This is the full transcript for Episode #282 of the Wild Business Growth podcast featuring David Sauers – Toilet King, Co-Founder of Royal Restrooms. You can listen to the interview and learn more here. Please note: this transcript is not 100% accurate.
David Sauers 0:00
Don’t forget about your family don’t work too hard just it can take a break. Take care of your family
Max Branstetter 0:21
The royal welcome back to the Wild Business Growth podcast. This is your place to hear from a new entrepreneur every Wednesday morning who’s turning Wild ideas into Wild growth. I’m your host, Max Branstetter, Founder and Podcast Producer at MaxPodcasting. And you can email me at to save time with your high-quality podcast. This is Episode 282, an episodic Palindrome that has just music to the ears and backwards, and today’s guest is David Sauers. David is the Co-Founder of Royal Restrooms are the gold standard and portable sanitation. That’s right. They make portable restrooms, portable toilets, showers, and more that are quite the step up from what you think of when you think of porta potties or porta Johns or however you say it. In this episode, we talk how in the world a banker from Savannah got into the toilet business, how to grow your business with the franchising model. The most unusual side of the restroom business and Tales from pretty much every SEC stadium except Georgia. It is the royal Mr. Sauers. Enjoyyyyy the showwwwww! Aaaaalrightyyyyyyy we are here with David Sauers, commonly known as the toilet man. And I’m just kiddinh that is not the official title, Co-Founder of Royal Restrooms a one of the coolest, most intriguing and as we say wild and unusual businesses, you’ll come across. David, super excited to speak with you and talk all things restrooms and beyond. How’re you doing today?
David Sauers 2:06
I’m doing great, Max, thank you so much for having me on. Of course,
Max Branstetter 2:09
of course. Thank you so much for coming. And we are going to set a record for toilet references, restroom references, and usually it’s me who’s got his mind in the gutter. But this is literally the business that you operate in. So I thank you for being open to that stuff today.
David Sauers 2:27
Somebody’s got to be the number one man and the number two business.
Max Branstetter 2:33
Oh my god, we should just stop right there. We’re not we’re not going to top that. But before we get into, you know where you are today with the business and how you’ve built it up. I know that your royal restroom story, the very first inkling of an idea came from a pretty disastrous moment involving your daughter, can you share that story?
David Sauers 2:55
Absolutely. The funny thing is, is most businesses, you know, they start with some type of situation that is either not pleasant or you know, trying to solve some kind of problem. And we were at a Shakespeare in the Park festival in Savannah, Georgia and both my daughters. Well, one of my daughters was potty training. The other one was just an infant. I took her over to the Porta Johns, I had Cece on my hip, and it was just like, wow, I had never thought about going to the bathroom. I guess well, one from a female perspective, but a child’s perspective that is learning to use the bathroom properly. It’s kind of like what is this bucket here? You know why? Why am I looking at this? This is so strange. And I had to take Cece and put her outside have somebody else in you know, a stranger holder have got my door propped open, there’s no light, I’m holding stellar over the hole in the ground. And it’s and it’s like, she just pees all over me. And I’m just like, this is horrible. I can’t you know, but what I left, took the kids home was just, I mean, I was I was upset at the whole situation. It was it was just terrible. And it’s nobody had done anything about it. Nobody had tried to change it. We just accepted the Porta Potti for what it was. And not that there’s not going to ever, you know, it’s it’s always gonna be there. But it’s like, why is this acceptable here in the 21st century? We’re not Romans. So I drew out on a piece of paper I measured my half bath downstairs and said why can’t we put this on a trailer and about a year later my business partner Robert glisten. He was really the the catalyst that turned this into a business. You know, I kind of had an idea and I just kind of sat on it and Robert was the one that was, hey, we can really do something with this we can make we can make something happen. And he was really the one that propelled it.
Max Branstetter 5:09
You know, there’s that old saying that it’s better to be pissed off and pissed on and unfortunately for you, you live the not good side of that one.
David Sauers 5:18
Yes. Literally got pissed on.
Max Branstetter 5:23
How quickly after that moment, you’re covered in pee, you’re in a porta potty, you know, pleasant experience all around. You can imagine how long after that, or I guess how quickly after that, did it start to matriculate, like this is actually a business idea.
