QC, THAT'S WHERE!
QC, THAT'S WHERE!
Dishing Up Successful Content: Annie Froeschle and Bailey Thompson
Ever wondered how to transform your passion into a thriving online presence? Join us as we pick the brains of food connoisseurs and successful content creators, Annie Froeschle and Bailey Thompson, as they dish out their journey to the digital world. Launching into the vibrant food scene in the Quad Cities, they recount how their platforms turned from mere hobbies into profitable ventures, bringing to the table insights about fostering community, collaboration, and overcoming perceived competition in the content creation world.
Strap in as Annie and Bailey serve up the best culinary experiences in Quad Cities, from breakfast burritos at Cafe Luci to the must-try sushi at Yoso. They share their top tips for maintaining authenticity in the digital space and striking that ever-elusive balance between work and family. The conversation heats up as they dive into the world of local desserts, shedding light on the hidden gems in Quad Cities’ dessert scene. Whether you're a food lover or an aspiring content creator, this episode is seasoned with insider tips and inspiring stories from the heart of the digital content creation realm.
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Annie Bailey, if you had to send somebody to breakfast, to lunch, to dinner, where are you gonna send them? Ooh, okay.
Speaker 2:Take your breakfast you go.
Speaker 4:I didn't prepare, I didn't either and there's so many answers, but here's what first comes to mind.
Speaker 3:Where do you find a family of communities connected by the storied Mississippi River, where young explorers and dreamers, investors and entrepreneurs thrive? Where can you connect with real people living and creating in a place that's as genuine as it is quirky QC? That's where.
Speaker 1:Welcome to QC. That's where I'm, Katrina, your host. I'm so excited today to be talking with Annie Freshly and Bailey Thompson, two content creators that we've worked personally with here at Visit Quad Cities, and they are both on the podcast with me today, so this is gonna be a lot of fun, you guys. Thank you for being on. Yes, thanks for having us.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. I'm excited. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1:So first of all, I want to go into what you guys, what your personas are online. So on Instagram, you guys have both influenced with us for QC Restaurant Week. So best eats bails and Annie's QC eats. Annie, do you wanna start? How did you come up with that name?
Speaker 4:Yes, okay, so I'm just gonna go kind of from the beginning. So it was in 2020 when I was traveling, for I was doing some clinicals for school and I was in Kansas City, and I would notice that whenever I would travel places, specifically when I was in Kansas City, I was looking up like Kansas City foodie and stuff like that on Instagram. It came to me, too, that the Quad Cities didn't have someone like that and, too, it was kind of in the heat of COVID that it was like a perfect match for me to start that. So I came back in September and I started the account and I remember I was texting my friends and I was like I don't know what to name it and actually one of my friends came up with the name herself, so I didn't name it. Credit to her. But yeah, then it kind of took off from there.
Speaker 2:Wait, annie, you have to tell the story about the name, the Iowa City name girl, the.
Speaker 4:Iowa City name. Oh, yes, the Annie's Eats. Is that what you're talking about? Okay, so there is another Annie's Eats out there and I travel for work sometimes and so sometimes I try to broaden my account and do like I was a Nashville so I was doing like Nashville Eats and stuff. So when people down there when they ask me my name and I say Annie's QC Eats, they're like why is QC in there? So I tried to make it more broad. So I was like, oh, I need to be Annie's Eats. So I found the girl on Instagram and I messaged her and I was like hey, can I buy your account like blah, blah, blah, like name a price? And she was like, yeah, I'll sell it to you for $90,000, and I was like, yeah, you know, I'm gonna pass on that one, but thanks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just like yeah, yeah, out of my budget. And then I also thought man, annie, you and I should be charging more.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I know, I'm like geez. Louise, $90,000? Yeah, yeah, but Bailey, how about you? How'd you get your name?
Speaker 2:I mean, I still am not sold on my name. Let's be honest, I keep changing it. It's just everyone is called because everyone who knows me in life that I'm close with called me Bales, so that's just always been kind of my nickname. And I did same thing with you In the beginning. I think it was called QC Best Eats or Best Eats QC, I think.
Speaker 2:But moving back here, so long story short, I'm from the Quad Cities. I lived in Chicago for 12 years and I had my son in Chicago and we moved back to the Quad Cities in the beginning of 2021. And I was like kind of all of a sudden, a single mom starting over and looking for ways to make money online without having to have my son in daycare full time and work like a nine to five. So that's kind of how mine started. But I didn't wanna just do things online that were boring. I wanted to be like passionate about it and I've been in the restaurant industry my whole life.
