November 21, 2023 • 41 mins
ZahZah™, a brick & mortar cannabis dispensary, conveniently located at 7569 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046, where all the connoisseurs go to get the best flower on the market for the right price everytime! Be sure to visit their website at www.zahzah.com, follow them on IG @zahzah.official, or just stop by the shop any day of the week between 11am to 7pm…& util 9pm on Fridays & Saturdays!
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Today on the show is a lovely lady considered to
be the driving force behind one of Melrose Places most
premier destinations for top shelf and great cannabis, you guys
in West Los Angeles. Joining us today on the table
is Kelsey Lorenzo. Shears Us is the manager of Zaza,
(01:26):
which is zhzh. Zaza is in the building, a brick
and mortar cannabis dispensary conveniently located at seven five six
nine Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, California, nine double four
to six, where all the players go to get their
cannabis at a great price, you guys every single time.
Be sure to check out their website Zaza dot com,
(01:47):
or follow them on the Gram at zaza dot official,
or just stop by any time of the week between
eleven am and seven pm for all your late bird
Zaza stays open till nine on the weekends, well.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Fridays and Saturdays.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
That is, without further ado, Please give it up for
missus Zaza in the building, Kelsey, Yeah, what's up?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So let's talk about your building first and your establishment
before we get into you and your whole career and
your journey, because the name Zaza alone is just dope.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Have you been with them since the giddy up? Or
how did you come aboard?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So yeah, I have.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
So I was actually the first like manager on board.
So yeah, and you're still there, still there and you're black?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I mean come on now, I mean damn. I like
this ownership.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
We got them. That's good.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
That's a good, super supportive people, great, amazing management team.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I love them.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So tell us about the journey, about how they opened
up their their location. Yeah, where's the name come from? So?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
You know what, when I first did my interview, I
was talking to Hank. He's actually my manager and he's
part of I think he's the owner or something like that.
But he actually was like, hey, listen, you want to
know what the store name is. And this was like
my first interview, like meeting him. He was like, it's Zaza.
He was like, it's Zaza. I was like, oh, that's
super cool, Like that's like I heard in the song.
(03:08):
I heard it in the money Bag song, you know,
like that's fire. You know it's a catchy name. But yeah,
he was like super interested, like super interested in me,
super interested in the name. And I was like, Yo,
let's let's take the ball and get it running.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It was super cool.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So they didn't even have a name.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
No, they didn't even have anything.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
He came up with the name.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I didn't come up with the name, but he told me.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh, he told you what it was. Okay, nice, Yeah,
it's cool. Shout out to hang for this. How long
have you guys been? Been around?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Seven months?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And mean Melows is no easy spot either, you know
what I mean? West Los Angeles is a busy popping spot.
You got the big birds over there that are making
a lot of noise with their dispensaries.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean it's a busy, big name spot for Zaza
to come aboard like this. I see what you guys
are doing online, which is great first time buyers Blue
you ready for this sixty percent off your first.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Time coming in.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Not only that, I also see on the website for
some other daily deals. There's also daily deals that you
guys are constantly doing.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, it's super cool.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yeah, so every day we have like a Munchie Monday,
like a Wax Wednesday, a butt Tender weekend. So it's
really cool. We give like all different types of promotions.
And what's so cool about my butt Tenders is they'll
let you know that as soon as you come in
the door.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
You know, so right at reception, you know what.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
The deals are, you know what everything, you know what's
pretty much going on, what's on sale, So it makes
you experience a little bit better and easier.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Sure, walk us through what it looks like when you
walk in the set.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The outside looks pretty player with this wood grain and everything.
It looks nice, but I don't know what the inside
looks like.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yeah, So in the inside you walk in and it's
just a big open space. We have like a wall
like a cubby wall, which have product on it, display product,
and then we have our flower bar. So the flower
bar consists of flower Baites and as well as pre rolls,
so that's pretty cool. And then we also have a
space on the right that actually consists of other brands
(05:05):
that are actually merchandised there.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, super cool, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
What's the big sellers there, Kelsey, I mean you're in
West Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's a busy area, a lot of products right now.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I is say our top sellers would be like traditional Maven, Clayborne,
those type of you know brands, super cool games.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And so what's your background? Where you from?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I'm from New York, New York.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I'm from New York, big city of dreams. We're at
New York.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'm from Harlem.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No doubt you spent When did you move to Kelly moved.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
To Cali about five years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I actually got promoted with seven to eleven, my old company,
and they wanted to transform me out here. So they
wanted to transform me out here. So that's how I
got out here.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Okay, you know that's.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
An interesting run right there, because you know, I see
you're a college graduate as well. Yeah, and you went
from running you know, I was talking you on LinkedIn.
I say, I see your profile very well established and
very nice to to get a glimpse of your life,
which is dope. And I always salute those of us
who have degrees because it's not easy, and always tell
people in my kid you can't take that away from folks.
(06:09):
You can't mean like, once you get your degree, you've
earned that motherfucker, and good job, you know what I mean.
So I salute people who get him, and I recognize
the hard work like Connor has his right there, you
know what I mean. Those who don't fine, but those
who do, we know nothing, and I'm not trying to
hurt anybody that doesn't. Blue. I just give those people
props who do, because I wear this ring with pride,
(06:29):
and you know, I mean, I remember buying it going wow,
I never thought I could do it. But my point
to your story is I noticed too that you mentioned
seven to eleven. It's like so funny Blue, because she
goes through seven eleven managing different stores. And I didn't
realize you went from New York, which is you know,
it's New York, dog, You're managing seven elevels in New York,
to then Los Angeles are where no.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
So I grew up in New York and then I
managed seven Elemons in North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Oh oh that was a completely.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
North Carolina's hoods still.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Too good, but it's so and you know, definitely North Carolina.
That's yeah, the baby from there, you know, Charlotte, you know,
so that's where I ran my stores are so yeah, yeah,
it was kind of like, yeah, it was a little
it's an.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Eclectic it's it's an eclectic home. When you're there, it's
just eleven.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Seven eleven isn't your fucking, you know, high end of
a clientele.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's your normal, everyday, hard working blue collar you know
what I mean. Someone might go in there and still
a couple of candy bars.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Somebody might come in there and do a beer run,
because that's where we do beer runs growing up.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I mean, you know what I'm saying. Story for.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That's my point is seven eleven is is that place
you know, like how many beer runs if we did
as kids, where.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
We're gonna go seven We didn't go to star a
safe Way or pa billions seven eleven. Sometimes it was
like a bottle so exactly bottle runs there. You don't
do beer runs. My point. So seven eleven could be
kind of crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And my point to it is is you went from
there to then managing Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, which is a little higher up in.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You know what I mean, let me get my peaking
up and let me bitch you complain about my drink
not having everything.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
In needs in it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
To now running and managing star Ur Dispensary, which I
feel like really led you to service and people and really.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Gives you the operations how to run a really busy spot.
And really.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, so I really feel like I looked at your
back on dude, You're the dopest perfect manager for something
like this.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You have great manager experience, Yeah, because those are crazy
busy companies. Yeah. What high school did you go to?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
I actually went to West Mecklenburg High School, nice in
North Carolina. And then what college college U n C
Charlotte Nice?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You know. I got hit by a car in Charlotte
really Yeah, Charlotte, North Carolina, baby. Really at the Western Hotel, Yeah, downtown, Yeah, man,
an a bunch of cool spots right there, you know center. Yeah,
I was. I was doing a cannabis education class actually,
and he'd do a walking class. Yeah. No, well I
(09:05):
was walking careful so you know how the valet has
their little spot right so that the valet section. I
got out of the valet section and there was a
car just to the right of us and in the
other valet line, and then so he takes off. I
grab I'm grabbing some you know, work materials and I'm
walking through and I'm just, you know, minding my own
(09:26):
walking by, and dude just gases it, you know. And
he was a driver from the Western Hotel. This is
why you know. I got hey, okay, good. I'm like,
did you hit him? No? He hit me in the pockets. Yeah, sure,
So I got hit and I had boxes in my hand.
It took off, boom. I ripped my right a cl.
I didn't get to do my show that day. We
(09:46):
ended up in the hospital for I spent like five
days there in the hospital, and they were pumping me
up on drugs, and finally I was I was so
sick from uh because I was in pain. I ripped
my right a cl and I was in so much
pain that I was like, dude, I got to get
out of here, because they just kept giving me viking
in and they would come in and drop me vicing in.
Hit me with the little beank. I don't know, I
(10:06):
hit this button being pink and they were giving me drugs.