David Sauers 5:39
It was over a year. And Robert and I, how it came about was Robert had a party at his house. And it was outside, we do a lot of wish frozen that type of stuff in Savannah. And I can’t remember if it was the very first football game or not, but we went inside to his house. And it was a lot of people waiting for the bathroom. So we walked outside to go use the tree or in this case, it’s out of his house. And I was just like, Man, my little bathroom idea would be great for this and talk to him about the bat, you know, shared with him what I kind of talked about, I hadn’t shared it with anybody else. We sat up all night long drinking on his dock, talking about what we can do and how we can do it and all that and the next day, for he got it for church, he knocked on the door and was just like, How much money do you think it’ll really take us to start this thing? And that’s we literally started that Monday, happened on a Friday or Saturday night and we started the process the next day.
Max Branstetter 6:50
Now this is a very important detail. What was it that you were drinking while you were brainstorming on this?
David Sauers 6:55
I was drinking either one and either Amstel Light or a crown and ginger?
Max Branstetter 7:02
Well, crown and ginger a crown kind of hence itself, I think maybe it’s subtly pointed to some royalty there. So we’ll have to credit them or install with having a part in the foundation of this business, which has grown and grown and grown there. After you had that, that brainstorm. And that long night of talking on the porch. What was your professional situation at that point? Otherwise, like did you have another job at the time? Or what would that look like? Oh,
David Sauers 7:30
yes, I was a vice president of a local bank in commercial lending, business lending. And Robert was an environmental environmental engineer at another local farm. You know, when all of this started, it was just kind of a side hustle. It was just a small gig, you know, people thought we were kind of crazy in what we were doing. And, and Robert and I were just, we were having a good time. It was getting us out of the house on the on the weekends. And we were going to different parties and festivals that we didn’t even really know we’re in Savannah. And it was kind of like, breathe a little life into us. You know, we were both. I mean, I think I was 28 or 29 When we started and Roberts a year or so older. So we were right there at that 30 benchmark, you know, where it was kind of getting, I guess, status quo, you know, and this business kind of spicing things up, it kind of changed things for us. spicing
Max Branstetter 8:37
things up is putting it lightly. So let’s get to that spicy. I don’t know if we want to keep using that word. Let’s get to that royal restroom story. Flash forward, you’ve built an incredible business got locations franchisees your franchisees franchising all over the country, you worked at some of the coolest events in the world. At some point, you needed to decide to go all in on this business in the first place. Before we even talk about that, that decision. What were the reactions of those around you when they found out that you were getting more and more entrenched in the royal throne space?
David Sauers 9:24
Well, back in the I guess back in the day, if you can even say that now. Robert and I very much had a kind of professional lifestyle. This was kind of considered, you know, the portable restroom industry, the sanitized porta Potti business. I got essentially asked, Do I want to be you in the Porta Potti business or do I want to be a banker? You’re not going to be in the Porta Potti business and be a banker at the same time you you got to choose so so I kind of had that decision. isn’t made for me. And it wasn’t too long after that Robert did too. We jumped, you know, full steam into this because all of a sudden we have a family to support, we have debt, we didn’t know what was going to happen, because we were changing kind of the course and have the sanitation industry. There were no other businesses like ours. So we were pushing the boundaries of what was expected and changing things. So of course, we had major opposition to everybody. Nobody wanted to pay for what we had. They wanted what we have, but then they wanted it for a porta Potti price and you’re just like, you get so much more we have a real functioning restroom. Like we bring a whole nother element to your event and festival. Like it’s kind of a luxury. If you compare it to a porta John, it’s not really a luxury if you compare it to a regular bathroom, because it’s the same thing. You know, we were Trailbreaker blazing there for for a while, you know, flying off the seat of our pants, you know what, in testing the markets and testing the waters and seeing what we can get away with and seeing what we we couldn’t.
Max Branstetter 11:12
And that’s a really important point there if like, it’s one thing to have the idea of like, Let’s make something better than a porta potty, but there was actual like, fine details of what are you going to be your differentiators there I think are so important to figure out like right from the start. Would that process look like for you? How did you decide what was actually going to differentiate you versus porta potties or porta Johns whatever you prefer?
