Brett Tuck

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03:21So I'm fortunately there a lot and I've been able to see this thing completely transform and he's keeping it old But also adding so much new and it's so fantastic So I hope that you enjoyed this conversation today with Brett Tuck. I will tell you we're gonna have a bonus episode Next week with Stephanie Richardson and she is a leadership coach She coaches on six different leadership qualities and I met with her and I said we got to record this let's do this So we sat down it's kind of a faster episode with that We put out some time next week and I hope that you are able to listen and you're gonna want to hear this one And then next Friday, we are gonna be talking to Vivek Surti of Taylor and this Was one of my favorite interviews I've done in a really really long time if you go to our Instagram right now You can watch his final thought But this is just Wow, I'm just wow I'm so impressed with what they're doing over at Taylor and just everything that Vivek had to talk about We I felt like we talked for like 20 minutes and it was an hour and a half So it is a monster episode and that's gonna be coming up next Friday Hey also, I just want to tell you at the beginning this episode we talk about this later on in the episode But if you are out and about and there is a NCAA Men's or women's basketball game being played any point throughout the day that is happening You can go to Brown's diner and you can get a $10 picture of Budweiser and you can get pounds of wings one pound of Buffalo wings for ten bucks. So he's got two amazing deals going on over at Brown's diner He's gonna talk about it later in the episode But if you don't get that far I wanted you to know in case you are going somewhere tonight to watch the game You should go to Brown's diner go check it out. It's an amazing place. But first Before we get into that we are going to have a quick five minute Conversation maybe less. I don't know with Miller Chandler He is the Chandler portion of the Chandler James team from lean associates. They're one of our sponsors

05:24He's an amazing guy, but I really I feel like we have these commercials when we talk about it But I wanted him to come in and just kind of articulate exactly what He does because I think this is something that's really important to a lot of people out there Especially if you're an entrepreneur, I know a lot of you are so Let's jump in with that and then we're gonna be talking with Brett Tuck Alright, so now we are here live. We have Miller Chandler in studio. Hey Miller. Hey, how's it going? Fantastic, okay We don't have a ton of time, but I keep talking about the Chandler James team over at Lee and Associates And I just kind of wanted you to tell people in a nutshell What do you do? We help people find space. We're we're retail brokers. We're focused on entrepreneurs people who need a place to do business, so That's what we do you come to us we find your space Okay, so I'm a chef or I'm a person that wants to open a restaurant and I have this amazing I've got the million dollar idea, right? It's gonna be a great thing. I may know how to make the food I mean how to serve people but I don't know anything about How to find the location what the best areas are price per square foot. Do I need an attorney for this stuff?

06:41If I just pick up a phone and I call you can you help me do all of that Can you just break it down for me? Yes, absolutely you know some people get their energy from running a restaurant and doing all the things that Frankly, I'm sure would exhaust me and I would be in way over my head from the moment I stepped in the kitchen, but me I get my energy from looking at Contracts and negotiating leases That's that's what we do on a daily basis. That's that's our expertise And when I say our expertise, I also mean my partner Leanne James who is amazing and has been doing this for many many years and Yeah, we're we're all about helping entrepreneurs restaurateurs Find their dream space so they can get in there and execute their vision and I love the fact that you're a team It's not just you call me and I figure it out. You have Lee and bounce ideas of you guys work together well, I am I'm so excited that you are part of this podcast Thank you for supporting us. I know that You enjoy supporting local restaurants and you've worked with so many you have so many amazing clients who are happy in their spaces And if I have a listener right now who wants to just pick up the phone They've got that idea. They want to pick up the phone and they want to call you Do you have just like a cell number? Like how would people get ahold of you? Yeah, absolutely If you have any questions about Restaurant real estate you want to just give me a call. My number is six one five four seven three Twenty four fifty two or you can call my partner Leanne her numbers seven three one three three five one one two one I love it man Miller. Thank you so much for joining us just on the intro to the show I just want to be able to understand when I talk about the Chandler James team over at lean associates

08:42I'm talking about Miller Chandler and Leanne James and this duo will help you find your next location now Let me ask you one last question before you go if I have a location that I want to sell or lease Can you represent me there too? I? Absolutely can and you know this comes up because some there's some great Business people entrepreneurs in our Nashville community Who are restaurateurs as well and they they need to make these decisions. So yes, we do that as well Yeah, and on our next episode that's coming up next week with Vivek Surti He talks about his original location to Taylor was behind mop broom mess hall and then he had to move He moved his location of the other side of Germantown and that's that's a thing when you're in one location You got to find a new one. That's a great opportunity to call you and go. Hey, this is my situation This is what I'm looking for. Can you help me and then jump in and that's how it works So thanks again for joining us and thank you for sponsoring the show. We love you and tell Leanne. I said hello I will my pleasure. Thanks for having me. That's our pleasure, man. Thank you so much everybody Oh, hey, who's ready to hear this conversation right now with our good friend Brett tuck. Let's go I Super excited today to welcome in Brett tuck Brett is the owner of the all-new Browns diner Is that a way to say it? Yeah, I guess you could say that but But the classic old new the classic Browns diner with the Brett tuck touch. Yeah, right Yeah, that's what I would go with. So I had probably been in the Browns diner a handful of times growing up through the past But I go there a lot now and I've just seen this kind of hole in the wall double-wide with a dining room thing turn into Something that's pretty damn special. Yeah, that's full restaurant. How's it going over there? Oh, you know, it's going great now

10:44It took a while to get there. It took a little while to get there, but it's going great You know can't complain at all. So tell me let's go. So if you don't know Brett tuck And if you've eaten at Edley's barbecue My favorite thing on the menu at at least was the tuck special. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, and that's still around and it's lasted a while. That's but that's your that's your signature Yeah, I mean, yeah, you could call it the signature thing, but it you know, it's funny I'll give you the story real quick. I guess we got some time But so we will and I the owner of Brown will name will Newman at at least and he's a partner at Browns as well But he when we were opening at least We were talking about brisket being on the menu and that sort of thing and I was like we got to do it We got to do it and he's like, I don't know. It might be too much to start with So anyways, I ordered in some brisket before we were open Let him try it, you know smoked it all night got up in the morning I was making my mom's men and cheese that spicy men to cheese this on there got that for my mother Good, and so I had that up there and I had the brisket and the buns Bunch of painters were in there and they came up and wanted something to eat and I was like, yeah I'll make you something so I threw an egg on a brisket sandwich at these of sauce on it through the pimento cheese on it and Handed it to him and didn't think anything of it. Well the second or third day where you're open They are I think it was the next day actually we just opened or the day after All those painters came back and asked if I'd make that sandwich again. I was like sure I'll you know make it for you So made that up did you have the brisket to do it we had the brisket because after will taste that brisket that first Day, he was like, okay. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty good. Well, I guess we need to put that on the man What was your title then?

12:29chef partner, I I never had a title really it was one of those things was like You want to help me do this and sure man Better off to the races. It was no there were no car. At least I was day one at Lee. Well Will and I met a while before that and there's a huge story behind there And over about seven or eight months. I was kind of helping them with his restaurant Layouts and things like that and we kind of knew some people that knew each other from a distance and that's how he ran it Into me and then probably about four months before edley's open He came to me and was like I'm not doing what I thought I'm doing. I'm doing a whole nother thing I'm gonna do thing called edley's barbecue. Would you want to help me do it? So I met him and his wife Katherine and we actually went up 12 South Taproom had some beers I think it was an interview But you know all interviews are just my life like you just kind of walk through them and you don't realize what you're doing You never know when it's an everything is an interview Looking back it was an interview. But at the time I thought we were having some beers with some new friends, you know And that's what ended up being that's how I got my job Yeah, as I was invited to come have lunch with Stephen who owns the restaurants I operate so he called me and he said Hey, let's talk about operations and things and then after he called me a great conversation It's just exciting talking about restaurant stuff. I love to do that and Next time we talked about half of through our conversation I went you were not just you're not gonna come over to US Foods Are you and he goes no I go are you trying to hire me and he goes?

