Quick one. My team tells me we actually have very few reviews relative to the weekly audience

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I literally drove the streets and found this location. It was an old milk bar at the time,

and I'm pretty sure they were illegally living out the back. So every room, there was

a different colour for every room, the ceiling was falling in. So I had to gut the whole

place and it turns out that there was a heritage overlay on the building as well. So I went

through town planning for nine months and finally I got everything that I wanted in

the end, but it was a lot of money, a lot of time wasted or not wasted because in that

time I got to build my social media following. So by the time we even opened, I had 15,000

followers. And people were coming and knocking on the door as we were building because I

was doing so much social media, they thought we were already existing. And the very first

day I opened was actually the first week that's just meant to be for friends and family.

I'd never worked a day in hospitality before I opened. I was learning everything from scratch.

I opened on a Wednesday, Roti came on a Thursday, I begged them not to put the article up,

they put it up, and then that week in we had a thousand people.

That's Emily Hazel, and this is the proof podcast.

Thanks Simon. So let's just set the scene for where we're sitting, we're in Utopia.

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