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Aug 4, 2026
The Overnight Success Myth Truth BBQ's Founders Want You To Know
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Leonard Botello IVGUEST
uh just like mixed american it was just like a kind of like a little bit of everything of this like a small town restaurant that you can kind of go get steaks or pasta or sandwich or like whatever um a little bit more elevated um so i never wanted to do it but as a child like growing up it still looked really cool so like i'd always beg my parents like you know, before I was 16 to, you know, go in there and wash dishes or go in there and roll silverware or go in there.

Leonard Botello IVGUEST
And like, I had to like beg them because they're like, you can't really do it until you're 16.

Leonard Botello IVGUEST
And then finally they were like, you know what? Like I noticed that at the end of the shift, like part of their side duties was rolling silverware and they hated it.

Leonard Botello IVGUEST
They just, it was like the end of the night and they all wanted to like go out or like get off work, do whatever.

Leonard Botello IVGUEST
And it's 11 p.m. And I would notice that the bus boys would do their side work like they would roll the silverware and they would take it like they would put out a tip jar for like anybody that would they would cover their side work for like whatever 50 rolls 100 rolls of silverware they'd be like here.

Leonard Botello IVGUEST
i'll purchase that from you and um i asked my parents if i could do that and i did that like pretty consistently it was like my little side hustle that i enjoyed doing but it was a way for me to grab you know like 15 20 bucks in a night and that was like a lot for me you know under under 10 years old it's like oh wow it's a lot of money um so i always wanted to be in there just because my I think my parents were always in there and always seemed cool.
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Shawn LynchHOST
You can't just go spend less and get a less quality meat because it's not going to taste the same in the restaurant.