining. We have had the opportunity to work with so many great people over this past week. We were supposed to have our grand opening on Tuesday, but with everything that's going on you know, we decided to put that on the back burner and just help the community. And so, and you know, like I was saying, what's a better way to meet your neighbors than to feed people? Right, that's right.
Speaker 1:But I want to pause on that because, as a small business owner myself, when you start to say, okay, there's money tied up in the business and you guys want to get open so you can start making money, because community and everything else, the goal in a business is to serve but also to be able to make money, and you guys have been so out there on social media right now pro-community. We don't care about our soft opening, we don't care about our grand opening, we're just going to put our time in it. And that, to me, has touched me probably more than anything. As great as my experience was watching what you guys have done post-tornado, like we don't really care about our brand today as far as driving business, but serving the community. How do you guys do that?
Speaker 4:I don't know, I think it's just all of us. When we got together the number. My husband and I worked in corporate for many, many years. I still work in corporate as my day job, but we also run a dog rescue for, um, special needs dogs. And when we met them and we got together, like the one thing we all agreed on was like we want to be different, we don't want to be toxic, want to change. Thing we all agreed on was like we want to be different, we don't want to be toxic, we want to change. You know our part in the industry. We want to make sure we're part of this community. We have love of this town, we love these people, and so it was just natural. I think it was just we all couldn't.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean. So I'm going to give you just a tiny bit of a back story. This all came to fruition. Yeah yeah, we my business partner.
Speaker 4:There's a lot of drinking.
Speaker 2:There was, you don't know.
Speaker 1:I've watched it.
Speaker 2:That was your last idea. That's the best thing to do so.
Speaker 3:My business partner my other business partner couldn't be here today Dustin Simmons. He's the executive chef. We like to call him the silent backbone of what we're doing here. He and I ran a restaurant downtown Rogers called the Shire Gastropub and we had that under our belt for about two years. The owner of the building wanted to sell and he gave us first crack at it and said boys, it's only $1.8 million, you guys want it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, let me write that check today.
Speaker 3:It will bounce, I promise yeah. So we had to come up with something else and on our very last day of being open we threw a big ol' hurrah right, a thank you to our employees, a goodbye to Downtown Rogers and the community that's been our home for a couple of years. Bobby came up to me.
Speaker 4:We were dressed in Alice in Wonderland costumes.
Speaker 3:I was going to leave that part out.
Speaker 4:I was going to leave that part out.
Speaker 3:I was going to leave that part out. You're a part of the podcast. Here we go. It was my birthday.
Speaker 4:It was his birthday. My husband's birthday was the week before, and I love Alice in Wonderland because it's kind of quirky, and so we brought costumes for them and a couple other people Tweedledee and Tweedledee Perfect, I was Alice, my husband was the Mad Hatter, so we were all in this Alice in Wonderland theme, so keep that mental eye, right, your mind's eye, bobby comes up to me.
Speaker 3:It's the end of the night. She holds my hands and she says we're not done with you and neither is Downtown Rogers. We're going to figure this out. Which beautiful sentiment. I also didn't know what that entailed at all. You know it was. It was beautiful tears. Well, the next day my phone rang and it was Ms Bobby Wolf and she said you know, my husband and I want to go out to dinner with you and your business partner. And it was one of the craziest business meetings we've ever had, because there were so little shop talk. There was getting to know each other. What makes you tick, what makes me tick? And at the end of the day it turned out that we're all a bunch of nerds and we all have a little passion for the days gone by.
Speaker 4:I will say it's probably the one time you'll see the Gen X and Millennials get along.
Speaker 3:Hey, we respect you guys, but for you to say that you were just a customer, right, you were just a customer of theirs.
Speaker 1:So to have that bond to say I don't know what?
Speaker 2:I'm going to do, but I want to do business with you guys. But you saw something when you went there.
Speaker 4:clearly, yeah, so we're really big foodies, we're really big into downtown eating everywhere, like Levi's, havana. You know like we're and we prefer like local places. And so the Shire had become like our go-to, like Wednesday night bingo the parties, because nobody else was doing that. Nobody else made you feel like you were walking into Cheers right, like nobody else made you feel like, except I mean like we've been going to Levi's for years and years but you know it wasn't like, it wasn't somewhere you wanted to hang out.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And that's what we would miss. And so that's what we, when we talked, I was like at the party, I was drinking and I was like man you guys need to. You need to care to like Gen X, because we're the ones with the money, but not really, but like we are like the fuck around and find out. I'm sorry, I don't know if you're allowed to swim. But you know that generation is forgotten, right, but there's so many cool things from the 80s and 90s that people love.
Speaker 1:So whose idea was this?
Speaker 4:Nostalgia.
Speaker 3:It's kind of all of ours. It was all of ours. It was well, let's talk about how did it get you to write a thing in college that would literally have us all?
Speaker 4:I went back to college when I was like 34 and got my degree, my bachelor's degree and my business. You know you have to write like an entrepreneurial business plan for when you're final thesis or whatever and it was literally a bar called Wolf and Reds where you had like board games and different things like that, you know trivia. And then what they were doing was like Trivia Tuesday and the bingo and stuff like that. And then you know he's just a very colorful personality and he kind of brings it out.
Speaker 1:I'm never a guest.
Speaker 4:Right. And so my husband is kind of he's the guy that's like I don't like people, but he's also never, ever met a stranger. And so it just all came together and we all kind of really just clicked really well.
Speaker 3:And, yeah, we just started throwing ideas out. How did it get to pizza? Oh, so, that's easy. So Dustin, who's not here today he and I met 15 years ago and we had one of those kind of stepbrothers moments where we looked at each other across the line and we're like, did we just become best?
Speaker 2:friends.
Speaker 3:It was when we were running Mellow Mushroom down here in Pinnacle. So that was our baby for four years. We managed it, we ran it. We were part of the opening team for the Little Rock location. I used to say that marinara runs through these veins. Pizza was always something I wanted to go back to. I don't know if you, gentlemen, have ever worked in a kitchen. You had a pizza place, didn't you?
