tonnie: traditionally, you walk in -- marcus, you have my -- another guy named marcus -- marcus, you have my steribag? marcus: no, it should be in the front. tonnie: never mind. i got it. so, the beauty of tonnie's minis is you walk in, you pick your cupcake out, you pick your topping. woman: i like it. it means make your own cupcake, essentially. lemonis: you a cupcake eater? woman: yes, actually. thank you so much. -have a wonderful day. -tonnie: take care. lemonis: cupcake's good. tonnie: always happy to hear that. lemonis: the frosting's good. the process seemed a little...nonexistent. i would have thought there would have been a bit of an assembly line, like base, frosting, topping. i don't necessarily see that. tonnie's idea of a build-your-own cupcake, quite frankly, is phenomenal. but the idea i thought i was coming for i just don't see. somebody takes a cake off a rack and then the toppings are, like, hidden under the counter. i mean, it's terrible. how much business are you doing in this location? tonnie: average is $500 a day. lemonis: and what are your margins on that $50

-jack: hey, marcus.of their lower-priced gazebo for true value. -you had your baby. -simon: yes, i did. lemonis: congratulations, my man. what's happening? damion: myself and jack got the true value gazebo ready, built. lemonis: you did? damion: i'll show you it if you like. lemonis: okay. and so what changed? damion: the furniture and the inside of the roof. lemonis: and i love the way that looks. what's the inside of the roof? damion: so, before, it was the tongue-and-groove boards, like this, and now we've done a weatherproof, marine plyboard. lemonis: what did simon think of it? damion: he wasn't over the moon about was -- lemonis: that's too much of a cutting of a corner. what happened since i left? damion: we were all on board, and simon goes to england, so i had to run the business, get these made. lemonis: did you communicate with him? damion: yeah. sent him pictures. lemonis: he ignored you? damion: he could have just checked in a bit more. lemonis: we're getting back to the same issue we had be

-oh, marcus. -thank you very much. -i'm late. -thanks, marcus. -thanks.ank you. ♪ -good morning. -good morning. -how are you? -good, how are you? -good morning, marcus. -how are you? -thanks. -nice to see you again. -nice to see you. i left yesterday a little concerned. it was puzzling to me. the margins say 25 percent. i know they're not. steve, why are the financials incomplete? you know, i've got a full-time job, so spending the time to do that hasn't been a prime focus. -you know, ultimately, if you're going to be a partner in the deal, i like partners that i know can contribute. my expectation is that you would be more active. and for me, the whole asset of this business is the talented people that design. -i love that. -i want the challenge of building a business in detroit by people's hands from detroit. -mm-hmm. -so my offer is $300,000 for 51 percent. i think needs $100,000 for building out efficiencies in the shop. it needs to have some rhyme or reason to it. -right. -things that allow us to lower cost and increase output. in addition to that, $

i'm marcus. matt: hey, marcus. matt.op serving that weird refrigerated bread, and we're gonna serve up something with a twist. so i brought dave to milwaukee pretzel company. katie: right over there, that's our mixing station. after it comes out of the mixer, it goes through our divider/rounder, which cuts it into pieces. then it comes through this machine, here, and turns it into a string, and then we have twisting and shaping. lemonis: you might think homemade bread is cheaper and more profitable, but baking our bread, we're using a ton of labor that we could use somewhere else. by serving these pretzels, we free up our labor, and we're able to add something to the concept that increases the perceived value of the menu, giving us the ability to raise our prices. dave: i like it. lemonis: you're open to that? dave: oh, yeah. lemonis: i also wanted to take dave to maglio's, one of the largest produce suppliers in all of wisconsin. sam: first process that they're doing here is picking out anything that just isn't edible.

marcus, come here, please. marcus, come here, please. >> listen, nobody's changing my mind, okay?> you stay here, you will be running it. we've set everything up to succeed. >> i'm sure you will, pete. there's no question about it. >> listen to me. then if you decide in a year or two you don't want to be here-- >> doesn't matter. >> tony-- >> it doesn't matter. i want nothing more than this world for you to be successful. >> listen, listen-- >> no. >> so what's going on again? >> he wants to leave. he feels that--not to be here. >> why not, tony? >> i feel that, um, right now he has the right partner to help him get to the next level. >> well, he has the right financial partner, but i'm not here every day. >> i understand that. and, uh... >> have i ever asked you for anything? now i'm asking you. play this through. >> my decision is made. >> coming up... >> why'd you take my name off? >> i need to make sure that everybody that came here before knows this is a new day. because when they came here before, there was no cars. >> i'm done arguing with you! this is bull[bleep]. move. >>

