WEBVTT 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:12.099 Hey guys, man major from Good News York. We are 00:00:12.099 --> 00:00:15.099 doing a very special interview. This is awesome. 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:18.280 I'm very excited. One of my favorite diners. 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:21.000 We're going to hear a story of how it came to 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.320 be. We're at second chance here in Camilla. Is 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:26.820 this Camilla Sir Fairmount? Technically, I don't 00:00:26.820 --> 00:00:28.879 know where Fairmount technically where the line 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:31.660 is, but somewhere down the road. Yeah, right 00:00:31.660 --> 00:00:34.359 on Genesee Street. You can't miss it in the old 00:00:34.359 --> 00:00:36.840 good buddies location and we'll get to how you 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:39.850 got here, but. Let's start with first and foremost, 00:00:40.469 --> 00:00:43.030 go ahead and introduce yourself, man, and tell 00:00:43.030 --> 00:00:46.049 us what you do here. I'm Eddie Napoma. I'm the 00:00:46.049 --> 00:00:49.649 owner of Second Chance Diner. And what I do here 00:00:49.649 --> 00:00:53.549 is run the operation. That's it. I love it. I 00:00:53.549 --> 00:00:57.100 love it. Eddie, let's sort of jump in a little 00:00:57.100 --> 00:00:59.020 bit in the beginning, right? Yeah. So it's second 00:00:59.020 --> 00:01:02.700 chance. That alludes to there was some kind of 00:01:02.700 --> 00:01:06.000 first chance, right, and something that inspired 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:07.659 this. Could you tell us a little bit about kind 00:01:07.659 --> 00:01:09.599 of your backstory, how you got here? Yeah. I 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:11.560 mean, well, nothing inspired my first chance. 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.000 My first chance was not to create this. So I 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:20.209 am a recovering addict. So. The meaning behind 00:01:20.209 --> 00:01:22.849 Second Chance was, you know, this was my second 00:01:22.849 --> 00:01:26.390 chance, new beginning. And I came from a history 00:01:26.390 --> 00:01:30.250 of addiction. And, you know, that's a real hard 00:01:30.250 --> 00:01:33.969 thing to, I don't say we beat it, let it live 00:01:33.969 --> 00:01:37.450 and cope with it. To live in active recovery. 00:01:38.189 --> 00:01:40.510 Not a lot of people get to see that light. So, 00:01:40.629 --> 00:01:43.069 you know, I'm very grateful and I'm very grateful 00:01:43.069 --> 00:01:45.609 for what I've built and, you know, the meaning 00:01:45.609 --> 00:01:49.480 behind it, how many people I inspire. Truly, 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:54.420 I didn't realize how many people my story inspired 00:01:54.420 --> 00:01:58.500 and, you know, how much hope really goes. Yeah. 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:01.519 Can't tell you how many times I've walked around 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:04.079 this restaurant and then stopped by a customer 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:08.259 and sat down and, you know, heard their story 00:02:08.259 --> 00:02:10.639 of what they're going through themselves or their 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:15.120 children or mother or brother. Wow. We're in 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.639 the middle of an epidemic. It's a lot more common 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:21.159 than you think. Yeah. And addiction doesn't discriminate, 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:27.259 you know. I've seen all walks of life under addiction, 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:30.439 you know, doctors, lawyer, I mean, you name it. 00:02:30.900 --> 00:02:33.639 Yeah. So just to hear some people's stories and 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:37.719 to, you know, know that I give them hope and 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:39.800 connection and listen to their story and telling 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:43.340 them mine. It's a nice thing. Yeah. There's been 00:02:43.340 --> 00:02:45.560 some emotional moments with some with some clients. 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:49.520 I believe it. So it's nice to just be able to 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:50.960 connect with people on that lovely, you know, 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:54.819 yeah. Yeah, that's great Is that kind of what 00:02:54.819 --> 00:02:58.240 inspired you to to use a diner sort of as your 00:02:58.240 --> 00:02:59.939 vehicle? You know, there's a lot of folks that 00:02:59.939 --> 00:03:02.479 have become entrepreneurs. Yep to try to find 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:05.919 their way So I will tell you I am a businessman 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:10.719 at heart. Yeah an entrepreneur So I was a barber 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.879 for 11 years. Oh, wow. Yeah So I was a barber 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:16.080 for 11 years. I've never worked in a restaurant, 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:21.039 not even for 15 minutes of my life. Wow. So one 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:24.240 day I just walked in and I realized I don't want 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:26.139 to do this for the rest of my life. I always 00:03:26.139 --> 00:03:28.539 knew from a young age I was meant for bigger 00:03:28.539 --> 00:03:32.759 things. I always thought different, spoke different, 00:03:34.060 --> 00:03:38.000 always had bigger goals and aspirations. So I 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:39.800 just walked in one day and said, you know, this 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.020 is my two month notice. I don't want to be a 00:03:43.020 --> 00:03:45.120 barber anymore. And my bosses were like, well, 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.419 what are you going to do? I have no idea. So 00:03:47.419 --> 00:03:49.620 I worked really hard. I saved up all my money. 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:53.000 I rode a bike everywhere for two years. I could 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.159 have went and bought a vehicle, but a part of 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:01.520 me wanted to remember the suffering and where 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:04.800 I came from and never wanting to go back to that. 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:07.319 So beginning stages of my recovery, I won't say 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:09.439 I tortured myself, but I made things a lot harder 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:13.289 for myself. Gotcha. Just to, you know, kind of 00:04:13.289 --> 00:04:15.009 remember if you go back, this is what you're 00:04:15.009 --> 00:04:16.689 going to be doing again. So yeah, for two years 00:04:16.689 --> 00:04:19.870 I rode a bike, pedal bike, all over the place. 00:04:21.529 --> 00:04:26.170 Yeah. So I had no idea what I was going to do. 00:04:27.589 --> 00:04:30.350 And I used to live in Eastwood at the time and 00:04:30.350 --> 00:04:31.970 I used to go to Carl's Country Kitchen every 00:04:31.970 --> 00:04:34.829 morning. I love the ladies over there. I used 00:04:34.829 --> 00:04:36.230 to go there every morning for breakfast before 00:04:36.230 --> 00:04:40.139 I went to work. so that's kind of where like 00:04:40.139 --> 00:04:44.579 the diner idea sparked, but I was, I would get 00:04:44.579 --> 00:04:47.079 home and I'd get on Facebook Marketplace every 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:49.300 night or I'd be at the barbershop, just go through 00:04:49.300 --> 00:04:52.399 Facebook Marketplace just trying to figure out 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:54.860 what direction I wanted to bring my life and 00:04:54.860 --> 00:04:58.259 what business I wanted to own. So it was actually 00:04:58.259 --> 00:05:01.980 my ex's birthday and I had seen a listing for 00:05:01.980 --> 00:05:07.060 a restaurant space down on Banner Road. I knew 00:05:07.060 --> 00:05:09.360 I wanted to do something in Camillus. I'm born 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:12.199 and raised. Believe it or not, come full circle. 