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Million-Dollar Lobster: Lessons From Two Cousins Who Built a Seafood Empire From One Food Truck
What we can learn from the success story of Cousins Maine Lobster
The names Sabin Lomac and Jim Tselikis may not sound familiar, but they are doing some great work out there.
Having been invited to the Los Angeles area by an ex-girlfriend, Jim needed another reason to justify the trip to LA to his family and friends back in Maine.
Remembering he had a cousin who had been trying but failing to break into acting for the last five years, he decided to kill two birds with one stone by reaching out to Sabin.
For most of the five days these second cousins spent together, a lot of the talk was about their younger years together in their hometown. They reminisced about their families, trips to the beach, and jumping off docks behind ferries to ride the propulsion.
When they eventually arrived at the topic of food and discussed the iconic staple of Maine — lobster, they agreed Southern California was missing out on that experience.
Certainly not your typical kind of necessity that leads to an invention that births a multi-million dollar business.
