It does. It still works. 100. Right. And. And so he gave me a call. I said, man, I didn't know you guys existed. So I gave him the backstory.
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And. And. And so we're. We're. We're. We're starting. We're getting set up for that account and starting so we can service those 80 locations, which is huge. And so, you know, I. Those little, simple changes can go a big way.
Yeah. All right. Huge way. And so, yeah, we were able to acquire some of those. And then we've had some customers that have acquired some other restaurants.
We've gotten into some other. Because we do hospitals, we do convenience stores, we do hotels and convention centers. Anything that's got a commercial kitchen inside of it, we've probably been inside.
We touched it. Yeah. There's a cruise ship here in Tampa done that. We do their work from time to time. So, yeah, it's, you know.
Well, when you put it that way. Yeah.
You realize that there are commercial kitchens everywhere. Yeah. So to. To this point about this being a niche business, $2.6 million in revenue when you bought it in a single market. How big do you think you could get it in Tampa alone before you look.
Look to further territories and. And. And without expanding to refrigeration? So just the business.
The. The services you already offer in the market you're already in. How. How big could this grow to, do you think? What. What. What's the. The, you know, potential demand there?
Just in Tampa, we could probably. You probably double it to get it to 5 million. Just on hot side.
Just on. Yeah, just on hot side. Adding in the pms, maybe even adding some more installation services, like doing more installs and then doing the. The ASAs from the manufacturers.
No reason why we can't have anywhere from 12 to 15 texts on the, just on the hot side alone. Yeah, yeah, that, that's. And it might even be a little more than that, to be honest.
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