But I remember on the last couple of days, I
was so sick that I was like, dude, this is nasty,
Like I feel horrible from the drugs. As if I
was coming off the drugs that needed more drugs to
get high. Oh yeah, but I was in pain, you know,
And and so I was just like, man, I'm out,
and they're like, no, you need to stay for I'm like,
I'm not staying no longer. Like I literally I called
(10:27):
my family. I was like, I'm getting a flight right now.
Did it hurt getting on the flight? Oh dude? It
was everything sucked and and most importantly though, it was
the come off of the pills that they were giving
me every fucking day for five days. No. Yeah, no,
I'm already on some boat. I got a good regiment
right now. So anyways, I ended up assuing the Western
(10:49):
Hotel that we can't go there no more. Yeah, yeah, no,
I'm good although they have no yeah they've they have
never sweated me moving in and out of their facilities.
I've never been back to that one in particular. But uh,
you know, I've never had a problem. I'm waiting to
get hit dog. I've been like trying to step in
front of cars. I got qutally nice ones. I'm like,
who is that? I mean, honestly, I probably could have
got closer to a million dollars, but I ended up
(11:10):
getting like three hundred grand because I wanted to get
over with because I had to go to freaking uh
therapy then for like a year, and they're like, yeah,
I can keep going for another year. Every year then
do Basically they came up to three hundred grand every
year and they're like, you go for another year and
I'm like, man, I'm fine, I'm ready. Yeah, I don't know.
It wasn't it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Look.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna take a break real quick. Kelsey.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
When we come back, I want to hear about your
love for cannabis that leads you to even go and apply,
Like why that you're working, you're managing the Starbucks. What
leads you towards cannabis. It's Cannabis Talk one on one.
We'll be right back after this break.
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out with letters, folks. Kelsey is the manager at Zaza.
I'm really impressed with the hire of you because, like
(12:31):
we said at the beginning, going from seven to eleven
to Starbucks to managing a dispensary. You know, we talk
about this blue a lot saying using people with real backgrounds.
I mean, you know, some people can go grab somebody
from fucking Google and this and that, and it kind
of doesn't make sense to manage a story like that, right, ye, Like, oh,
they manage Macy's, okay, d damn. But your like we
(12:54):
kind of talked off air when you walked in the alley.
I was like, dude, that is a perfect lane for you,
right and for you to go there, what was that
love to figure? Because with that background, let's just face it,
you can go and get a cool job at a
lot of different places, but managing seven eleven's to Starbucks
to being that manager and general manager, that's a good
title role for those gigs. And you got moved around
(13:16):
with the corporation. So you had a high you have
you have you know, accomplishment, You really did it.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You really do. You were getting down? So what led
you to say? You know what, I'm in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Now I'm gonna go here in West Los Angeles and
look at this new dispensary.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Why cannabis?
Speaker 5 (13:32):
You know what, I've always loved cannabis. I didn't like coffee.
I didn't drink coffee at all, and I was managing
a coffee spot. So I felt like, to be honest
within my journey, I felt like God sent me to
Starbucks to learn more and really grasp my title in
(13:53):
a different way because Starbucks taught me so many different things.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Managing is different. It's a different culture.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
You know, it's real books. I feel like that's a
real manager.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It's a real like there's so many different things you
got to manage and look over from the sugars, the
different sugars, to everything straw, Like there's a lot of
stuff there.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, did you the manager? Just look at all the
things there? Like, there's so much to figure out.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
There Starbucks, you were the store manager, you were supervisor,
you or barista. So I was playing three different You're.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Feeling girl, you're feeling guy.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
You're everything, playing three different roles.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
So I feel like at that point, I was just
like exhausted from that role. I was like, you know what,
like I need to find something that's more. At my alley,
I smoked weed every day. Yeah, you know, so they know.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
They never really asked.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I knew they I think they knew, especially at those
Christmas parties.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Did your employees came in high?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Did they look at you smell like weed? Or they're like, hey,
smoking any employees?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
That's hilarious. I feel like I had one.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Actually that one time. One They didn't ask me if
I was high. They just asked, like, yo, you smell that?
And I was like like, oh man, I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I don't. I don't know what you're talking.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Coffee.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
All I smell is coffee right now, you know, but
I better not smell it on you.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yeah, so you, I mean your hair is twisted too.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You gotta definitely look like exactly because I'm not. If
I roll the dice on the look.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Alone exactly nine times out of ten, it's true. But yeah,
I figured a lot of my people definitely smoked weed.
I had a couple of people at Starbucks coming high
that I had to send home and right up and
things like that, like, why would you even try me
like that?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
But yeah, you're high at ship high?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Smoke? Don't be so high.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
We always say that, dog like we noticed folks that
you know we're smoking smoke, but don't get so high ware.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
We can tell, we can tell at least you some
bazine or some ship.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You know, even even here. I mean, you know, we
we allow our team to smoke and stuff like that.
We let them get away with it. But it's like,
don't be in there just.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Staring at the computer that you can't. You can't. They
just get stuck on. Conor does it when he's sober.
So I'm like, you know, I gotta Tapa's helmet. But
Connor get back to work. Better go hit something real quick.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
So what led you to?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I said, you're sitting there and where was that dynamic?
Because everything you're saying, I actually believe it is too.
I believe God sent you the Starbucks to get you
that experience.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And then how did that? Wow? Cannabis?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Cannabis.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
So I honestly, I just started applying looking for different
things because I was at that point where I was
like exhausted, I was I was running Starbucks during COVID,
so we were shutting down stores, Like I had like
five people calling out on me, like every ten days,
I got COVID, I got COVID, I got again.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
You know, do I get paid? I'm down, and you're
the manager. You got to step up, no matter.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
What, step up, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Unless I'm was that here in Kelly that it was?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Yeah, it was yeah, sureman Oaks, which one the one
in Vanus Inventora?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Okay, busy right next to Yes, I know, that's it.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So I was like right.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Next to Encino right there, line actually one block away
actually Sinos right literally literally one block away.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Right the whole paid more seven eleven Starbucks or Zaza
Starbucks for sure? Oh nice?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Just because my bonuses were crazy, like I was like
twenty five percent versus last year like above, like you
know my budget. Yeah, so that right there, once you
hit ten percent, you're getting one hundred percent of your budget,
I mean one hundred percent of bonus.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Excuse me. So I was always getting more of my.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Bonus, staying on top.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Yeah, I was staying on top. Bro, It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah. And do you think it was more of how
you ran the store that really led to that.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, one hundred percent. That's why they kept moving me
around and moving me to like difficult stores to like
clean it up.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah. Yeah, that's that's the that's the model. Like, Okay,
she got this one up and running, let's move to
this store.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
She gets that vibe though, right, Like I feel a
vibe from her, like she could run shit.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I mean one at one point, don't you just say, hey,
I'm going to be a general manager.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
You know what, I was a general manager ship and
I'm doing that. And it was transferring me, like you
know what I mean, like you got this store together,
We're going to transfer you to this one. You know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah. It's so now you're on the road. You can't
even really make it home. Yeah, like okay, cool.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Well I'm gonna run this store for like six seven months,
get it together, and then get transferred for another year.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
They get it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, And now you're at the dispensary.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
They met you, they loved you, you, they said, okay,
you use cannabis, You're gone, and now what is your
type of hiring and your look at there?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It is the same. Don't come in high because even
though we're working with.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Cannabis, I mean, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I think it's true though.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I mean, yeah, to be honest, I feel I feel
like I run it as the same modo as like
a bar. Like if you if you're at a bar,
don't you come in and drunk? Yeah, you know what
I mean, twist.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I feel the same way. I'm not sitting here asking.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
The question, you know, so it's like the same thing
with me.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I'm like, yeah, sometimes they sneak a shot at the bar,
you know. I mean, you got a drink with a cuss.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I'm not here and there, and that's that's on them,
you know that. I didn't see anything. But at the
end of the day, like I don't want them doing
anything in front of my face or just straight violating
that's not okay. But yeah, we give out weed at work.
So it's it's a completely different industry. And I was
actually talking to my wife about this yesterday. I was like, listen,
Like with corporate I couldn't even say I smoked, you know,
(19:21):
Like I couldn't even openly say hey, I smoke weed,
you know. And with this industry, I'm smoking with the owners.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, how fucking great is that? Right?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Like that's fucking cool, you know, like, and it's just
a different type of bond and connection that you can
have with people when you actually do those type of things,
you know.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, I'm really curious to know. As we go for
another break right now, Kelsey, and when we come back,
I want to hear the stories you've heard in the
last seven months with people that come to your guys's
location over there in beautiful Los Angeles, California. You guys
seven five six y nine Melrose Avenue, which is damn
near one of the hearts of Los Angeles areas. Because
(20:00):
you get tourists, you get the locals, you get everybody
that comes there because people go shopping on Melrose.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I mean you heard of Melrose Place for god in
that Melrow. I mean you ain't been to Melrose. I
mean nice to fly from the Bay to go shop
on the Melrows.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, you're gonna come, But what are some of these
anecdotal stories that you're hearing from the locals of why
they're using it. I'm sure they're so happy you opened
up and for the great deals. It's Cannabis Talk one
oh one.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We'll be right back after this break. Go you want
to hear your name town it out, live on the hill.
