# @square on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=PFRpWQ5eKcE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71581178-square-youtube
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/140566a0f0.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-05-28T15:56:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Square (@square) — https://gondola.cc/square

## Caption

What happens when a soul food legend meets a business-savvy chef? A lot of diners go home happy.

In this episode of The Way Up, Guy Raz sits down with Chef Charles Gabriel and Chef Quie Slobert of Charles Pan-Fried Chicken to explore how they transformed a Harlem institution into a growing restaurant group with national buzz — all while keeping the heart of home cooking at the center of it all.

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0:00 Meet Chef Charles Gabriel and Chef Quie Slobert
0:59 Journey from Charlotte to Harlem
2:49 The culinary legend that sparked Quie’s career
3:43 The early days of Charles Pan-Fried Chicken
5:02 Starting a legendary restaurant with a food truck
7:45 How Charles and Quie met
9:53 Growing a restaurant as business partners
12:45 Inside the Charles Pan-Fried Chicken experience
13:11 Using Square for smart restaurant growth
15:41 The Harlem community at the heart of it all
18:18 Increasing restaurant profitability with Square
20:16 Reflecting on success and what’s next


#TheWayUp #GuyRaz #Square #CharlesPanFriedChicken #SoulFood #SmallBusiness #BlackOwnedBusiness #RestaurantStories #Entrepreneurship

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At Square, we're so much more than the little white card reader. We help businesses of all sizes start, run, and grow every day.

Whether it's the food truck establishing a brick-and-mortar restaurant, the former sole proprietor adding her first employees, or the entrepreneur expanding from one location to ten, our solutions scale with our sellers. We all grow together.

## Stats

- **Views:** 51,726
- **Likes:** 132
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- **Comments:** 4

## Tags

soulfood, guyraz, entrepreneurship, blackownedbusiness, smallbusiness, charlespanfriedchicken, restaurantstories, thewayup, square

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