-sandy, this is marcus. -sandy: hi. lemonis: hi, sandy. i'm marcus. a pleasure to meet you. shauna: sandy's in charge of all of our candy and merchandise. lemonis: and so your full-time job is the candy store? sandy: no. h.r., payroll duties. this is last on my list. -lemonis: yeah. -sandy: yeah. lemonis: i've never seen a candy store or any retail business that has its h.r. director running the merchandise. i guess i shouldn't be that surprised. if they don't see the importance of having their ice cream be special, why would the candy be any different? it's a nice attempt at a theme, but i'm not really sure that the theme's clear to me. when you walk in the front door, it looks like they went to the local convenience store and just said, "give me some lollipops and some sweet tarts." it's not nostalgic. there's nothing really curated. and what's this -- all this bacon? why do you have bacon cotton candy? sandy: people like bacon right now. same thing with the bacon soda. lemonis: i mean, i know the craze with bacon, but how does it connect to farrell

i'm marcus. tony: marcus. tony. lemonis: nice to meet you. tony: oh, my god. this is unbelievable.onis: this is a cool truck. wow. can i try one? tony: absolutely. lemonis: okay, so there's how many different toppings? tony: we have about a dozen unique toppings. lemonis: okay. tony: and then three chocolate dips. lemonis: so you take a base, you dip it, and then you can put all the toppings on it. tony: my favorite is definitely the godfather. lemonis: okay. are you the godfather? tony: i don't know. lemonis: okay. tony: you might -- you might be the godfather. lemonis: there you go. tony: can i get a traditional size bar, please. lemonis: hey, hey, hey, i'm ordering. how are you? i'm marcus. jorge: hey. how you doing? i'm jorge. lemonis: jorge? do you have coconut? jorge: i do. sprinkles? lemonis: it's breakfast time, so i wanted to have a little fruit. okay, so let's do dark chocolate with -- what are the other chocolate options? jorge: chocolate sprinkles. lemonis: let's do that. tony: so we handcraft them in small batches here. ♪ how's your breakfast? lemonis: i think it taste

my name is marcus lemonis, and i fix failing businesses. if you don't like money, don't follow my program. i make the tough decisions. we're closing the store. we're done. i'm not talking about it anymore. i back them up, spending my own money. it's not always pretty... man: perfect flavor. lemonis: ...but this is business. you got to trust the process. i do it to save jobs, and i do it to make money. thanks for your business. this is "the profit." surfside beach is a picturesque resort town. a great place to vacation and a great place to call home. anthony leggio... [ camera shutter clicks ] ...and his girlfriend, kristen christian... kristen: good morning, asl signs. lemonis: ...moved here from long island two years ago to start a family... anthony: i know, you want daddy time. lemonis: ...and a business -- asl signs. anthony: do you want to finish doing this estimate? kristen: oh, yes, please. anthony: oh, boy. here we go. lemonis: with a $200,000 loan from his dad, louis, anthony was able to get the sign shop up and running quickly. he'

my name is marcus lemonis., i've bought hundreds of failing businesses, turned them around, and i've made millions doing it. i'll write whatever check i need to, even if you won't. if you want people to listen, you put money on the table. i'm gonna give you a check for $500,000. i found six struggling businesses, some weeks away from closure. my plan is to turn them around. for the next week, i'm 100% in charge. >> all right. >> let's go get to work. can't run a business if it's not