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different stores and now managing the dispensary, going from seeing
the different clientele and the seven eleven, the different clientele
and the Starbucks coffee is definitely a jack for everybody.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And you don't like it, but I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I need my coffee every single day, right It's like
my I mean, I'm addicted to the caffeine and I
can't even front. So it's my medics. I look at
it as my medicine. I come here right away. I
need another one.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I already had one at home. I get here, it's
my like.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You know, if I don't have one too, I'm like
you put an I mean I put a little cream
and sugar.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I put a sweet and low here and a cream.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I mean, but the other ones, you know, at the house,
I got a little gabby that I scored in it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
But my point to it is, as.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
We went to break, you're now hearing from people who
are real patients. You're now customers, are people that come
in with different elements that are can take their life
and that can change their life. I mean, you know,
so does coffee and a bag of seeds and a
slurpee for most.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
But this is different. This is like you get to
hear so real, heartfelt shit.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I'm sure it's different for you these past seven months
as you may have grown up smoking.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
But you hear things.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
What are you hearing at Zaza that people are saying,
you like, thank you because.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Of what they're basically just saying thank you for paying
attention and being more curious, especially like as my bud
tenders try to get to know what they want. They
like that, they like that time that and attention that
we give people. And because somebody could come in for
(23:32):
like their back aching or any type of like you
know problem, you know, and you don't want to just
give them some cush or you don't want to just
give them a vape because you think that it's gonna work.
You know, you really want to like be more curious
and ask more questions and figure out what the what
the real issue is to be able to satisfy the customer,
you know, and that's what they really appreciate. Like all
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my customers that come in, the locals, even some non
locals who still come in and drive all the way
down to come to Melrose just to come to my store.
It's pretty it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
You know. How are you guys getting more locals or
are you guys getting more tourists?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
So yeah, mostly it would be like sixty percent tourists,
sixty six tourists thirty five percent.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I mean local, but like tourists like like you know,
I'm coming from Hollywood to Melrose, are coming from county
in Germany.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I mean spot where Yeah, I mean a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah, I get a lot of people from Germany.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
That's what they do. Like the world.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I get a lot of different.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
People, Celebrities coming through.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yeah, we did have a couple of celebrities come through.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, yeah, I got them out there.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I don't know if I want to put them out there,
but like it's cool, it's it's super cool because we're
right next to Cool Kicks too.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Man, I love so you guys got a hot spot.
Cool Kicks popping all the time too. Yeah, right the
Cool Kicks or.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
To the left, it's to the to the left, just
to the left if you're looking at it, to the
because there was like a bunch of shopping right around there,
I mean down next to the Cool Cakes two doors down.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
And the Homie was over there, like working out of there,
and he was kind of trapping, you know what I'm
saying for a little bit. But they had shops over
there too. They were just trapping. And I remember, you
don't I want to call him the homie. I met
him that day at Cool Cakes and we went next
door and I was like, oh yeah, I'm saying, okay,
that's the seven. Then there's a little cool spot like
diagonal across the street for clothing and stuff. There's a
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bunch of clothing street.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
It's a lot of it's a lot of cool stores
over there.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Is that where you get the gear? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I get my get everywhere pretty much. I'm not gonna
hold you. Yeah, shop around.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You know, it's pretty expensive down there, you know what
I mean. The price is a little bit inflated. You
could just walk in downtown and get mostly the same
stuff sometimes, you know, sometimes they do got dropped. So
they got those drops.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
And now that they have these stores there too that
have the real eclectic stuff. And I remember even back
in the day when I was in the doghouse back
in the Bay Area, me and JB would literally fly
out get some crazy you ask gear like real loud.
You can't get it everywhere. You can't just get that
shit everywhere. You got to go to Maules. There's been
two fifty for that, you know, Jumper, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
That crazy party. If you get it online, it ain't
really fitting right it don't. You have to come try
it on. You get mean.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
So we used to come down here a lot and
get our ship and then go back and host the
show and host an event, and people like where do
you get that out of?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Like you, that's what we do for We got to
get me. We're entertainers, come on.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
So it's real dope to see Zaza doing his thing
and being so part of the community like that. You
talk so much about your bud tenders. What kind of
training are they giving you guys at Zaza for the
bud tenders. I love the fact that you've already said
you're basically telling your bud tenders to ask a ton
of questions.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
But what kind of training are you giving these cats?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Well, to be honest, it's training that I actually came
up with. So yeah, it's pretty cool. Like we came
up with it when we first opened the store. But
they have basic training on you know, Trees, that's the
software that we use, but we also have customer service training.
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So it consists of about twenty it's a PowerPoint presentation.
It consists of like twenty eight slides, but it's very interactive,
so by the time you get to the third slide
you're answering questions, you're actually like physically acting stuff out.
So it's it's pretty cool. It's a pretty cool program
that we came up with.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, nice dude. And do you you actually built all
the PowerPoint presentations out and then do you train it
or you have someone else training that?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
No, I train it as well.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Nice? Okay. How many how many employees are you managing
right now?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Right now? We have about eleven?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh? Nice okay? And and what kind of schedule does
that look like for like the average person. Are they
doing like an eight hour shift, six hour shifts for.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
It's definitely six to eight hour shifts for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Nice. Nice. And then do you have security team?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
We do have security yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
And then do you manage them as well somewhat?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Yeah, you do all their scheduling pretty much.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
No, we don't do the scheduling, but they just get
sent Yeah, they just get SENTI used. Yeah, but we
do manage them on the premises, you know what they
have to go through, because we do get different security
guards almost like every other day.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
It's not the same security company.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
The security company.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah, same company. They just send a new guy, which
is cool because then you don't got the same guy
there all the time. It kind of helps something you
never know. Yeah, I like too, Actually, I kind of
like that idea. It is, I mean, it always is.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
You always got to think about these things and ship
like that, no matter what type of story you got.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I mean, I'd rather hire the homies. But you know
what I mean, then they don't get too close. They
don't get too close to anybody either, exactly. You know
what I mean. You don't become oh we're buddies, buddies boom, boom,
here's the play, you know, saying, but we know what's happened,
it's happened, we know when the drops happen. If you
know all.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
These things, it's just too much. Yeah, it's any deal.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
And how do you guys deal with the different distributors
and and and like do you guys have a purchasing
manager there? How do you how does that work?
Speaker 5 (28:55):
So what's so cool is I'm the purchasing manager. It
just you're the Hey mom, Like it's super cool, which
is it's awesome because with my experience it helped me
to be able to do this job. So so like easily.
I'm not even going to say it like that, it's.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Just what it is. You've already done your work to it.
Now it's like repetitions.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Well, no, you've had the managing skills to teach you
the professional side, but.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Then you smoked weed and you know it.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
You're a connoisseer, so you're like, I think this is good,
this is good, this is good, know.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
What, I know what not to buy it, but I'm
I used to buy beer, you know, with seven eleven.
So like it's like it's.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It's nothing, it's it's easy. Ut you've done it so much.
It's it's your profession, it's your gig, you know. But
I mean drop somebody in there that don't know how
to manage store and see how they do it exactly,
you know. Yeah, I mean you can see the.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Store doing good because of her, Like I feel that way.
I don't know why I feel that way, and you
guys are doing deliveries.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Just how far does that go?
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Five miles?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Okay, sos? Is that because the rules of Melrow in
that city or.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
No, it's actually just because of how we got to
set up right now. Honestly, if it picks up, then yeah,
definitely we'll expand, but right now, just five miles.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, thirty minutes or less thirty minutes. I like the flip. Yeah,
I mean that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
And that's not a bad idea because you know, you
got to really look at it and say, these patients,
which you know firsthand, they're home driven sometimes, yeah, you know,
I mean a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's a real deal.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Like, man, I can't go I need some medicine and
I live right down the street. I mean, it's a
good place. So if you're listening folks or know somebody
in that Melrose area.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Let's go. Well, I got a question. Have you guys
teamed up with, like, you know, Cool Cakes and done
like a drop over there and work some kind of
cool stuff with because I know they have artists and
people coming through all the time. Are you guys doing
any of that stuff as well?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
We wanted to, but right now, with cool Cakes, they're
primarily kid based.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Their customers are kid based.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Oh they're youngsters. I forgot about it. So very young crowd.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
He's a little scared to like really do something, but
he supports us. Very cool guy, like I love them
over there. But yeah, I understand for sure.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
We'll let us know if he needs some celebrities to
pop through. I mean we got we got the plug
on just about anybody really. Yeah, yeah, we want to
come by there too and check it out. Who's the owner?