14:06Yes We have a similar Yeah, that's kind of how well that's how it happened and after I met with him and his wife He called me I think a day or two later was like, yeah, I really want you we really need to do this Let's do so let's work something out. So we worked the deal out and next thing and I was building tables Which is the thing that most people don't realize this big part of restaurants is building tables and keep and fixing chairs Fixing chairs fixing chairs, you know all kinds of construction I'm actually pretty decent at now and then fixing equipment That's the that if you can do that and you're a chef man. You you got it made somebody wants you bad That's the interview question. Most people don't know to ask. How are you with fixing combi ovens? Exactly, are you good at electricity? Well, you know, I've been shocked enough what not to do We're telling a story about the painters that came back or the people that men that were working people are working and you came back So they will the painters came back. They're standing in line asked me if I'd do it. So sure sure I'll do it So I made it up real quick and behind them and I can't remember who it was But somebody writing for the newspaper and so she saw them talking to me and heard what I was doing and she goes Well, you know, are they doing a special? I said, yeah, yeah the painters they've had it before Well, can I get one of those two it's like sure and Anyways at that moment I gave it to her and that's what everybody wrote about when we first opened at least the tuck special And the way it was called the tuck special is because we put it on the board Sometime that morning or something as a we're gonna try to do a different sandwich every day and that was kind of the first One we had and they were asking me the name of it. I was like, I don't know and You know ten minutes later fifteen is our look at the board. It just says tucks special So there it is that there it's stuck it's stuck and that's been going with almost 15 years now So I wonder if people let just mowing their yard taking a hike listening to this or like who's just Brett Tuck out?

16:07And then they go dude. I love that's the story behind my favorite sandwich. That's the story And then yeah, and then you know for me I could care less about the limelight I like just do my thing and run around and I had more people for years looking Oh, you're Brett Tuck the tuck special so I guess I'm known for a brisket cheese and sandwich now At least I'm known for something I guess well, you're known for a lot of things but this well, so you From the beginning Will Newman you at least you go in you're the chef partner you Build this thing up. Ed Lee's is absolutely crushing it and then one day You decide I I want it all I want to do something new. I want to pivot out what what's going through your mind? Was there like a life moment that you're a light bulb in my head went off It says be an idiot and go do something different, you know Burn a bunch of money, you know this true story behind that is will and I once at least started growing and got big and We had multiple stores running we needed more help here and there because at the beginning I was doing catering doing the food I kind of was in charge of four walls and in and will he was the guy that I would hey man What about this? What about this or he'd come to me and say hey What if we do this we kind of bounce our ideas off each other and then if it was outside of the building Contracts payroll, you know all the paperwork all the the legal side of it, you know Will's an expert at that and he was he was rolling that way and then we didn't meet and I'd kind of roll the inside Way and he gave and I'm an ideas guy. I'm always outside the bar. Are you a visionary?

17:46I'm a visionary man. I will do I will think of something and try to figure out a way to make it work And will really kept me in a box or focused me which actually ended up being a great partnership Because I'd have been I'd have had all kinds of stuff on that menu, you know, because I you know, I Started cooking where it was kind of a A Manufactured process where you're just you're cooking burger You're cooking something every day and then I got more into will run the specials We're running a restaurant where I could just run whatever I wanted. So menu changed all the time and as I was younger That's what I loved Absolutely loved, you know not having to cook the same thing every day. Where was this at? I was up in Louisville place called Rockwall. So are you from Louisville? No, I went to call in the art school in Louisville Okay, so where'd you go to I went to say Sullivan Sullivan University. Yeah. Yeah shout out to them. It was a good school It was fun. I loved it. Absolutely loved it. Louisville is a good time man, man, Louisville I was sad when I left and I have great family friends up there Two two brothers. I'm extremely close with and I kind of lived with them and ran around there I had buddies that had boats on the river. So it's a whole when you're in the scene there It's a whole vibe like it's a whole Louisville is a thing Louisville Louisville Louisville Louisville Yeah, I want to oh I was a Louisville guy when I got Yeah, I got all that and then and then the the college football scene up there's a little it's all Ohio State So that just drove me insane The Cardinals weren't the powerhouse in football. Yeah, exactly Well Well and the basketball they were killing it then and football they you know, they they had their little moments They'd have their moments. Yeah, they're really cool unis though. I do but the red like that that helmet is really cool Yeah, well, I mean they got they had some few players come out of there They were just you know second to none, but it was fun

19:48I absolutely loved Louisville and then I worked at my first restaurant job in Louisville was a place called Karen's Karen's what was it called? Not diner I Think it's just Karen's actually Karen Louie Karen. Yeah, it was a butcher shop. It was a butcher shop kind of breakfast deli joint that did a ton of catering and But it was I'm telling you is very similar to Brown's in a lot of ways I mean was the old school dudes over in st Matthews every morning come get their plate of breakfast and then come in and get we did triangles, which is a tri tip that Louie had come up with a Marinade and we had tumble them and marinate them and vacuum seal them and that's what everybody came in for So that's for breakfast you said they'd get for breakfast on burritos They get from lunch and burritos and sandwiches, you know, it's the same people every day same people every day I see that's that's that's what's cool. That's what drives me in hospitality Seeing the same people every day knowing They're coming back that you're a part of somebody's daily routine and then you get to know people and that's where like I think the community aspect of the restaurant comes to play and I just That to me I don't know if I could do a place that was tourists all day long where I never saw the same person twice and it was Just people coming in and I want this and then they're gone. It makes it seeing hey Tom. Good to see you Hey, Larry. Hey Sam. Hey, yeah, Jane You know, I mean when you have regulars and they're all grumpy, it's it's kind of fun, you know, you know They're regular world part of their world, you know them. So, you know, they're them being that way or them being kind of you know Oh that you just described Browns to it My favorite part I really do is this grumpy people that typically are super happy, but they're so comfortable there Oh, yeah that they could come in be like, oh my wife this morning or whatever, you know happened to him that day I will take some of my favorite lunches in the entire if you're by yourself if you're just a solo

21:51Hey, where should I go eat lunch if you belly up to the Browns bar at 1130 or 12 o'clock and you just sit there And you order your burger and tea whatever you will get to hear some stories the best coming just over here some of the best Conversations you're gonna hear in the entire city Oh, yeah, I mean fantastic. You never know who you're sitting next to either and you know, that's where you know Edley still has that in a way and but as he gets bigger and bigger and bigger and you less Like at the time I I haven't really left at least but I don't work there anymore Oh, so you still involved with that? I'm still I'm still a partner over there and will and I you know He's a small partner at Browns. Yeah kind of flipped rolls in a way But we still talk all time. We you know, I shoot ideas off him He constantly helps me with the paperwork, which you know, that's not my cup of tea I don't think it's any of our cups of tea. No, and then Sarah's over there. She's our office manager I probably call her every two weeks and annoy her and go hey, I'm having this issue with toast or you know, whatever What's the liquor tax again? I want to make sure I'm doing the right it's put in right and then comes it feels like that Comes up every month. Oh, it comes up way more all of a sudden like is that do again? Yeah. Well Years fly by now, you know How fast they go man, I think kovats sped it up to or could be just I'm getting old who knows You know, you're having fun they say time flies when you're having fun and that is what you're doing Tell my wife that well, I mean if you you're you got a place like Browns, which It's iconic Not only is it iconic, but it's a fun place to it's not so serious like it Maribou my restaurant Maribou It's we like to have fun. Mm-hmm, but it's it's serious Yeah, I mean it's a fine dining restaurant where you have to place a plate on the right-hand side And you have to have all these things. There's a lot of technical correctly Yeah, I mean everything has to be polished every linens perfect Like it there's such a detail in a seriousness about it, but it's the opposite at Browns

23:55That's the fine dining side fun. It's playful. It's 100% laid-back to anybody I've worked with in the last 15 years I am NOT a serious guy and and I think that's why I love the fine dining But I thrived in the casual kind of the other side of it. Yeah, I love that So let's talk about Browns. So I kind of want to go through your history because I love I Love iconic Nashville restaurants that people who are locals who live here have stepped up and have preserved And are keeping for long hours Browns was about to close Minutes away. So tell me about how that process happened and what the whole thing was with you purchasing Browns. Yeah. Yeah, so I'll kind of give you a little back. So will and I kind of going back to that story a minute ago About four or five years ago. I went to him and said hey, you know, and we were we had an ongoing conversation It was like one day, but we kind of came with the idea with let's put some money aside I got some he has some let's see if I can take a little bit of money kind of like we did Ed Lee's and Do something else?