Speaker 2:I've worked in multiple pizza places. I've owned multiple pizza places. I love pizza.
Speaker 3:You know exactly, I love pizza. There is nothing quite like. So we make our dough in-house daily. We make our sauce in-house daily. Talking about love lines.
Speaker 1:Dude, you know, and we're also New Yorkers. The sauce appears and we're also New Yorkers.
Speaker 4:Yeah, oh sauce. This is a whole different world for us From Pittsburgh. Okay, I know, two different sides, right, but East Coast pizza it's like hey, it's New York style here.
Speaker 1:It's either New York or it's not.
Speaker 4:The sauce they came out. It's simple they grind the tomatoes and it's a couple other ingredients and it's simple and that's how about the cheese to me cheese all the cheese.
Speaker 3:So we're not skimping on our cheese it's so bad. Burrito is so good yeah, if you see on any of our videos you'll see our cheese full is immaculate. That is not done with any glue or anything. You see on tiktok, like we have oh legit yeah, legit cheese it's good stuff.
Speaker 1:well, when I came in I think it was you probably you came out from the back and you go hey, everybody, this is how we're flipping the pizza and you're talking to the crowd and I'm like who is this guy? I'm like, hell, yeah, that's what you wanted.
Speaker 4:So when we do our grand opening, we're going to have things like that, where he starts playing the Vader march and they'll come out and start flipping pizzas, or we have songs, come on and the whole staff will start singing and dancing and get the crowd into it, I might have to jump in there one of the great things.
Speaker 4:We'll talk some back and forth, yeah have seen with people and we've heard from customers is that they're putting their phones down, they're playing arcade games with their kids, they're explaining what things are and like the trivia cards that they said weren't a good idea or yeah thank you sorry I thought it was ridiculous yeah right, she wanted to put trivia cards on all the table and I was like no one's gonna ever touch those bobby.
Speaker 3:I promise you that, everybody.
Speaker 1:I was so wrong I'm gonna tell you what I was the biggest surprise because I haven't told these guys about my whole experience and, by the way, the food was good. We talked about all all the time here, but the experience was over the moon amazing. You can get good food anywhere at Northwest Arkansas, but the experience on top of it was amazing. I didn't tell you this, but when they bring out the bill, the bill was in an old blockbuster movie case and you open it up and my daughter goes what is this? And?
Speaker 1:I'm like this and she's like do you know this movie I'm daughter goes. What is this?
Speaker 4:and I'm like this and she's like do you know this movie? I'm like, yeah, like they have a little blockbuster, yeah, you should have a lot to source those expensive, I imagine we have a friend uh jordan wigley. He opened, uh, ozark retro and he helped us source a lot of our stuff, um, so that's what he does on the side, and so all the movie posters are original, um, so we have the blockbuster cases, we have some Michael Jackson original stuff.
Speaker 3:The blockbuster cases. That's so cool. When I first got into the industry, I had a manager who used to always tell me that you know, a host is the first and last impression that you get in a restaurant. So to make it a gift, right? We don't have a host. So I was like, how do we go out? With a little pizzazz? And so Dustin came up with the idea. I'll never forget it because I'm driving home and I'm almost there and the phone rings and I answer and he goes VHS, vhs boxes. And I was like what are you on about? He's like Blockbuster VHS boxes.
Speaker 2:And I was, like Bubba, speak in sentences please.
Speaker 3:Use your words, he's like we are going to drop off every check in an old school legit blockbuster, vhs and I mean, to your point, one of my favorite things that I have seen. That I really didn't expect. I mean, I've got four boys so introducing them to a lot of the stuff they grew up with Back to the Future Terminator, breakfast Club, these are things, those are staples. Yeah, exactly so, they knew it. Top Gun, top Gun, come on, fans Goonies.
Speaker 3:Yeah, goonies, never say die, but it's watching the older generation pass on some information to this younger generation. I watched a dad sit there. We have emulators on our four booths that have everything from PlayStation 1, super Nintendo, sega Genesis on there, and so you could sit there and you could play all these different Atari games.
Speaker 3:We have handhelds too. I watched this dad step by step. He gave his son the sticks. Son couldn't have been more than nine, eight. He gave his sons the sticks and he was walking his son through the Legend of Zelda on Super Nintendo. Oh jeez, that's another great game.
Speaker 3:It was goosebump-inducing, you know, because this kid was experiencing it for the first time. The dad was experiencing it through his son's eyes and I was like this is what it's about through his son's eyes. And I was like this is what it's about. I say it a lot that you know we are in the business of making pizzas, but we are also in the business of selling nostalgia.
Speaker 1:Love that and it's real you know, but I'll tell you for me this was funny. So we sit down and we're sitting at the bar. You guys were packed, couldn't get to the table. Lionel's like 45 minutes. I go line was like 45 minutes and I go this better be good because they hit the bar my daughter's on her phone. On my phone I go hey, let's walk up to the arcade.
Speaker 1:So they had gallagher there so my daughter goes what is this, let me show you? And so she's watching me. Now I'm back in my teens, so then I go back and she's up there, so she's playing the game. It was so cool, like it's something that she and I will talk about for a long time. And, by the way, the pizza was great and we'll get to the milkshakes, but you can't recreate that. That moment was just amazing and she so appreciated that and we talked about that game multiple times since then.
Speaker 4:And it was really important to us that we made the arcades free, because we've had people tell us I can actually come have a date night, I can send my kids to the arcade, I see where they are, it's free, they're not burning a hole in my pocket and I can have a conversation with my spouse and enjoy our food right. That's huge, and so that was really important to us that we kept all of that free and we have a ton of board games and card games.
Speaker 2:We keep building on that, it's more of an or an experience. I mean it's an experience, yeah.
Speaker 4:We want you to come and feel like it's Cheers and you're hanging out with your friends and it's been amazing to see people come back and, yeah, just like see people connect and that's what's been really great for us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we've got to talk about the milkshakes.