00:05:12.300 --> 00:05:14.779 This is actually my childhood street. Oh, wow. 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:17.379 Columbus Ave. Wow. My mom actually worked here 00:05:17.379 --> 00:05:19.920 when this was Fresno's. Wow. So talk about a 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:21.699 full circle. Yeah, I actually have a picture 00:05:21.699 --> 00:05:26.699 of my sign and above it is Columbus Ave. So yeah, 00:05:26.699 --> 00:05:28.920 it was a real full circle moment. But anyway, 00:05:28.980 --> 00:05:34.269 yeah, I seen the space for and I knew. I wanted 00:05:34.269 --> 00:05:35.910 to do something in Camillus. I knew I wanted 00:05:35.910 --> 00:05:38.290 to be in Camillus. I've always been, you know, 00:05:38.490 --> 00:05:41.870 a big part of the community here. So it was a 00:05:41.870 --> 00:05:45.509 barbecue place and I went walking through and 00:05:45.509 --> 00:05:48.470 I just had this gut feeling I couldn't shake. 00:05:50.029 --> 00:05:52.649 So two days later I ended up signing a lease, 00:05:53.170 --> 00:05:57.310 a five -year lease, and I had no idea what I 00:05:57.310 --> 00:05:59.889 was getting myself into. I was in over my head 00:05:59.889 --> 00:06:03.420 ten ways this Sunday. A lot of people don't know 00:06:03.420 --> 00:06:06.060 this, I actually went broke twice. I thought 00:06:06.060 --> 00:06:09.519 I was gonna fail. I laid in bed every night for, 00:06:09.540 --> 00:06:11.360 it took me nine months to renovate that place. 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:15.720 Everything that could go wrong went wrong. And 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:20.759 that place is what tested me not only as a man 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:25.079 to see what kind of drive I had, to see that 00:06:25.079 --> 00:06:30.500 failure was never an option. and to just learn 00:06:30.500 --> 00:06:34.000 really what it means to be an entrepreneur. There's 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:35.480 no one to call. You've got to figure out these 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:38.560 issues on your own, and failure wasn't an option 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:41.060 for me. It couldn't be. I had my life savings 00:06:41.060 --> 00:06:43.899 into this and more. I quit my job at this point. 00:06:44.060 --> 00:06:48.220 I had a family, a daughter, a home. I had all 00:06:48.220 --> 00:06:49.980 the cards stacked against me, and by the grace 00:06:49.980 --> 00:06:53.819 of God, I fully renovated the place to be absolutely 00:06:53.819 --> 00:06:58.000 beautiful. Went through all the hurdles, everything 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.699 that go on. I got through it. We opened. And 00:07:00.699 --> 00:07:03.459 on my first day, they were lying out the door. 00:07:05.500 --> 00:07:08.560 And every day moving forward, lying out the door. 00:07:08.899 --> 00:07:10.800 That's awesome. I was very blessed. We were busy 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:15.399 from day one. But what a lot of people don't 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:18.980 know is the amount of hours I spent in my office. 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:22.639 Like, Thursdays, I worked 18, 20 hours. Wow. 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:25.620 Because I... It was renovating a restaurant and 00:07:25.620 --> 00:07:28.519 then nobody sees the back end of it. All the 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:31.120 legalities, all the paperwork, all the permits, 00:07:31.579 --> 00:07:33.839 you know, building all the menus, ordering everything 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:36.540 that you need to get to be able to open a restaurant. 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.100 And you're talking to a kid who never worked 00:07:39.100 --> 00:07:41.000 in a restaurant. Right, right. You're figuring 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.040 it all out. Yeah, I'm going around all these 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:44.899 diners and kind of like looking around and seeing 00:07:44.899 --> 00:07:47.180 how they set things up. And, you know, I took 00:07:47.180 --> 00:07:50.160 a trip to Jersey and New York City and Mass and 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:53.189 went to a bunch of different diners. And my mentor 00:07:53.189 --> 00:07:57.209 told me, he said, if you're going to open something, 00:07:57.269 --> 00:08:01.089 you have to have something where people can't 00:08:01.089 --> 00:08:04.730 get anywhere else. Because if you have a wait, 00:08:04.910 --> 00:08:07.110 why are they going to wait? So I kind of took 00:08:07.110 --> 00:08:11.769 that idea to heart. And when I built my menu, 00:08:12.730 --> 00:08:15.290 I built a menu that you can't get anywhere else. 00:08:16.470 --> 00:08:21.240 So people wait the hour, two hours. to eat breakfast 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:24.959 here because what I offer, I do something very 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:30.420 special. I put a lot of time, effort, and a lot 00:08:30.420 --> 00:08:34.179 of thought into building my menu. And a lot of 00:08:34.179 --> 00:08:37.679 the creations I brought were never seen or heard 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.240 from anywhere around here. I was the first person 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:44.860 to do the cereal -infused pancakes and the milkshakes 00:08:44.860 --> 00:08:48.120 and all that. That's awesome. That's such great 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:51.519 stuff. Could you you talked about a little bit 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:53.740 where you started there over on Bennett? Yep 00:08:53.740 --> 00:08:58.059 in that space Talk to me about you know what 00:08:58.059 --> 00:09:00.480 point you decide you've outgrown it and then 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:02.720 and then again What time you've you've outgrown 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:07.600 the next space? How does that work so? Bennett 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.679 was smart we set 49 seats interior and then in 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:14.080 the spring summer months We had an outdoor patio 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:20.279 that sat about 60 I outgrew that building in 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:26.600 about 60 days. But I had a lease. I had just 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:28.620 invested my life savings in this. I couldn't 00:09:28.620 --> 00:09:32.259 move. So we rocked it out and we did the best 00:09:32.259 --> 00:09:37.179 we could. We dealt with the weights and the volume. 00:09:38.659 --> 00:09:41.440 Once I opened the outdoor patio, that helped 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:44.539 alleviate some of the wait times and getting 00:09:44.539 --> 00:09:48.379 people in. That was only a temporary fix. Yeah, 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:50.759 because once winter came maybe close the patio 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:53.919 down You're back to 49 seats and that place was 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:57.259 stuffed to the stuff to the brim, you know open 00:09:57.259 --> 00:10:01.840 the clothes place no open to close so my mind 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.220 started spinning and The old friendlies building 00:10:05.220 --> 00:10:08.419 had been vacant for a couple years So I had my 00:10:08.419 --> 00:10:10.600 eyes on that and I had the owners of Township 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:13.320 five calling me like every week I want you to 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:18.120 take your space in Township And, you know, as 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:21.000 a businessman, there's a lot of factors that 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.620 go into opening your restaurant. And at this 00:10:23.620 --> 00:10:28.200 point I had learned a lot of them. I thought 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.720 I learned them all, but you never learn everything. 