covello: sammy! sammy: this is my partner joe covello. -lemonis: joe c. -covello: joe c., yes. -nice to meet you, marcus. -tranchina: joseph tranchina. -lemonis: joe c., joe t. -tranchina: that's right. -todd: todd baslin. -lemonis: and you're just todd. so, is it you're 25% and they're each -- sammy: no. so, i own a 45% share. tranchina: 22.5%. -covello: 10%. -todd: 22.5%. lemonis: is the restaurant making money? all: no. lemonis: how much are you losing? covello: currently, $5,000, $6,000 a month. todd: when you don't have the money to pay the bills, and you have to fight with your partners to pay the bills, it becomes an issue. lemonis: who acts as the owner/operator, the person that unlocks the door and locks the door? covello: nobody. lemonis: do you have weekly meetings, where you're sitting here going over what we sold for the week? -todd: no. -lemonis: how -- [ chuckles ] tranchina: keep in mind, none of us have had any restaurant ownership experience at all. lemonis: oh, i don't have to keep it in mind. i picked up on it pretty quick. look, these guys all have full-tim

covello: what's the game plan?o sell franchises, we have to have one that really works. and so we need to find a general manager who can be objective, who can report to each one of you, and that's it. they just need to run the business that way. sammy: i have two managers that can delegate really well, like, really well. covello: but we're in the same spot with sammy there that we were just in with joe. lemonis: but sammy's not trying to [bleep] somebody. in the short term, sammy's got to pick up the slack here. it's a messy day. but long term, we're gonna hire a real general manager who's there on a day-to-day basis, who can run the operations with a high level of professionalism. thanks. it's been a rough time for everybody, but if we're gonna close the deal with a potential franchisee, we have to get to work. he suggested that we add some non-burger alternatives to the menu, so i'm taking the guys to pat lafrieda to look for some options. what we started talking about is how do we come up with something that's m

covello: $5,000, $6,000 a month.'s just a matter of weeks before this business goes belly up. todd: if we don't fix the problem, we're gonna have to close the doors. lemonis: new york city has a ton of energy,