David Sauers 11:37
So, yeah, it’s different parts of the country. porta Johns, you know, porta potties, we usually call them porta potties. I think most people call them porta Johns, the little blue buckets, whatever you want to call it, but honey buckets, I think on the West Coast.
Max Branstetter 11:54
Oh, wow. That’s a new one that That almost sounds like a tasty cereal. But I probably dangerous to think of it that way.
David Sauers 12:03
You know, we upset that whole whole industry there because people really wanted what we had. And people were still figuring out where, where we fit into everything within that industry. But people thought we were crazy. People thought that, you know, I can’t believe that you would throw away the your career and do this. And that’s the same for Robert and then. But afterwards, people were just like, why didn’t I think of this? You know, nobody really thought to nobody liked going to the portage on, but nobody thought to change it. And it’s kind of one of those wow moments like, why didn’t somebody else think of this? Why didn’t somebody else do something? And it’s it’s one of those. Nobody really wants to think about the bathroom. Nobody wants to think about that. And it’s surprising when it’s probably one of the most private things that you do and something that you want to do in comfort, you know, you want to do it nicely. You don’t want to upset the boundaries around you. You want to. I mean, heck, now everybody sits down and plays on their phone for 30 minutes.
Max Branstetter 13:18
It’s true, it’s definitely something that you need to do frequently. It’s just a basic function. So why not? Why not? Why not do it in a comfortable place, especially when you’re in public? What mate for anybody who’s not familiar with their brand? What’s the biggest difference between a typical honey bucket and a Royal Restaurant? Royal
David Sauers 13:39
restroom is a fully functioning restroom. It’s just on a trailer. You know, we have a flushing toilet. We have countertops with fully functioning sinks we have. It’s climate controlled. There’s air conditioners, there’s mirrors, there’s paper towels, there’s so there’s running water. And you can sit down on these. You don’t have to cover it up, you can sit down on these things.
Max Branstetter 14:05
Once you got that initial model created, that the initial thrown fortified, how did you start to look at like, Hey, who’s actually going to be our customers for this?
David Sauers 14:19
Well, the first one that was the first market that we tried to tackle was the weddings. We thought that that would be the easiest, you know, we wanted to be mother in law approved. You know,
Max Branstetter 14:32
the official certification.
David Sauers 14:33
Yes. Hey, we’re mother in law approved. But no, we thought that that would be the easiest market to go after first because people spend thousands upon thousands of dollars now on a wedding. I think when we first started the average wedding was I don’t know $10,000 or $8,000. Now it’s more like 30 35,000 but we bring so much more to that wedding now. And I mean that by from a flow standpoint, but also from a destination standpoint, you know, you can you can have this at the farm, you can have it at the beach now you don’t have to worry about that you don’t have to worry about people leaving your wedding. But not only that the bride can go in there, it’s big enough that you know, she has enough room, or he has enough room to do what has is necessary in the bathroom without feeling icky.
Max Branstetter 15:35
Oh, yeah, that’s a good word. Because when I think of traditional portrait buckets, I’m going to call it a different name every time icky is like a good way to describe it. You know, like even best case scenario, you don’t feel great about yourself using those. I mean, weddings is a great industry in the making that makes sense that you know, there’s always going to be weddings, there’s always going to be a time spent on weddings, there’s always going to be lots of people at weddings that need to use the restroom. So that’s kind of a no brainer. Looking today, like a snapshot across the different industries you’re in. What else are some some common areas are common restroom needing spaces that you supply?
David Sauers 16:13
Yeah, wow. Well, just about everything. Now we, we branched out we have branched out from festivals, to grand openings to nonprofit events to fundraisers, emergency response and a large part of our market of late has been long term kind of business remodels. OSHA requires so many bathroom facilities to be in a building. And a lot of these older buildings haven’t been updated to current laws or standards. And a lot of times they need additional facilities to support the staff that they have, or like a Home Depot or Lowe’s remodel. Whereas it used to take six, seven weeks to redo a bathroom because they’d redo one bathroom, and then the other bathroom and then the other one. Now they can go in and remodel all three of them at the same time, and cut their time in half, you know, to two or three week business remodel rather than having a five or six week project out there. So restaurant trailers have really they will they just keep expanding, new ideas are brought towards us and new rental ideas or options are brought every month, it seems like there’s something something new or something different.