Who owns this company?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
So right now we have a management company, which Hank
actually runs the management company. But yeah, they're they're definitely
looking into possibly buying the store. Yeah, but right now
we do have an owner, but I don't really yeah
deal with them one yeah, yeah, no one does.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
He's low key in the cut, you know what I mean. Yeah,
he's doing his thing.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
He's super doing his thing. He doesn't even live here,
he lives in New York.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Nice. Just just for funded about it, put the money
behind it, and get a good management. Yet there's a
lot of dispensaries like that.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I mean, that's the way, a lot of good because
there's a lot of good management teams out there too
that do this, which I'm not mad at.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Is there any ideas for expansion?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, I think they are trying to expand for sure.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yeah, I think it's going to be like for sure
in California, but I'm not sure how far away yet.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
And is there a name for the management company? Yeah,
they're they're running it. They're several, don't they they do, Yeah, yeah,
they do. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
And you know what, I really like the name Zaza.
I just it's just fun. It's and I can't believe
you guys don't have any gear on here. I know,
like I'm trying to. I'm literally on the website going
where's the gear? I want to see what looks like
I'm already imagining what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
And it was like, well, I want to see what
it looks like. My head's going in all kinds of
double z's and how they can do that.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
It's just like my mind's going crazy and I don't
see any I gotta come up my own graphic designer.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
We got we got here.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Well, we really love everything you're doing. We really love you,
and I love the fact that zazas. It's a great
thing there. Kelsey, we'd like to do the high five
with everybody that comes here on the show.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
So we got five simple questions for you before we
get into it.
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Speaker 2 (33:25):
So Kelsey manager at Zaza.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Over there on Melrose, how old are you the first
time you smoked cannabis?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Where were you when you did it? And who'd you
get it from?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Oh, that's so funny. I think it was a very
long time ago. I don't think I can really tell
you the.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Age, but go ahead, Joe, sixteen, there is.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
No okay cool.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
I feel like I was like sixteen, you know, I
was sixteen. I was with my friend Jerome.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
And yeah, North Carolina, all right where we didn't illegal
still in North.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Carolina literally, but yeah, it was in Carolina and we
were right outside my house and I feel like I
had like smokers, like remorse or something like that. I was
feeling super bad for smoking.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
So Mama, I didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
No, my mom wasn't home.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
So I went inside and just started reading the Bible,
which is weird because I'm not religious.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I was like, dude, like what did I do wrong?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah? So that connected you, connected you to some spirits.
It was trying to get you to read the good
but some good stories in them. Mug. There's a carpenter
in there. His name is heat Sous. Yeah. Question number two,
high five, what is your favorite way to use or
smoke cannabis? Oh?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yeah, I love my chocolate Dutch Masters Dutch really yeah,
only chocolate too.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
It's crazy, it's so hard to find.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Those chocolate one Like, I just I.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Got addicted to him.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
I for like five six years ago, and I I
was like, I can't smoke anything else, Like I don't
smoke any pre rolls or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I'm just rolling up my own weed.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Being a manager at a spot.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
I know this is going to be side questions from
this because you just said I rolled my own weed.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
What is your go to? Because you have a fucking
pick and choose.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Yeah, so my go to right now?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
I definitely I like Claiborne and Maven like their products
are really fire, Like we.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Don't have Shane right yeah Shane yeah yeah, yeah, Man's hot. Yeah.
Maybe it's a good brand, good quality, simple simple packaging,
just got good quality look to it, and products and
the good people. Yeah, that's what I like about them.
Good people.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I've seen you guys have Gelatto there too, that's all folks.
They were just here yesterday.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Gelato. I like Gelatto. Yeah, Preston at Gelato, what's up?
What's up?
Speaker 5 (35:50):
But yeah, like Gelato is super cool. I love their
Their whole team over there is pretty good. And the
flowers good too. The edibles are fire. They have like
these like ice cream cones yeah, chugaro.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, you just put them on that
you just put the ice cream on it and bang. Yeah,
how great is that? Let me get some ice cream
right now.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Question number three the High five Kelsey Wor's the craziest
place you ever used or smoked cannabis?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I would say you're North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
At the airport. No, I was gonna say at the airport.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, really, Yeah, that's a crazy in North Carolina. To
make it, I've done it on the plane in the
airport all those yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Like I have.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Yeah, it was crazy. I used to work at the
airport when I was a teenager. I was like nineteen,
and my friend he used to just have it on him.
He was smoking heavy then, so he was like, yo,
like it's lunchtime, let's go smoke. So he went to
the parking lot, hit it and went right back to work.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
It is. Yeah. Does the family still live in North Carolina?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Some of my family do. Yeah, yeah, some of my
family do. My mom lives here, my father lives in
New York. So yeah, I got a family everywhere.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
We need get to travel all the time and land.
You got a spot holidays. Where are we're going this year?
Let's go Question number four of the High five, what
is your go to Munchie after you get.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
High, like Pillsbury cookies.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Pills not what the hell's you talk about? Pillsbury cookie?
What is so skinny talking about this?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Cookies?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Wow, little them every night kind of like.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Her make that please? Can we get some? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Little?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I love just Pillsbury. They are the best ones when
you just either out of that big the big tub
or the yeah or the old school roll they got.
I love those, man, just cookies. Those I mean they're
rock though. I mean they got the formula. Pillsbury is
(37:49):
a staple, though.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Dog when you say Pillsbury, your mind just gets all
moist my fat tongues.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Man, So goodness.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Six Question number five of the High five Kelsey, It's
been a pleasure getting to meet you and know you
folks go out there and slap some hands with the
manager of Zaza and you can see what her staff's like.
You heard how she's treating people. You hear her first hand.
But Kelsey, if you can smoke cannabis with anyone dead
or alive, who would it be?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
And why?
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I think it's so ray? You know who is who?
From insecure?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
So here's the thing. You know, your wife got in
touch with us early. This is crazy. This is crazy, right, So,
ladies and gentlemen, she's like, for a half second, we
got you. She's like she didn't get a hold of
you know, she passed.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Insecure. You got to watch Insecure on Netflix on the
way watch it. She's fire, she's funny, she's super.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
An actor, actor, yeah, actress.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Actress, writer, she does everything production. Yeah, she's like a
full force.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
You know her. You didn't pull her up here? Yea
our connor for anybody else today talk about it. Huh
what she was on foulon last night? Really? I guess
thanks for pulling her up on the screen there. I
mean missed, he missed today? It is okay, good answer.
Good answer? Is a switchboard bugging when you talk to
(39:19):
is like, yeah, exactly. They can't come to you either.
I mean, geez, I watch it on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
You like to always bring up the people that the
guests bring up on YouTube so they can see it
and we can see it. But he's running that the
computers running slow. I think it's his fingers. He's probably
high over there, like I said, like, we don't like
he's been itching for a new computer. It's coming, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Coming, you know. I can't lie. He's not lying that.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
When I start working over there, I get so pissed off.
The other day I was working over there, look at
we couldn't get.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
In walk Tomorrow we're gonna we have someone coming in
to get us all the specs. Did you get all
the specs? Connor?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Yes, I pre built one like on a website, so
it has all like the prices and everything.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Now I'll show you all nice. Well, don't show me,
just take the car show me. I might not do it.
So listen. You know, I first of all, thank you
for being here. And you know, is there anything that
we forgot that you want to talk about your story,
yourself or any any of your ventures before we let
you get out out of here? Oh?
Speaker 5 (40:18):
Yeah for sure. So yeah, so first time, for sure
you get six up to sixty percent off, So meaning
your first three visits you get.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Twenty twenty twenty. Oh I just wanted to clarify that.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
But other than that, yeah, like come by Zazo and Melrose,
like definitely come by and see chef.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
You know, tell me you heard them on Cannabis talking
on one Who chef? Is that? That's your nickname?
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Nickname?
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Why did you tell us that we could have been
running chef all day.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
You know what, like I don't know acting my name
a chef.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
We got to put that in there, you go, you
know what I should got to put that. We're going
to be because of that. We got to do that.
Matter of fact, I got to write me a note
right now.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Put that in notes. Tell Ellie to change.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Yeah, you can do that. Well, thank you so much
for joining the show man. There it is guys, go
check out zaz on Meros. It's Cannabis Talk one on
one and remember this, if no one else loves you,
we do.