Speaker 4:There.
Speaker 1:We've got to talk about the milkshakes because there are a lot of good pizza places in town my house makes dumb pizza your pizza is very good, your pizza is very good.
Speaker 1:But then you see the milkshakes and the name. By the way, the names are all themed towards the 80s and 90s, which again super cool. So I'm trying to explain to my daughter what half the stuff means Love her. And then so we're seeing the milkshake and she goes that's a big one because you have a milkshake station with these guys making the milkshakes and it's like hey, the little one. But then when you're making the 20 ouncers and I'm watching the whole- process the fire with the marshmallows, and yeah.
Speaker 1:It was like you almost don't want to eat it, and so the whole milkshake thing. And so then we have the two straws and we'll drink out of the side Again. The milkshake was delicious, but watching these guys craft these milkshakes was like nothing I've ever seen before it was almost like being in a high-end bourbon bar where they're doing like the smoker. That's what I felt, like on a milkshake. It wasn't a milkshake, it was the experience of creating this thing, which was then delicious.
Speaker 3:Just wait until you try our boozy milkshakes, oh man.
Speaker 1:We're going to dig you up. So who came up with the idea of these high-end crazy?
Speaker 3:milkshakes. So that would be our silent backbone. That would be Dustin. He went to Brightwater University. He and I have been running and gunning for 17 years running different restaurants. I've been his boss, he's been my boss. We've co-owned things together. I've been his boss, he's been my boss, we've co-owned things together. And you know so, whenever we kind of all got together, you know he was like all right, I got the menu. And so to your point on the names.
Speaker 3:Give us some of the names. Oh, dude, I would love to. So if you are talking about our milkshakes specifically, you go on the bottom row. It's the big ones, they're as big as my head. Bottom row, that's the big ones, they're as big as my head. And, gentlemen, I know you can see I got a big head Four ways in one. Hey, that's true. So we got the ET, the extraterrestrial, of course you think about ET. What do you think of Reese's Pieces? Reese's, so we're throwing Reese's Pieces inside there. Then what do you think of? You think of ET jumping over the moon, so you have a whole moon pie in there. Oh my gosh. Then we want to put Nutty Buddies in the side. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Then we hit it with more cream.
Speaker 3:Oh my, favorite Right and then more Reese's Pieces on top of that. The Sandlot, that's my favorite. The Sandlot was a lot of fun. It was the last one to go onto the menu and I'll give you a peek behind the curtain One of those young men that are making those milkshakes two of them are my sons. Okay, so we're also making this a family thing. Yeah, I have a lot of family members at our house and they're I mean, we wouldn't be where we are today without you know. Her brother-in-law and sister have been integral to helping us get this thing set up started. Handyman work we have my two sons who are working in there.
Speaker 3:How big is the place Small About as big?
Speaker 2:as this 2,000.
Speaker 1:It's a two-day trip.
Speaker 4:Like we outgo it day two, but it's well utilized.
Speaker 2:Every single piece of square footage is very well utilized, but sometimes, if it's too big, you lose yeah.
Speaker 4:I mean Dustin runs a very good kitchen. I don't know how he does it, I don't know how he organizes it and they get it out, and it took us a little bit to get the flow, but I mean it's incredible. But yeah, the milkshake makers, I mean that was a chance for us to also kind of give young kids a chance. You just have to be 19 to serve.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the state of Arkansas. If you have a liquor license and they're selling liquor, you cannot serve unless you're 19. So how do we give, you know, those younger cats who want to get into the industry? They want to see how things work and, you know, cut their teeth, as I say.
Speaker 4:Well, we've got a milkshake station Behind the milkshake there you go Football players working with us MJ, one of our owners. He mentors and coaches a lot and he's really big into that, and so a lot of his kids that he mentors work there. And they came in to interview he had them with resumes. They were dressed to the nines. They were ready to go right, and so that's what we're hoping to. Foster, too, is really giving people, one of the owners.
Speaker 1:When I was there, he was behind the bar, uh, and his daughter was working. She she was young, yep, and you could see her like and so she was trying to watch dad and she actually like spilled on her table, she knocked over. She knocked over like a couple of garlic knots and you could see her like patio. It's all good, like everything it's all good, and everybody was as sweet as you. But you know well, we'll talk about like google and reviews and customers, but she was, she was like I'm like the food, the experience, everything was amazing. And I'm texting these guys. I'm like we got to have them on the podcast because what you guys have done is is first class and, on top of it, what you're doing now in the community is I I mean, I've been texting Bobby for a week or two and I sure you guys still want to come to the podcast. Yeah, we'll be here. Like I know you guys are just jam packed with stuff and we appreciate you making the time hey we're happy to be here.
Speaker 3:This is very exciting and I think I mentioned this is a both of Hopefully not last.
Speaker 2:Oh, we'll see. Oh yeah, but yeah no.
Speaker 4:I mean it's. You know, like my husband and I, we still work our corporate day jobs. We both work in technology, we work remote for big companies.
Speaker 1:Big companies.
Speaker 4:Yep, big companies, not companies. Here we actually work remote for a company in Seattle Oregon both of those and he works for a health care company in St Louis, but yeah, we both work remote in technology during the day. And then we also have a dog rescue that we run. So we have 17 dogs we take care of during the day as well. So we have a small farm and then the restaurant. So if it wasn't for these guys like we couldn't do it because they run. You know, the day-to-day in the face of it, right, restaurant business is not easy. You know. I handle small things like payroll and the finances.
Speaker 3:Small things.
Speaker 4:You know, maybe license.
Speaker 1:But how do you guys divide and conquer? Because there's five owners. My business is my wife and I, and we fight all the time and there's always this overlap of who's in what lane.
Speaker 3:So how do you guys stay out of each other's hair? No, we fight, we fight, we fight. I'm mom, yeah, so I am going to throw this out there real quick.
Speaker 4:I could not possibly look like I'm your mother. I know Stop.
