This week on Mining Money, Brandon Davis, CEO, Imran Khan and Jeremy Pate of Swan Energy are live on location at Cowboys and Indians restaurant in Houston, Texas.
Jason Spiess: Welcome, folks. This is an episode of Mining the Money Meets Living the Crude Life in Houston, Texas, right outside of Cowboys and Indians, right in the patio area. You can see the lovely mural. We’re going to bring Imran Khan in just a moment to talk about the mural and the restaurant. Brandon Davis, the CEO, next to Imran, and then Jeremy Pate down at the end. Swan Energy as well, and it’s our Mining Money segment here, live location, and gentlemen, how are we doing today?
Imran Khan: Doing great.
Brandon Davis: I can’t complain.
Jason Spiess: All right.
Jeremy Pate: No complaints here.
Jason Spiess: Well let’s dive right into it, but first off, let’s do a little commercial for the restaurant, if you don’t mind. I don’t know. It’s up to you guys, but it’s a very nice mall back here I’m having in the mid-afternoon, but let’s talk about the restaurant Cowboys and Indians. I was at the dog park earlier down in, uh, right outside of Seaport to— Sea, uh, brook, I apologize, brought it up and, uh, people thought interesting concept of a restaurant if— People back in the Bakken have said the same thing. So how did this restaurant come about?
Imran Khan: Well, oil and gas wasn’t enough for me and I wanted to kind of bring together some cultures. Uh, a lot of what, uh, we’ve been eating from, uh, childhood on was Indian food, and then growing up in Texas, you-you learn to eat chicken fried chicken and, you know, other, uh, southern comfort foods and we just kind of put it together. And, uh, you know, that’s-that’s what, uh, Cowboys and Indians is.
Jason Spiess: What kind of menu items you have on there as far as, uh, from the American fare, the-the cowboys fair?
Imran Khan: Yes.
Jason Spiess: Steaks?
Imran Khan: Yes, we’ve got, we’ve got chicken fried steaks. We’ve got, uh, po boys. We’ve got, um, you know, some-some different style wings, some different fusion items that we kind of blend into, and then, uh, uh, go into some traditional Indian cuisines that are, uh, put together by my aunt and my, uh, mother. So original recipes.
Brandon Davis: And I must say they have the best chicken fried chicken in town and it absolutely could feed a family of four so. Um, I’ve tried to talk him into having smaller portions and he won’t do it, so it’s-it’s cool.
Jason Spiess: Have you eaten here often?
Brandon Davis: That’s how we met!
Jason Spiess: Oh!
Brandon Davis: I ate here so much, this happened. That’s how much I eat here.
Jason Spiess: I told somebody the other day, I mean, and this is weird coming from North Dakota, Minnesota, the Indian food is my comfort food. I absolutely love Indian food and so I’ve been frequenting this one Indian food restaurant for 20 some years. And it doesn’t surprise me, you know, and so, uh, I’m glad that we’re able to do this, make this work. The mural, talk to me about the mural a little bit before we get into what the folks at Swan Energy are doing, because I understand you guys have a lot going on right now. But the mural, let’s talk about that.
Imran Khan: Yeah, definitely so, you know, we wanted to kind of represent, uh— So the way it’s set up, it’s actually the Texas flag and then the Indian flag...