Max Branstetter 17:35
I mean, there’s there’s an endless need for, you know, those basic human needs, as we were saying, but it’s really nice that you’re able to just not go into like the celebratory and more, I guess for profit space, but also also helping out when there are disasters or emergencies or areas like that, like sometimes you need something quick and you need help. So I know you’ve done so much wonderful work, even going back to Hurricane Katrina. Just unbelievable stuff there.
David Sauers 18:03
Thank you. Of
Max Branstetter 18:05
course, well, thank you. But when you look across, you know, looking back over the years now, which you’ve been in business for a couple of decades. I’ll throw you a congrats for that as well. That’s awesome. But you’ve gotten into franchising as well as a way to expand your brand and help out more, you know, people in need in different locations. Can you share a bit about for any business that wants to potentially get into that franchisor model? What do you need to do to make sure other people can kind of come up under your umbrella
David Sauers 18:42
for our umbrella. It’s not a very lengthy process. But it’s you know, you go through the whole FDA process filling out the forms or eating it. And it’s kind of an approval process. And we were kind of picky about who we let into our organization because we’re essentially marrying that person. So we want to make sure that they have the leadership qualities that we’re that we’re looking for. We want people who are in the long game, you know, in the long game they want they want to be in this business for 20 years. They they want to see it succeed. They believe in the vision that that we have that kind of owner operator, those are the ones who are going to care about the business who are going to uphold the brand. They’re going to uphold the business, they’re going to be active in their community. They’re the ones who are going to treat your employees like family. They’re the ones that are going to make a difference. We fell into franchising, we fell into expansion. We didn’t necessarily mean that was never the goal of the business to franchise and I’ll tell you franchising is a very difficult model it can be it can be done right but Do you need to have someone that knows what they’re doing in franchising? We never did, we never had the money. We never, we never went the, you know, the venture capitalist route and put the funding and maybe we should have, but it’s very hard to be a franchise, it’s kind of like having a big family, you’re viewed as the, the mom and dad, you know, so it’s kind of like a parent. So you have to be a parent sometimes. And that’s difficult, especially when, as they grow, and they get older, and they, they have their own knowledge, and they have their own views and nobody’s wrong, it’s just maybe a little different way of looking at the same goal or reaching the same goal. Do
Max Branstetter 20:44
you have any franchise inspirations, like a business or franchise chain out there that you look into like, kind of model your expansion after
David Sauers 20:56
I didn’t? Robert Na, did not we’ve, like I said, we never put a whole lot into the franchise side, we never hired a marketing group or even a sales team. All of our franchise, owners were word of mouth, or they were kind of like the squeaky wheel, they wanted to be involved in our business, because they believed in our vision, they believed in our product they liked, you know, they liked our service. They liked how, how we were run, but there are so many great models out there, Zach Spees is a great is a great model, you know, they’re there. I remember going to college at Georgia Southern, you know, getting Zach Spees. Every spot, every day we went out, it seemed like, you know, I
Max Branstetter 21:53
thought you’re gonna say after every class before and after, I
David Sauers 21:57
was trying to figure out how to word that correctly. You know, hey, we drank a lot.
Max Branstetter 22:03
That’s totally cool. Now, now I’m hungry and thirsty.
David Sauers 22:06
I don’t want to necessarily say that we were so self absorbed that we didn’t look at models. But there was not when we started franchising, there was nothing else like that. When we tried to write our, when we got the attorneys to write our franchise disclosure documents, and kind of a plan, there was nothing else to model it after, because we had a unique product, you know, that was mobile. So having territories was difficult. There just wasn’t anything out there back then. That was kind of comparable to what we were trying to do. So it was very much a learning curve and hit and miss.