Speaker 2:Man, I want a pepperoni pizza. I mean, it is so bad.
Speaker 3:And we'll bring it pies. Yeah, um, so whenever we were curating all of our stuff, there was a lot of uh, weird, nerdy things that we already had. Uh, they had, we, uh, we all had. We all just kind of brought that together.
Speaker 4:Then it was filling in the pieces right going to different, uh, antique malls and things to that effect oh, I will say, when you look up above the arcade, all those star Wars action figures are actually my husband's from when he was a kid.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, he's 49.
Speaker 4:So those are all original.
Speaker 3:Okay, fine, Check this out. If you look above the arcade, you'll see a bunch of Nintendo 64 games. Well, not mine, they were no sorry.
Speaker 1:I was going to give it to you.
Speaker 3:It was Dustin's, so we're curating all this stuff going to the antique malls.
Speaker 4:Well, there's this one retro.
Speaker 3:Yeah it's the retro one on Walnut they opened not long ago so we went in there. They had these really wild off-color purple and aqua booths color purple and like aqua booths.
Speaker 4:It's original, the original vinyl from a nightclub out of Hot Springs in the 80s.
Speaker 3:It was the original vinyl album.
Speaker 3:And it looks like original. Where is that hanging up now? No, no, those are our booths in the restaurant. If you noticed our booths and you'll see it's like this aqua purple. They're weird. You're like where did you find those? Well, dustin and I went in in there and we were like yo, we need those for the restaurant. They're like not for sale. We said, okay, not a problem. So a week later she goes in with her sister, auntie rita, and uh, she goes in with her sister and her. Uh, the lady's like, oh wait, you guys are with Flashback, we met your sons.
Speaker 4:They were so lovely. Do I look like I'm 45? I'm 36.
Speaker 1:You're going to say you're not her sister. There you go. That's what Joe's doing.
Speaker 3:So ever since then she's been.
Speaker 2:he tells mom now he so does he's like uh-oh, here comes mom, With her being the money person you guys are going to have to call her that.
Speaker 4:That's true when you see our next promo video of the 90s intro of like hey, and then the nickname I'm the mom.
Speaker 2:So tell us more about your menu Pizza, milkshakes and then so we did have just.
Speaker 3:Did you like specialty pizza? Yes, we're going to do a if not monthly, probably like every couple weeks. We're going to have like a specialty pie. Okay, we're calling our weekly chef special. We're also going to be obviously running a happy hour, but we're going to be doing something kind of for the kids.
Speaker 2:After school special.
Speaker 3:It's called the after school special and it's going to be run from 3 to 5. There's a lot of kids in the downtown Rogers area with Haas Hall. There's a new school coming in there, the Argo Arts Academy. There's a Heritage Heritage Boys and girls. A lot of those kids don't have places to go after school, waiting for mom or dad to get off at 5 o'clock, right. Kids don't have places to go after school, waiting for mom or dad to get off at 5 o'clock, right. Well, a lot of the restaurants and places will kind of shoo kids out if they're not, you know, bringing in that cheddar. Well, we all have kids. We all understand what it is to create a safe place, a safe haven for kids. So why not give them, like, a slice of pizza and a Coke for $5? Something like that, you know.
Speaker 1:And they can play they can just wait, and you know. And, by the way, they'll bring mom and dad back at some point to spend the chatter you already know.
Speaker 4:So when she gets out of school, like obviously we work corporate jobs so we can go pick her up and wait in the school line. So we pick her up around 5, 5, 30, so she's been hanging out, you know, either at the park or in bad weather. We do have some friends with other businesses and like well, she wanders, great.
Speaker 4:So she'll hang out in there, you know, if it's raining or whatever. But now she just goes straight to the restaurant and you know that's important to me. I know where she is, I know she is, I know she's safe. You know, not like downtown rogers is crazy, but sure. But it's good that if it's raining I can just be like, or the other. You know, last week when I had tornado watches and stuff before all of this hit, I was like hey, go straight to the restaurant, your uncle pick you up or whatever. Right, like, I know she's safe, I know they would. You know she knows the whole staff. She's 13 and they're like she's savage. I'm like no, she's fair, I'm.
Speaker 2:And where exactly are you located?
Speaker 3:105 South 3rd Street. We were right across from the Methodist Church. It was formerly B-List on the bricks and before that it was Hoppus Hawaiian Grill, so we're right on the corner, kind of the precipice of entering downtown Rogers.
Speaker 4:Which is why we have the bright picnic tables and umbrellas and lights.
Speaker 3:We did have umbrellas.
Speaker 4:They're on order. They're coming back.
Speaker 2:We're going to do that, scouting so many young umbrellas. They're not there anymore, so we were tired of bringing them in every night.
Speaker 1:So my husband and I was like, you know, you've got to secure those somehow.
Speaker 4:He's like I got it and he's an engineer, Like he's an engineer, and so he secured these umbrellas at the hose table so well.
Speaker 3:Hose clamps.
Speaker 4:None of them came out, but they all snapped off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's when you know you did it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they didn't go off, but they were snapped clean off, every single one of them, every single one.
Speaker 4:I was like you did a great job. But yeah, they're coming back, but we wanted to make it like really pop, really fun. You know we're dog-friendly on the patio.
Speaker 2:All right, so you have an outdoor patio? Yes, we have an outdoor patio.
Speaker 4:We can see what.
Speaker 3:So it's no, it's like 40-ounce side and 60-ounce side.
Speaker 2:So that's a good group, good size yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but every time you go I've driven past one. There's always a line, and and the cool thing again to me is anything new in town gets a line. You guys have seemed to have a sustainable line, right.
Speaker 4:And that's all without alcohol. So far, right, and so we're really interested to see what happens when we debut our suite.
Speaker 1:You guys may need to expand.
Speaker 3:It's in the business plan. This has been. We did one month of a soft opening where we really just kind of got our legs underneath us. You know our feet wet, as they would probably say.
Speaker 4:More than we could have ever anticipated.