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:38.879 So I ended up moving into, I ended up working 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:40.860 a deal out on the friendlies, renovating that 00:10:40.860 --> 00:10:43.799 whole thing all over again. I actually left there 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:46.960 on a Little before my two -year mark and I actually 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:51.259 opened At my second location the same date as 00:10:51.259 --> 00:10:53.299 I did my first location Wow, so it's actually 00:10:53.299 --> 00:10:56.240 kind of crazy how that Actually timed out and 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:00.539 it was just a coincidence I ended up selling 00:11:00.539 --> 00:11:05.679 I ended up Giving my lease to the mixing bowl. 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.840 Gotcha. I had it I had The entire restaurant 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:12.779 for sale and I sold it to them. They were just 00:11:12.779 --> 00:11:16.799 a great fit and I gave it to them for cents on 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:21.679 the dollar. To me, I wanted the perfect person 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:24.259 there because I had dumped so much blood, sweat, 00:11:24.659 --> 00:11:28.080 tears. I don't think people understand what it 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:33.779 took me to open that place. It was nine months 00:11:33.779 --> 00:11:36.779 of 20 plus hours a day, so I had an emotional 00:11:36.779 --> 00:11:39.679 attachment to the building. And then they came 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:45.389 in and they were just the perfect mix. They were 00:11:45.389 --> 00:11:48.129 a new business, working out of a ghost kitchen, 00:11:48.309 --> 00:11:52.409 so their funds were pretty limited, and I gave 00:11:52.409 --> 00:11:55.330 them a deal of a lifetime, but they were deserving, 00:11:55.389 --> 00:11:59.809 and they reminded me of myself. So I'm glad that 00:11:59.809 --> 00:12:02.009 I gave the old space to them, and now we moved 00:12:02.009 --> 00:12:04.929 up to friendlies, and now we have a bigger space, 00:12:05.009 --> 00:12:08.350 and we outgrew that in about four or five months. 00:12:09.190 --> 00:12:12.259 But again, I was... You know, open in a restaurant, 00:12:12.500 --> 00:12:14.080 it's not cheap. We're talking about hundreds 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:17.000 of thousands of dollars, you know. So again, 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:19.080 I was there. It was clearly the old friendlies. 00:12:19.139 --> 00:12:21.019 But if you walked in, you realize it didn't look 00:12:21.019 --> 00:12:23.679 like the old friendlies. No. You went crazy inside 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:25.919 of that place. So my thing is I think presentation 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:30.039 is everything in cleanliness. Yeah. Every building 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:33.159 that I have gotten has been disgusting when I 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:36.320 got it. You know, loads of grease all over the 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:39.919 kitchen and just, you know. Dirty and outdated 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.500 and that's just not what I do sure I have a certain 00:12:43.500 --> 00:12:46.019 Vibe a certain cleanliness that I keep like if 00:12:46.019 --> 00:12:47.779 you walk in my kitchen right now It still looks 00:12:47.779 --> 00:12:50.580 brand new. Yeah, because we I hold my staff to 00:12:50.580 --> 00:12:53.700 a very high standard I think cleanliness is everything 00:12:53.700 --> 00:12:57.100 and obviously quality product But people want 00:12:57.100 --> 00:13:00.799 to come in and and feel comfort. Yeah, I think 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:05.539 that's half your battle so I had a five -year 00:13:05.539 --> 00:13:10.139 lease there and The beginning of year five, I'd 00:13:10.139 --> 00:13:12.519 always drove by this. It was vacant at that point 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:16.500 for like a year or so. And this was my dream. 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:20.179 You know, this was like, okay, this is like the 00:13:20.179 --> 00:13:22.320 square footage I need, the space I need. It's 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.740 got everything that I need. But it was just too 00:13:26.740 --> 00:13:30.200 soon to move. So I was like, if it's meant to 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:34.129 be, it's meant to be. And kept driving by. Vacant 00:13:34.129 --> 00:13:35.990 started getting towards the end of my lease. 00:13:36.509 --> 00:13:40.470 And so I made a call one day to Neville. He was 00:13:40.470 --> 00:13:43.950 the realtor. So I'm also a licensed real estate 00:13:43.950 --> 00:13:46.009 agent as well. I do that as well. I do a lot 00:13:46.009 --> 00:13:48.370 of other things as well as from, you know, from 00:13:48.370 --> 00:13:53.169 the diner. But so I represented myself and ended 00:13:53.169 --> 00:13:55.610 up connecting with Dan Giarmarcino, the owner 00:13:55.610 --> 00:13:58.110 of Tully's, like she owns this building. I became 00:13:58.110 --> 00:14:00.909 a good friend and mentor to me. Amazing, amazing 00:14:00.909 --> 00:14:05.690 man. And we kind of went back and forth. And 00:14:05.690 --> 00:14:07.909 I tried to buy the building and just they weren't 00:14:07.909 --> 00:14:10.789 having it. But they gave me a deal of a lifetime. 00:14:11.389 --> 00:14:14.570 And, you know, I was the perfect poison, the 00:14:14.570 --> 00:14:16.830 perfect fit that they were looking for for this 00:14:16.830 --> 00:14:22.269 building. Sure. So back and forth for months 00:14:22.269 --> 00:14:24.549 in the negotiations, we worked out a deal. And 00:14:24.549 --> 00:14:30.500 then I took on the. biggest, most stressful project 00:14:30.500 --> 00:14:34.379 of my entire life. Really? Oh, yeah. It made 00:14:34.379 --> 00:14:36.940 the other two look like a walk in the park. Wow. 00:14:37.460 --> 00:14:40.059 You know, you have to think, this isn't a diner, 00:14:40.059 --> 00:14:43.000 this is a restaurant. We see hundreds of people 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:45.700 in here. This place is enormous, you know? And 00:14:45.700 --> 00:14:50.240 when I got it, it was a dark and dingy pub that 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:53.200 had been closed for, you know, over two years. 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:56.399 Yeah. So I had to breathe second chance, die 00:14:56.399 --> 00:15:02.799 in our life into this. It took a lot. I had a 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:05.320 very good contractor help me, Kevin. I wouldn't 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:08.779 have been able to do this without him. And we 00:15:08.779 --> 00:15:11.480 transformed this building in 102 days to what 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:15.759 it is. This is by far my biggest accomplishment. 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:20.080 This tested me in ways I never knew I could be 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:23.039 tested. This pushed me to limits. I never knew 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:28.740 I could succeed and overcome. Wow. You have to 00:15:28.740 --> 00:15:31.379 think something of this size. This is the size 00:15:31.379 --> 00:15:33.940 of a long horse steakhouse at Texas Road. This 00:15:33.940 --> 00:15:38.080 is a big place. And places like that have 10, 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:41.679 12 people orchestrating the opening of something 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:44.419 of that caliber. Sure. I'm a one man wrecking 00:15:44.419 --> 00:15:49.659 crew. It's just me. Wow. So to... orchestrate 00:15:49.659 --> 00:15:53.379 all of the pieces to open this. I mean, I don't 00:15:53.379 --> 00:15:56.259 think people understand really what it takes 00:15:56.259 --> 00:15:59.639 from, you know, the equipment to, you know, all 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:02.379 the kitchen equipment to building server stations 00:16:02.379 --> 00:16:05.700 and computers and security. I mean, the list 00:16:05.700 --> 00:16:09.360 is just enormous and I was the only one orchestrating 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:11.600 and everything has to fall into place at the 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:17.279 perfect time. But opening this was the biggest 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:20.519 accomplishment. the biggest accolade I've ever 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:25.440 made in my life. When I walk in these doors, 00:16:25.620 --> 00:16:28.120 I have the biggest sense of pride I've ever had 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:30.700 in my life. It's like I was always meant to be 00:16:30.700 --> 00:16:34.759 here. When Second Chance Diner opened, everything 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:39.720 I did was a stepping stone to here. I'm never 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:43.299 leaving. This is our final resting ground. Everything 00:16:43.299 --> 00:16:49.700 about this place feels like home. I love pulling 00:16:49.700 --> 00:16:52.279 in here, seeing the outside and then walking 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.039 in. There's no bigger sense of accomplishment. 