lemonis: ...a small catering business serving the chicagoland area.ad: a package of mushroom and a broccoli. this is gonna be for "soundstage." lemonis: although tad had zero formal training, his excellent food and attentive service soon put him on the map. tad: it's smelling great in here! lemonis: over time, the company grew to 12 employees... tad: whoo, hot! lemonis: ...and every year brought more business than the last, until now. tad: holy crap. and then we're left with nothing. lemonis: a sharp drop in bookings this year has tad in a panic... tad: andy! lemonis: ...and his team unsure of their future. tad: ah. i think you need to reach out to the other customer and see if -- if that is for sure or not. lemonis: because of my fast-growing food company, i wanted to expand into the world of catering, and honest foods has one of the best reputations here in my hometown of chicago. if i can get them back on the path to growth, i honestly think the sky is the limit. tad: okay, we have 30 minutes. jennifer: yeah, we're crunched. tad: it's tight in here

lemonis: all in the chicagoland area? -giovanni: yeah, oh, yeah.monis: and so all the stores -make money today? -lisa: no. lemonis: does this location make money? giovanni: oh, my god. this fuels all the growth. lisa: this is our best location. lemonis: what is the goal for you? lisa: we want to scale it. we want to kind of conquer the chicagoland area. we also have talked about acquisition. we did a mini-acquisition already with rogers park. so that was an existing store that was failing, and we went in and purchased it. giovanni: and i have been calling stores to see if they'd be interested in selling. i go get the deals and then go, "hey, we'll figure out how to pay for it afterwards." lemonis: so you're in charge of mergers and acquisitions? [ both laugh ] giovanni: with no money. lemonis: it seems odd to me that they're acquiring anything. what they should be acquiring is a leadership process. they should probably worry about home base first. -giovanni: hey, bud! -lisa: oh, that's our son. do you want to say "hey to marcus"?! lemonis: and what

every business like amazing grapes, there's one like bentley's, a pet supply chain based in the chicagolandrea. lovely people, but one hell of a messed up process. they had grown way too fast. every store looked different from the next. the merchandising is different, the layout is different, the lighting is different, the whole thing is different. but lisa and gio really put their heads down and trusted the process. both stepped up as leaders. what we need to do now is just start boxing everything up. and the result, nothing short of amazing. what you're going to see today is kind of the future look of what could be a regional or a national brand. are you ready? -yeah. -yeah. i'll let you go first. i'm closing my eyes. close your eyes. no, close your eyes, close your eyes. -oh, my god! -i'll look at the floor. -oh, my god! -oh, my god! lemonis: and here's the thing, they didn't just execute for the cameras, they followed through long after the cameras left. and guess what? today, it's a $100 million business and top line with, going to be close to 100 stores, where we've received offers fo

lemonis: ...a veteran caterer has been feeding chicagoland for almost 20 years.gers. i got turkey burgers, hot dogs, and brats. lemonis: but all of a sudden, he's starving for business. tad: it's been rough, these last four months. lemonis: you're down almost 30%. tad: yeah. lemonis: a steep drop in sales has sent his anxiety through the roof, causing him to lash out. tad: mike, you got to work faster, man. jennifer: there's so much criticism and no praise. lemonis: and as their paychecks get smaller and their patience grows thinner, his employees are on the verge of a revolt. vincent: there could be a little bit of a mutiny going on within honest foods. lemonis: if i can't help breathe new life into the company... roni: can i use your oven?

>> as a former resident of the chicagoland area, it's nice to see you here today. it is safe to say there are challenges again as i stated in my oral testimony from both what the congressman franks called the hard right, and sort of elements of the militant left. we have it on neither side of the ideological spectrum is exempt from intolerance. whether they are organized campaigns or spontaneous actions, we need to be clear about the fact that again title 6 doesn't explicitly protect these jewish students. and considering the number of cases we are dealing with on campus, the stat is correct. investigations led by the office of civil rights, department of education, cases of anti-commitment, zero. the number is zero. having a definition is easier for whoever is administering the office to do their job. and ensure jewish students have the same protect other students have. it doesn't preclude political speech. it doesn't limit freedom of expression. it ensures a definition that we also worked on is utilized by policymakers and campus administrators. >> i just want to

>> chicagoland area.ksgiving is one of those days where it's best to eat a lot and take a nap and not go far from home >> rick, happy holiday, and i will see you back here friday maybe. >> absolutely. >> rick, can you stick around for a minute i want to did a very quick rif on the durable numbers and then i want to ask about what's happening in the fed funds market just quickly, this durables number is the exact sort of number you should look through we're in the middle of a capital spending boomlet here, and just because it came off this month, i'm not concerned about it you had a decline of defense spending that's probably calendar-related anybody who thinks the trump administration is not spending on defense is wrong about that you had an upward revision to june i just want people to look past this this durable number does not change the past three months in fact, you had an upward revision is he quickly, guys in the back, if you could put up the fed rate hike -- not everyone everyone is airaway of wha