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Today on the show is a lovely lady considered to
be the driving force behind one of Melrose Places most
premier destinations for top shelf and great cannabis, you guys
in West Los Angeles. Joining us today on the table
is Kelsey Lorenzo. Shears Us is the manager of Zaza,
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which is zhzh. Zaza is in the building, a brick
and mortar cannabis dispensary conveniently located at seven five six
nine Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, California, nine double four
to six, where all the players go to get their
cannabis at a great price, you guys every single time.
Be sure to check out their website Zaza dot com,
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or follow them on the Gram at zaza dot official,
or just stop by any time of the week between
eleven am and seven pm for all your late bird
Zaza stays open till nine on the weekends, well.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Fridays and Saturdays.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
That is, without further ado, Please give it up for
missus Zaza in the building, Kelsey, Yeah, what's up?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So let's talk about your building first and your establishment
before we get into you and your whole career and
your journey, because the name Zaza alone is just dope.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Have you been with them since the giddy up? Or
how did you come aboard?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
So yeah, I have.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
So I was actually the first like manager on board.
So yeah, and you're still there, still there and you're black?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I mean come on now, I mean damn. I like
this ownership.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
We got them. That's good.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
That's a good, super supportive people, great, amazing management team.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I love them.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So tell us about the journey, about how they opened
up their their location. Yeah, where's the name come from? So?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
You know what, when I first did my interview, I
was talking to Hank. He's actually my manager and he's
part of I think he's the owner or something like that.
But he actually was like, hey, listen, you want to
know what the store name is. And this was like
my first interview, like meeting him. He was like, it's Zaza.
He was like, it's Zaza. I was like, oh, that's
super cool, Like that's like I heard in the song.
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I heard it in the money Bag song, you know,
like that's fire. You know it's a catchy name. But yeah,
he was like super interested, like super interested in me,
super interested in the name. And I was like, Yo,
let's let's take the ball and get it running.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It was super cool.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So they didn't even have a name.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
No, they didn't even have anything.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
He came up with the name.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I didn't come up with the name, but he told me.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh, he told you what it was. Okay, nice, Yeah,
it's cool. Shout out to hang for this. How long
have you guys been? Been around?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Seven months?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
And mean Melows is no easy spot either, you know
what I mean? West Los Angeles is a busy popping spot.
You got the big birds over there that are making
a lot of noise with their dispensaries.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean it's a busy, big name spot for Zaza
to come aboard like this. I see what you guys
are doing online, which is great first time buyers Blue
you ready for this sixty percent off your first.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Time coming in.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Not only that, I also see on the website for
some other daily deals. There's also daily deals that you
guys are constantly doing.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, it's super cool.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Yeah, so every day we have like a Munchie Monday,
like a Wax Wednesday, a butt Tender weekend. So it's
really cool. We give like all different types of promotions.
And what's so cool about my butt Tenders is they'll
let you know that as soon as you come in
the door.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
You know, so right at reception, you know what.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
The deals are, you know what everything, you know what's
pretty much going on, what's on sale, So it makes
you experience a little bit better and easier.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Sure, walk us through what it looks like when you
walk in the set.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The outside looks pretty player with this wood grain and everything.
It looks nice, but I don't know what the inside
looks like.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yeah, So in the inside you walk in and it's
just a big open space. We have like a wall
like a cubby wall, which have product on it, display product,
and then we have our flower bar. So the flower
bar consists of flower Baites and as well as pre rolls,
so that's pretty cool. And then we also have a
space on the right that actually consists of other brands
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that are actually merchandised there.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, super cool, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
What's the big sellers there, Kelsey, I mean you're in
West Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's a busy area, a lot of products right now.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I is say our top sellers would be like traditional Maven, Clayborne,
those type of you know brands, super cool games.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And so what's your background? Where you from?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I'm from New York, New York.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I'm from New York, big city of dreams. We're at
New York.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'm from Harlem.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No doubt you spent When did you move to Kelly moved.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
To Cali about five years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
I actually got promoted with seven to eleven, my old company,
and they wanted to transform me out here. So they
wanted to transform me out here. So that's how I
got out here.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Okay, you know that's.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
An interesting run right there, because you know, I see
you're a college graduate as well. Yeah, and you went
from running you know, I was talking you on LinkedIn.
I say, I see your profile very well established and
very nice to to get a glimpse of your life,
which is dope. And I always salute those of us
who have degrees because it's not easy, and always tell
people in my kid you can't take that away from folks.
(06:09):
You can't mean like, once you get your degree, you've
earned that motherfucker, and good job, you know what I mean.
So I salute people who get him, and I recognize
the hard work like Connor has his right there, you
know what I mean. Those who don't fine, but those
who do, we know nothing, and I'm not trying to
hurt anybody that doesn't. Blue. I just give those people
props who do, because I wear this ring with pride,
(06:29):
and you know, I mean, I remember buying it going wow,
I never thought I could do it. But my point
to your story is I noticed too that you mentioned
seven to eleven. It's like so funny Blue, because she
goes through seven eleven managing different stores. And I didn't
realize you went from New York, which is you know,
it's New York, dog, You're managing seven elevels in New York,
to then Los Angeles are where no.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
So I grew up in New York and then I
managed seven Elemons in North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Oh oh that was a completely.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
North Carolina's hoods still.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Too good, but it's so and you know, definitely North Carolina.
That's yeah, the baby from there, you know, Charlotte, you know,
so that's where I ran my stores are so yeah, yeah,
it was kind of like, yeah, it was a little
it's an.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Eclectic it's it's an eclectic home. When you're there, it's
just eleven.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Seven eleven isn't your fucking, you know, high end of
a clientele.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's your normal, everyday, hard working blue collar you know
what I mean. Someone might go in there and still
a couple of candy bars.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Somebody might come in there and do a beer run,
because that's where we do beer runs growing up.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I mean, you know what I'm saying. Story for.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That's my point is seven eleven is is that place
you know, like how many beer runs if we did
as kids, where.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
We're gonna go seven We didn't go to star a
safe Way or pa billions seven eleven. Sometimes it was
like a bottle so exactly bottle runs there. You don't
do beer runs. My point. So seven eleven could be
kind of crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
And my point to it is is you went from
there to then managing Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, which is a little higher up in.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
You know what I mean, let me get my peaking
up and let me bitch you complain about my drink
not having everything.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
In needs in it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
To now running and managing star Ur Dispensary, which I
feel like really led you to service and people and really.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Gives you the operations how to run a really busy spot.
And really.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, so I really feel like I looked at your
back on dude, You're the dopest perfect manager for something
like this.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You have great manager experience, Yeah, because those are crazy
busy companies. Yeah. What high school did you go to?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
I actually went to West Mecklenburg High School, nice in
North Carolina. And then what college college U n C
Charlotte Nice?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You know. I got hit by a car in Charlotte
really Yeah, Charlotte, North Carolina, baby. Really at the Western Hotel, Yeah, downtown, Yeah, man,
an a bunch of cool spots right there, you know center. Yeah,
I was. I was doing a cannabis education class actually,
and he'd do a walking class. Yeah. No, well I
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was walking careful so you know how the valet has
their little spot right so that the valet section. I
got out of the valet section and there was a
car just to the right of us and in the
other valet line, and then so he takes off. I
grab I'm grabbing some you know, work materials and I'm
walking through and I'm just, you know, minding my own
(09:26):
walking by, and dude just gases it, you know. And
he was a driver from the Western Hotel. This is
why you know. I got hey, okay, good. I'm like,
did you hit him? No? He hit me in the pockets. Yeah, sure,
So I got hit and I had boxes in my hand.
It took off, boom. I ripped my right a cl.
I didn't get to do my show that day. We
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ended up in the hospital for I spent like five
days there in the hospital, and they were pumping me
up on drugs, and finally I was I was so
sick from uh because I was in pain. I ripped
my right a cl and I was in so much
pain that I was like, dude, I got to get
out of here, because they just kept giving me viking
in and they would come in and drop me vicing in.
Hit me with the little beank. I don't know, I
(10:06):
hit this button being pink and they were giving me drugs.
But I remember on the last couple of days, I
was so sick that I was like, dude, this is nasty,
Like I feel horrible from the drugs. As if I
was coming off the drugs that needed more drugs to
get high. Oh yeah, but I was in pain, you know,
And and so I was just like, man, I'm out,
and they're like, no, you need to stay for I'm like,
I'm not staying no longer. Like I literally I called
(10:27):
my family. I was like, I'm getting a flight right now.
