Sold my restaurant for AI girlfriends
You want to know the exact moment I knew the restaurant was dead? February 2025, Valentine's Day, our biggest night. Twelve reservations. TWELVE. Used to do 200.
I'm not gonna bore you with the whole sob story. Phoenix restaurant, COVID, debt, blah blah. You get it. What matters is my 23-year-old nephew shows up one day talking about making money with AI models, I thought we has talking about complex tech before he explained it was people paying money to talk with AI girlfriends lol. That night I couldn't think of anything else but the $180k I owe and that maybe this could work.
I got on a call with one of the Banx advisors, Joshua, on March 2025, and then I do the stupidest or smartest thing ever - take out another $30k loan. The restaurant was already dying, why throw good money after bad?
Fast forward to today: I'm making around $45k monthly from 10 AI models. Sold that cursed restaurant in September and the new owners already closed it down... I really don't care. I made more last month than my best year at the restaurant with AI girlfriends.