Max Branstetter 22:50
That’s a really cool thing, where and I called myself out in a previous episode for using the term really cool too much. So I have to slap myself in the head for that. But it is a really cool thing when you carve your own path in a like a business line or business expansion like that. Like it’s always helpful to have inspiration. But there is something really cool about being gritty and figuring out yourself and being just, hey, we got to do this. So it is still cool to know that chicken and beer helped to feel this as well. But
David Sauers 23:23
it still helps you
Max Branstetter 23:27
where it’s yours to live. In addition to franchising, which obviously is like most direct form of expansion. What else has been you think the biggest driver of the growth of royal restaurants over the years,
David Sauers 23:43
I think the the biggest growth, it didn’t happen because of Robert and I or anything that we necessarily did. But it happened because of our office owners. They in themselves were leaders, but also from employees. I mean, you cannot build a business without good frontline employees. And when you see when you turn our attention to our employees, and they see the good that they did, rather than just delivering a trailer or cleaning a restroom or you know that they took part in something memorable. You know, they took part in someone’s wedding, they took part in a major sporting event or they took care of something in a disaster area. You know that appreciation in that knowledge of knowing that they what they do, has made an impact on somebody else’s life, I think really propels the business itself into into another whole nother level. And our growth has happened because of really the service industry. You know, in the beginning it was the products. But our growth in the last 10 years has been our consistency in our professionalism and reliability. But almost
Max Branstetter 25:01
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David Sauers 27:01
that women are a lot more dirtier than men.
Max Branstetter 27:10
I’m not going to touch that one.
David Sauers 27:12
fact about a toilet now. I will say that we have golden toilets on the front of our office headstone. So when you when you come up, you’re coming into two golden toilets on our
Speaker 1 27:23
on our front porch. Oh, that’s, that’s awesome.
David Sauers 27:26
I don’t really know about a fun fact. I mean, you got quirky things when people put carpet on the toilet seat, phone, different stuff, but I don’t
Max Branstetter 27:39
in that vein, or on that throne, what’s the most unique like, I guess, decoration you’ve seen applied to a toilet or toilet paper even? Ah, well,
David Sauers 27:48
we also have purple toilet paper. And it’s funny because when I go to these trade shows and stuff like that, we have the purple toilet paper out. And everybody is just like, they look at it. And you’re just like you have purple toilet paper? And like, Of course we do. You know, it’s lavender Senate too. And they’re like, What, and they all want to smell it and you’re like, Yeah, we want to make sure that you come in fresh and you left, you know, and they just stop and I can’t I can’t believe this and they’re, you know, they’re all smelling the toilet paper. And but anyways, that’s, you know, something that we we like to do, but from a from a decoration standpoint, you know, it probably would have to be with different plungers and stuff like that. And they were they’ve made. We’ve made plungers into flower bouquets and stuff like that.
Max Branstetter 28:37
Oh my god. You and team are expert. branders. That’s awesome. That’s a shout out previous guests long time ago, well known keynote speaker Jay Baer, he talks about talk triggers, like what can you do as a brand or for your personal brand? Just to share a little something like something physical that’s memorable and it gets people talking about it. And that lavender toilet paper is exactly that. So you’ve nailed that. That’s awesome. Plunger flower bouquet is perfect, too. That’s, I think I will not get that from my wife Dana, next Valentine’s Day, but maybe who knows what. All right, what is the most I guess unbelievable or unique place that has become your client that you would have never expected
David Sauers 29:21
I would have to say that it’s probably more like the celebrity weddings and stuff like that when you when you do them because you have to go through so many NDAs and they have to pre approve the bathrooms and the celebrity brides are walking through it and they’re, you know, pointing out all these little knickknacks and you’re just like, oh my gosh, come on. It’s crazy.
Max Branstetter 29:46
Is there any celebrity wedding that you can shout out? Or is that part of the NDA as well as my voice cracks?
David Sauers 29:52
I think we can say him now. We went we did Justin Bieber’s. Wow. And then we did a Jennifer oh gosh J.Lo and Ben Affleck’s wedding here recently as well.
Max Branstetter 30:06
Oh my god. Well, congrats on that you said Jennifer and just left as a cliffhanger. Like there’s a lot of famous Jennifer’s that she’s one of the most famous weddings like that and events like that you’ve already done and what would be a dream place that is not your client yet, but you’d love to supply there.
David Sauers 30:22
I always enjoy doing car shows. I love doing the car shows and I would love to do the car show at Pebble Beach. You know, the the Porsche show it Pebble Beach, that that’s something that I’m a huge Porsche fan. So I would absolutely love doing that. And we do car shows all over the country. But we have not done the Porsche show out there.
