This Shark Tank-backed restaurant serves 3,000 pounds of avocados a month. 🥑 via CNBCMakeIt
Biggi appeared on the show and landed a $400,000 joint investment from Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran, who agreed to take a combined 20 percent stake in the company.On a typical day at Avocaderia's Brooklyn location, the store uses 100 pounds of avocados, Brachetti says. That's 3,000 pounds a month. In the month before taping "Shark Tank," Avocaderia did $75,000 in sales, Biggi says on the show.
"She showed up with an avocado dress," he laughs. "It was unbelievable. We were so happy because with only one location in Brooklyn we were able to reach customers around the world."Brachetti and Biggi first met in 2006 studying finance at Bocconi University in Milan, and later attended graduate school together. Brachetti left Italy to work at an e-commerce company in Mexico, where he began eating avocados nearly every day, a staple in Mexican diets.
"We were using a lot of New York related hashtags to see if people were willing to come and try our food," he says.To take the best photos of avocado dishes, Brachetti arranged "a little studio" in the kitchen of his apartment in Mexico. When visiting Biggi in Seattle, the duo "used to go on top of his building to take videos," like one whereWithin a few days, the account had almost 500 followers. Soon, it grew to 10,000.
"I felt that I had to make a choice between my full-time job and Avocaderia because it was not possible for me to keep dedicating half of my time to both projects," he explains. "I decided to quit, and took a leap of faith."
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