i'm marcus. pat: oh, marcus. so wonderful to meet you. lemonis: nice to meet you. steve: hey.emonis: i'm marcus. steve: i'm steve. lemonis: steve, nice to meet you. steve: nice to meet you. it's so surreal, actually, meeting you face-to-face. lemonis: we're here. let's do it. so, this is your business. steve: this is it. lemonis: what prompted you to get into this? steve: i'm a minimalist by trade. lemonis: do you live in a tiny home? steve: no. i live in a regular house now. i've got a family and kids. i actually live in sonoma and in colorado. lemonis: what happened to, "i want to be a minimalist"? steve: i still am a minimalist. lemonis: yeah. what did you do before this? steve: i was a restaurateur. i really don't have much experience in manufacturing. i can manufacture a burger. lemonis: okay. can you show me a few models? steve: so, we have cypress, the farallon alta, the elm 26 equator, and the roanoke. lemonis: i mean, it's like a log cabin. steve: yeah. lemonis: but it's movable. steve: yes. they can pick their floor finish, they can pick their roof and window colors.

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trevor: hey, marcus!s that i thought we could talk about is what the plan and the process are gonna be. we're gonna rebuild a brand using social media, using packaging, using product development. my biggest concern is, i don't know what your story is today. we probably need to go back and make a brand-new generation-one watch. and it needs to be something different and proprietary that nobody else can get to. we're no longer gonna downplay the fact that this company has a mission. in fact, we're gonna amp it up. we're gonna get back to the 10 colors and the 10 charities, and then we're gonna add some things that make it even more unique. all right. let's go to work, guys. trevor: beautiful. ♪ karlo: hello, guys. welcome to shiekh. lemonis: how are you?! karlo: how you doing? lemonis: i'm marcus. karlo: my name is karlo. nice to meet you, marcus. lemonis: are you the manager here? karlo: yes, sir. i'm the store manager. lemonis: one of the things that the guys need to think about as we relaunch the brand i

is that marcus? no. absolutely not and i don't think fine dining is that.iters and critics maybe that don't see the fun or the luxury or the enjoyment in fine dining, because it is a homage to the chef and i think the world has changed. i think a chef cooking in a high street restaurant, that's got 20 seats in and he's slaving away in the back of a kitchen, an open kitchen. that is today as enjoyable as eating in a fine dining restaurant. it's all about what somebody wants for an occasion and if i'm going to set up a restaurant in this hotel, a 5—star hotel, it is known all over the world, there's a level of luxury i have to provide and i want to provide. it strikes me that as you've become more successful, like so many top chefs you've developed the brand and become a tv personality, you're on the british masterchef show, which has made you enormously popular in this country. you've also opened other restaurants in central london, so now you've got a stable of three. it all means that you are not every single lunchtime and dinner actually in the kitchen, h

marcus wareing, welcome to hardtalk.re are an awful lot of ships in the world, but only a very few elite, top chefs —— shifts. what distinguishes the very best from the rest? i think first of all the mindset, it's a work ethic and i think there is a type of sacrifice that a top chef has and wants to sort of drive themselves individually and as an individual to excel head and shoulders above everybody else. a lot of advice that i've ever had through the years going through the ranks was... and it came from my father originally, was to stand out from the crowd and to do that you need to do something different. most of the great chefs around the world started as apprentices to other great chefs and if we look at your cv, you worked with albert rood, you obviously famously worked a lot with gordon ramsay, both in their different ways great chefs. did you acquire skills and knowledge directly from them? without a doubt your travels, you are working in kitchens and that is the foundation as a chef. the most important thing abo

my name is marcus lemonis. in the past ten years, i've bought hundreds of failing businesses, turned them around, and i've made millions doing it. i'll write whatever check i need to, even if you won't. if you want people to listen, you put money on the table. i'm gonna give you a check for $500,000. i found six struggling businesses, some weeks away from closure. my plan is to turn them around. for the next week, i'm 100% in charge. >> all right. >> let's go get to work. can't run a business if it's not clean. but i'm not just giving them advice. i'm putting up millions of dollars of my own money. if you don't know your numbers, you just don't know your business. i'll work by their side... i'll put in the hours... 'cause i have the same risk that they do. where's accounting? >> she's counting. >> no, where's accounting? >> um... >> oh, my god. this business is a total mess. i judge businesses based on three things: it's pretty damn good. most often, businesses fail because of people. >> i trusted people to man