Speaker 2:I've always been a server and a bartender and a manager. So I thought if I could make money talking about food, that would be awesome. Oh yeah, dream job. Even if I can just get like do trades, even if it's just so that we can go still go out to eat and be able to trade content, so that we can do that still, cause in the beginning we really couldn't afford to do that when I first moved back, so it's been. This job has just been such a blessing for us too, because it's been allowed us to still do the things that we love and also be able to support ourselves.
Speaker 1:So that's amazing. You were able to find a means to an end doing something that you're passionate about. So what's been your favorite part, Bailey, about the account you know, Bestie's Bails and kind of that like industry that you found yourself in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think the collaboration and like the people and the friends you meet doing it. And I think in the beginning it was kind of funny because I think before Annie and I met each other, people were like kind of having us compete or like thought we were competing and her and I had never even met. But people would say things like oh well, so and so, like even the restaurants we would go to, well, we work with, and I'd be like that's amazing, I can't wait to meet her.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I know it was kind of like a weird. Yeah, we met in Armour Gardens, I think. We had like chatted online a few times, yeah, and then finally we like saw each other Armour Gardens and were like, hey, we know each other One of those things where it's like you know each other online, then you finally meet person.
Speaker 2:It's like, oh, this is so cool yeah, and I think that's the coolest part about it is that I think her and I both understand especially with these businesses too, it's never about competition. Like I think I wholeheartedly believe that we're all put on this earth to like bring our own thing to the table right, and so the way I influence someone to go somewhere or do something is gonna be totally different than how Annie is gonna do it, and we're each gonna reach our own unique audiences. So like it makes so much more sense to work together and like lift each other up and collaborate, then compete. Like there's no need for a competition, like we should all be supporting each other.
Speaker 4:Well, we also have the common goal too of we want these businesses to succeed and we wanna put them the best we can. So that's why there's no weird blood or bad blood between us too, like there's just meaning we both, we have the same goals.
Speaker 1:Yep, it was so cool during this past restaurant week 2023, when you guys both showed up and I think it was a reel that you made Bailey at Yoso. You guys were both at. Yoso sitting on the same side of the booth doing the sushi and you have, like I don't remember there were some kind of chocolate martinis and I was like that looks good and it also looks fun to have my favorite people in it.
Speaker 4:It's Bailey's drink. What's it called Bailey's espresso right?
Speaker 2:It is called the Bailey's espresso. I may have snuck my name on a menu, that it was about the liquor, but it was really about me.
Speaker 4:Yeah, let's be honest.
Speaker 1:Sorry, Annie. What's been your favorite part about being an influencer? Content creator yes.
Speaker 4:I would say like very similar responses. The people you meet throughout the whole thing is crazy. Like I think about you too that I've met through this account, like I've met very close friends Casey Kup I met he has a small business here. Dan Bush has, you know, armored analog. And just like people too that you meet, like when you're talking online too, like you have the common interests, like hey, or like so-and-so, like me and my husband are going out to dinner, like do you have any recommendations? Blah blah. Then you just get to chatting and it's super cool. And then you kind of meet these people out on the streets too and it's really cool to form those relationships.
Speaker 1:On the recommendation front. So do you get hit up a lot for you know, like do people mess you and like say, hey, you're the expert, Like where should I go for dessert tonight? That kind of thing.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I actually had like some people reach out yesterday. They were coming, they're actually in Iowa city and then they were coming here and they're like, okay, we have just the night to do stuff in the Quad Cities. Like what are your recommendations? So I threw them towards the downtown area so, just so they can hit up like Armour Gardens, pre-uve drink, you know, get dinner at half Nelson or me and Billy and then go to like the up sky bar for a little nightcap and then, you know, hit the road, grab some whiteies on the way out.
Speaker 2:See, this is exactly what I'm talking about is, annie is going to hit a totally different crowd than I'm going to hit, cause I'm like, oh, I want to be able to go to all those places. They sound amazing, but I always have my son with me. So, like my, things are more daytime and family oriented right now. Obviously, this is just a phase in my life, but I think it's cool because we our audiences are so broad too, so we can kind of, when we work together, we get to really show a little bit of every second of the Quad Cities.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I totally understand that, like I have, I have two kids. So, like, once they came along, my my like nightlife and like where's the best barbo blah, like turned into, where can I take the kids for like quieter life, music and the evening, you know whatever. Yeah, well, it's great that you guys are able to work together and you know, like they say, a rising tide rises all ships, and so you guys have just really really found that wave and it's so fun to work with you guys. So I have to know who is Bailey and who is Annie. Behind behind the online persona. What makes you tick in life?
Speaker 4:Oh Bailey, take it away, oh man.