Did it hurt getting on the flight? Oh dude? It
was everything sucked and and most importantly though, it was
the come off of the pills that they were giving
me every fucking day for five days. No. Yeah, no,
I'm already on some boat. I got a good regiment
right now. So anyways, I ended up assuing the Western
(10:49):
Hotel that we can't go there no more. Yeah, yeah, no,
I'm good although they have no yeah they've they have
never sweated me moving in and out of their facilities.
I've never been back to that one in particular. But uh,
you know, I've never had a problem. I'm waiting to
get hit dog. I've been like trying to step in
front of cars. I got qutally nice ones. I'm like,
who is that? I mean, honestly, I probably could have
got closer to a million dollars, but I ended up
(11:10):
getting like three hundred grand because I wanted to get
over with because I had to go to freaking uh
therapy then for like a year, and they're like, yeah,
I can keep going for another year. Every year then
do Basically they came up to three hundred grand every
year and they're like, you go for another year and
I'm like, man, I'm fine, I'm ready. Yeah, I don't know.
It wasn't it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Look.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna take a break real quick. Kelsey.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
When we come back, I want to hear about your
love for cannabis that leads you to even go and apply,
Like why that you're working, you're managing the Starbucks. What
leads you towards cannabis. It's Cannabis Talk one on one.
We'll be right back after this break.
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out with letters, folks. Kelsey is the manager at Zaza.
I'm really impressed with the hire of you because, like
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we said at the beginning, going from seven to eleven
to Starbucks to managing a dispensary. You know, we talk
about this blue a lot saying using people with real backgrounds.
I mean, you know, some people can go grab somebody
from fucking Google and this and that, and it kind
of doesn't make sense to manage a story like that, right, ye, Like, oh,
they manage Macy's, okay, d damn. But your like we
(12:54):
kind of talked off air when you walked in the alley.
I was like, dude, that is a perfect lane for you,
right and for you to go there, what was that
love to figure? Because with that background, let's just face it,
you can go and get a cool job at a
lot of different places, but managing seven eleven's to Starbucks
to being that manager and general manager, that's a good
title role for those gigs. And you got moved around
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with the corporation. So you had a high you have
you have you know, accomplishment, You really did it.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You really do. You were getting down? So what led
you to say? You know what, I'm in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Now I'm gonna go here in West Los Angeles and
look at this new dispensary.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Why cannabis?
Speaker 5 (13:32):
You know what, I've always loved cannabis. I didn't like coffee.
I didn't drink coffee at all, and I was managing
a coffee spot. So I felt like, to be honest
within my journey, I felt like God sent me to
Starbucks to learn more and really grasp my title in
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a different way because Starbucks taught me so many different things.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Managing is different. It's a different culture.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
You know, it's real books. I feel like that's a
real manager.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It's a real like there's so many different things you
got to manage and look over from the sugars, the
different sugars, to everything straw, Like there's a lot of
stuff there.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, did you the manager? Just look at all the
things there? Like, there's so much to figure out.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
There Starbucks, you were the store manager, you were supervisor,
you or barista. So I was playing three different You're.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Feeling girl, you're feeling guy.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
You're everything, playing three different roles.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
So I feel like at that point, I was just
like exhausted from that role. I was like, you know what,
like I need to find something that's more. At my alley,
I smoked weed every day. Yeah, you know, so they know.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
They never really asked.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I knew they I think they knew, especially at those
Christmas parties.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Did your employees came in high?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Did they look at you smell like weed? Or they're like, hey,
smoking any employees?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
That's hilarious. I feel like I had one.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Actually that one time. One They didn't ask me if
I was high. They just asked, like, yo, you smell that?
And I was like like, oh man, I don't.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I don't. I don't know what you're talking.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Coffee.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
All I smell is coffee right now, you know, but
I better not smell it on you.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Yeah, so you, I mean your hair is twisted too.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You gotta definitely look like exactly because I'm not. If
I roll the dice on the look.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Alone exactly nine times out of ten, it's true. But yeah,
I figured a lot of my people definitely smoked weed.
I had a couple of people at Starbucks coming high
that I had to send home and right up and
things like that, like, why would you even try me
like that?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
But yeah, you're high at ship high?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Smoke? Don't be so high.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
We always say that, dog like we noticed folks that
you know we're smoking smoke, but don't get so high ware.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
We can tell, we can tell at least you some
bazine or some ship.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You know, even even here. I mean, you know, we
we allow our team to smoke and stuff like that.
We let them get away with it. But it's like,
don't be in there just.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Staring at the computer that you can't. You can't. They
just get stuck on. Conor does it when he's sober.
So I'm like, you know, I gotta Tapa's helmet. But
Connor get back to work. Better go hit something real quick.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
So what led you to?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I said, you're sitting there and where was that dynamic?
Because everything you're saying, I actually believe it is too.
I believe God sent you the Starbucks to get you
that experience.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And then how did that? Wow? Cannabis?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Cannabis.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
So I honestly, I just started applying looking for different
things because I was at that point where I was
like exhausted, I was I was running Starbucks during COVID,
so we were shutting down stores, Like I had like
five people calling out on me, like every ten days,
I got COVID, I got COVID, I got again.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
You know, do I get paid? I'm down, and you're
the manager. You got to step up, no matter.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
What, step up, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Unless I'm was that here in Kelly that it was?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Yeah, it was yeah, sureman Oaks, which one the one
in Vanus Inventora?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Okay, busy right next to Yes, I know, that's it.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So I was like right.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Next to Encino right there, line actually one block away
actually Sinos right literally literally one block away.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Right the whole paid more seven eleven Starbucks or Zaza
Starbucks for sure? Oh nice?
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Just because my bonuses were crazy, like I was like
twenty five percent versus last year like above, like you
know my budget. Yeah, so that right there, once you
hit ten percent, you're getting one hundred percent of your budget,
I mean one hundred percent of bonus.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Excuse me. So I was always getting more of my.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Bonus, staying on top.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Yeah, I was staying on top. Bro, It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah. And do you think it was more of how
you ran the store that really led to that.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, one hundred percent. That's why they kept moving me
around and moving me to like difficult stores to like
clean it up.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah. Yeah, that's that's the that's the model. Like, Okay,
she got this one up and running, let's move to
this store.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
She gets that vibe though, right, Like I feel a
vibe from her, like she could run shit.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I mean one at one point, don't you just say, hey,
I'm going to be a general manager.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
You know what, I was a general manager ship and
I'm doing that. And it was transferring me, like you
know what I mean, like you got this store together,
We're going to transfer you to this one. You know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah. It's so now you're on the road. You can't
even really make it home. Yeah, like okay, cool.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Well I'm gonna run this store for like six seven months,
get it together, and then get transferred for another year.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
They get it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, And now you're at the dispensary.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
They met you, they loved you, you, they said, okay,
you use cannabis, You're gone, and now what is your
type of hiring and your look at there?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It is the same. Don't come in high because even
though we're working with.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Cannabis, I mean, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I think it's true though.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I mean, yeah, to be honest, I feel I feel
like I run it as the same modo as like
a bar. Like if you if you're at a bar,
don't you come in and drunk? Yeah, you know what
I mean, twist.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I feel the same way. I'm not sitting here asking.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
The question, you know, so it's like the same thing
with me.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I'm like, yeah, sometimes they sneak a shot at the bar,
you know. I mean, you got a drink with a cuss.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I'm not here and there, and that's that's on them,
you know that. I didn't see anything. But at the
end of the day, like I don't want them doing
anything in front of my face or just straight violating
that's not okay. But yeah, we give out weed at work.
So it's it's a completely different industry. And I was
actually talking to my wife about this yesterday. I was like, listen,
Like with corporate I couldn't even say I smoked, you know,
(19:21):
Like I couldn't even openly say hey, I smoke weed,
you know. And with this industry, I'm smoking with the owners.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, how fucking great is that? Right?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Like that's fucking cool, you know, like, and it's just
a different type of bond and connection that you can
have with people when you actually do those type of things,
you know.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Yeah, I'm really curious to know. As we go for
another break right now, Kelsey, and when we come back,
I want to hear the stories you've heard in the
last seven months with people that come to your guys's
location over there in beautiful Los Angeles, California. You guys
seven five six y nine Melrose Avenue, which is damn
near one of the hearts of Los Angeles areas. Because
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you get tourists, you get the locals, you get everybody
that comes there because people go shopping on Melrose.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I mean you heard of Melrose Place for god in
that Melrow. I mean you ain't been to Melrose. I
mean nice to fly from the Bay to go shop
on the Melrows.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, you're gonna come, But what are some of these
anecdotal stories that you're hearing from the locals of why
they're using it. I'm sure they're so happy you opened
up and for the great deals. It's Cannabis Talk one
oh one.