25:03And ponchos and lefties was kind of that way But the way it's set up on the background as far as the actual business side of it. It needed to be run differently But I wanted to go with just me answering to me Will with you know on the side that could help direct me and help help shake me Can I can I stop here for one second? Do you work on the EOS process as well the EOS? Yeah, the entrepreneurial operating system with traction and the whole thing I'm not you know, you don't do that and because I know will is a big proponent that they do that their VTO Yeah, and the whole deal is that was the meetings that I would go. Hey, man, do I really need to be here? Yeah, I'll go make some food. Oh see that's I love the EOS We do all our restaurants the exact same way me and will are the exact same a lot of that stuff. You're analytical I love every detail of being intentional about every single detail of everything I should not say this but I literally look at my sales my labor and my food cost and that's what I pretty much Run all the browns on 60% it's oh, yeah Man want to talk. I don't want to talk about the 40 see those three things every day I'm on them and I can adjust those and usually make it work. See that's my job. My job is the other 40 Yeah, yeah kitchen manager general manager Right now I need an extra 40 done That extra 40 to be looked at. Yeah. Yeah, somebody needs to look at that So, well, I mean it's it that is it's funny cuz I tell the GM's I go that 40 is That's you and me together, but food cost labor liquor beer wine. That's 60% right there If not more, yeah. Well, and that's what I did my whole life. That's what I knew. That's how I ran it That's what I did and I always had a partner or a boss Doing that other little bit and and I still I mean I look at the other stuff Well, yeah, you have to you're in a business I kind of show myself a little short but well I went to my accountant yesterday and handed him a stack of papers and

27:04I go I have no fucking clue. Oh my what any of this stuff is. I don't know what to do I don't know how that works my account. It hates me. We think they're kind of hasty They just kind of smile and go. Oh, this one's gonna be fun. Yeah, this one's gonna be a good time Yeah, they're great I interrupted you yet again because I do this sometimes on these little things that us all good You were telling the story of how you got browns you guys were together. You want to kind of Five years ago. We had grown we're big we had you know office managers catering directors You know the whole package and I was and I was used to before them doing it all so one by one Not kind of let go of the let go with some of the stuff and it was like this is great This is a good day, you know, I can get up run to two stores say hey check on people high-five them talk to some customers go home and do my thing and And then I would step in for instance. We shut down Lexington up in up in Kentucky. That was one store We had a shutdown for kovat. So I was up there with the man lift taking refrigeration off the roof You know while unloading that whole restaurant and like I think two or three days with three people and that was some work Yeah, those smokers are not like no cranes all that stuff but you know, so I did all this random stuff kind of between and I wanted to get back to Open in a restaurant using my talents to kind of tweak it and make the food I like make a place I like to be and then so we'll not start talking about that about five years ago We looked at some spots And nothing just really hit well fast forward to 2020 I hadn't talked about in a while, you know, Ed Lee's is doing great we're kind of doing our thing over there and I got a call from will and guy named Elliott Kyle had called him and said Basically Browns was for sale and that they he put a group together and there's a bunch of people involved in that To buy the land and Browns But the only way they get it if they keep it Browns diner the previous owner Jim Love had already

29:05Somewhat agreed to sell it to a developer somebody else they're gonna knock it down put compartments up or you know, whatever and then So we'll call me about Seven o'clock or and I think he was right after Christmas. So I'd like the 28th or something like that and And he's like you want Browns. I don't know. I mean, it's I love Browns hadn't been there in a while, but You know, I'd love to take a look at it, you know You know, what you know, what's the time frame? How's this going? Do you got paperwork? Do you got sales? You know all this stuff that we don't nothing you got till tomorrow about 11 or 12 Oh shit, like you had to 20 hours over night figured out. So that night I talked to my wife About it and then I called a buddy of mine as contractor and we met down there early in the morning and just walked through The building and then I realized Why I was the last one a list to call. I was the dumbass that was like I can fix it But I can take a Parker restaurant in three hours I put one back together Well, this had like waterfalls in the ceiling and you know, there's you know strapped it Like there would be rotten places in the kitchen floor They just you know, just stripped down another piece of plywood on top. So it wasn't level and it was just I mean, it was right It was right It was uh, you know, I mean it was clean and you know, the food was kept Properly it wasn't dirty dirty, but it was dirty. Yeah But it was dirty, you know No, I understand like you can keep the majority of it clean, but it probably wasn't still clean as is today Like I mean like no, no I mean, well, I mean the hood needed to be clean the flat I mean they had a three foot flat top in a and one fryer was all the cooking equipment I think they had a microwave too so Yeah, so everything was a bar. It exactly good burgers. Exactly. Exactly. And that's what it was But and and then when I saw it, I saw walk through with my contract buddy and he gave me it's like What do you think it's gonna cost to just get it back to you know working where I don't feel like I'm gonna fall Through the floor if I walk in there and he gave me a number and we blew that number

31:06What was that number? He gave you what is the number he gave you? I do I should I say you should say I think I think it ended up being right right around 500 So he said 500 right around you and you're like shit 500k. Yeah Well, and it was a little high for me. I was like, well, you know to walk in something that should be a restaurant That's functioning, you know couple hundred thousand I should be able to get it to where I can actually cook in it And it's like no, that's not equipment. That's just the building part, you know And then that huge deck on front was in that bill but I knew it needed more seat to make it to make Brown's work and Compete in this town you I had to have more seating How many seats did you have initially when you first walked in the door? How many seats was it? It was right around 60 It's like there's one two, there's five booths and then there's probably what eight Yeah in that room in that green room was the bar green rooms about 40 and then you get met in 20s at the time I was pushing the bar It's really comfortable with about 12 around the bar or eight around the bar and a couple behind it It's comfortable for me when I'm sitting at the bar. I can't stand in the bar though. Yeah, and that it will I'm working on that. I'm trying to figure out that side But uh, but yeah, so it's about 60 and I added about 40 40 50 more Well, that's a pretty big increase 60 to 100. Yeah, I was in there the other day and I literally stopped by Three weeks ago to eat lunch and I walked into the back door And there was not a seat available in the entire place We've had and I love he actually had a had a weight in the last month I couldn't I couldn't even eat there cuz there was and I was like Damn it. Yeah, like he's doing too good of a job now Everybody's finding out about the place which I think is what you're looking for. We're trying to get but Selfishly, I'm like, yeah. Well a lot of regulars are like It's getting a little crowded now. Yeah, it's a thing, but they're all super stoked for me. It's stoked for Brown They can't not be I mean, obviously selfishly. I'm like, yeah, I like being able to walk up to the bar 1130 and eat Well, I mean, it's like my wife and I we don't go anywhere in town past 5 15 5 30. That's too damn busy

33:12It's too busy. I don't want to wait and I can't tell you next Thursday where I want to eat or what I want to Have I don't want to put a reservation in for weeks in advance. I want to go, you know tonight It's a nice day. Let's go on to Navy, but man I'm giving away my secrets to but go belly up at the bar You can walk in anywhere in this town at 5 8 5 o'clock as soon as they open Said the bar have a drink get your appetizer and then have your little dinner and you're out by 6 36 45 And then all some people start crowding in there and you're walking out. It's a good feeling dude that feeling that that's my MO Like that's what we do anytime I talked to any if I make a reservation somewhere and I call chef I called you and I said hey Brett Why if I know what kind of dinner and you're like, I got a five o'clock. I'm like, yeah, that's exactly where I was Five o'clock. Yeah. Yes. That is my dinnertime. Let's go on to mine, too That's literally what we do if we go out When did we get so damn old? I don't know. I don't know You're late. There's late nights got one on the way. There's late nights back in the 20s I think I think beat me up just quite enough to now. It's like I'll eat it. I'll eat at 530, you know Well, you've done you know, you kind of put that work in you've done all of that is time you could go eat at five You need to be I agree so you don't have any kids I have one on the way But you have one you're about to be a first-time dad and I'm old. How old are you 42? So not crazy I just heard 45 last week. So I mean like I'm do you have any I have to how old they're 8 and 10 Could you imagine? No, but a newborn right now. I had my head that fixed I should have before I got married Well, congratulations, how far along is she oh she's do July 10th, so we're about halfway there a little over halfway. Good job. We have a August 12th is one of ours, but that that's the the hot months. I've been warned