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:58.399 A lot of days I got to kind of pat myself on 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.320 the back and kind of snap my fingers. Sure. You 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:03.440 know, like, man, you, you know, you, you accomplished 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:06.579 this. You did this. Yeah. You know? But yeah, 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:09.599 it's a great... No, it's incredible. It's really 00:17:09.599 --> 00:17:13.349 everything here is just... The decor and everything, 00:17:13.650 --> 00:17:15.569 like the cleanliness, like you mentioned, it's 00:17:15.569 --> 00:17:18.150 awesome. I actually spent 10 days in Florida. 00:17:18.490 --> 00:17:21.230 Really? Yeah, I went to about 50 antique shops. 00:17:21.269 --> 00:17:25.009 Wow. And I sourced, handpicked all this decor. 00:17:25.210 --> 00:17:27.910 It's all pre -1940. That's incredible. I had 00:17:27.910 --> 00:17:31.990 it all shipped back. Wow. So every piece has 00:17:31.990 --> 00:17:36.690 a story. That's incredible. Yeah, I wanted this 00:17:36.690 --> 00:17:40.680 to be something special. Yeah. I built the name, 00:17:40.779 --> 00:17:44.079 I built the brand. I just never built the home. 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:49.519 And this, this is home. You know? That's so incredible. 00:17:50.900 --> 00:17:52.940 Real quick, we gotta mention while you were building 00:17:52.940 --> 00:17:57.339 that, you played a little gag outside, right? 00:17:57.440 --> 00:17:59.680 I did, yes. Can you tell people what that was 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:05.880 all about? Yep. So I did not want anyone to know 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:12.009 what I was doing. Human nature the human mind, 00:18:12.349 --> 00:18:16.509 you know curiosity Curiosity kills people but 00:18:16.509 --> 00:18:20.410 curiosity also carries buzz, you know When people 00:18:20.410 --> 00:18:22.910 don't know something or they're suspicious or 00:18:22.910 --> 00:18:28.349 something they talk and talk builds. I Mean it's 00:18:28.349 --> 00:18:30.789 like the biggest source of free advertising there 00:18:30.789 --> 00:18:34.480 is sure, you know, so I didn't want any of my 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.920 competitors to know, like, I'm not in competition 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:38.740 with anyone, but at the end of the day, you know, 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:40.900 other people who own diners, they are competition. 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:43.720 Sure. I don't compete with anyone but myself, 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:45.619 but I didn't want anyone to know what I was doing. 00:18:47.579 --> 00:18:50.779 So me and my sign guy were sitting one day and 00:18:50.779 --> 00:18:55.640 we had the idea to come up with a fake sign. 00:18:56.380 --> 00:19:00.099 And me and him created Joe Sausage House in his 00:19:00.099 --> 00:19:04.039 sign shop. We printed it. I hung it. And the 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:09.420 buzz that went around was unreal. And then people 00:19:09.420 --> 00:19:12.140 are, I heard this and I heard that. And I had 00:19:12.140 --> 00:19:15.000 to be very careful. I had to park my truck down 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:19.079 the road. A lot of people know that I own Copper 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:20.819 Tree Builders. That's my building company. So 00:19:20.819 --> 00:19:24.779 I had to keep my trailer down the road. Or come 00:19:24.779 --> 00:19:27.799 in late night. How do we need it and move? Um, 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:29.720 but I wanted to build the hype I wanted to build 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:32.500 the buzz, you know And I don't want anyone like 00:19:32.500 --> 00:19:34.240 I said, I don't want anyone woman at my next 00:19:34.240 --> 00:19:38.539 move until I was ready to announce it. Yeah the 00:19:38.539 --> 00:19:40.440 amount of people we have come in peek in and 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:46.799 I put signs on the door and so then once I Had 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:49.900 announced that I was moving here. It went haywire 00:19:52.149 --> 00:19:54.430 So there was a little thought there was a lot 00:19:54.430 --> 00:19:58.210 of thought behind that. Yeah, and you know, I 00:19:58.210 --> 00:20:01.869 thought it would be funny and and You know again, 00:20:01.869 --> 00:20:05.210 like I said build the height but yeah me that 00:20:05.210 --> 00:20:07.069 that literally happened me and my sign guy just 00:20:07.069 --> 00:20:09.170 joking around in a serious And I'm like, you 00:20:09.170 --> 00:20:11.529 know, let's do it. I'll hang it. That's hilarious 00:20:11.529 --> 00:20:14.109 I love that people still talk about that people 00:20:14.109 --> 00:20:16.990 will come in here and joke about it. Yeah, I 00:20:16.990 --> 00:20:19.130 Still want sausage. I don't know. I was excited 00:20:19.130 --> 00:20:22.849 for that when I drove by What's sausage house? 00:20:22.849 --> 00:20:27.509 No, but that's that's such a great great Strategy, 00:20:27.609 --> 00:20:30.829 honestly, like you said the buzz that it created 00:20:30.829 --> 00:20:34.210 For free in business. He can't beat that can't 00:20:34.210 --> 00:20:37.930 beat it You know and it helps when people found 00:20:37.930 --> 00:20:39.730 out that you like I said, you already established 00:20:39.730 --> 00:20:42.170 that name You already had the crowd that was 00:20:42.170 --> 00:20:45.869 waiting forever to get in at the other place 00:20:45.869 --> 00:20:49.750 Tell us just a couple more quick things and and 00:20:49.750 --> 00:20:52.980 I'll let you get back to it but We talked a little 00:20:52.980 --> 00:20:54.480 bit about some of the unique things that you 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:56.440 do here. Tell us just a few more things that 00:20:56.440 --> 00:20:58.400 folks might be able to get here they can't find 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:02.660 at other local places. So one of my newest creations 00:21:02.660 --> 00:21:06.559 is honey butter pancakes. It's one of my favorite. 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:08.759 Really? Yeah, they're pancakes with honey butter 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:11.619 on them and blueberry compote and a lemon zest 00:21:11.619 --> 00:21:16.539 on top. We do a lot of cereal infused pancakes. 00:21:17.930 --> 00:21:19.809 You can't get anywhere else, you know, do Fruity 00:21:19.809 --> 00:21:23.750 Pebbles, Santa Toast Crunch, as well as French 00:21:23.750 --> 00:21:29.130 toasts. I have the Hattie's Hash Benny Burger. 00:21:29.150 --> 00:21:32.349 It's a burger with corned beef hash, fried egg, 00:21:32.589 --> 00:21:34.869 bacon, hollandaise sauce on top. That's one of 00:21:34.869 --> 00:21:37.490 my other creations. That sounds pretty incredible. 00:21:37.609 --> 00:21:44.069 Donut breakfast sandwiches. We do all the cereal 00:21:44.069 --> 00:21:48.029 French toasts. Just tons of out of the box. That's 00:21:48.029 --> 00:21:52.990 what I strive on is I have your everyday diner 00:21:52.990 --> 00:21:55.829 fair, but I also have all those out of the box 00:21:55.829 --> 00:21:58.049 things that people love. You know, and that even 00:21:58.049 --> 00:22:00.589 goes into my bar. You know, we do big mimosa 00:22:00.589 --> 00:22:04.529 towers and crazy iced coffee flights and mimosa 00:22:04.529 --> 00:22:09.190 flights. And I just strive to be different. I 00:22:09.190 --> 00:22:13.920 strive to, you know. give the community something 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:16.859 they can't get anywhere else. And I strive in 00:22:16.859 --> 00:22:22.579 quality product and having out of the box ideas. 