“Ultimately, it's about creating happiness through food. It's an experience that we're creating.”
In 2012, Cousins Maine Lobster was just a single food truck. Five years later and after a notable feature on “Shark Tank,” Jim Tselikis and his cousin Sabin Lomac oversee 26 units across the country as well as a restaurant in West Hollywood.
There’s certainly an appreciation of New England delicacies in Tselikis’ backstory, but he’s by no means a classically trained chef or restauranteur. The Maine native has an undergrad degree in political science and later sold medical equipment in Boston.
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