35:13Well, yeah, you did a good because she's pregnant throughout the cold months Like this is the good time when you're get that nine ten months and it's August Dude it's like let's go so beginning of July you're Yeah, yeah, we'll get we'll get it. We'll get it through it. It'll be it'll be a fun So it's your five, you know, if it's a boy or girl, you don't know we're not gonna find out We're gonna find out when it's bored. You're not gonna find out. No, I don't see tell me the psychology behind this. I mean, it's I Like to be surprised I guess I you know, it's I think it's more than like to be surprised I think it's the The the I don't know the the new generation is I oh we can find out we find out everything. Yeah Information right off the bat, you know on anything you want to know and I just think that's kind of that ruins it It just kind of makes it not ruins. I shouldn't say that but it makes it less less exciting less less Celebratory you're the guy who gets really pissed when somebody spoils a show or a movie. Oh, yeah You I just you know, I wanted to spend what four hundred dollars go the movies now, I think least Number goes I'm going out with some friends and you know kids with them and I said I got to build this time like whoa Stupid Yeah, and you know fourteen dollar cokes, you know, that's how it is But yeah, if I'm if I want to spend that money and wanted to go see it and somebody ruins it You know, I'm nice about it. But in the back of my head, I'm cursing them You know, I gotta tell you a spell on them. I got a really funny story the endgame remember the Avengers endgame came out and it was like the biggest movie like in the world We were taking our kids to go see endgame like the second day it came out like we and we bought the tickets in advance We're so excited and the next-door kid the kid next door, right?

37:17This is I didn't get to hear this. My wife is picking up our son from the kid next door and she says We're gonna go see an endgame. He goes What's the guy Robert engine was he play he goes see Iron Man he goes the kid goes Iron Man dies in the end That's when you punch a kid She's picking up the kid to go see endgame and the kid Iron Man dies in the end and she's like There I always have believed Since I was a child that some kids need to be punched one time. I really believe that man just one time So they just know the effect and then they'll be then they'll be more way way better behaved for a long long time I am NOT advocating that But some kids some kids Did you meet because when you have kids you meet other kids and you start playing sports and then you'll you Sports is the great thing when you have kids as you get kids are old enough to start playing sports Then you're like put you're involved in a lot of the school. It's going back to school you start seeing all these little social dynamics from eight nine and ten year olds and you're like, oh Like the PTSD is you're like you're a little shit, you know the kids you're like I look at it differently. I don't look at you new punch. I look at it and I say you need a hug Your parents are not like I'm a get over here man. They somebody needs to tell you something Happen let's just say that it is. Okay, man No, well the last 15 years of my life all my buddies have had two and three and the oldest ones now are twelve and the youngest are pretty much newborns a year or two and It's it's it's a really fun dynamic to watch and I waited as long as I could long as I possibly yeah you did

39:19Which was in one aspect very smart in one aspect pretty stupid. Well, we were married eight years We had our first kid. I mean, I'm oh, I'm an old dad I mean most of people that are my age have kids are like teen. I have friends that are grandparents Oh, what is going on here? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well a lot of my friends are going to their you know, elementary Graduations now and they're going in and all my friends had you know mid-30s started really having kids But that you know new generation. There's a lot of people out there have them at 22 like our parents Yeah, and so you're at this, you know part of your 40 46 or 45 or whatever and there's these 22 26 year olds. Uh-huh. Yeah And they have all the energy and they still look good and their skin is great and you're like, what did I do? What did I do? I forgot to mention that we have grace here in studio with us Grace is she's hiding. Yeah, grace is with your PR firm Yes, and she she she doesn't want to be on camera But I think that we have to just acknowledge that she's here in the room Yes, do would you I would like her to say hi. Will you just say hi?

40:20Let everybody know when you grab to grab your mic. You got this Right now hi everyone There it is. That is grace all strategies are great. That was fantastic. Thank you for joining us on national restaurant radio She's my chaperone. So anytime anytime I do anything that the public can see she's here to like though Tape on my mouth if I cuss or you know, that's why she kicked you a second ago Thing is when I when I was talking about punching children, she was like you're not allowed to say punch a child on the air But I get okay, so we'll congratulate I'm not gonna be any unsolicited advice and that as a psychology behind knowing or not knowing there's no right or wrong I'm not here to judge anybody. I think that's I like We found out we're pregnant with our first kid when in at five months. Oh, so y'all didn't know it was March 18th What day is today? Oh Yes, that was well, this is gonna come out in like a week and a half Yesterday was the day of March 18th 2013 that we found out we were Actually pregnant we're having a kid and then it's a boy. Ah, like that day our first appointment We found out that's a whole nother story for a whole nother time and it makes sense We're not just ignorant crazy people the whole thing makes sense. It's calm. It's very common, but I needed to know Yeah, I needed to know. Mm-hmm. I don't I don't you can't wait No, and I'm a lot of my closest friends are the same way They want to know what to paint the room and all this stuff kind of clothes to buy what kind of all the stuff?

41:50How do you prepare? And we've already got cribs and boxes and all this stuff already I'm like we got six months man get a comfortable glider Comfortable chair. I got two of them. There you go. We bought two. Okay. We just got a lazy boy Yeah, I she well, I can't get a lazy boy because that's not Frufru brand, you know Baby letto, you know Whatever it is Yeah, it's ridiculous it has super good fabric it doesn't stain I was like Give it six months. I think it's gonna look like trash. Have you ever changed a diaper before? I have you have I have I'm very close with some family members that have children and so change diapers. I took I took my Nephew well, it's my cousin. My best friend and my cousin are married and actually the hair her sister My cousin married my other best friend. They all live near us, but I took One day I can't remember what it was for but I was asked to watch Holden and I took him down to farmhouse and Love farmhouse sat at the bar lunch got hit on by a bunch of Bartenders Holden loved it. They thought he was the cutest thing in the world and he looked at me He goes he goes bread. I got I got a poop and I was like, okay Because you got to go with me. All right, so I was in there he did this thing. He's like he looked at me He's like you got a white so I'll wipe your ass How was his skin at the time? He was probably four. Okay, maybe five four three three and a half for his young Yeah, he wasn't like he wasn't 18 or anything He drove so I've wiped children's butts. I've Held them ran with them took them on boats, you know I'm good with kids good and they typically really like me, which is My wife still is mad about it because all the nieces and nephews we walk in the room

43:53They come run there to be my wife's just sitting there just shaking her head because she's the one that buys everything You're the Funko. Well, yeah It's she she's the one that goes and buys all the presents and gets them the jelly beans or whatever But they love you I don't do anything. Well, my niece is My niece's birthday her mother's maiden name was bacon and I think she was probably three or four I bought her five pounds of bacon for her birthday. She still talks about it. Yeah, it's fantastic I love it. All right, we are gonna take a quick break to hear a word from our sponsors, but y'all I'm listening to this while I'm editing and I am cracking up This was so much fun. I'm Yeah Yeah, stay tuned it gets better. All right commercials go. Do you know your insurance provider personally? That's a question. I asked people when they come in the studio and they go who's Robbins insurance and I go they're right down the street They're a local insurance company that specializes in working with restaurants I asked some people and they say I have progressive I think you think you don't know You gotta know you gotta know your guys Matthew Clements and Van Robbins over at Robbins insurance Personally work with restaurants to help them be protected. We had Benjamin and Max Goldberg in here and they went Oh Robbins insurance. We love those guys. They went to school with van growing up. They're local. They're amazing We use Robbins insurance at both Marable and the Green Hills Grill and they do a fantastic job They will sit down with you and identify exactly what type of insurance you need for your business It is very very important So I'm very happy to introduce you to your new insurance guy His name is Matthew Clements and his number is 863-409-9372 Give him a call and next time you're in studio and I ask you who do you use for insurance?