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:26.660 And I think that's what's built the epitone of 00:22:26.660 --> 00:22:29.779 this place is that I am different. And I love 00:22:29.779 --> 00:22:33.240 that. We're always coming up with crazy new ideas. 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:36.059 We already got a few new menu items we're going 00:22:36.059 --> 00:22:39.519 to be adding, redoing the whole bar menu. And 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:41.619 to me, everything is about growth. You know, 00:22:41.900 --> 00:22:47.640 I'm never complacent. We're always, you know, 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:50.039 and I have an amazing, amazing staff, amazing 00:22:50.039 --> 00:22:54.259 managers and people who truly love to work here 00:22:54.259 --> 00:22:58.039 and be here. I try to be the boss I never had. 00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:01.079 So, you know, I walk in and, you know, you see 00:23:01.079 --> 00:23:03.759 my staffs always smiling and always happy and 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:06.279 happy to be here. And I like to think that I 00:23:06.279 --> 00:23:12.210 play a big role in that. Absolutely. So just 00:23:12.210 --> 00:23:14.990 trying to keep evolving and coming up with these 00:23:14.990 --> 00:23:19.130 new crazy ideas. I love it. I love it. That's 00:23:19.130 --> 00:23:20.730 so cool. Trying to keep building things that 00:23:20.730 --> 00:23:24.569 you can't get anywhere else. Yeah. So let me 00:23:24.569 --> 00:23:27.490 ask you this, because as much as I love the unique 00:23:27.490 --> 00:23:30.529 items, I'm willing to bet that the staples are 00:23:30.529 --> 00:23:32.589 some of your winners, right? The old school. 00:23:32.630 --> 00:23:36.349 Oh, yeah. So what is the most common ordered 00:23:36.349 --> 00:23:46.450 item? I'd say either hash and eggs. People love 00:23:46.450 --> 00:23:50.410 our hash. Comes fresh from the butcher. I never 00:23:50.410 --> 00:23:52.369 even liked corned beef hash before I got ours. 00:23:53.549 --> 00:23:57.490 Our corned beef hash is definitely a big one 00:23:57.490 --> 00:24:03.970 and our hamlets. And then our cinnamon raisin 00:24:03.970 --> 00:24:06.720 toast. Wow. People go crazy over that. Yeah. 00:24:06.900 --> 00:24:09.140 You gotta try it. It's so good. It's my absolute 00:24:09.140 --> 00:24:10.880 favorite. That's incredible. We still have, you 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:13.980 know, steak and eggs. I do a 30 -day dry -age 00:24:13.980 --> 00:24:16.400 cereal and it cuts like a filet. Absolutely. 00:24:17.059 --> 00:24:19.099 So people love our steak and eggs. We do a lot 00:24:19.099 --> 00:24:25.180 of that. Tons of burgers once lunch hits. And 00:24:25.180 --> 00:24:26.680 then you have a lot of people that just come 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.130 in for their regular over -easy. Their egg combo. 00:24:30.369 --> 00:24:32.990 Every day, diner, breakfast. Yeah. So I guess 00:24:32.990 --> 00:24:38.890 it just depends on the person. What's your personal 00:24:38.890 --> 00:24:46.089 go -to? My personal go -to. Mine is two eggs 00:24:46.089 --> 00:24:49.130 over medium bacon, our new home fries. So we 00:24:49.130 --> 00:24:51.910 do a deep -fried and a homestyle home fry. The 00:24:51.910 --> 00:24:55.029 homestyle are my absolute favorite. And then 00:24:55.029 --> 00:24:58.109 the honey butter pancakes, can eat those every 00:24:58.109 --> 00:25:00.640 day. I go to the gym every morning, so I try 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:03.940 to stay healthy. And then the Fruity Pebble French 00:25:03.940 --> 00:25:07.359 Toast. Those are my favorites. Wow. That's incredible. 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:10.400 All right, my man, you're making me hungry. So 00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:11.720 I'm thinking I'm going to let you get back to 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:14.240 work. And if you got room for us, I'm going to 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:16.440 buy my team some breakfast here and try these 00:25:16.440 --> 00:25:18.779 things. I'll keep you guys in here. That'd be 00:25:18.779 --> 00:25:21.000 great. Just hang out here by yourself. I'll have 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:24.049 a server come over. I'd love that. Perfect. We 00:25:24.049 --> 00:25:27.109 do a lot of, like, we have tons of gluten -free. 00:25:27.190 --> 00:25:29.329 We have a huge gluten -free menu. Oh, that's 00:25:29.329 --> 00:25:31.130 great. So that's a lot of it. Our little buddy 00:25:31.130 --> 00:25:33.250 over here is gluten -free, so that'll make his 00:25:33.250 --> 00:25:36.730 day. That's a huge one. Like I said, I try to 00:25:36.730 --> 00:25:38.470 accommodate to everyone. That's awesome. You 00:25:38.470 --> 00:25:40.210 know, I don't want someone to come in here and 00:25:40.210 --> 00:25:42.829 be like, you know, I can't order anything on 00:25:42.829 --> 00:25:44.869 this menu because I'm vegetarian, or I'm gluten 00:25:44.869 --> 00:25:47.589 intolerant, or whatever the case may be. We do 00:25:47.589 --> 00:25:49.609 a lot of stuff, especially for the gluten community. 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:53.000 We have gluten -free pancakes, French toast, 00:25:53.700 --> 00:25:58.960 tons of stuff. Just real quickly, to end, what 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:01.039 are just the basics in terms of what are your 00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:03.299 hours, things like that? So we're open seven 00:26:03.299 --> 00:26:05.759 days a week. Monday through Friday, we're open 00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:07.720 seven to two. And Saturday and Sunday, we're 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:14.210 open six to two. Busy every day. But what's great 00:26:14.210 --> 00:26:17.890 is we have the capacity now where the wait isn't 00:26:17.890 --> 00:26:20.650 that long. Gotcha. And I mean, on the weekends, 00:26:20.690 --> 00:26:22.710 sometimes we do get up to an hour or more. But 00:26:22.710 --> 00:26:24.930 again, people are willing to wait. But the best 00:26:24.930 --> 00:26:28.450 part of here is where I struggled is people would 00:26:28.450 --> 00:26:33.250 come in with 10, 12, 15 people. There, we struggled 00:26:33.250 --> 00:26:36.250 to seat those people and to have them walk away 00:26:36.250 --> 00:26:38.470 or be like, it's an hour and a two hour. We don't 00:26:38.470 --> 00:26:40.369 have to wait two hours for breakfast, you know? 00:26:40.569 --> 00:26:44.730 Here it's I have so many big tables and and we 00:26:44.730 --> 00:26:47.490 have the banquet room and you know, it's someone 00:26:47.490 --> 00:26:49.990 comes in for a 12 top It's like a three top four 00:26:49.990 --> 00:26:51.789 top, you know, we don't even stress. Oh not a 00:26:51.789 --> 00:26:53.730 big deal it's like that was one of the biggest 00:26:53.730 --> 00:26:56.250 things in my move was accommodating big parties 00:26:56.250 --> 00:27:00.470 because What we do big here is brunch people 00:27:00.470 --> 00:27:03.490 go crazy for our brunch, you know We have a I 00:27:03.490 --> 00:27:06.170 mean we have a full service bar bars. It's no 00:27:06.170 --> 00:27:09.940 joke You know, and we get a lot of crowd, you 00:27:09.940 --> 00:27:11.759 know, eight, 10 girls all meet and want to go 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:13.920 to brunch. So like being able to seat them like 00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:17.079 that was one of my, another one of my things 00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:19.039 on the checklist that, you know, had to check 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:22.380 the boxes, being able to see larger crowds. And 00:27:22.380 --> 00:27:24.400 we accomplished that. And I actually just started 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:27.500 architectural plans. We're going to rip out the 00:27:27.500 --> 00:27:30.220 patio and we're building a whole four seasons 00:27:30.220 --> 00:27:32.160 room. It's going to be all glass garage doors. 00:27:32.619 --> 00:27:35.839 And I'm going to build a private catering kitchen. 