Max Branstetter 30:48
Anything Pebble Beach just instantly has like a beautiful and paradisaical if that’s a word feel to it. So I think that’s a really good one. Yeah,
David Sauers 30:57
it’s so breathtaking out there. And it’s so strange, you know, to, to leave San Francisco and then you go out there and you’re just like, I can’t believe that this is, you know, 20 miles outside the city or whatever. Because it is, so it’s just so beautiful out there. It’s probably long further than that, but I’m on the East Coast. Can’t remember how long it
Max Branstetter 31:15
takes me. We’re gonna we’re gonna fact check you. We’re gonna make you go out with a ruler and convert now. All right, as if that wasn’t strenuous enough. Let’s wrap up with some Rapid-Fire Q&A. But this isn’t just about toilets and restroom. Is this about anything so. So you’re you’re off the you’re off the throne here.
David Sauers 31:36
I’m off the hook. I don’t have to think too hard and collect.
Max Branstetter 31:38
Exactly those. Those are the hardest questions. These are the second hardest. Now. All right, let’s get wild. You ready for it? All right, shoot. All right. And I usually say let’s get wild after I asked to be ready for it. So I even jumped the gun. But Savannah, I know is known as one of the most beautiful places in the country. I was there when I was really little, but I don’t remember it well. So I’m itching to get back. What is a hidden gem that’s maybe not as touristy but something really, really cool to check out in Savannah, if you’re in town. Most
David Sauers 32:08
people when they come to town, they come for the food, the history and those sorts of things. The hidden gems are, you know, it’s just walking around the city. It’s finding it’s exploring the city on your own, you know, not taking a tour guide or one of the trolleys it’s just walking around and finding what the squares in there say, because they tell their own story. That is just fascinating. It is truly fascinating. The city is full of history from River Street, to even out on the on the east side where you have Wormsloe and Skidaway Island and the beach is 10 miles away. So the hidden gems are really just getting out there and walk in it.
Max Branstetter 33:01
Oh, that’s beautiful. Are you secretly a player for the savannah bananas?
David Sauers 33:12
I well, I could probably dress the part because I get all decked out in my in my in my purple. I certainly wear my purple suit rather than not a yellow suit. But no, I don’t think I could I don’t think I could pull off the whole dancing thing. But I could maybe you know if I was asked I would give it a shot. I would give it a shot. But no, unfortunately, I’m not. I’m not a member of Savannah Bananas.
Max Branstetter 33:39
Unfortunately not talk about a brand that has done an incredible job of growing. I mean, they’re everywhere I’ve seen I mean, we live in New Jersey in Newark Airport. I’ve seen multiple, like different families, like totally different kids, different occasions wearing the banana hat. And unlike that brand well obviously if I was that age now it’s like yeah, of course. I’m gonna wear a hat with a banana on it. But they’ve done so they’re so fun. It’s awesome.
David Sauers 34:03
He’s done such a phenomenal job with it all. And it was so funny when we first when they first came and they first started. I don’t know what league they’re in. Now. I guess it’s some kind of it’s like a provisional Leaguers are independent or something. Yeah. When they first started, they were still part of I believe they were still part of the major league teams. And they did all of that dancing in the theatrics with everything and the people from the other teams, the fans in the players from the other teams. They would be so upset that this is a game and they actually thought that they were making fun of them and in not being very serious. So it was It even made it more fun to go and watch because you would get to see the the fans just kind of freak out and the Other players just freak out on what’s happening, like and they just didn’t understand it now. It’s everywhere. It’s it’s everywhere. Yeah,
Max Branstetter 35:07
it’s an incredible story to unpeel See what I did there? Now I know you went to Georgia Southern. Are you a fan of Georgia? Are you mortal enemies with Georgia?
David Sauers 35:19
No, I am a fan of Georgia believer. I’ve never been to a Georgia game at Georgia. But I’ve been to plenty of other games across the southeast I love I like watching the Southeastern Conference play I’ve tried to I’ve been to just about every home team have already been to Oklahoma is in Texas is so I guess I can count them. But I still have Mississippi State you go to and Kentucky. And once I finish that, then I plan to go to Georgia. I mean, then I plan to finish it off at Georgia. Well,
Max Branstetter 35:53
first of all, you’re probably one of the only Georgia fans who is going to finish every SEC school at Georgia. So I’ll give you unique brownie points there but you know, Bulldog brownie points, but of the places that you’ve been, what was the most intimidating environment for an away team you think? I
David Sauers 36:12
would have to say LSU at least at least in my perspective, LSU was is very intimidating. Tennessee is is is very intimidating. And but each school has their is intimidating in their own. Right. I mean, you go to the the swamp in Florida, and there’s just a vibe. And I mean, an energy that you can feel when you go into every one of these stadiums. I would I hate to you know, to bust on Vanderbilt, but Vanderbilt was probably the least intimidating of all of them. Although it’s probably the funnest city of all of them as well.