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48:29You go, this is William. He's perfect. He's an angel like that's the first thing Nobody starts questioning the name once you have the baby once they see a baby in the name They don't make fun of it. But beforehand Everybody will tell you if it's not out yet, they think you're gonna change it to what they want you to change It's not even a thing. I don't think people have a name. They want you to call it. It's just a human reaction To protect we don't have we haven't if it's a girl. We have a girl's name. Don't tell me what it I won't and then It was Louise My grandmother's name and she she just passed not too long ago and my wife promised her if it was a girl would be Named after her so a whole family knows that but if the guy's name is the hard part The boy's name to me is it's been we've gone through a lot of them. We can't figure it out Well, but it'll come to you. I think you just look at him and call him something Our first one was he's second was really hard with Matthew. Okay, that's not my name. It's very easy Yeah, but it's a it's a very simple like, you know, but I shouldn't say What's your child's middle name? I'm like, ah shit. I forgot people That's like my password of something like somebody when I edit that out. I just it's surprising well people's opinion we're in the restaurant world and people's opinions to them matter and then the last what 15 years with social media everybody's opinion matters, but in my world not really like I don't think many people's opinions matter that much You know Opinions only a matter as much as you let them exactly and that's if you don't let them and that's the thing I love opinions. I love to hear them. I feel like our Work way off topic now and our play it we have PR is like D rail Hey, can we get back on that? We need to talk about breakfast. Yeah Go back to browns at Brown's diner. What are we here for? Please talk about the restaurant. Damn it Okay, so I'm gonna bring this back. Yes, you've now purchased the restaurant

50:30You've spent all this money. You've added a beautiful deck. You've doubled almost doubled the capacity You had 69 you're at like a hundred You're ready to go. Yeah, the staff that's there have been there forever. You didn't replace anybody I only I had to let go of one person in the kitchen He'd been there a little while but not that long and that's the only person I've let go as far as as far as people that Before me, yeah, there's a guy that barks his older guy white hair for you Kimbrough Kimbrough And Kimbrough he's my favorite and there's two everybody's favorite who wait on us all the time Margaret Daphne Margaret's been a while but Daphne has been there. I think she was like a year or two after Kimbrough So like sometime in the early 80s mid 80s So 40 something years, but like that's this we're sharing a secret with a bunch of people here like the oh Gee hole in the wall Best burger in Nashville is hiding right here in Hillsborough village under your nose at Brown Steiner with with Like the experience you have in that building you feel like old now if you're missing old Nashville It is alive and well and it is at Brown Steiner. Oh, yeah. Yeah I mean it will always be somewhere and it's sad because so many places have closed that was the same Nostalgia the same kind of thing going on but everybody got you know priced out and had to you know And then we're older and ready to retire. It's a little mix of everything. But but yeah Brown's diner There's a few more left, but Brown's diner still has the old old school Nashville and like the other day I'll sit at the bar and I'm not gonna name any names But gentlemen, we start talking and going through different things and what he did and he was talking about how he became I don't even think he was a producer, but he was more of kind of a manager of some some people and how he got his start He was teaching golf to Willie Nelson and some other people and he gave Willie a tape

52:30So I think these songs are good because you get got it from somebody else and Willie ended up cutting those tapes You know what 40 30 years ago 40 years ago and he that's how he got into the industry But he said the bar and then starts going through people he've worked with and it's everybody everybody that I idolized Oh my god, oh my god, Dina Carter really, you know, and these people just sitting at the bar just hanging out Just random guy would never know we're close to music row over here. It's not that far It's it's still there and it's kind of the place where people said I mean, I remember sitting at the bar and just hearing who were you like, oh, I'm a songwriter and Kimbrough knows Yeah, and he knows in the jukebox there like the stuff that's playing. I don't know There's just such a vibe and you've kept it you didn't Yeah, well that was the whole goal and when I took it over was okay you see the spot you see what's going on All right. How how do you compete with you know, a Restaurant group that throws four million dollars into a building or three million dollars And you know nice seating the best equipment the perfect location with plenty of parking you know that sort of thing and The you know mom and pop is more Browns is how do you compete with that?

53:44Well, the the compete Brown has is the history and the soul in the and that's so how so you have to if you lose that You're not competing. You're done. Yeah, you're done. Yeah, you're absolutely done. So to keep that but also make the food Competitive, you know, the burger is known, you know, everybody Browns Browns burger Browns burger Don't change it. Don't do this, you know that kind of thing But around that wasn't very pretty much nothing, you know, I mean they had the grilled cheese and they had their chili But around that cheeseburger was kind of just a blank canvas. Yeah in a way and then Like I think it was the maybe the first Sunday that I had taken over I was in there and I bet we had 20 Airbnb ears from around the area Walking in with suitcases and going y'all open right now. We're not open yet. Oh, do y'all do breakfast? No, we don't do breakfast. Well, it's just diner on it and I'll say I know but we're getting there We'll get there one day and so that's kind of sparked that we got to get where it started We got to get breakfast. Let's get this thing going in the Browns. Yeah, make it a full diner So is it breakfast or is it like a brunch?

54:53You know pinkies out you can call it whatever you want It's breakfast if it's before 11 brunch if it's after a little breakfast is all day So breakfast brunch whenever you come in at 8 o'clock at night you can order your breakfast your eggs and your bacon hash browns or whatnot and then and Then burgers are all day So if you come in hung over it, you know eight eight thirty in the morning you want a burger order a burger We'll make it for you. Is that what time you open? What time do you open? Well during the week seven seven thirty Monday through Friday Yeah, we were at seven and this is where the opinion matters So I want to hear the the Nashville establishment opinion on this but we did it seven forever You know for about a month and a half and I don't think I had but maybe two people come in before 730 So I was like, you know what? This might be a 730 place So I kind of bumped it back to get everybody all the staff just a little bit longer to get there and get going Yeah, and it's worked but it's funny as soon as I did that On like a Monday or Tuesday Everybody showed up at 7 we had a huge construction crew coming right at 7 and we weren't kind of ready for them and they're like Ah, so I was like, well, I don't know We're gonna run we're gonna run 730 Monday through Friday for a little while longer And if we start getting busier and busier at 730, we'll open at 7 but So what kind of food do you have on the breakfast? Is it like just greasy spoon kind of yeah Crisp thick well, so bacon and yeah, we got you know, your typical southern food, you know There there will be some additions here soon. I got some actually equipment coming on Wednesday So I could organize a bit better in the kitchen Well, I'm really excited new year because I'm in here sometimes at 7 o'clock in the morning and I am hungry and I'm like I think I guess and I'll walk a walk. I know I love Fido fight is great. I think Fido is really good But if it's right there, yeah, come come check us out But I think most people know we're right across the street from I think so. I think so, but it worked and it's a great location I'm interested. It's a cool neighborhood. Oh, man, great vibe

56:55You got a Kroger across the street cross the street that helps us out sometimes when we don't order correctly That's like having your very own little restaurant depot like it's like walk across the street. We're low in lettuce Okay, I'll be back in five grab a couple heads of lettuce. Yeah, I mean, that's a nice thing It's it's for people that not in restaurants it is a really nice thing I've never had that before I've always been having to run across town to grab, you know, all right a sour cream whatever but But you know, it's great. But as far as breakfast, we do our homemade biscuits So we're making those scratch every morning, you know the pancake same thing homemade from scratch Very there. The only thing I think we buy in a bag is the french fries and tater tots Everything else we're cutting chicken down breading it, you know season it brining it breading it our own breading our own seasoning salts and rubs and spices and that sort of thing so it's it's a Simple breakfast but done really well and I and I'm very critical at food in general We've we're we need a couple more little adjustments, but overall it's it's a really well done breakfast It's really done. Well done breakfast and lunch when your lunch the lunch is doing great You add the onion rings or those always been there. I did know I added those. I had delicious Well, you know with the you know, the hidden gem over there Well, there's so many because everybody just so focused on the burger, but the hidden gem is the chili dog I'm telling you I it's one of those things but see I grew up with the varsity in Atlanta Oh, yeah, so my thing was so I had a seafood company. I was dry I was dropping on seafood Atlanta a long time ago and My thing was on my special day, you know I couldn't do it too often because it is a varsity because it will slow you down but I'd go in there get two chili dogs and onion rings and Man, and they're so good to chili to your chili dogs. None at the varsity man. That's the way to go. But yeah

58:56Known for their burgers. You feel great for it's like it's like a cocaine high, you know You feel great for like 30 minutes, but two hours down the road you are slow See our company's be our company here comes the tape He's making notes like 46 minutes and 35 seconds. I need you to edit out where he said it's like cocaine. It's like a cocaine No, is that all we need to do? I Your mic is still on And then when I got to Brown's and I had done onion rings a couple a couple of my people at Brown's had worked with me at Ed Lee's or Pancho's and I'd done some specials with onion rings over there and And one of my girls Nikki she was like you got to do onion rings It's like well if I get if I can get the equipment and get the space to do them. We'll do them So when I did I was like, all right, I got to do. I mean, I love a good sucker People get mad at me because they take up so much room to do and they're kind of their labor intensive to batter and fry And gets everywhere so now you can only get an appetizer of them You can't get a side of them and people get so mad at me But I'm sorry, I can't slow down the whole restaurant just for your side of onion rings Can I can I tell you a story that I've debated telling you and this is not a bad thing. Yeah. Yeah This is this is how familiar and wonderful it is having See Daphne, yep, wait on you I don't remember if it was her there both of them are like either way whichever one each day. They're amazing But I ordered the onion rings and it was right after you had started them Uh-huh, and I had this she goes man. Those look delicious and I said you want one she goes really Grab one and a onion ring at the table and I was just like well hell yeah, that's awesome Like this is what I'm talking about. This is it and I was finished. I was like you can have the rest time She's like, thanks

