." ♪ located in keyport, new jersey, mr.reen tea ice cream is a gourmet ice-cream manufacturer with a rich family history. founded in 1968 by santo emanuele, the company is run today by his son, richard, richard's wife, lori, and son, michael. when i met them in 2013, they were generating $2 million in sales, mainly coming from selling to restaurants. -that green tea's good. -lori: isn't it good? lemonis: and if we hadn't made a deal... $600,000 for 35% of the business. ...they'd probably still be at the same level. that's because mr. green tea was at a standstill. richard: we physically cannot fill our orders to distributors. lemonis: part of the problem is that mr. green tea didn't have their own manufacturing facility. instead, it used a co-packer. by paying a third party, mr. green tea was losing about 20% of its potential profit. michael: we've been talking about putting up a new facility for a long time now, and it's just going slower than -- richard: i'm not gonna put a facility up unless i know we have the business t