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:39.380 And we're going to have a storage room, but this 00:27:39.380 --> 00:27:43.220 will be a private, it'll be our private banquet 00:27:43.220 --> 00:27:45.880 room and overflow room. So I'm going to blow 00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:48.519 this door out. We're going to enclose all this. 00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:50.380 So we'll be able to open all the garage doors 00:27:50.380 --> 00:27:52.339 in the summer, but we'll be able to close them 00:27:52.339 --> 00:27:54.380 in the winter months and still use that as seating 00:27:54.380 --> 00:27:56.519 because believe it or not, I've only been here 00:27:56.519 --> 00:27:58.319 a few months, but we're running out of space 00:27:58.319 --> 00:28:01.220 again and I can't move again. Yeah. Yeah. I hear 00:28:01.220 --> 00:28:03.380 you. No, but that's great. You find solutions 00:28:03.380 --> 00:28:06.109 for that. So solutions for everything. I love 00:28:06.109 --> 00:28:08.809 it, man. I'm getting a note from my producer. 00:28:10.650 --> 00:28:13.250 Never done that before. This just in. Actually, 00:28:13.910 --> 00:28:16.470 so as we walked in, Danny and I noticed on the 00:28:16.470 --> 00:28:19.170 wall, you've got some Polaroids, Wall of Fame, 00:28:19.309 --> 00:28:21.950 Wall of Shame. Yeah. And clearly there's some 00:28:21.950 --> 00:28:23.650 kind of challenge. Mike just found it on your 00:28:23.650 --> 00:28:25.569 menu. Yes. Tell us what this challenge is all 00:28:25.569 --> 00:28:27.390 about. Eddie's Ultimate Breakfast Challenge. 00:28:27.430 --> 00:28:31.670 So it is five pounds of food. Holy shit. And 00:28:31.670 --> 00:28:34.569 when we post it on social media, I don't think 00:28:34.569 --> 00:28:36.849 people realize that it's on a half sheet pan. 00:28:37.250 --> 00:28:39.009 So people will come and, oh, I'll beat that. 00:28:39.029 --> 00:28:41.269 That's nothing. And then they get here, and we 00:28:41.269 --> 00:28:43.809 slam down this half a sheet pan of five pounds 00:28:43.809 --> 00:28:46.990 of food. And they're like, yeah, this looks way 00:28:46.990 --> 00:28:49.529 smaller in a picture. I'm like, well, it's five 00:28:49.529 --> 00:28:56.230 pounds of food. And so I always seen, you know, 00:28:56.349 --> 00:28:58.269 with the food challenges, people would just hang 00:28:58.269 --> 00:29:02.319 your picture on the wall. So. Like I said, everything 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.799 I do, I try to be different. I try to be creative. 00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:07.279 So I'm like, you know what? I'm going to do a 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:09.900 wall of fame and a wall of shame. And if you 00:29:09.900 --> 00:29:12.779 lose, you go on the wall of shame. But if you 00:29:12.779 --> 00:29:15.019 win it, we can tack your name back over on the 00:29:15.019 --> 00:29:18.859 other side. And as you can see, that wall of 00:29:18.859 --> 00:29:20.980 shame is almost a full board. And you look to 00:29:20.980 --> 00:29:22.880 the other side. There's just a few. There's just 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:26.779 a few. We've actually had people travel from 00:29:26.779 --> 00:29:30.829 all over the world. That's a thing for some folks, 00:29:31.170 --> 00:29:34.650 right? Yes, so we've had a lot of viral food 00:29:34.650 --> 00:29:37.109 challenge eaters. They've all won. We had one 00:29:37.109 --> 00:29:39.990 guy do it in nine, little over nine minutes. 00:29:40.890 --> 00:29:43.289 But our biggest one, we were about two weeks 00:29:43.289 --> 00:29:48.490 from moving and Beard Meats Food came in to do 00:29:48.490 --> 00:29:51.390 the viral food challenge. He crushed the whole 00:29:51.390 --> 00:29:54.069 thing, then ordered a deep fried PB &J, ate the 00:29:54.069 --> 00:29:57.849 whole thing. And actually, that video on YouTube 00:29:57.849 --> 00:30:00.809 has over 10 million views. He's one of the biggest 00:30:00.809 --> 00:30:03.970 food challenge eaters in the world. And to know 00:30:03.970 --> 00:30:09.089 he came into my little hometown diner, that was 00:30:09.089 --> 00:30:13.069 one of the biggest accomplishments. Just a good 00:30:13.069 --> 00:30:16.990 sense of pride. I'm on the map. This dude's from 00:30:16.990 --> 00:30:20.420 another country. And here he is in the US, decided 00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:25.539 to fly in to Syracuse, New York. He was in Florida. 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:28.299 In the video he says that he was in Florida, 00:30:28.539 --> 00:30:31.079 but he literally flew to Syracuse, New York to 00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:33.759 come to Second Chance Diner to do Eddie's ultimate 00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:36.559 breakfast challenge. That's incredible. That's 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:40.180 incredible. That was a really, really, really 00:30:40.180 --> 00:30:44.619 cool experience. Three huge pancakes, three Texas 00:30:44.619 --> 00:30:47.579 French toast, four sausage, four ham, four bacon. 00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:51.819 home fries, five scrambled eggs. And if you conquer, 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:55.039 you win a t -shirt and you're wall of fame. That's 00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:56.619 pretty awesome. Pretty awesome. That's pretty 00:30:56.619 --> 00:31:01.579 awesome. Guys, Second Chance Diner, this is the 00:31:01.579 --> 00:31:04.640 place to be. Eddie, thank you so much for all 00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:07.259 of this. It was an honor. We're going to enjoy 00:31:07.259 --> 00:31:09.650 some food. But this is, you know, this is what 00:31:09.650 --> 00:31:11.509 Good News York is all about. It's celebrating 00:31:11.509 --> 00:31:13.829 local businesses, local success stories. Thank 00:31:13.829 --> 00:31:17.150 you. And you knocked it out of the park, an inspiration 00:31:17.150 --> 00:31:19.829 for all kinds of folks. Thank you. I really appreciate 00:31:19.829 --> 00:31:21.569 this, man. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you 00:31:21.569 --> 00:31:24.130 for having me. You know, dude, one thing I've 00:31:24.130 --> 00:31:26.329 heard about the Second Chance Diner, other than 00:31:26.329 --> 00:31:29.410 just great ownership, amazing food, great atmosphere, 00:31:29.549 --> 00:31:32.089 we see that. I heard the service is like super 00:31:32.089 --> 00:31:34.849 quick. Yeah. Like lickety split. We just ordered 00:31:34.849 --> 00:31:40.130 and... Every breakfast, I'm really happy to be 00:31:40.130 --> 00:31:42.390 doing so right now. There you go. Favorite food 00:31:42.390 --> 00:31:47.029 item at a diner, breakfast, is hash. Okay. And 00:31:47.029 --> 00:31:48.710 I was gonna order it anyway and then he raved 00:31:48.710 --> 00:31:51.690 about it. Yeah. Let's check this out. Nothing 00:31:51.690 --> 00:31:57.950 like some good old corned beef hash. That is... 00:31:57.950 --> 00:32:00.009 That is by far the best hash I've ever had. Wow. 00:32:00.029 --> 00:32:02.529 And I'm not just saying that. Are you just saying 00:32:02.529 --> 00:32:05.150 that? No, I'm not just saying that. Okay. Okay. 00:32:06.159 --> 00:32:15.339 That is phenomenal, man. It's fresh. I always 00:32:15.339 --> 00:32:17.700 wondered why they don't corn more meats, you 00:32:17.700 --> 00:32:20.539 know? Yeah. Why isn't there like corned chicken? 00:32:20.980 --> 00:32:24.839 That's a great question. Corned pork. Yeah. Could 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:27.680 be just as good. There is a cornish game in it. 00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.480 How do you corn a beef, by the way? You can just 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:33.400 dump shit on it. No, all right. Just like, ah, 00:32:33.420 --> 00:32:38.799 you're corned. What's your... I thought maybe 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:44.480 you just told the bad jokes for a while. It's 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:46.200 my dad joke for the day. It's breakfast. I gotta 00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:50.460 do it. I bounce between fried eggs and scrambled. 