spanakopita's frozen? -you buy it frozen? -kathleen: yes. lemonis: i'm gonna teach you how to make some. i don't care how small the kitchen is. you want to have a good business? don't serve food out of the freezer. i don't know any greeks, at least my yia-yia and my aunts and uncles -- they're not getting spanakopita out of the freezer, right? frozen food is never gonna be as tasty as fresh food. and, in fact, it's a lot more expensive. buying frozen fries from a distributor costs my big fat greek gyro 48 cents per serving. but if they buy raw potatoes and prepare the fries themselves, that cost drops nearly 71% to 14 cents per serving. if they sell 200 orders of fries every day, they've just earned an additional $68 for that day. and over the course of a year, that's almost $25,000. that's money in the bank. frozen grape leaves. lemonis: they taste... they're actually terrible. andreas: you don't like them? lemonis: no. do you? michael: i can't eat them like that. lemonis: for a restaurant to be successful, they need to manage their food co

my aunts and uncles, they're not getting spanakopita out of the freezer. they're actually terrible.iated the franchisees. they felt like mike had sold them a bill of goods and then left them high and dry. woman: we have yet to make money. the only help we ever got from them was on the first of the month, they came and picked up their royalty check. man: i've lost respect for mike as an individual. lemonis: i had major reservations. but my big fat greek gyro had no debt and made a good return on capital. this location did $300,000 in sales and made $100,000. the concept can work. i knew if i simplified the menu and re-imagined the branding, this fast-casual franchise could really take off. so i made deal. for $350,000, i bought 55% of the business, a controlling stake. kathleen: i'm waiting for new beginnings. lemonis: we have a lot of work to do. we overhauled the entire concept, from the look of the stores to the food we served, even down to the name of the business. it wasn't always easy to get everyone on board. kathleen: i hate this name. lemonis: but you're not a branding exper