Speaker 3:Right, yeah, the reception from Northwest Arkansas has been. You know there's nothing like us. Out there you have the cool cat who runs Arcadia in Fayetteville. Such an amazing man I don't know if you guys have been there. Retro arcade games from wall to wall as far as I could see, and he's a good person. He's a good man. But over here, bedmill Rogers area, you know there's nothing like that. So, also, barring Dave and Buster's, you know where can you go and get dinner and play video games and you know A milkshake that's massive and we're also going to be renting out on Sundays to private parties.
Speaker 4:Okay, that's good, because you guys are closed on Sundays and Mondays, but Sundays you'll be able to rent for a private party. You'll be able to cater your own menu. You'll be able to make it simple. You'll be able to have bar service, whatever you decide, but we wanted to also make that more affordable for people too, so we're lower than the typical birthday party at an arcade. The arcades are all free, and so we just wanted to make that. We have kids and it breaks the bank sometimes to have a birthday party.
Speaker 1:But you guys are to me party, but you guys are having fun right and again very stressful. You're opening a business, you have a tornado and even today, the dynamic with you guys, that to me, is the secret sauce. And so people say to me hey, you're going to open up a second business. I thought the food was great, but the whole experience and what you guys bring is something that's not replicatable in the community and that, to me, was the most impressive thing.
Speaker 4:I mean his kids call me Nana. Now, that's true.
Speaker 3:I mean well, this has become more than a business partnership. You know, for Easter we went over to the Wolf's house and we're having meals together, we're breaking bread and you know, I trust them implicitly with my children and, well, I guess, my wallet, everything. You know we're doing this together and I think we have a really concise idea of what we want to be. With our last restaurant that Dustin and I ran, we almost had kind of an identity crisis. Were we a venue? Were we identity crisis? Were we a venue? Were we a bar? Were we a restaurant? Were we? You know all these things, but right now we kind of know what we want to be. It's that cheers vibe. When we come in and we recognize you, we say, hey, what's up? We haven't seen you in a while, like, how have you been? It makes a difference?
Speaker 2:I think it does.
Speaker 4:And when you have the owners coming around talking to you, that always makes people feel good.
Speaker 1:We talk about that all the time. When a manager comes over, a host comes over, it's nice when the owner comes over and says how are you guys again today? Mr Mars, good to see you. Mr Nelson, you go whoa Like the owner is taking the time to do it.
Speaker 4:There's, or he's taking the time to do it Like there's something there. Yeah, one of my favorite things about House 1830 is he will come over. We've been there and he will tell you have you ever eaten this before? And he'll tell you how to eat it the traditional way or this way, and I love that and he's just so genuine and so kind and we love going there. The food's amazing, but it's just the atmosphere too right.
Speaker 4:I think hour back as well, yeah, but I mean also like our staff, like it's really important for us that our staff be treated well, they're paid well, um, they're happy, um, you know, like the other day they were, I mean our staff. We had four of them that had either total loss or significant damage to their homes and instead of taking care of themselves on sunday, they came in and served yeah, we didn't.
Speaker 3:we didn't ask anybody to. We let them know what we were doing and pretty much my entire staff showed up and they started throwing down. What can we do to help? What can we do? Where do we need to go? People standing on the street corner hollering free food, hot meals, making?
Speaker 4:up bags.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we had one of our servers, brittany. She is just an ace, an ace. She went to Dollar General and just bought all these little toys for kids and then made kid bags for any child that was in line. So they, just for a brief second, didn't have to think about not going home to a house without power or something like that. Just little toys, little things like that. But that's also what makes us different, is like we want to do things like that. Just little toys, little things like that. But that's also what makes us different is like we want to do things like that. You know, we want to be that little special. I think you said it earlier. We want to break the mold and we want to change the piece of the industry we're in.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean, we can't change the industry.
Speaker 3:You can't. It's always going to be toxic. It's always going to be crazy. It's always going to be toxic, it's always going to be crazy, it's going to be cutthroat. But we could do our part in our own little neck of the woods.
Speaker 4:One of our people in the kitchen, laquetta.
Speaker 1:she was like I actually like coming to work and seeing my coworkers and I don't know how to feel about that, but if you think about that, though, that is rare and super dynamic. Work is work and going on vacation is going on vacation, coming to work and saying I love being there.
Speaker 2:You serious Wait for Rob Going on vacation.
Speaker 1:Rob just got back from a two-week vacation. He's going out in two more days, so we all want to come back and be like Rob.
Speaker 4:Beautiful and that would be ideal.
Speaker 1:I bet that young lady in the back room would love to be on vacation with Rob. However, the reality is you'd love to get up in the morning and go to work, and when the alarm goes off and you go, shit, I got to go to work today. It's not a great feeling because you can go up and down Walnut or Walden and get a job anywhere else, but when you guys are building what you're building, people want to go to work. That's special. That says a lot about you guys.
Speaker 4:And we're letting them you know hey, there's a checklist, right, you do 90% of this stuff for 30 days. You can get this many hours of PTO and you can let it build, right, so then you can get time off, part-time, full-time, whatever you know. Eventually, when we can start making more, you know, making ends meet better we want to be able to provide benefits and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:That's really really important to us, that we treat people really well see, and this was just gonna call you out for it, oh, but that's corporate side of her brain, that is not industry brain. I've never heard anything like that. My business partner I've never even thought paid time off, paid time off, we don't get weekends, you know?
Speaker 3:yeah, you work whatever, yeah so when mama bear came out, she was like this is how we want to do this on this one he's like you're just gonna have to embrace yeah my husband looks like a bear or something more like a sasquatch, it's like six foot six big old dude, um, but this was conversations that we had at the very beginning, really before we had sussed out who we are, what our identity was or what we were going to do.
Speaker 3:She had these ideas that she wanted to implement, you know, and it's about taking care of our employees, it's about making it a better place, doing our small little part, and so that's why, when we went into the relief mode, it was just all hands on deck and you know, like I said, before we got on here, we had so many, so many donations from the owner of Jiffy Quick giving us free propane to grill with all of the pizza that she had in house. We cooked off bread to make sandwiches with All of the pizza that she had in house. We cooked off bread to make sandwiches with. We had Levi's Gastro Lounge donating meat so we could make burgers.
