lemonis: standard burger, come on down! ...i'm back to check on the progress at standard burger... how you doing, sir? good to see you. joe t.: good, brother. you, too. lemonis: so far, i've invested over $400,000 in this quick-service restaurant to make it a model for a national franchise. but what i've put in place has gone off the rails. sammy: bad burgers, bad fries, bad customer service... for the last 90 days, it's been [bleep] lemonis: and the partners are too busy fighting to fix it. joe t.: i'm the guy that's here every day... sammy: right, what's your problem? joe t.: ...and you're the guy that shows up once a month, that's what it is. that's the problem. lemonis: we have a big opportunity to grow this business. we have a franchisee scheduled to come here, but it looks like chaos to me. but if these guys can't grow up... sammy: i laid out all the kitchen equipment, designed the entire space -- joe t.: i know. if it wasn't for you, we'd all be up the [bleep] creek without a paddle. lemonis: i may have to cut my losses. i've had enough. my name is marcus lemonis, and i risk

boy: i had the standard burger. lemonis: you had the standard burger? cally changed the menu to not only five signature burgers, but we built an entire business model off of potatoes. throw an order of yucca in. i want to try it. and whether that's different types of fries, like regular fries, sweet potato fries, or yucca, we added all those things. lemonis: check it out. come on, guys. it came out beautiful. pick your potato, pick your toppings, -oven, go. -sammy: simple. yeah. lemonis: and in addition to that, we built a very high-margin, very popular baked-potato bar. it gives people the chance to buy a baked potato or a sweet potato stuffed with all their favorite toppings. we've also added an ice cream bar. not only is there scoops of ice cream, but what we have now is a cake shake. it is so good. it costs us about $1.78 to build the shake, including all the products that can go in there. we sell that shake for $5. so, we know the margins are spectacular. -woman: ah! -lemonis: you guys are the only ones with red velvet ice cream on the island. lemon

standard burger is still open today, it's profitable, but the five guys are not together anymore.ouple of them are just doing their own thing. one of 'em was fired. in hindsight, i made a big mistake by investing there, in hindsight. it was a $750,000 error. another big disappointment for me in terms of follow-through, amazing grapes, a wine retailer in california with an absentee owner. so what do you do full-time? since you don't come here every day. no. i come in here probably, two, three times a week. -two, three times a week? -yeah. or two, three times a month? and guess what? amazing grapes closed. it's gone. i put $1 millions in that business. $1 million. and it closed, because there was a couple people there that did not want to follow the process. but for every business like amazing grapes, there's one like bentley's, a pet supply chain based in the chicagoland area. 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,

remember standard burger? but what's more important to me is that i feel like we've taken a group of hardworking individuals and made them a kick-ass team. keith: one, two, three. all: team, family, pride! keith: hey, there you go. all right. >>> hello and welcome to "street signs. i'm carolyn ross. >> and i'm joanna. coalition chaos and the ftp abandons talks with lang merkel's conservatives and the green party. the dax is lower. >> a defined robert mugabe refuses to resign as president and his former party vows to impeach him. >>> a positive trial outcome puts roche in the green as the

of the health subcommittee we herd testimony about the effect of this new employment standard who runs a brad di burger restaurant. several of the men he hires have been in the correctional system and soverl the women have been on government assistance. he hires people to give them a chance at the better life. thehis -- if this proceeds, burger king corporation will have responsible for these decisions. shouldn't we assume the corporations will be more risk averse and unlikely to give people a second chance. mr. brad didropped out of high school in 11th grade when his life was headed in the wrong direction, according to him he joined the baltimore police department. he began working in a burger king. after the first burger king he owned closed he ultimately rejoined burger king and purchased his current store. what's remarkable is when baltimore experienced unrest several years ago, mr. brad di's store was at the epicenter and his neighbors stood outside to protect it from being destroyed. his one -- his one -- his was one of the only restaurants open for business the next day. if this is not the ameri