01:00:58You know, you know they eat for free so all she had dudes look in the kitchen I'd like some onion rings you get a whole basket. She knew me It wasn't like I was like some rando like that was the soul. That's a piece of the soul It was that moment. I was like, I love this place like it's just it was just a great little moment. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, that's awesome. Alright, so we got breakfast Breakfast rocking you got a killer lunch is rocking. What are you doing at nighttime? You got like you got live music I got the live music. Yeah, it's it and that's been going really well Does Amy Grant still come and play there and I wish because she used to do like a They've had I mean if you go back through the history, they've had some people there now We still have studio guys people that have done some really big things and played with really big people They still swing by fairly often You know Pat McLaughlin came and not too long ago We couldn't and it was just kind of a pop-up show that sort of thing Do they do people just walk up and say hey can I play for a little while or is it? We actually have a lot of people to do that But the tip typically they're not the ones you want doing it they have they have had a number one hit or a number one Album, they're like I'm begging them, you know No, we get all kind of I mean there's a there's a the third Sunday of every month Which ended up being this st Patty's day so they got booked out by somebody else but they'd come in and it's a family of people and Sometimes it'll be five or six sometimes will be 20 and they bring their folk instruments Irish folk and they will jam for two or Three hours from three to five or six or whatever and then stay and eat and I'm telling it's one of the it's it's a beautiful Thing to see you go into this restaurant and these just people off the street that you look regular clothes nothing fancy nothing crazy But they have the drums the fiddles the harps and all kinds of all kinds of folk instruments And they're just jamming out in there. It's so cool. No, I love it That's one of my favorites, but we and then you know, we had a group of doctors that played there for years Really? Yeah from Vandy and I cannot remember their names. That's that's a Kimbo Kimbro question

01:03:02They would come in like the second Sunday of every month and play You know over in that corner before we had cleaned it out and actually made a stage Any Kimbro to come in and just tell stories for like an hour Well, you need more you it might take you a week get you some skull vodka in here and he'll he'll sit here for a while But yeah Campo Bravo tequila He's more of a skull guy, but he'll take it I'm sure he'll take it Are you doing any THC beverages over there? No, I've been I can buy them. I've been offered them But I'm gonna send you home with some samples today sweet sweet I think it's the next I think I think you would do I think you would crush over there with us I think it would too But the liability on my side makes me nervous of what what's the liability the THC some won't somebody leaving hurting somebody Is there I mean, I don't know. I mean I've not had a the legal THC beverages. I've seen them I've have not had one. So I definitely need to take one home and check it out. But Cali sober Yeah, yeah hundred percent, but my it's kind of like the cigarettes in the dip or the cigarettes in the oil and dips or whatever on the nicotine patch things though then yes same same idea different different kind of different realm, but If you if you want to quit smoking some people take those patches, right?

01:04:28Well, then if you keep smoking and take the patch you're just doubling down and that's why That's what actually makes me a bit nervous as a as a as the insurer of the building if you get somebody in there Pounds two of those or three of those and then has a liquor drink or two I don't know what I don't know what happens after that. I don't trust enough people I think we have to get I would love to try one. Well, that's the thing I've been talking to them about and I think it's the next big thing. I think I agree. I am not downing it There's like a hundred brands out there. Yeah, but there's some that are much better than others. I think But I mean it's it's like a glass of wine, but here's the thing if you have somebody in here who drinks ten of those Yeah, they're just gonna kind of get really deep in their conversation. They're not gonna they're not gonna start acting crazy Oh, no, no, they may fall asleep hundred percent But like nobody's gonna get blackout drunk and try and get into a fight. No a hundred percent alcohol is way to me I think it's better than alcohol. But if you mix them once I get people used to what one or two cans It's so specific it's five milligrams of Delta 9. It's not like you're yeah Let's plan a plan a playdate come to Browns and we'll have a few and hang out and if They work then I'll put them in. Yeah, you check them out. I've got I've got them at Chagos Oh, yeah, I've started doing it over there. Yeah, there's some education with the bartenders about how many and hey look You know if it's a you know, I mean my mom I I've told the story on the air before so I'm gonna say it again But I was kind of doing my research. Yeah, you said I do I did I did mine I took one home to my old took one of my parents I was watching football and I said mom I need you to drink this as fast as you can. Oh, yeah and then also tell she's 60 something and she's never had THC her entire life. Not one time I read teens So she sat down and then she said yeah, I don't feel anything Later I was like, do you feel anything now? And she said No, I still wait. Yeah, I can hear the words coming out of my mouth through the outside of my ears. I'm like, yep

01:06:34It's working. It's working and then five minutes later. She was asleep. Oh, yeah, so I was like, okay, so if you're a Woman in their 60s who's never had THC before maybe half of one if you want to try it but like go to a liquor store and Buy one and then go home and experiment. Yeah, but if you're a smoker you eat edibles all the time This is just a great non alcoholic way to have a little bit hang out with everybody be in a place It's the edge a little bit off but not get yeah, that's the thing with alcohol now as you get older It hurts. All right, so I haven't drank alcohol in over four years. Oh, really? Yeah, I couldn't do that I like wine man. Well, I do I did my I'm a level one Psalm like that's my passion It was the hardest part about not drinking was going beers I'm fine with I don't you know I love a good ice-cold beer, but I'm fine with not having one. I can drink non-alcoholic beers. That's true And they're fans are good. The ones that are out now are very good But and then liquor my scotch every once in a while my foot starts shaking Every once in a while, but the wine the wines the hard part for me Look if you can control it and it's not a problem. Yeah, go for it I have nothing else anybody else who wants to do it and the luckiest chef in the world Because I can pretty much do anything and not crave it anymore But I mean even to this day, I probably when I drink I drink now don't get me wrong But I don't go home and have a beer. I don't go home and have a glass of wine randomly It's got to be like, oh, I'm cooking steaks tonight. We'll pop a bottle. Yeah, but yeah, I don't know I'm the only one in the chef world that I know that does that but it's just how my body works No, it's impressive. It's me and more part. I call it an allergy Yeah, like it same sort of thing if I have one I need to have Oh, yeah, it's not stopping until I get to that side of it too. Cuz that's me as well I'm like I so I don't open it. I'm gonna I'm not having just one but just don't open it But every once in a while, yeah, you know see that's the restraints. That's right. That's where it comes in

01:08:36I tell you I'm 42 now. Yeah. Yeah That 18 to about 32 man, I put some years on these legs, dude I think I think I stopped on my turn 40. It was like my my thing and You know what? I hate You know like you're you're you're the adults when you were kids. They're like, oh, I'm 40 it hurts Oh, I'm 40 is this and yeah, I remember this kid like you're just you know And the next thing I know I remember like coming out of the shower and I like twinge something And I looked in the mirror and I was naked looking at the mirror going I am the sad person now I am just a sad sad person. I think we've all had those moments I used to squat for 450 pounds. I can barely bend over now. What happened? Think grace thinks that's funny. Oh, she she is like I cannot believe I brought this guy here Are you having fun yet grace, okay What do you what are we missing here pull the makeup We've got March madness see that's why this is what we see here for if it's good a hundred way off track for a long time Yeah, well And that's what Browns is gonna start doing I got a I got to organize a bit more but for these special things that I love You know, we're gonna start doing some big specials for but we got $10 pitchers of Budweiser, which is a pretty good deal I think it's probably gonna be the cheapest in town I'm guessing $10 pitchers of Budweiser and more ounces when is this gonna happen any date any day?