Speaker 4:They gave us a whole cooler.
Speaker 1:We had Parkside Public donating and by the way, these are technically all competitors. What I mean by competitors? Somebody's going to Downtown Rogers. They're going to choose a restaurant. They're choosing between you guys and the fact that you guys all came together.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:NOLA's 100% 100% Incredible, I mean.
Speaker 4:They're cooking at Texar.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, Tomorrow. So one of our good friends, the old lady I actually graduated high school with, Hannah Sessioni, is the owner of Tar House in downtown Rogers. She has invited us out of the sun because we don't have any shade over where we are and they got some shade over there. So tomorrow, from 3 o'clock until we run out of food, it is going to be flashback pizza and milkshake coupling with Tar House and we are going to be throwing down free, free, free, free food for anybody who doesn't have electricity, anybody who needs something we're also going to be at. There's going to be a band out there. It's going to be a free concert, man you like, free.
Speaker 2:Let's go. I was sitting there trying to decide about it like.
Speaker 4:We've had so many business owners reach out and Paul from the Music Depot has reached out to make sure we're okay. He's come down to help us out. We've had just people from all over.
Speaker 3:Aaron Kimball, the owner of TCB Boxing has brought his entire gym out to help in this endeavor, passing out food, going and running. At a point we put out an all-call If someone was trapped in their home or you're elderly and you can't get out. We had people driving meals to people who couldn't get out.
Speaker 1:But I can't minimize this for a second and I want to go back to this again. You're a business that's invested money. We talked about this a few times. Business costs money to run and start.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, we're broke right now. You guys are wrong.
Speaker 1:So while there's money in the business and there's no, woe is me it's like forget all that. We're going to be great when we open and we'll have what happens. But I'm all about the community very unselfish, very like that says a lot about you guys.
Speaker 4:It really does it says a lot about DTR.
Speaker 1:I think. There's definitely a lot of DTR.
Speaker 4:They have welcomed us. Every business down there has been so kind. Wolf and Wander was there opening day. Obviously I do a lot of business with them because I've rescued them, but the owners from that shop were there opening day. A lot of the owners from the other businesses came in and so they were just really welcoming and it never felt like a competition, which was shocking to me. It never felt like a competition.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I mean we do, we have, there's definitely money in play.
Speaker 4:And that's the point of it all right.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:But we want to. But it's to me it's making other people successful too, right? So, like our staff that works for us to be able to have a path, them to be able to move up, but what?
Speaker 1:you are doing right now is and we talk about it at our business all the time is you are investing in the community, investing in people, investing in your brand, and when the door is open, it's going to be fluggy. It's like people will repay this back to you guys tenfold, and that's not why you're doing it. You guys are doing it because you're amazing human beings. But people will now say, all right, we're open, let's go. If I have a place to go for dinner, I'm gonna go to Flashback and I wanna bring people there, and you guys will absolutely achieve all of the value and benefits on the back end. There's no doubt. I mean my sister and my brother.
Speaker 4:And so they were delivering meals to the firefighters. For a couple days they were taking boxes of food over Mackenzie, one of our servers. She's just amazing. She has a great personality.
Speaker 3:She can bring people to either shell Very loud, very loud, but that's what we love about her.
Speaker 4:Sometimes she was just out there just bringing people to either shell, talking to people. We just have an amazing staff.
Speaker 3:I can't say enough good things about them so I think I mentioned I moved here from california in 1997 and why where my parents. You know, you know you don't get a choice. But where our restaurant is, it is literally a stone's throw from where I moved when I was a kid. I am from downtown Rogers. That is my home, that is.
Speaker 4:How old were you in?
Speaker 3:1997? I was 10.
Speaker 1:Oh God, that's really great, never mind, I got one more drink. You guys are both babies.
Speaker 2:You can feel better about yourself.
Speaker 3:But it was always going to play out like this. If there was ever a disaster or anything like this this is my home, these are my friends, these are my family, so if there's anything that we could do, we were going to do it Right off the jump. You, you know. We have no electricity, so we had to start making pizzas because we had gas yeah, it was like hey, our oven works right, our oven works.
Speaker 3:You know we don't smell gas and uh, and then the continuation of it was really just the community coming in and just they kept bringing. We had someone who donated an entire flat of dog food to people. We had a truck bed that they went to sam's clit and bought them out of like pringles so we could give pringles out to people. You know water, pot water, I mean it's just the community kept us going, it wasn't? I mean?
Speaker 4:it was us for the first day and after that it was everybody else, like we were just provided, like they were probably labor. I mean, it was us for the first day and after that it was everybody else, like we were just provided, like they were probably labor. I mean, these are not the girl, I don't know how long I did.
Speaker 3:I'm blistered. I've looked at that pig. Yeah, that pig, it's gross.
Speaker 1:I want to shift gears real quick. Um, your social media is fantastic. On top of that, some of the clips are hysterical. They're funny like who's coming up with the stuff that you guys are doing? It's brilliant.
Speaker 3:We have a good friend named Elijah, but he is known in most circles as the Magician Uncle Funk.
Speaker 2:Magician Uncle Funk. That's what we call him.
Speaker 1:Oh Don't fake the funk. You're a nasty dimmock.
Speaker 3:So he's been integral in helping us come up with different ideas. I'm not really a TikTok person. I don't really delve into that world.
Speaker 4:I just like to watch those funny videos. I'm too old for that.
Speaker 3:But he has a knack for this and he's like, hey, I think this would be really funny, hey, this would be great. And uh, one of our last videos that we did it was it was a classic like you splash them, you lock the door on them, they're trying to bang to get in and then you say a blurb right, well, it was the middle of the day, we had like a 12 top in there and it was a family and we had just been kind of it was like moms and their kids those last day of school. We were just kind of going back and forth and and I was like, do you guys want to be in one of our little videos? And, uh, gave them the idea, they said, all right, we'll be on, we'll be in your video. You can splash this water under two conditions, okay.