Max Branstetter 36:56
Right? Right. Maybe there’s like a paradox there. It’s like, you know, it’s like a city can only be so fun at the stadium is is that awesome? Vice versa? No, no, there’s there’s a lot of just legendary venues there and the nicknames to like Death Valley, the swamp, you started talking about like the I know, Georgia in itself, you know, when you when you finally get to Georgia, Georgia and itself and now they do the like, you know, the red lights and everything. It’s crazy. But I got chills. I’m pumped for football season again. Last one. In the spirit of royalty. Do you have a favorite show or movie or book or something that involves kings and queens.
David Sauers 37:36
I like watching the game of thrones. But right now, right now I’m reading Ted Lasso the business book on Ted Lasso. But from a royalty standpoint, you know, that’s not really royalty, but it’s over there in England. So you kind of have the royalty there from that standpoint. That
Max Branstetter 37:58
Ted last of is that like written by the Ted Lasso character? Or is it about the show,
David Sauers 38:03
it’s about his leadership style in the book. And I don’t know if you’ve seen Ted Lasso, but that, yeah, we love it. It’s awesome. That’s a that’s a fabulous story. And it’s hard to not root for the guy and, and he his, you know, his leadership and kind of the politics that he plays and how he goes about it. That’s a fun way to, to try to be a leader because, you know, life is just so dadgum stressful, that your workload just adds to it. And he seemed to brush it off and have such a good spirit about it. So I saw that book, and my assistant picked it up for me. And so that’s what I’m reading right now.
Max Branstetter 38:45
And now you’re you’re believing you gotta believe you have to. David, thank you so much. I think I speak for many who share the same sentiment, but you’re, you’re number one and number two in my heart. So thank you. So now, this is absolute blast. I just absolutely love the niche you’ve carved and the business you’ve created, and just an incredible story. And so thanks for coming on today. Where’s the best place for people to learn more about Royal Restrooms and if they want to connect with you online? Well,
David Sauers 39:17
we have a brand new website that we just rolled out, we definitely need to hit because I’ve taken a major dump on my website. Apparently, you
Max Branstetter 39:27
just had to throw one more bathroom pun in there.
David Sauers 39:31
That’s RoyalRestrooms.com. You know, you can reach us through any of the links there. I can be reached on LinkedIn. I really don’t have any social media outlets except from LinkedIn. But it’s just David’s hours at LinkedIn and most importantly, the business is RoyalRestrooms.com And you can find us all over the country and hopefully we will maybe if we’re not we’ll have an office coming to you soon.
Max Branstetter 39:56
Perfect. Absolutely. And last thing Final Thoughts could be a quote Well, it could be a Ted Lasso quote, it could be a bathroom quote, whatever you want. Just send us home here.
David Sauers 40:07
Well, you know, don’t stop trying. Make sure that you have your support system in place. And don’t forget about your family. Don’t work too hard. Just, it can take a break. Take care of your family.
Max Branstetter 40:23
Well, that sounds like the perfect time to break. Thank you so much, David, for all you do for the Royal Restrooms. Wonderful. I was trying to think of a word that start with an R that was not a restroom business and beyond. And thank you, Wild Listeners, for tuning in to another episode. If you want to hear more Wild stories like this one, make sure to subscribe or follow the Wild Business Growth podcast on your favorite podcast app. And check out the video versions and subscribe on YouTube. That is YouTube @MaxBranstetter. You can also find us on Goodpods, with good podcast recommendations and people. And for any help with podcast production, you can learn more at MaxPodcasting.com and sign up for the Podcasting to the Max newsletter. That is where podcasting meets entrepreneurship and potty mouth puns. And you can sign up at MaxPodcasting.com/Newsletter. Until next time, and until next throne, let your business Run Wild…Bring on the Bongos!!
