lemonis: how you doing? i'm marcus. josh: josh. nice to meet you. lemonis: nice to meet you. marcus. julius. lemonis: julius, nice to meet you. julius: this is angela. angela: hi, marcus. lemonis: really nice to meet you. how long has the business been here? julius: in april, it will be 20 years. lemonis: in this location? julius: in this location, yeah. lemonis: but the company has existed for how long? michael: 1954. lemonis: and when did you guys buy it? michael: 16 years ago. we do kind of three businesses in one, so we have the retail shop. second one is online, and then the third one is a wholesale business where we sell to restaurants and hotels. we have 5,000 restaurants in manhattan that we can sell to. lemonis: how many do you service? michael: probably, like, 65, so 0.1%. lemonis: oh. a little smaller than i thought it would be. michael: yeah, but it still... lemonis: did you lose customers over the years? michael: that's the area that's, you know, spikes and valleys, depending on where we are in the time frames. lemonis: how many types of cheese are there? angela:

i'm marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to help businesses. i love investing in american businesses. woman #2: i work here because i care. lemonis: it's not always easy, but i do it to create jobs, and i do it to make money. do we have a deal? let's rock and roll. man: yeah! lemonis: this is "the profit." ♪♪ i've always been interested in investing in the multi-billion-dollar leather industry because it allows for great margins and great sell-through. about a year ago, i received an application from a company called lumillamingus, which was started about 6 years ago and continues to struggle. how are you? lulu: hi! i'm great. how are you? lemonis: i'm marcus. lulu: oh, it's so nice to meet you. lemonis: are you lulu? lulu: thanks for coming. i am lulu. lemonis: nice to meet you. where are you from? lulu: guess. lemonis: wherever heidi klum is from. lulu: no, denmark. she's from germany. lemonis: okay. lulu: yeah. lemonis: it's not that far. lulu: close enough, close enough. so this is actually the production facility, and they have a couple of

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-lemonis: hey. i'm marcus. corey: i know who you are. i'm corey. it's nice to meet you. onis: nice to meet you. corey: yeah, yeah, yeah. this is my wife. lemonis: how are you? nice to meet you. you're the boss? corey: that's laurie, she's a hugger. lemonis: who's the boss? laurie: he is the boss. he's the main -- he's the main... -corey: i don't know. -laurie: yes. -lemonis: hi. how are you? -carlos: hey. how are you? lemonis: good. what are the types of bagels that you have? carlos: 13 kind of bagels, you can show them behind me. lemonis: i'm gonna have everything bagel. what do you sell one bagel for? -corey: $1.29. lemonis: what does it cost to make one bagel? corey: about 10 cents. -lemonis: in materials? -corey: in materials. lemonis: and another 10 in labor? corey: exactly. lemonis: so that's part of the beauty of being in this business. -corey: of course. lemonis: it's high margin. take your half. corey: okay, thanks. laurie: [ laughs ] man: what can i get for you today? laurie: now, i have a bagel every single day. corey: it's a good bagel. if it doesn't hurt here

lemonis: i'm marcus. breanne: breanne. lemonis: nice to meet you. breanne: nice to meet you. s! thank you! it's so exciting you're here! lemonis: nice to meet you. lacey: i'm really happy you're here. thank you. lemonis: this is really cool. and the two of you own it together? lacey: yes. breanne: we do, along with my stepdad. lemonis: so, what would you guys call yourself? are you a van-conversion company? breanne: yeah, we're a van-conversion company or camper-van-upfitting company. lacey: or a dream-builder company is what i like to call it. lemonis: do you guys convert shells? is that how i should think about it? breanne: yes, so... lemonis: is this an example of one? breanne: exactly. yeah. so, a customer calls us, and they tell us what van they have, and then we work with them based on that. so we don't actually buy the vans. we work with the customers' vans, and we upfit them. lemonis: okay. breanne: this is our personal van. all of it is aftermarket. the inside is our conversion. lemonis: and when you say that's your van, that's the company van? that's kind of the mode

mark: marcus... lemonis: thank you. mark: thank you so much. per excited to get started working for santa, and i'm going to put some christmas in the air. these are good. i love these. heidi: good morning. mark: hey! lemonis: what's happening? hi. hunter: hello. emily: hi. lemonis: how are you? i'm marcus. emily: i'm good. i'm emily. lemonis: nice to meet you, emily. emily: nice to meet you. hunter: hunter. lemonis: hunter, nice to meet you. do you love all these toys? emily: yeah. lemonis: what do you think about making it better? hunter: yes. lemonis: what do you think we should do to it? hunter: just decorate it better so that way it doesn't look kind of cheap, almost. lemonis: oh, it looks cheap? okay. at least we have an honest family member. and what do you think they sacrifice for you? hunter: a lot. dad worked a lot. he still does. mom still does. we never get to have family outings, not very often, anyway. ♪♪ lemonis: i'm marcus. laura: hi, laura. nice to meet you. lemonis: laura? laura: yes. lemonis: nice to meet you. jessica: jessica.

thanks so much, marcus lemonis, we appreciate you taking the time. >> thank you. >>> right now, across much of the country, americans are marking memorial day weekend in a way they did not during the height of the pandemic last year. this year, people are packing beaches and parks, the indy 500 is under way with thousands in attendance and hundreds of bikers are paying tribute to our nation's veterans at the rolling to remember ride in washington, d.c. >>> when you look at the number of daily coronavirus cases now, they're similar to the number at the end of last may but the difference now, and this is a big one, of course, vaccines, last memorial day weekend an effective vaccine for covid-19 didn't exist yet. and this year we have three of them. more than half of u.s. adults are now fully vaccinated. cnn's paul vercammen is in los angeles, and, paul, americans are not trying to stay put this holiday weekend. it seems like millions of americans are on the move either locally or traveling either by car or on a plane. >> well, definitely, and a lot of them here in los angeles have come h

that includes $100,000 donation from a miami businessman, marcus lemonis, and also a $25,000 donationmi. this reward continues to grow. really placing a lot of importance on getting to the root of this violence. of course, this has already been a violent weekend with another shooting that happened in the city of miami, so a lot that this community is currently dealing with, john. >> we're waiting for that news conference setting up directly behind you. please keep us posted. natasha chen, thank you for being with us. >> overnight, democrats in texas walked off the state house floor, leaving the republican majority without the quorum needed to approve a restrictive new voting bill, at least for now. joining us now is former republican congressman francis rooney. thank you for being with us this morning. i guess i want two takes here. one on what happened in texas overnight, your immediate take on that. but also, the bigger picture here of where this fits in the larger trend of republican-led state governments passing new restrictive voting measures. >> well, john, thank you for having

cnbc's marcus lemonis offering $100,000 for any information that leads to the capture of these suspects sheinelle, back to you. >> sam, thank you. >>> meanwhile, as americans enjoy the easing of many covid restrictions, there are new concerns on the world stage surrounding a new variant of the virus. the variant was just detected in vietnam. all of this as the debate rages over how the pandemic started. nbc's janis mackey frayer is in beijing for us janis, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, craig. when the virus first spread from china last year, vietnam was one of those countries that was quick to act it had testing, it had quarantines, and it was able to largely avoid any surge in covid cases, until now this morning, a troubling new coronavirus variant in vietnam that authorities say is a hybrid of variants found in india and the uk, causing vietnam's first real surge of covid cases. the country now in lockdown. health officials warning the new variant spreads quickly by air no cases of it have been reported in the u.s. with covid variants driving new waves of infection especial