01:10:19That a March madness basketball game is on Wow, and then I got the $10 wings I wish I could make them cheaper, but wings are just out of control. They're just expensive now. It's unbelievable But $10 for a pound of wings, so it's a hefty portion Hefty portion $10 pound of wings $10 pitchers of Budweiser And it comes it comes with a frosty mug Is that many as you want during the game? No all day long at any time of the day any time that there is if there's a game at 7 o'clock at night You come in at 730 the morning for breakfast you get a $10 picture and $10 except on Sunday I just want to make that so I don't get in trouble from the government What's so I can't sell alcohol before I think 10 a.m. On Sundays. Oh after 10 a.m If there's a Sunday's, oh, yeah, then you get the picture, but the wings will still be 10 bucks Okay, well that Legally, I get that I just wanted to clarify for there if they're like well shit I want to go do that and come on they show up and it's a you know earlier It's like no, it's only while the game is on I just wanted to verify that all day all day from when we open to when we close when this is the first one is The the Wednesday tournament this Wednesday, which is tomorrow. Oh, yeah today is Tuesday It's a blur this will come out the whole tournament won't be over but yes, you should If you're watching the tournament championship game final four sweet 16 Come come on down to Browns on the deck it got the heaters going because it is a little chilly today But it's starting to warm. It's starting to warm, but I added that extra TV So we got 270 inches on that big old deck. So we'll have two separate games on it anytime Did you know that I heard this one time? I don't know if it's true a Big left turn here Most the busiest like this Super Bowl for Doctors who give vasectomies. Yeah is Tomorrow really? Yeah Huh? Because March Madness dudes go they get vasectomy and then they gotta go home

01:12:24Yeah, and they get to sit on a couch for two days or a day I thought I did more with hormones or something, but no that makes total sense So if you're gonna do that surgery, how do we watch the game at home? Watch the first two rounds of March Madness on the couch while you ice your jewels. That is genius And I'm gonna that's actually I will that's what I'm gonna do That is a whole thing that people do like they plan is you got to plan it out That is way in advance that the day before March Madness starts you get to go I got a hall pass for the next 48 hours to sit on a couch Yeah, I don't do anything for a little while and then it's gonna be I think it's infected I don't have a couple more days. I need a couple more days doc. Send me send me a pass I did not do this. No Yeah, so I did daddy's dogs was doing a special that if you got a vasectomy you got a free milkshake Really and I did go and get a free milkshake I think Browns could do that the Browns could do that if you get if and we but you got to show us proof You do that. Oh, I don't know Daphne will figure it out No Bushwhackers though. Oh For the for when this comes out. I'm hoping to have it by then to do bushwhack I have took taken an old Bushwacker machine and rebuilt it and it's about ready So we'll have Bushwackers at Browns very soon Which is gonna be the vasectomy was prodded in my head. So we're gonna do Bushwhackers We're gonna add a little alcohol to that milkshake Yeah, you go and then those those will be free to anybody that has had a vasectomy within the last week We'll give them a week to come in and grab it. You heard it here first folks This Sean she's like how are we gonna promote this?

01:14:11This is awesome, we're gonna get right on this we're gonna get in the Tennessee and well Sean did it I mean that was his thing. I mean the guy I loved. Do you know Sean brought daddy? No Sean Double dogs daddy's dogs daddy's dogs. That's right. I have met him. I don't know him that he's I would recognize him He might recognize me. He's my favorite people. He's the best man chefs at fine dining are great But chefs at casual dining are awesome You know, it's a different world. It's a it's a different world and It's fun to see If you go around and you find those high-end chefs that did it and that were you know? Did that whole scene for a while and they dropped out and go to that casual that the the Strain on their whole face kind of comes off. It's great. I well I have Good so I have a fine dining like really nice, you know kind of place. I've got the Green Hills Grill, which is a really Good fat. It's great. It's casual, but it's nice, you know Yeah upscale casual kind of a thing and then I've got Chagos, which is like college Neighborhood kind of a cantina. Yeah, you're not paying for the walls to be looking good. Yeah No, they look good But like you don't have a seven thousand dollar statue in the corner, you know, no Well, I I find here's here's how I know the answer for myself when people ask me say what's your favorite restaurant?

01:15:41I go I kind of tend to say Maribol. Uh-huh. Yeah because It's the standards are really high. Mm-hmm, and I've got a bunch of pros Who've worked there for 15 years? Yeah, and they do their shit Yeah, they come in and they know what their job and they know it Yeah, they're pros and that is nice. Everything gets done on a regular basis and it's awesome and you're like, oh That was fantastic and everything's going really well, but there's something at that place is just kind of autonomous Well some in Mirables, how long has it been around this they originally open in 1985? Exactly It's it's got legs under it where it's got its oh, yeah It's it's it's ironed out all the wrinkles, you know, and it takes a while that's kind of like Edley's You know that first couple years you're learning as you go, you know, you're kind of learning and doing your thing but and I man I one of my favorite things that sit down a nice restaurant have perfect service and perfect food and Beautiful and taste out just amazing fun thing. It is it is I mean That's what my wife and I do that's kind of a somewhat hobby in a way We'd like to go try new places and see what people other people doing as for me I love this when I sit down and have a meal and I think in my head I don't know if I could do that. I could I don't think I can replicate replicate replicate replicate Yeah, there we go that that meal and I'm pretty pretty good at what I do and kind of understand a lot of it That's what I'm really like. That's awesome What's your favorite restaurant in Nashville to go to like that?

01:17:13Where's one somewhere you've went there's like dude that blew my mind. Oh It's been it's been a long time since I went to those type that kind of meal The last one you need to go back. I know well, I we go to we go to seniors. We got a City House a lot It's kind of it's close. It's been there and we know we know good good many of them that work there and That is a wonderful restaurant. That's a great recommendation and it doesn't don't don't follow that with But it's old school. No, we need to be supporting more of those And it's local and it's what you know one guy type thing and it's you know It's just a cool place and the in the great thing about is you can go in there You don't spend a ton of money You can go in there and get a pizza a glass of wine and a salad and then if your wife wants something else you Can get that too and you can walk out with seven sixty seventy eighty bucks and that's with a full meal Yeah, and then those ones that I'm wild at then I get that bill and then I'm like, oh that was a wow. Oh We went to Locust one time and I and I wasn't high in seafood for a while and they had those razor clams Man, that was that those are unique. Yeah There's not many places in the world you can get those I would have I would have went back and just ate those four meals like multiple times But you know, they've changed they're changed what they're doing. So everything about that Locust I could eat Time it was so good Bastions, yeah, you know what you be good to I haven't been to Bastion why I have it You know At least came along I was working at at least I was eating there running around doing my thing And then as I actually had the money and time to actually go do those things It's right about the time that everything opened, you know, it was just like you're overwhelmed with restaurants Yeah, and so we've had we've had a bunch but there's you know And then as all my buddies start having kids those High-end date nights to go meet their buddy or something and double dates and things like that kind of slowed down a little bit And now it's the five o'clock meal at you know City House

01:19:15Which is still freaking awesome. Every time we go there. It's just great and then for you know, it's gonna be you know Kid there's gonna be where the kids. Yes Exactly. It's got exactly Well, I'm excited for you man. I all of this is of the This is the kind of stuff I do this show for it's telling these kind of stories man Where you've come up through at least you know, well good friends you you're a staple in the neighborhood you rescue and revitalize an Iconic Nashville name so every time somebody sees an apartment building they go. Oh, man I wish somebody had saved that yeah, you're the dude who stepped up and said no apartments going here We're going to continue this legacy of what Nashville was what made Nashville great and for an area like Hillsborough Village, which I have So much fun. That was the place I used to hang out Jackson Sunset cabana the trace Sam's I used to be a sit-in Sam's in the village and it was the who's who of Nashville chefs and industry people that was That's where they were I lived right behind there on Ackland yeah, I first moved to town I guess that was like 2009 Yeah, and it was great We I'd go in there and sit in that little raised booth in the side You kind of oversee everybody and I'd get my chicken fingers and have a blast that bar was the best So I was and then they tore it all down. Yeah, they tore it all down and now there's a ruby sunshine where Jackson's used to be Fido's still there's great Jackson that patio on Jackson's Night in the summer But like all that stuff is gone, but Browns Stands because of you hundred years hundred years and in 27 So we'll throw a big old bash for that Yeah, yeah, it'll be a good one Alright, so we are about we've got 15 minutes left and we are going to take one more real quick Sneak in a commercial break real fast Unleash the wolf with Campo Bravo tequila