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We'll be right back after this break. Go you want
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Shears out of New York. Goes from managing all these
(22:03):
different stores and now managing the dispensary, going from seeing
the different clientele and the seven eleven, the different clientele
and the Starbucks coffee is definitely a jack for everybody.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And you don't like it, but I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I need my coffee every single day, right It's like
my I mean, I'm addicted to the caffeine and I
can't even front. So it's my medics. I look at
it as my medicine. I come here right away. I
need another one.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I already had one at home. I get here, it's
my like.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You know, if I don't have one too, I'm like
you put an I mean I put a little cream
and sugar.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I put a sweet and low here and a cream.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I mean, but the other ones, you know, at the house,
I got a little gabby that I scored in it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
But my point to it is, as.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
We went to break, you're now hearing from people who
are real patients. You're now customers, are people that come
in with different elements that are can take their life
and that can change their life. I mean, you know,
so does coffee and a bag of seeds and a
slurpee for most.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
But this is different. This is like you get to
hear so real, heartfelt shit.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I'm sure it's different for you these past seven months
as you may have grown up smoking.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
But you hear things.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
What are you hearing at Zaza that people are saying,
you like, thank you because.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Of what they're basically just saying thank you for paying
attention and being more curious, especially like as my bud
tenders try to get to know what they want. They
like that, they like that time that and attention that
we give people. And because somebody could come in for
(23:32):
like their back aching or any type of like you
know problem, you know, and you don't want to just
give them some cush or you don't want to just
give them a vape because you think that it's gonna work.
You know, you really want to like be more curious
and ask more questions and figure out what the what
the real issue is to be able to satisfy the customer,
you know, and that's what they really appreciate. Like all
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my customers that come in, the locals, even some non
locals who still come in and drive all the way
down to come to Melrose just to come to my store.
It's pretty it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
You know. How are you guys getting more locals or
are you guys getting more tourists?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
So yeah, mostly it would be like sixty percent tourists,
sixty six tourists thirty five percent.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I mean local, but like tourists like like you know,
I'm coming from Hollywood to Melrose, are coming from county
in Germany.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I mean spot where Yeah, I mean a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah, I get a lot of people from Germany.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
That's what they do. Like the world.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I get a lot of different.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
People, Celebrities coming through.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yeah, we did have a couple of celebrities come through.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, yeah, I got them out there.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I don't know if I want to put them out there,
but like it's cool, it's it's super cool because we're
right next to Cool Kicks too.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Man, I love so you guys got a hot spot.
Cool Kicks popping all the time too. Yeah, right the
Cool Kicks or.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
To the left, it's to the to the left, just
to the left if you're looking at it, to the
because there was like a bunch of shopping right around there,
I mean down next to the Cool Cakes two doors down.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
And the Homie was over there, like working out of there,
and he was kind of trapping, you know what I'm
saying for a little bit. But they had shops over
there too. They were just trapping. And I remember, you
don't I want to call him the homie. I met
him that day at Cool Cakes and we went next
door and I was like, oh yeah, I'm saying, okay,
that's the seven. Then there's a little cool spot like
diagonal across the street for clothing and stuff. There's a
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bunch of clothing street.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
It's a lot of it's a lot of cool stores
over there.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Is that where you get the gear? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I get my get everywhere pretty much. I'm not gonna
hold you. Yeah, shop around.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
You know, it's pretty expensive down there, you know what
I mean. The price is a little bit inflated. You
could just walk in downtown and get mostly the same
stuff sometimes, you know, sometimes they do got dropped. So
they got those drops.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
And now that they have these stores there too that
have the real eclectic stuff. And I remember even back
in the day when I was in the doghouse back
in the Bay Area, me and JB would literally fly
out get some crazy you ask gear like real loud.
You can't get it everywhere. You can't just get that
shit everywhere. You got to go to Maules. There's been
two fifty for that, you know, Jumper, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
That crazy party. If you get it online, it ain't
really fitting right it don't. You have to come try
it on. You get mean.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
So we used to come down here a lot and
get our ship and then go back and host the
show and host an event, and people like where do
you get that out of?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Like you, that's what we do for We got to
get me. We're entertainers, come on.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
So it's real dope to see Zaza doing his thing
and being so part of the community like that. You
talk so much about your bud tenders. What kind of
training are they giving you guys at Zaza for the
bud tenders. I love the fact that you've already said
you're basically telling your bud tenders to ask a ton
of questions.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
But what kind of training are you giving these cats?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Well, to be honest, it's training that I actually came
up with. So yeah, it's pretty cool. Like we came
up with it when we first opened the store. But
they have basic training on you know, Trees, that's the
software that we use, but we also have customer service training.
(27:03):
So it consists of about twenty it's a PowerPoint presentation.
It consists of like twenty eight slides, but it's very interactive,
so by the time you get to the third slide
you're answering questions, you're actually like physically acting stuff out.
So it's it's pretty cool. It's a pretty cool program
that we came up with.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, nice dude. And do you you actually built all
the PowerPoint presentations out and then do you train it
or you have someone else training that?
Speaker 4 (27:30):
No, I train it as well.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Nice? Okay. How many how many employees are you managing
right now?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Right now? We have about eleven?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Oh? Nice okay? And and what kind of schedule does
that look like for like the average person. Are they
doing like an eight hour shift, six hour shifts for.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
It's definitely six to eight hour shifts for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Nice. Nice. And then do you have security team?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
We do have security yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
And then do you manage them as well somewhat?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Yeah, you do all their scheduling pretty much.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
No, we don't do the scheduling, but they just get
sent Yeah, they just get SENTI used. Yeah, but we
do manage them on the premises, you know what they
have to go through, because we do get different security
guards almost like every other day.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
It's not the same security company.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
The security company.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Yeah, same company. They just send a new guy, which
is cool because then you don't got the same guy
there all the time. It kind of helps something you
never know. Yeah, I like too, Actually, I kind of
like that idea. It is, I mean, it always is.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
You always got to think about these things and ship
like that, no matter what type of story you got.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
I mean, I'd rather hire the homies. But you know
what I mean, then they don't get too close. They
don't get too close to anybody either, exactly. You know
what I mean. You don't become oh we're buddies, buddies boom, boom,
here's the play, you know, saying, but we know what's happened,
it's happened, we know when the drops happen. If you
know all.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
These things, it's just too much. Yeah, it's any deal.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
And how do you guys deal with the different distributors
and and and like do you guys have a purchasing
manager there? How do you how does that work?
Speaker 5 (28:55):
So what's so cool is I'm the purchasing manager. It
just you're the Hey mom, Like it's super cool, which
is it's awesome because with my experience it helped me
to be able to do this job. So so like easily.
I'm not even going to say it like that, it's.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Just what it is. You've already done your work to it.
Now it's like repetitions.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Well, no, you've had the managing skills to teach you
the professional side, but.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Then you smoked weed and you know it.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
You're a connoisseer, so you're like, I think this is good,
this is good, this is good, know.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
What, I know what not to buy it, but I'm
I used to buy beer, you know, with seven eleven.
So like it's like it's.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It's nothing, it's it's easy. Ut you've done it so much.
It's it's your profession, it's your gig, you know. But
I mean drop somebody in there that don't know how
to manage store and see how they do it exactly,
you know. Yeah, I mean you can see the.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Store doing good because of her, Like I feel that way.
I don't know why I feel that way, and you
guys are doing deliveries.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Just how far does that go?
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Five miles?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Okay, sos? Is that because the rules of Melrow in
that city or.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
No, it's actually just because of how we got to
set up right now. Honestly, if it picks up, then yeah,
definitely we'll expand, but right now, just five miles.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, thirty minutes or less thirty minutes. I like the flip. Yeah,
I mean that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
And that's not a bad idea because you know, you
got to really look at it and say, these patients,
which you know firsthand, they're home driven sometimes, yeah, you know,
I mean a lot.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's a real deal.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Like, man, I can't go I need some medicine and
I live right down the street. I mean, it's a
good place. So if you're listening folks or know somebody
in that Melrose area.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Let's go. Well, I got a question. Have you guys
teamed up with, like, you know, Cool Cakes and done
like a drop over there and work some kind of
cool stuff with because I know they have artists and
people coming through all the time. Are you guys doing
any of that stuff as well?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
We wanted to, but right now, with cool Cakes, they're
primarily kid based.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Their customers are kid based.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Oh they're youngsters. I forgot about it. So very young crowd.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
He's a little scared to like really do something, but
he supports us. Very cool guy, like I love them
over there. But yeah, I understand for sure.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
We'll let us know if he needs some celebrities to
pop through. I mean we got we got the plug
on just about anybody really. Yeah, yeah, we want to
come by there too and check it out. Who's the owner?
