Sean Feeney bought and placed 75 trash cans around his two pizzerias in Brooklyn. His dream was to open 10 successful pizzerias that made their neighborhoods better. Six months after opening his first - Fini - in Williamsburg, he polled the community. 94% of people said they wanted Williamsburg to be cleaner. So Sean just started buying green trash cans. They ordered five and put them outside the pizzeria and nearby. It worked so he bought 5 more. Then another 5. But after 4 months, Fini got a letter saying they owed $4,000 of fines. Sean wasn’t going to stop because the neighborhood was cleaner, so he met with the Department of Sanitation and explained what they were doing. They tore up the tickets. There are about 75 cans in Williamsburg and downtown Brooklyn with Fini’s logo and their Clean the Streets tagline now. They have also put them on the menu so customers can buy a trash can for $208 to help the community. 15 have been bought so far. What a great and simple story of how a business can quietly help its local community.
You can hear all of Sean's stories, including this one, in the conversation we had with him: joincolossus.com/episodes/98380…
@InvestLikeBest Such a lesson. Him and the city are one and the same. We are the city. We are the government. We are not two separate things. If the government isn’t working, change it. Meaning we must change. That’s what he did.
@InvestLikeBest Good for him. Fail for city.
@InvestLikeBest And what a great example of nonsensical regulation
@InvestLikeBest If he is doing the municipality's work, then what are the municipality's workers doing?
@InvestLikeBest Yeah but who empties them?
@InvestLikeBest Entrepreneurs and the rational actor at work. Bureaucrats still not at work 🤣🤣🤣
@InvestLikeBest But, remember folks Capitalism is bad, Socialism is good Resist! And stuff
@InvestLikeBest What a sad state of affairs that this has to be regarded as "great"!