>> hello, my friend. >> i'm marcus. >> marcus. my name is armando. nice to meet you. >> armando? >> yeah. >> nice to meet you, brother. like most cubans, armando was living on a government wage worth about $25 a month. now he makes that in a single day, thanks to the taxi license he got under the new law. >> this is a good business. >> and you can make good money doing this? >> i can save a little bit for my own business. the best job is to do your own company, a small business. >> your own company. >> yeah, exactly. >> with his newfound cash and a degree in computer engineering, armando hopes to launch his own start-up. if you have a business and we become friends, can i invest in your company if i live in the united states? >> yeah, you give me the money and that's it. >> well, you have to pay me interest. >> okay, we can do it. >> a lot of interest. >> we find a lawyer, and we can do a contract, yeah? >> armando made me feel welcome. of course, i can't invest in a cuban business -- yet. that's illegal because of the u.s. embargo imposed after fidel castro's communist revolutio

i'm marcus. jessica: hi. jessica. hi. nice to meet you. lemonis: do you know where monica is? jessica: she should be here any second. lemonis: okay. jessica: i'm her sister. lemonis: oh, you're her sister? jessica: yeah, i'm her sister. lemonis: okay. i'm surprised she wasn't here. jessica: yeah. well... lemonis: you're surprised, too? jessica: no. lemonis: you're not surprised? jessica: [ chuckling ] you'll get me in trouble. lemonis: how often is monica here? jessica: once every, honestly, month, couple months. lemonis: every couple months? jessica: yes. lemonis: what do you do for the business? jessica: in the beginning, i started it with her, with the product line. i was kind of -- lemonis: where's the product line? jessica: very, very first product that we ever had was a candle. lemonis: okay. what's the reason that you guys started the business? jessica: this has always been a passion of hers. my dad was an inventor. we're very creative people. lemonis: parents still around? jessica: my mom

marcus: all the same.nite money chasing finite resources and that is where it starts, artwork, classic cars. great inheritance assets to buy because you can hand them down to your family without tax applications. people want -- how often does a up?inci come it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. perhaps semi-justified. i was surprised how much of a win for. for?t for -- went vonnie: when we talk about the european bond market? marcus: it is almost impossible to replicate 2017 year and will be amazing if it held onto the gains of 2017. the two-year area, in my mind, extraordinary. you can send my justify why germany is at the high collateral of choice throughout europe. margin transactions. why is portugal, italy, spain remotely close in terms of yielding, -40, the ecb rate, are you saying the credit is better than the ecb as a whole? i do not think so. actual securities over infinite money. vonnie: exactly. i mean bubble. is there a danger we are in one? ecb balance sheet, a great story today about how ir

we only have 42 neiman marcus stores. we don't have 400 stores. we have 42 neiman marcus stores.tunities come along once in a lifetime, and related, we are building the most amazing development on 28 acres in an underserved part of manhattan, and we felt we had to be a part of it. >> how hard is it running a company like and neiman? ,ou are making long-term bets but you are also owned bribe -- why private equity. how much of a challenge is that for you? >> i think the private equity owners we have had over the last 12 years, we have been very fortunate. i think they are more long-term than short-term. >> in this past year, we have seen you explore going public, a possible strategic sale. neither happened. given that, you are owned by private equity. one of the owners will be looking for an exit at some point. what is in the cars -- cards in the coming year. i feel confident about our future. i think we are in a perfect space to serve the luxury consumer, and i think the business has been performing well. we feel good about the upcoming holiday season and our future. it's no secre

i'm marcus. nice to meet you. mike: cool, yeah, so my brother and i started the company out of our grandmother's basement in dudley, massachusetts. sjc is actually my brother's initials. right now what we're doing is, instead of just being a full-fledged custom shop like we've done in the past, we are developing a product mix -- a good, better, best model -- where we'd love to have this, which is the "better" kit, available in your store. richard: oh, boy. price-wise, where are you? mike: this kit, to sam ash, would be about $1,100, where you guys could retail it at about $1,700. richard: that's -- no, i'm sorry. you've picked a very difficult category. you're competing with some of the biggest companies in the industry that have huge, huge artist rosters, that have been around for many, many years. it's just not what we see. huge artist rosters, that have been around for many, many years. it's just not what we see. mike: our product is still made in the u.s.a. for the quality and -- richard: and that's a very imp