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01:23:21The burger hasn't changed the burger. I added about 0.75 ounces of meat and that is because I Really love sharpie a I've been with them for a long time Bakery couldn't say better words on this Yeah, you know sharpie is just phenomenal And so I love those people and I will love their buns and I think they work great on Burgers and that sort of thing and on barbecue sandwiches as well So I brought sharpie's bun in and it's just it was just a little too big for our the original burger size and then if you look at sales and per seat and you know, you know the The cost per person type thing I needed to raise the prices of hair But I didn't want to do that without giving them something Yeah, so I get a little bit more meat on there and then the sharpie a bun other than that same seasoning Same style of cooking same same setup the whole nine So I could for those people that say that I've changed it I really you know, I didn't I got a fresh baked bun and made it a little bit bigger That's the only two things I did and I don't think you know things I mean the bun will make it better That's what I thought. I don't think it would ruin what I it is It is slightly more expensive because it is delivered daily and it's a fresh bun. Yeah, so But yeah, yeah, so that was really the only thing I did. I'm still working on the French fries I can't quite get the right fry in there crinkle cut fries there Well, no, they have had the shoe string for so long people love them and I like them But the ones we're getting are they They just don't hold very well So once we once we put on plate we frown obviously fresh to order everyone and then but if it sits there for two or three Minutes those ones in the middle start getting real limp So I've been I've been playing with that, but we'll come that we'll come to a conclusion here soon All right. So we got March Madness coming up. Yeah $10 pounds of wings $10 Pitchers of Budweiser. Yeah, anytime that there's a any day that there is an NCAA tournament game men's

01:25:28Men's I'll do women's to shoot. We'll do women's and men. There you go guys. I just negotiated in Women's also. Yeah women's basketball men's basketball if you the NCAA tournament is on You can go to Browns and you can drink beer and watch the game and it's pretty fantastic Put new TVs in there I feel like there's new TVs Well one of them I upgraded my house TV and took my old TV from my house. It's stuck it in there. That was One of them was an old Edley's TV I think from Lexington that had been stuck in a in a storage place somewhere And then I just bought and I bought three or four other ones little ones and I just put the two new ones out On the deck a big 70-inches. Yeah, that gets fantastic It's nice I mean as a good because that hill there's a bar outside has a nice little breeze through there all the time Even when it's really hot. The problem is when it's cold that breeze will work Yeah, but I'm hoping to next year have that a little bit covered a little bit more the sides kind of Keep the wind off of you get these heaters going we can sit out there when it's real cold All right, man. Well, I we could do this your your next door so we can do this whenever you want Oh, yeah, everyone does we can we can keep this we could do this for hours Normal thing we get to the end here and it's like damn. I don't want to stop gone. Yeah, we're an hour We didn't touch on a lot of things. We didn't touch on a lot of things. Well, did we miss anything you want touch on?

01:26:51Yeah, religion and politics man. Anyway, so we do here at the final end of the show Is we do the Gordon food service final thought? Gordon food service is our fine title sponsor and we love them and they sponsor The end of the show you get to take us out whatever you want to say as long as you want to say it You whatever this is your time your turn to talk to the city. The mic is yours go. Oh, that's a that's a Interesting concept, but yeah, no, the only thing I'd like to say is just come check us out. It's new. It is new But you're still gonna get the old-school feel the old-school burger Get to check out the music. It is a hidden gem There's not a ton of room in there So I'll get there a little early if you want you a nice little spot But the music's awesome. The food's great. The people are great. The the area in Nashville is great. And you know Don't be too hard on me. I really tried to do my best to keep Browns Browns and I Think I did it. I think I'm getting real close to it if not right on the head But but I'm always open if you hear something or see me and want to suggest like grits I Get a lot of grits. Do you have grits? I'll have grits. I the equipment was the problem. I need a space to store them But we'll have that coming soon. But yeah, yeah, so if you any suggestions anything, you know, we have liquor now We didn't we didn't touch on the liquor. So I'm doing fresh squeezed juices for all our drinks in their old-school drinks It's just real simple, but they're delicious. Oh, so you're doing did you not they didn't do liquor before just beer only They literally had Budweiser on tap and then a bunch of domestic bottles I think the Heineken was there was there Your import funky crazy one, you know the Heineken sure That just cracks me up. So I think what you were saying was if you go to Browns No, this is what you're gonna get and it's okay The server might try your onion rings if you offer it

01:28:53This is the kind of place that will not be perfect, but it will be Help me like this places or go to help and say this place is a dive. It's fine Yeah, it is what it is. It is what it is And you know, like I said restaurants are not perfect ever but get into that feel that but love that but lean into it Look at the walls check out the pictures, you know, check out check out the memorabilia up there It's not just some random junk that somebody found in a flea market that looked kind of cool It's history to that place and it's history to Nashville and it really is So you did not hang it there? No, no, it was there literally Kimbrough and some I think CJ was one of them I think she just passed But they're the ones who took all the pictures and put all the memorabilia up and over the year I mean Kimbrough still have scrapbooks of pictures from from Browns, you know And then the been the people that have been in that building would Absolutely blow your mind it really would if I could get a little neat I really need to start a list but it's it's it's it's incredible you know one time I was walking from Browns to here the studio and There's a at the corner of the city when you walk back after this interview Yeah Look, there's a there's a light pole like a utility pole right on the corner on the gas stations on your side right there Yeah, right on the pole. There is a brown wooden pole with a 100,000 staples in it. Yes, and exactly. I mean, it's just the whole wall The whole pole is just I don't even know how you get another 80% metal now. Yeah Yeah, I took a tick-tock one time. I took a video of it put on tick-tock and I go I Wonder who has stood right here next to this pole and put their flyer up Like the the amount of people in history They've stood on this corner a lot and put a come see me play before they were anything Yeah, I guarantee you there's a Dina Carter staple in there. Yeah, I'd guarantee it. She lives right Laney Wilson Oh, there's Casey Musgrave like all these people they were just young getting out there Garth Brooks even how long has this been here?

01:31:00How many people have just put their little come see me play at Browns or whatever? I'm telling you more than you could imagine that that pole to me signifies like And then if you come to Browns talk to the people there's so many Older people that have been there forever and they want to talk they do you they really do And I've had some really interesting and fun conversations with the most random people and the next thing You know you get just like our conversation today you get off track and all this weird things start happening And then all of a sudden you figure out that you know your cousin knew their cousin or something like that Yeah, or you were the writer for Hank Williams and he did this and yeah, are you found Elvis came by what? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I played golf with Elvis and I you know this that and the other and yeah I'm telling you it's it's it's absolutely it happened to me yesterday. It really did Just going off about this guy's career and you know, just random conversation. It was really cool Educational well that was Nashville educational. This was your final thought I don't talk during the final thought but I had to jump in there better It's better to converse with me because if you just let me go it'll get weird Well, that's for next time Grace you have any final thoughts anything you want to say to the audience anything you want to say before we go dad do okay I kept I just give some stuff like you want to say anything There's a laugh. I like that. Yeah, you got a reaction Okay, perfect she's low-key behind the scenes I love it well Brett Tuck Thank you so much for joining us on Nashville. We're gonna take you off the hot seat now. Thank you so much for having me I appreciate it. Thanks for everything. You're doing over there, man. I love it and It's good to see you. You too. All right, so take care Well, okay Wow That was kind of a marathon one hour and 32 minutes and 52 seconds in here We go want to say a big thank you to Brett Tuck for coming in. That was such a fun conversation and we have

01:33:02Bonus episodes. We've got a woman named Stephanie Richardson who's gonna be coming out that next week randomly. We have Kev de Shane Chef Kev D who's gonna be here for toast Nashville He is a private chef, but he's also been on every TV station everything He's kind of a celebrity chef who's gonna be hosting toast Nashville with Robert Irvine and Alex Ballou and Rocco Spiroudi I said that wrong And it's gonna be fun and And those episodes are coming up. We've got a full episode with chef Kev D and next week the vague certi Another marathon we talked for at least an hour and a half So that's gonna be almost a two-hour episode because at the beginning of that episode We're gonna talk to chef Kev D about toast Nashville and that's gonna be a 10-minute Addition that's gonna be an epic next two weeks as we are just gonna be putting episodes out like crazy This is your time to go follow wherever you are Listening to this click the subscribe or follow button follow us on Instagram because we're giving away tickets to toast Nashville, too Thank you for listening. We always hope that you are being safe out there and We love you guys. Have a happy Easter wonderful. Bye