Who owns this company?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
So right now we have a management company, which Hank
actually runs the management company. But yeah, they're they're definitely
looking into possibly buying the store. Yeah, but right now
we do have an owner, but I don't really yeah
deal with them one yeah, yeah, no one does.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
He's low key in the cut, you know what I mean. Yeah,
he's doing his thing.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
He's super doing his thing. He doesn't even live here,
he lives in New York.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Nice. Just just for funded about it, put the money
behind it, and get a good management. Yet there's a
lot of dispensaries like that.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
I mean, that's the way, a lot of good because
there's a lot of good management teams out there too
that do this, which I'm not mad at.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Is there any ideas for expansion?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, I think they are trying to expand for sure.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yeah, I think it's going to be like for sure
in California, but I'm not sure how far away yet.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
And is there a name for the management company? Yeah,
they're they're running it. They're several, don't they they do, Yeah, yeah,
they do. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
And you know what, I really like the name Zaza.
I just it's just fun. It's and I can't believe
you guys don't have any gear on here. I know,
like I'm trying to. I'm literally on the website going
where's the gear? I want to see what looks like
I'm already imagining what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
And it was like, well, I want to see what
it looks like. My head's going in all kinds of
double z's and how they can do that.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
It's just like my mind's going crazy and I don't
see any I gotta come up my own graphic designer.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
We got we got here.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Well, we really love everything you're doing. We really love you,
and I love the fact that zazas. It's a great
thing there. Kelsey, we'd like to do the high five
with everybody that comes here on the show.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
So we got five simple questions for you before we
get into it.
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Speaker 2 (33:25):
So Kelsey manager at Zaza.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Over there on Melrose, how old are you the first
time you smoked cannabis?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Where were you when you did it? And who'd you
get it from?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Oh, that's so funny. I think it was a very
long time ago. I don't think I can really tell
you the.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Age, but go ahead, Joe, sixteen, there is.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
No okay cool.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
I feel like I was like sixteen, you know, I
was sixteen. I was with my friend Jerome.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
And yeah, North Carolina, all right where we didn't illegal
still in North.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Carolina literally, but yeah, it was in Carolina and we
were right outside my house and I feel like I
had like smokers, like remorse or something like that. I was
feeling super bad for smoking.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
So Mama, I didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
No, my mom wasn't home.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
So I went inside and just started reading the Bible,
which is weird because I'm not religious.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
I was like, dude, like what did I do wrong?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah? So that connected you, connected you to some spirits.
It was trying to get you to read the good
but some good stories in them. Mug. There's a carpenter
in there. His name is heat Sous. Yeah. Question number two,
high five, what is your favorite way to use or
smoke cannabis? Oh?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yeah, I love my chocolate Dutch Masters Dutch really yeah,
only chocolate too.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
It's crazy, it's so hard to find.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Those chocolate one Like, I just I.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Got addicted to him.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
I for like five six years ago, and I I
was like, I can't smoke anything else, Like I don't
smoke any pre rolls or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I'm just rolling up my own weed.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Being a manager at a spot.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
I know this is going to be side questions from
this because you just said I rolled my own weed.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
What is your go to? Because you have a fucking
pick and choose.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Yeah, so my go to right now?
Speaker 5 (35:18):
I definitely I like Claiborne and Maven like their products
are really fire, Like we.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Don't have Shane right yeah Shane yeah yeah, yeah, Man's hot. Yeah.
Maybe it's a good brand, good quality, simple simple packaging,
just got good quality look to it, and products and
the good people. Yeah, that's what I like about them.
Good people.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I've seen you guys have Gelatto there too, that's all folks.
They were just here yesterday.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Gelato. I like Gelatto. Yeah, Preston at Gelato, what's up?
What's up?
Speaker 5 (35:50):
But yeah, like Gelato is super cool. I love their
Their whole team over there is pretty good. And the
flowers good too. The edibles are fire. They have like
these like ice cream cones yeah, chugaro.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, you just put them on that
you just put the ice cream on it and bang. Yeah,
how great is that? Let me get some ice cream
right now.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Question number three the High five Kelsey Wor's the craziest
place you ever used or smoked cannabis?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I would say you're North Carolina.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
At the airport. No, I was gonna say at the airport.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, really, Yeah, that's a crazy in North Carolina. To
make it, I've done it on the plane in the
airport all those yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Like I have.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
Yeah, it was crazy. I used to work at the
airport when I was a teenager. I was like nineteen,
and my friend he used to just have it on him.
He was smoking heavy then, so he was like, yo,
like it's lunchtime, let's go smoke. So he went to
the parking lot, hit it and went right back to work.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
It is. Yeah. Does the family still live in North Carolina?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Some of my family do. Yeah, yeah, some of my
family do. My mom lives here, my father lives in
New York. So yeah, I got a family everywhere.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
We need get to travel all the time and land.
You got a spot holidays. Where are we're going this year?
Let's go Question number four of the High five, what
is your go to Munchie after you get.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
High, like Pillsbury cookies.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Pills not what the hell's you talk about? Pillsbury cookie?
What is so skinny talking about this?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Cookies?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Wow, little them every night kind of like.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Her make that please? Can we get some? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Little?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I love just Pillsbury. They are the best ones when
you just either out of that big the big tub
or the yeah or the old school roll they got.
I love those, man, just cookies. Those I mean they're
rock though. I mean they got the formula. Pillsbury is
(37:49):
a staple, though.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Dog when you say Pillsbury, your mind just gets all
moist my fat tongues.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Man, So goodness.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
Six Question number five of the High five Kelsey, It's
been a pleasure getting to meet you and know you
folks go out there and slap some hands with the
manager of Zaza and you can see what her staff's like.
You heard how she's treating people. You hear her first hand.
But Kelsey, if you can smoke cannabis with anyone dead
or alive, who would it be?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
And why?
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I think it's so ray? You know who is who?
From insecure?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
So here's the thing. You know, your wife got in
touch with us early. This is crazy. This is crazy, right, So,
ladies and gentlemen, she's like, for a half second, we
got you. She's like she didn't get a hold of
you know, she passed.
Speaker 5 (38:44):
Insecure. You got to watch Insecure on Netflix on the
way watch it. She's fire, she's funny, she's super.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
An actor, actor, yeah, actress.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Actress, writer, she does everything production. Yeah, she's like a
full force.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
You know her. You didn't pull her up here? Yea
our connor for anybody else today talk about it. Huh
what she was on foulon last night? Really? I guess
thanks for pulling her up on the screen there. I
mean missed, he missed today? It is okay, good answer.
Good answer? Is a switchboard bugging when you talk to
(39:19):
is like, yeah, exactly. They can't come to you either.
I mean, geez, I watch it on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
You like to always bring up the people that the
guests bring up on YouTube so they can see it
and we can see it. But he's running that the
computers running slow. I think it's his fingers. He's probably
high over there, like I said, like, we don't like
he's been itching for a new computer. It's coming, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Coming, you know. I can't lie. He's not lying that.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
When I start working over there, I get so pissed off.
The other day I was working over there, look at
we couldn't get.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
In walk Tomorrow we're gonna we have someone coming in
to get us all the specs. Did you get all
the specs? Connor?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Yes, I pre built one like on a website, so
it has all like the prices and everything.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Now I'll show you all nice. Well, don't show me,
just take the car show me. I might not do it.
So listen. You know, I first of all, thank you
for being here. And you know, is there anything that
we forgot that you want to talk about your story,
yourself or any any of your ventures before we let
you get out out of here? Oh?
Speaker 5 (40:18):
Yeah for sure. So yeah, so first time, for sure
you get six up to sixty percent off, So meaning
your first three visits you get.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Twenty twenty twenty. Oh I just wanted to clarify that.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
But other than that, yeah, like come by Zazo and Melrose,
like definitely come by and see chef.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
You know, tell me you heard them on Cannabis talking
on one Who chef? Is that? That's your nickname?
Speaker 4 (40:41):
Nickname?
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Why did you tell us that we could have been
running chef all day.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
You know what, like I don't know acting my name
a chef.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
We got to put that in there, you go, you
know what I should got to put that. We're going
to be because of that. We got to do that.
Matter of fact, I got to write me a note
right now.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Put that in notes. Tell Ellie to change.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Yeah, you can do that. Well, thank you so much
for joining the show man. There it is guys, go
check out zaz on Meros. It's Cannabis Talk one on
one and remember this, if no one else loves you,
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