00:32:50.779 --> 00:32:53.859 Okay. I'm not one or the other. Are you? Are 00:32:53.859 --> 00:32:56.599 you always scrambled? I'm an omelet fella. Yeah. 00:32:57.259 --> 00:33:00.039 I like a good omelet. When I'm cooking, if I 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:01.920 can pull off a fried egg without breaking the 00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:03.759 yolk, I will, but I usually can't, so I end up 00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:05.839 becoming scrambled no matter what I do. Yeah. 00:33:06.950 --> 00:33:10.029 And I cannot make an omelet to save my life at 00:33:10.029 --> 00:33:12.670 home. It makes me appreciate it at the diner 00:33:12.670 --> 00:33:15.430 even more. I can't do the flip. It's that simple 00:33:15.430 --> 00:33:18.369 thing that many people have mastered. I am not 00:33:18.369 --> 00:33:21.829 one of them. Oh my god. What in the world is 00:33:21.829 --> 00:33:24.150 this? Oh my god. So these little blueberry pancake 00:33:24.150 --> 00:33:25.829 bites, they just came out of the fryer so they're 00:33:25.829 --> 00:33:29.309 very hot, okay? Okay. How are the first couple 00:33:29.309 --> 00:33:34.000 bites? Everything is great. Awesome. No, thank 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:39.119 you. I think we're great. Thank you so much Did 00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:43.900 a great job in the words of Wilford Brimley this 00:33:43.900 --> 00:33:51.140 is that base Let her shoot that and then also 00:33:51.140 --> 00:33:54.200 somebody's got to try the fruity pebbles. Yeah, 00:33:54.200 --> 00:34:05.420 I will My favorite thing about a diner is that 00:34:05.420 --> 00:34:09.440 usually the menus have everything. From salmon 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:11.739 to cereal. So it's great because you can be like, 00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:17.380 you know what? I want some French fries. I want 00:34:17.380 --> 00:34:21.019 a burger. I want a pancake. You know what I mean? 00:34:21.619 --> 00:34:24.179 I want cereal on my pancakes. Or I want cereal 00:34:24.179 --> 00:34:32.820 on my pancake. Don't do it. I got a question 00:34:32.820 --> 00:34:35.599 though. I will about the cereal pancakes. Okay, 00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:38.719 they look incredible. Mm -hmm They're obviously 00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:41.659 clearly already covered in sugar. Mm -hmm. Do 00:34:41.659 --> 00:34:46.659 you put syrup on it? You know what Danny saying? 00:34:46.900 --> 00:34:51.780 Yes, Danny. No always say no. I I think it's 00:34:51.780 --> 00:34:55.780 like Putting creamer in coffee like in really 00:34:55.780 --> 00:34:57.800 good coffee like you're ruining it with creamer, 00:34:57.800 --> 00:34:59.880 right? I feel like the service already got the 00:34:59.880 --> 00:35:04.639 creamer Right. I think you're right. You know 00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:08.079 what I do? This is the way to go. Always eat 00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:11.300 something without the condiment first, and then 00:35:11.300 --> 00:35:14.480 decide if you can put it in. I think we attack 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:18.579 it raw. Ooh baby, I like it raw. Ooh baby, I 00:35:18.579 --> 00:35:21.280 like it raw. Remember that song? That's not where 00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:23.639 I thought that was going. It's old dirty bastard. 00:35:23.780 --> 00:35:30.579 R .I .P. Shimmy shimmy, y 'all. Go right to the 00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:34.369 middle. You gotta get some of that. Some of that 00:35:34.369 --> 00:35:41.690 creamy goodness. Oh my god. I'm going in. Go 00:35:41.690 --> 00:35:48.710 it. Do it. You are? Oh wait, I can't. It's going 00:35:48.710 --> 00:35:52.469 for your shit, son. It's only a little bit of 00:35:52.469 --> 00:35:58.230 gluten. Yeah, but I love gluten. Alright. Anybody 00:35:58.230 --> 00:36:00.190 else tell me about it very slowly like so I can 00:36:00.190 --> 00:36:04.230 experience it imagine you made pancakes And then 00:36:04.230 --> 00:36:07.110 you put fruity pebbles in them. Oh perfect. Yep, 00:36:07.110 --> 00:36:10.409 that is So it's everything that you could imagine. 00:36:10.530 --> 00:36:12.570 Well, it's that straightforward. I'm sorry. There's 00:36:12.570 --> 00:36:13.750 no better way to explain it I did eat the fruity 00:36:13.750 --> 00:36:17.769 pebbles shake. Yeah, and it was like a glorified 00:36:17.769 --> 00:36:20.829 a man in cake form Yeah, and then you got the 00:36:20.829 --> 00:36:27.170 okay. Yeah, I can feel good about that I went 00:36:27.170 --> 00:36:29.829 with a traditional breakfast because... This 00:36:29.829 --> 00:36:32.309 concoction that Ashley's got over here is really... 00:36:32.309 --> 00:36:37.070 Yeah. Those are the money... You know, the drink 00:36:37.070 --> 00:36:40.929 I'm talking about. Oh! Oh yeah. I thought it 00:36:40.929 --> 00:36:44.989 was just a coffee. Me too. We want a little coffee. 00:36:45.949 --> 00:36:48.349 Bro. Look at the garnish. You can get in that 00:36:48.349 --> 00:36:50.909 downtown. You ever see those Bloody Marys where 00:36:50.909 --> 00:36:53.289 they garnish it with like a whole fucking stick 00:36:53.289 --> 00:36:57.269 of pepperoni? Yep. And like... of like porterhouse 00:36:57.269 --> 00:37:06.929 steak. How is it? It's very blueberry. What is 00:37:06.929 --> 00:37:11.889 it exactly? Blueberry pancake latte. Blueberry 00:37:11.889 --> 00:37:15.829 pancake latte. Sounds like a K -pop demon hunter. 00:37:18.989 --> 00:37:22.590 Pull your straw up a little and try like in the 00:37:22.590 --> 00:37:28.389 middle of the drink. No, try it now. Oh. Because 00:37:28.389 --> 00:37:32.190 it may, it's just kind of... Amanda's a designer 00:37:32.190 --> 00:37:34.750 aficionado. She's a professional coffee aficionado. 00:37:35.230 --> 00:37:37.389 Oh, and honey mustard. She knows her honey mustard. 00:37:37.389 --> 00:37:39.070 She can teach classes on how to drink coffee. 00:37:42.610 --> 00:37:58.949 Well, this is awesome. I'm not going to eat for 00:37:58.949 --> 00:38:05.530 the rest of the week. This is awesome. Hell yeah. 00:38:06.630 --> 00:38:15.409 No. Thank you. Pancakes, bro. So that's not syrup. 00:38:15.590 --> 00:38:17.650 That is syrup. No, it is syrup. Sorry, I thought 00:38:17.650 --> 00:38:20.050 you said, can I get you syrup? And I was like, 00:38:20.090 --> 00:38:21.769 no. Oh, yeah, I thought you were trying to pass 00:38:21.769 --> 00:38:22.969 it as well. No, no, no, no. I like the syrup 00:38:22.969 --> 00:38:27.650 on the sauce. The problem with syrup is it spreads 00:38:27.650 --> 00:38:30.650 around the plate. That's why you're supposed 00:38:30.650 --> 00:38:34.909 to put it on something absorbent. Yeah. Or just 00:38:34.909 --> 00:38:36.489 cover your whole plate in syrup, which I strongly 00:38:36.489 --> 00:38:44.949 recommend as well. That works too. Danny's like, 00:38:45.090 --> 00:38:46.949 I know where to draw the line. Yeah, leave me 00:38:46.949 --> 00:38:53.940 alone. Actually, my doctor just paged me after 00:38:53.940 --> 00:38:56.699 I took that bite. Like that? Yeah. He's like, 00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:59.940 hey, what are you getting into? There's a new 00:38:59.940 --> 00:39:04.099 prescription waiting for me. I also am a big 00:39:04.099 --> 00:39:06.300 dip your toast in the runny egg guy. All right. 00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:08.440 Got to have it. That's fair. Got to have it. 00:39:09.780 --> 00:39:15.739 And then I scramble that. This is kind of controversial 00:39:15.739 --> 00:39:19.989 of sorts. I'm a ketchup on eggs guy. That's weird 00:39:19.989 --> 00:39:22.769 to me. There are some people that are really 00:39:22.769 --> 00:39:26.570 against it. I almost died once. I might be one 00:39:26.570 --> 00:39:31.309 of them. I'm pretty sure Danny quietly did that 00:39:31.309 --> 00:39:34.849 a few minutes ago here. I put it on my chicken, 00:39:34.929 --> 00:39:38.449 I put it on my eggs. It's a great condiment. 00:39:38.550 --> 00:39:50.440 It's weird. I don't know. Is that the Jersey 00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:52.519 thing? Yeah, like the Jersey bagel. Good news 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:57.539 Jersey. SPK, SPK, right? All right, so there's 00:39:57.539 --> 00:39:59.840 a school of thought that believes ketchup is 00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:03.599 a child's condiment. Yeah. And after adulthood, 00:40:03.900 --> 00:40:05.860 you're a child for using it. I don't subscribe 00:40:05.860 --> 00:40:08.599 to that. No, wrong. But I think there is some 00:40:08.599 --> 00:40:11.940 level of, like, real food shouldn't be touched 00:40:11.940 --> 00:40:14.320 by your use of ketchup. I agree. Don't put ketchup 00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:16.679 on a steak. There you go. Thank you. Thank you. 00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:18.500 There you go. I'm with Danny. That's what I was 00:40:18.500 --> 00:40:22.059 going to say, which is the child dish for using 00:40:22.059 --> 00:40:23.719 ketchup. I don't really judge you for the answers, 00:40:23.820 --> 00:40:25.420 though. I'll put that up. I only say it's childish 00:40:25.420 --> 00:40:28.059 to use ketchup if you use it on a steak. Otherwise, 00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:33.679 have at it. Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes 00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:36.960 here. The basketball player? No, wrong. Football, 00:40:37.019 --> 00:40:40.139 but that was pretty good. He famously... I knew 00:40:40.139 --> 00:40:42.420 that, actually. ...talks about how he puts ketchup 00:40:42.420 --> 00:40:43.940 on a steak. He used to do it with wild hair, 00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:47.260 right? As an adult, yeah. Which makes him... 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:50.860 Just more hatable. And he owns a steakhouse. 00:40:51.219 --> 00:40:56.559 So we're just about done here. None of us was 00:40:56.559 --> 00:41:00.519 brave enough to do the challenge. No way. I would 00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:04.480 need a day to recuperate. Let me just, out of 00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:08.079 all of us, we can wait till Amanda gets back 00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:12.780 here. But out of all of us, I want to know. Amanda, 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.590 I want your input on this. Out of all of us, 00:41:15.929 --> 00:41:18.389 if we had one of us had done the challenge, which 00:41:18.389 --> 00:41:21.030 one of us would have gotten farther with it? 00:41:23.010 --> 00:41:26.369 I'll tell you what, before you answer, I smoked 00:41:26.369 --> 00:41:30.949 the right cannabis, man. I could eat a lot. Thank 00:41:30.949 --> 00:41:37.050 you so much. Blue widow is a strain where I could 00:41:37.050 --> 00:41:39.730 probably eat everything in the house and then 00:41:39.730 --> 00:41:42.309 eat the house afterwards. Wow. Yeah, it gets 00:41:42.309 --> 00:41:44.530 me hungry. See, my money would be on you, actually. 00:41:44.829 --> 00:41:46.889 It's always the skinny guy who's winning all 00:41:46.889 --> 00:41:49.090 the food competitions somehow. I don't know how 00:41:49.090 --> 00:41:52.409 that works. I don't know. See, I was gonna say 00:41:52.409 --> 00:41:55.829 you because you understand the fat life. You 00:41:55.829 --> 00:41:58.190 used to be chunky, right? I mean... You understand 00:41:58.190 --> 00:42:03.809 the fat life? Bro, I can eat for days, non -stop. 00:42:04.429 --> 00:42:07.170 But I don't know that I could do that volume 00:42:07.170 --> 00:42:09.130 in the allotted amount of time. And the pressure 00:42:09.130 --> 00:42:11.329 on top. Are you not competitive, though? Nah. 00:42:13.070 --> 00:42:15.010 Business competitive. I mean, the only time I'm 00:42:15.010 --> 00:42:17.269 competitive is that, you know, can I get thrown 00:42:17.269 --> 00:42:20.710 out of the all -you -can -eat buffet? And so 00:42:20.710 --> 00:42:26.250 far, I think it's just been no. 30 minutes. That's 00:42:26.250 --> 00:42:31.030 short. Five pounds of food. I think that if you 00:42:31.030 --> 00:42:33.190 were enticed enough, though, because you have 00:42:33.190 --> 00:42:37.260 said... I'm eating really well and then I've 00:42:37.260 --> 00:42:38.900 brought in cookies in here and I'm like, god 00:42:38.900 --> 00:42:40.760 damn it, I'm just gonna have to try it. So I 00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:41.719 think that you could eat three. Well yeah, but 00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:44.000 I'll eat like half a cookie or something. That's 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.440 not five pounds of breakfast. You sure? You do 00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:48.659 have good discipline for someone who cooks. I 00:42:48.659 --> 00:42:49.780 don't eat a whole cookie. I don't understand 00:42:49.780 --> 00:42:54.539 the fat life. But, still it's not five pounds 00:42:54.539 --> 00:43:00.079 of food. No. I still keep a daily limit. So even 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:03.210 when I indulge, it just means. I eat less healthy 00:43:03.210 --> 00:43:05.050 food at the end of the day. Remember when Adam 00:43:05.050 --> 00:43:08.969 Richman did that man versus food? I always wondered 00:43:08.969 --> 00:43:12.210 if they had a doctor that he had to go regularly 00:43:12.210 --> 00:43:14.190 see. Dude, there's competitive food. That's all 00:43:14.190 --> 00:43:17.170 they do. With Joey Chestnut. Joey Chestnut. He's 00:43:17.170 --> 00:43:20.110 not a big dude. Even when he's competitive, he 00:43:20.110 --> 00:43:22.769 didn't like his veins are popping out of his 00:43:22.769 --> 00:43:23.949 neck and his eyes. I just don't want to be that 00:43:23.949 --> 00:43:26.369 guy's plumber. You know what I mean? Can we have 00:43:26.369 --> 00:43:30.289 Abel do it? Abel might. Abel would be a strong 00:43:30.289 --> 00:43:33.880 candidate. I think you might be right. You might 00:43:33.880 --> 00:43:36.599 have to bring him back here. Anthony might be 00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:42.719 a sneaky... Yes. Yes. You know? I don't know. 00:43:43.219 --> 00:43:46.519 Anthony snacks constantly. To be continued. Again, 00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:49.019 I'm saying there's... Abel might be the answer. 00:43:49.059 --> 00:43:53.099 There's lots of us solid eaters, but it's different 00:43:53.099 --> 00:43:55.860 with a massive amount in a short amount of time, 00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:58.659 you know? Yeah. And then, like, you never see 00:43:58.659 --> 00:43:59.619 what there is like after. But then again, so 00:43:59.619 --> 00:44:01.559 here's the list. It's five pounds of food, right? 00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:04.019 But when we were reading the list, it's torn 00:44:04.019 --> 00:44:06.619 made it feel a little more manageable. You know, 00:44:06.619 --> 00:44:08.579 it's like four sausage links. Like, OK, I can 00:44:08.579 --> 00:44:10.699 put those down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was actually 00:44:10.699 --> 00:44:14.219 only worked up to five scrambled eggs. Which 00:44:14.219 --> 00:44:18.840 is not that much. Right. But he said, people 00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:20.579 read it, and they see the picture, they go, ah, 00:44:20.579 --> 00:44:21.820 yeah. And they see the mountain of food, yeah. 00:44:22.059 --> 00:44:24.739 So you're going down that path. I don't know. 00:44:24.739 --> 00:44:29.170 Like, this isn't. Oh, they have a set order? 00:44:29.610 --> 00:44:33.309 You've seen some of these food guys, they don't 00:44:33.309 --> 00:44:35.530 eat the bread first. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because 00:44:35.530 --> 00:44:37.650 that's the most filling. My first thought would 00:44:37.650 --> 00:44:39.670 be I'd leave that last, like the pancakes and 00:44:39.670 --> 00:44:41.489 the French toast and stuff. You'd go last with 00:44:41.489 --> 00:44:45.090 the carbs? That's what I would think. I wonder 00:44:45.090 --> 00:44:48.130 if they'd do it to stack it on. Yeah, and then 00:44:48.130 --> 00:44:53.210 the rest goes on. I mean, I wouldn't know. I 00:44:53.210 --> 00:44:56.349 would just think it's harder to eat thick. bread 00:44:56.349 --> 00:44:58.590 when you're already full. I feel like when you're 00:44:58.590 --> 00:45:00.030 hungry, get that down. That's what I'm saying. 00:45:00.190 --> 00:45:01.230 I was like, that's the hardest part. You have 00:45:01.230 --> 00:45:03.630 to get that down, stuff shit on top of it. Yeah, 00:45:03.630 --> 00:45:05.969 yeah, yeah. I don't know. Anyway, this is getting 00:45:05.969 --> 00:45:08.110 out of control. This is the end of this episode. 00:45:08.230 --> 00:45:10.710 All right. We gotta go home, do some work. It's 00:45:10.710 --> 00:45:13.949 fine. Yeah. Yeah. Roll this one. I'm Matt. He's 00:45:13.949 --> 00:45:17.829 Mike. That's Amanda. That's Danny. That's Ashley. 00:45:17.909 --> 00:45:19.940 You can't see any of them. But they're here, 00:45:19.940 --> 00:45:21.440 I promise. 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