Speaker 3:So one, you make all the kids milkshakes, it's not a problem. Done, do that, done. Two, don't tell the kids what you're doing and uh, so, yeah, we're, we're trying to make things fun. We're also trying to make things original, I think, uh, bobby um mentioned so for our opening. This is something that hasn't debuted yet, but it will soon. I want you to think about Full House and that entrance of the Golden Gate Bridge and they're just like my, you know. So we have done our own like 90s sitcom entrance with every single one of us, from me talking to a table shooting finger guns, to Dustin throwing pizza.
Speaker 3:Then he's like oh hey, it's so good, it hurts. Have you posted that? Yet no Whose idea is that that's my friend, uncle Funk, uncle Funk.
Speaker 2:Who else would do that? I think we need to get Uncle Fowler. You do's my friend, uncle Funk. Uncle Funk, who else would be? I think we need to get Uncle Funk.
Speaker 1:You do I'll?
Speaker 2:bring Uncle Funk.
Speaker 4:Where's Uncle Funk today? He eats there like legit three times a day.
Speaker 3:He's not even an employee, no, he's an owner. He's a friend of mine. He eats there three times a day. We need friends like that.
Speaker 4:We don't charge him because I'm like dude, you're going to make a video. It's fine, what do you want? So I'll tell you yeah, he's great.
Speaker 3:Have you guys been around here for a while? Mm-hmm, okay, do you remember the Ryans over on Walnut? Oh, yeah, okay, there was a family night that they would do. I don, he'd come over, he'd make him a balloon animal and then do some up-close magic. Right, I'm 36 and I remember it like it was yesterday because it just created such a memory. I was like, oh my God, first off, magic's real. There's this dude just walking around this restaurant doing it. So with Uncle Fung, we are going to do that same thing. I think that's genius.
Speaker 2:He's so good, he's so great.
Speaker 4:He was doing some stuff for the staff one night and they were like what just happened? They just couldn't figure it out. He's so good.
Speaker 1:Shout out to Uncle Fung yeah.
Speaker 4:He's our social media wizard. He's literally in the restaurant every day, three times a day, at least twice.
Speaker 3:At least twice. At least twice. So I'll tell you what he really does for his day job is.
Speaker 2:he's an ice cream salesman. He drives an ice cream salesman, so he's the reason that you had to add milkshakes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's the reason that you had to add milkshakes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that you guys do the milkshakes.
Speaker 1:There aren't a ton of places that you can get a milkshake at any ice cream place. Not like what you said. No, no, no. Not like this, the one that's blowtorched.
Speaker 3:Look, I know I'm a good father because I gave my son a blowtorch and I was like hey, I need you to learn how to blowtorch these torches.
Speaker 1:But I'm sitting there and all of a sudden I hear what the hell is that?
Speaker 4:Somebody's blowtorching the door and I will say to you, like our logo was another one of your friends. Yeah, it was a little shirt, your name and logo's off.
Speaker 2:I like this hat.
Speaker 4:It matches your shirt. It does match your shirt. What's great is our merch like this. This comes from a friend of mine, ex-boyfriend from ninth grade. There it is.
Speaker 2:I was going to see if she was going to get to say that.
Speaker 4:Shout out to the ex-boyfriend.
Speaker 2:Shout out to the ex-boyfriend.
Speaker 4:So Nathan Wren from Underground Printing, he is one of their lead guys over there and he, you know, ninth grade it's not really that late, right, yeah, yeah. So he ended up dating like my best friend. They dated through high school. He's probably going to kill me for this.
Speaker 4:But then they got bent together like seven years ago and I was like I knew that was real. So they're still together and you know, wild Beaver does a lot of our stuff, but they didn't do hats or whatever, and so we just started working with them and they kind of like came up with our T-shirts and hats and we've got a great tie-dye line coming.
Speaker 2:Hey man. I mean this is.
Speaker 4:And so, yeah, they do a great job.
Speaker 1:So bucket hats were obviously need to be when you're in the 80s and 90s.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, it's the ultimate.
Speaker 1:Gilligan hat. Yes, I need a t-shirt with that, just that.
Speaker 3:Yes, hardware, just that.
Speaker 2:See, if you want to get sporty, you know you can flip the bag, put it in sport mode. Yeah, I love it. Put the spoiler up.
Speaker 4:Yes, sir, and then, if you're going to go full gilligan, you gotta so we'll have you know after our grand you and me, um get some of the stuff back we'll have a whole new line of merch t-shirts, tie-dyes, hats, trucker hats, flat bill hats, um, and we try to also bring and incorporate, like a lot of the 90s stuff like slap bracelets and those do you want to? Look like the dentist office when you used to go through the chest.
Speaker 4:So we've got treasure chest stuff like that and I do it for kids birthdays um for free and you know it's a little water games and the little like bb that you try to get.
Speaker 2:You guys are on point. Well, I'm finding all that old stuff like yeah you know those hats that they used to have. That was like a normal hat, but it had tails on it. Yes, or the plastic visor. Collared big spray.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's been the fun part for me.
Speaker 2:Wouldn't it be cool if you guys did an 80s or 90s theme night.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3:Were you dressed up? Yeah, when you get dressed up, because I was like they're in the 80s.
Speaker 2:My wife she loves, so tell me this. Our staff is up all the time.
Speaker 3:Would your wife come out to a dinner and a movie event under the stars out on the patio, you get like an appetizer. You get an appetizer, you get a couple of cocktails, you get a meal and then, ferris Bueller's Day, you sit up on a big straight Outside.
Speaker 4:Instead of the drive-in, you have lawn chairs Right.