i'm marcus. nice to meet you. the challenge that existed at coopersburg was over time, larger competitors had come into the space. and, obviously, what that meant was their revenue started to dwindle and so did their morale. i never wanted to quit or give up anything, and i really feel like this is one of the toughest things i've ever gone through in my life. scott appeared to be someone who was very earnest. lot of stress. i'm tired of it. a good family man, great salesman, great pitchman -- at least i thought he was. so i agreed to put in $630,000 for 30% of the business. started paying off some of the debt. started building new inventory. went out and rented a new warehouse. it's amazing, isn't it? it's gonna be great. it's gonna turn out nice. unfortunately, what happened after the cameras stopped rolling is that scott just continually called me for more money. "we need more inventory." sent him money. "we want to try these new products." more inventory. it was almost like the rope that pulled me in. and then

i'm laura garcia. >> i'm marcus washington. kari hall, has a look at what to expect today and going into the weekend. >> looks like a nice weekend. we cannot complain about this. temperatures reaching the upper 60s and a nice, mild weekend. as we look outside in san francisco, a mostly clear start, patchy fog. as we go through the day, unhealthy air quality expected as it is another spare the air day, not only for today, but the next three days. unhealthy air quality in the north bay and east bay. the temperatures reaching the 60s for

i'm marcus. the biggest triumphs... all: opa! lemonis: ...and the total fiascoes... [ shouts ] guys, shut up! ...and put everything i've learned... -ching-ching. -...into 10 key lessons... we got to come up with a better process. if you don't evolve, you will die. ...sharing some shocking updates throughout. are you the grim reaper, or...? sometimes. after dozens of investments and nearly $60 million spent, this is "the profit," my top 10 rules for success. my name is marcus lemonis and i risk my own money to save struggling businesses. lemonis: we're not going to wake up every morning wondering if we have a job, we're going to wake up every morning wondering how many jobs we have to do. it's not always pretty... everything's going to change. everything. ...but i do it to save jobs and i do it to make money. this... -let's go to work. ...is "the profit." ♪ you know, i've been traveling this country and investing in small business for -- for more than four years now. and i've met hundreds of entrepreneurs, their employees, their f

. >> i'm marcus washington. as we start our morning, it is going to have to be force to keep you warm. >> it's really cold again. i guess we are getting used to it. we have such warm afternoons and cold starts. all dry conditions. as you get ready to head out this morning, mostly clear skies. we'll see clouds moving in as we go throughout the day. the high temperatures are nice. up to 70 degrees in the east. danville, livermore, oakland, 65 and 68 in redwood city. san francisco, 67 in the mission district and 67 today in navato. we'll talk about high winds this weekend that may increase the fire danger coming up and as we head over to vianey, friday light, right? >> i don't have delays or accidents to report. an accident in fremont has been cleared. i want to get you to this 880. the southbound side, looking fairly slow. it looks like an accident popped up. i'll let you know where that is in a bit. mass transit, 47 trains running for bart. no other delays, however the ferry, they have mechanical issues. ferries

marcus fortune.de san leandro el tiroteo ocurri el 18 de noviembre, cerca de la 1:15 de la tarde.lasicen que marcus jal el gatillo y jordan fue cmplice del crimen.la investigacin indica que el primer contacto ocurri a travs de la aplicacin "let go", una plataforma digital para compras y ventas de artculos, luego acordaron llevar a cabo la transaccin comercial en sta gasolinera. sargento oscar perez/ vocero de la oficina del alguacil del condado de alameda en este momento, la nica informacin que tenemos es que fue un robo" los balazos fueron culminantes, daniel muri en el estacionamiento de la gasolinera. lo que ayudo con el arresto fueron las cmaras de vigilancia y tambin hablando con testigos que estaban en el rea tambin fue determinante, el telfono celular que an en su caja, detectives encontraron en el automvil de uno de los implicados.era el mismo modelo y color del telfono por el cual carlos perdi la vida. y en la vivienda del otro sospechoso hallaron un pistola que habran usado para cometer el crimen.un crimen que conmocion a todos porque ocurri a plena luz del da y en una de l

