ewell: mm-hmm. lemonis: and, ewell, it's not my decision whether you're involved in the business or not. ewell: we understand that. lemonis: but, with all due respect, it's still cloudy for me what your role is. maybe you can help clean that up for me. ewell: my goal all along is just to help them building the business here and then going out. lemonis: what do you plan to do here? do you see yourself working in the kitchen? ewell: "a" -- it depends on what the deal is that you all do. lemonis: why would the deal that we make determine what your role's gonna be? ewell: it has to make sense for myself and my wife to uproot our lives and come over to south carolina. we need to be able to know that we can grow with it. lemonis: okay. the business today, before you paid yourself, made $145,000. after you took your salary, it really only made $45,000. any salary that you give out to anybody, family or not, could take that number from $45,000-plus to $45,000-negative. what i'm really buying into is the pot