and it was made up of two people that, quite frankly, couldn't be any nicer, pete and allison behringerike you're a mad scientist with that lab coat. i guess you could say i am a scientist of sorts. i was a little surprised at where the place is located. it's, like, in a neighborhood. when we started this business, we had maybe a couple hundred dollars in our pocket or something crazy. we were not in a great financial position, and so someone offered us this place, and we're putting everything we have into building this. so, the deal i made was to invest $750,000 for 50% of the business -- new equipment, new distribution, new products. oh, my god! but that was really step one. instead of investing $750,000, i ended up investing $3.5 million within the first 12 months. we bought an old, dilapidated building in downtown jacksonville... it feels like i'm going into a haunted house. ...and today, there's a 22,000-square-foot candy store. what's up, pete? this place looks great. this is kind of like what you see in the movies. lemonis: now this location that they had originally only did abou