marcus. michael: hey, marcus.s., and i've gotten an e-mail that is quite concerning. so i wanted to give michael a call and find out what the heck's going on. the e-mail that i'm reading says that you specifically are making changes to the package that is slowing the process down. michael: we have to have the back of the container correct. lemonis: michael, i cannot believe that this product is not ready yet. i cannot believe it. it's got to be ready by sunday. i asked michael to make sure that the bottles were done and ready and produced for bronner. but now i'm hearing that he's making changes to them, slowing down the process and putting the process at risk. and this is a good example of him not being focused on one task. this is a big deal. it's a big deal for you. it's a big deal for me. you're confident that this stuff will be done for the event? michael: oh, yeah. i'm very confident it will be done for the event. lemonis: okay, buddy. i'm looking forward to seeing it. i'm excited. michael: yes. lemonis: see

marcus, oh, it is wonderful to meet you. lemonis: nice to meet you.am: [ sighs ] so, great, yeah, this is dede. -dede: hi, i'm dede. -lemonis: hey, how are you? nice to meet you. what is this up front here? is this a retail store? it is our retail area, shipping and order packing... lemonis: a retail store? really? i feel like i'm walking into a high school bake sale. so what are the roles? you guys are partners? -alexa: with us? yes. -lemonis: yes. -sam: we're married. -alexa: yes. -lemonis: oh, you are married. -sam: yeah. -lemonis: oh, very cool. -sam: thank you. alexa: i do production and sam does marketing and officy stuff with dede and sales. sam: alexa was voted best chef in indiana two years in a row. lemonis: wow. so this is sriracha lime? how many different flavors do you have? alexa: over 200. lemonis: i can't think of any company that has a core product and decides to have 200 different types of them. i think when you're over a certain amount of flavors, it becomes unmanageable. i mean, even baskin-robbins thinks 31 flavors is enough. alex

marcus and laura?ey will love that. >> take it with you. >> thank you so much, leslie. >>> the new year means people arrived on bart. for teenagers, half off ticket prices. bart tweeted video as well. you must be 18 and under to quality and you have to get a youth clipper card. the discounts begin january 1st. head to twitter at www.nbcbayarea.com to get the details on how to sign up. >>> coming up on "today in the bay," kari joins us with the forecast. >> chilly and clear as we take a live look outside in fremont. already busy on the roads. our temperatures start out in the low 40s, then make it to the 60s again today. we are in for big changes after some rain moves through. i'll talk about all of that coming up on the other side of the break. >>> move farther east, this is dublin, near the interchange. you can see the grade at the top. a huge drive at 580. good company here. the rest of the south bay is coming up. >>> plus, the force is strong with this one. the way a local police department is jumpi

ruth marcus, you want to take that? ruth: well, in terms of educating our children, one of the big issues during the campaign we haven't heard very ch about it, was i have no child left behind on the brain. but mona, will you remind me because i'm getting older, too, the law that says -- the kind of unified standards that -- common core. right. this was described by president trump, candidate trump and others as this terrible imposition. it was an effort to do what the caller talked about, which is to have states get together and set a set of common core, common standards, minimal requirements for children, students to meet. i thought that was a good idea at a very minimum. i think the caller's reference to her disability reminds us that there are a lot of jobs out there that are really punishing in america and a lot of people who develop injuries and are on disabilities that are not job-related who still need to find a way -- we need to find a system that separates out those people really in need of assistance to those

live in washington, edward lawrence, marcus? >> thank you so much, ed. >> to a tropical storm unleashing landslides and flash floods that killed at least 160 people and many more missing in the philippines over the weekend. more than 97,000 people are in evacuation centers across the southern part of the country. nearly 85,000 others were displaced. the storm, which strengthened into a typhoon before making land fall is heading toward vietnam. >>> police say a crime happened sunday morning in downtown oakland. this is around 6:00 in the morning, two blocks from the 12th street bart station. a suspect was arrested and the victim taken to the hospital. oakland police did not release more details. >>> unions kout a whiff of a rare opportunity. they want to organize a set of workers as recreational marijuana becomes legal next week. the united farm workers, teamsters and food are working to unionize the tens of thousands of workers involved in the weed industry. >>> a little early to talk about burning man, it doesn't happen until l