Speaker 3:We have a lot of really fun things that are in our repertoire, things that we're planning on pushing out, but right now we're just trying to keep up with NWA. It's been so wild from jump from when we started our soft dumping Tuesdays and Wednesdays. They're fair to milling, they're still people.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you want to come out on a slower night Tuesday, wednesday but we're going to start spicing those up a little bit too.
Speaker 1:I don't think you guys are going to be able to keep up with demand. Quite honestly, you don't need to be doing things Tuesdays and Wednesdays, because the food's great, the experience is amazing. You guys are wonderful. I had met you before. We texted back and forth and I feel like family. It's like you guys are amazing human beings for what you're doing and the business is great. I can't wait for you guys to get open with the grand opening, and we will be huge supporters, I can promise you.
Speaker 2:Keep that passion.
Speaker 4:For me it's getting out of corporate eventually and technology love technology, but it can be soul sucking. But just eventually having that plan to kind of move away from that, because we've done it for so many years and this is fun, this is something we can pass on to our kids. To kind of move away from that because we've done it for so many years and this is fun, this is something we can pass on to our kids.
Speaker 2:This is something we can experience we can open new locations. It's yours.
Speaker 4:So you know any investors let's talk about new locations, right Franchising.
Speaker 2:That's the plan. Rob may have to get back in the pizza business.
Speaker 4:How can you?
Speaker 2:say no to this guy. Yeah, you can Come on.
Speaker 4:That's why he's one of the guys. That's why he's one of the guys. Yeah we're always looking like. You know, my husband and I spent a weekend in Eureka and we were talking to people and you know we've talked to people in Centerton and just kind of just trying to figure out like where's the next flashback?
Speaker 2:Well, it's right on the cusp of that. Just Centerton needs something like this, especially with the family. So they tried to do a pizza out there, but it was super high-end and expensive and it didn't.
Speaker 4:But it needs something like what you guys are doing you can go, get a drink and a meal anywhere, yes, but to want to hang out in somewhere where you want to put your phone down and interact that's what we're doing, and we don't want to break your bank.
Speaker 3:You asked about the menu.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 3:We don't want to make it expensive. We're not crazy expensive. You're definitely going to find some higher end things on there.
Speaker 4:So the high end milkshakes, you know, but that can be like free for people, but you're paying for the experience of that.
Speaker 1:I'm going to order that because I want to see my daughter's face just when it shows up.
Speaker 4:Whatever it is, it is.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter if it's 5 bucks, 10 bucks, 20 bucks, 30 bucks. You're like whoa and the picture is like she's got selfies.
Speaker 3:Or at the milkshake, People's phone usually eats before they do in my restaurant. I mean, that just says something.
Speaker 2:People are walking in going oh my God, yeah, so cool we could film with you guys for hours.
Speaker 1:Final thoughts website anything you want us to know and leave for the viewers.
Speaker 4:The website's coming. I will say, like our ownership group is very diverse. We kind of did that on purpose because we want to be able to make sure we are really a part of all of the community. That's really important to all of us and so, yeah, we're trying to reach out as many people as we can and we want people to have that experience and have a good memory and create that with their kids.
Speaker 2:So, for the viewers that are going to come for the very, very first time, what would you recommend? Yeah, what's for them to order? What's the go-to for?
Speaker 4:me, let's try. Um so my daughter orders the cheese bread every single day after cheese bread uh, the meatballs, meatballs were incredible, made in house I mean whoa, whoa, whoa
Speaker 1:I mean we've been talking pizza all the time these now it's all like they just sent us a curveball. We're talking about meatballs.
Speaker 4:Sorry, we'll talk to derek so we did have wedgies, which which is a Northeast thing right. Wedgies, Primanti Brothers, Pittsburgh, right, those they didn't sell so great down here so we're changing those to some, but long hoagies, baby.
Speaker 1:I'm still asking the wedgies.
Speaker 4:You know what Rob got in high school when he was being built for those you can't really get a good hot hoagie around here a hot sub and so we're switching that, we're putting that on the menu, the whole meatball sub. Yeah, I don't know what's your favorite.
Speaker 3:Boom, shakalaka. I'm going to hit you with some actual numbers. So our number one best-selling appetizer is definitely the cheesy bread. Number two, if you're looking for pizza, our Italian stallion is Sorry, he's over there. That's where I was going to go.
Speaker 2:That's fantastic.
Speaker 3:That's what I'm talking about. You like football?
Speaker 2:So what's on the Italian stallion? Talk to me.
Speaker 3:Salami Sausage Sausage. You've got banana peppers on a red sauce base, garlic butter and parm on the edges and then you just cut that bad boy proper, sling her out.
Speaker 4:Oh, and then we've got like the best buffalo.
Speaker 3:I really do love our buffalo. We make our buffalo in-house. Do you have chicken wings? No chicken wings.
Speaker 2:So right now we're going to the fryer.
Speaker 3:Right, and so low-end house. Do you have chicken wings? No chicken wings. You need the fryers. Since our kitchen is so small, we really only have for the ovens. You had to make meatballs. I know we're running out of time. I'll leave you with this the.
Speaker 2:ET's the number one, shake. Yes, it's your number one, it's got to be.
Speaker 3:Real quick when we take you back 1997, friday night mom would take us to Pizza Hut Pine Off Walnut. In that Pizza Hut she'd give me a couple quarters, I'd run over and I'd play the Simpsons arcade game which we have, and then, if it was a real good Friday night, she would swing us over to Blockbuster. We'd pick up a couple movies, maybe a game. Right, that memory is so strong. If you look at my, I got goosebumps. That memory is gone and we want to be that memory for families 20 years from now. We want them to remember us and have our food. It's a tradition. Yeah, you guys are amazing. We're going to support.
Speaker 2:You guys have our food and these.
Speaker 1:It's a tradition. Yeah, you guys are amazing. We're going to support you guys. We were very excited.
Speaker 4:We look forward to seeing you. We'll bring Hufflepuff back next year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to come see you in Hufflepuff. There you go, cheers.
Speaker 2:Cheers, congratulations. Thank you so much. I love you guys.
Speaker 4:Congrats.