Speaker 2:Well, I do think that it's kind of both of us are pretty transparent. I think you kind of get who we are on the page right, and I think that's kind of the best part is because when you're your authentic self, you don't want somebody that's coming on and is like today we're going to sell you this burger you want us to like you wanted to believe that we really like it and we're not going to share anything with you that we don't like either. So I think showing up authentically is the key to like success, as any content creators like really being yourself. But who I am right now I just said this but I'm a mom like single mom, full time. It is my entire life right now and I love it, but it's a lot.
Speaker 2:He's in school now, so that gives me a little bit more time to start really focusing Integration early preschool. So he is that's a whole nother story. But he's doing kindergarten this year, but I'm probably gonna have him do it twice because he's an August birthday. I think I've said 5,000 times, just so you know. So don't do that if you're a content creator.
Speaker 3:But Do it like this.
Speaker 2:Now I'm gonna notice it even more. But so now that he's in school, I haven't because I've been working so much in the little pockets where he is in daycare or school I haven't had a ton of time to really create my own stuff and start doing the things that, like, are that I love, cause I've been so busy doing things for particular restaurants. So I'm looking forward to really getting to show you guys more of who I am and what makes me tick, cause I haven't been able to focus on that. So I'm excited to start creating more content that is more focused around my life.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I love that. For me, let's see. So I wholeheartedly believe with what Bailey said like I never wanna be like someone that's super fake online. I think it's super important to show your authentic self and to show the mistakes you made and, you know, show the behind the scenes and all that stuff. It truly kind of drives me nuts when you see some of those content creators and it's like just their like picture perfect life and everything's great and you know they have this beautiful home and blah blah, and it's like we all have our struggles, we all hold our things behind the scenes. Obviously, you're not gonna go and throw that out on social media, but it's also just good to show some of the mistakes you made and some of those things that aren't just so sparkly and all that good stuff. I think for me too, it's super. It's a really good split for me.
Speaker 4:I work in healthcare and I'm an occupational therapist. So right now I go up part-time in Iowa City and I've worked with paetrics In the past. I've worked in nursing homes and hospitals and it's a lot Like I'm not a nurse either. So I think nurses have a little bit. They have a little bit more tougher for them. But you know, you see a lot and you work with a lot of different people and it can be pretty hard but it also can be very rewarding. So this is just like a super nice way for me to have a creative outlet too.
Speaker 1:I love that. Like what do you find as far as like your work-life balance. Is it hard in this kind of industry where it's all on you to motivate yourself to get content online? And like how much of that leaks into your regular life?
Speaker 4:Yeah. So I like that part, like I think that drives me a bit more is I can see myself growing more in this position. Not to say you can't grow in the position I'm in, like in healthcare and stuff, but I personally I can just see myself developing, like with relationships and with my creativity and stuff like that and my time management skills. So I think there's a lot to say for you know, being like a self-starter and like trying to do like content creation for yourself.
Speaker 2:For sure, and time management like that, boom, you hit the nail on the head there, because that's the hardest thing for me anyway, and right now I managed quite a few restaurants accounts. So for me, if I don't and I'm also a squirrel, so like I'm so easily distracted- so if I'm starting something I really need to like start time, like blocking for certain things.
Speaker 2:Otherwise it can kind of take over an entire day. If I don't get certain things done, it comes into my night and obviously I want to try and be not on my phone while my son is home. So time management is huge. But you can really you can do so much Like, especially like shooting a restaurant. I think a lot of people think sometimes it's going to be this big, huge shoot, but especially because I've both of us shoot most of our stuff from our phones, we can come in there and knock it out quickly, like you can get the content and we can edit it after the fact. So we can go in to a restaurant and be there less than 20 minutes sometimes and get enough content to be able to create something really cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so controversial question of the podcast. What happens if you get hired to promo a place or you go in somewhere intending to make content and you have a bad experience? What do you do?
Speaker 4:Does that happen to you? It's happening to me.
Speaker 2:Most of the time I kind of already have a good idea before going in. So I think most of the time I will just creatively avoid doing that deal, for the most part, yeah.
Speaker 4:It's actually funny because the one I'm thinking of they're out of business now, so it's fine. It didn't work out for them. But yeah, it was tough because I had a really poor experience with, like, the management and the food was not good and I hate to be the person that's putting stuff like you got to try this. This is great. So I definitely just chose my words very wisely in my caption was just like I think I said like welcome to the Quad City.
Speaker 4:It's just like. Just kept it short and sweet. Yeah, because I wanna steer people to a place that I don't think is great either.
Speaker 2:And, that being said, about like having bad experiences and things like that, like I'm thinking of creating and maybe this will be a series even I can do together, but like about how, if people don't start being nicer humans, that restaurants aren't gonna exist at all. Oh gosh.
Speaker 2:I know and how you don't need to use your platform or your space to complain about restaurants, because people in restaurants are humans and they have bad days, and like it's just hard, as someone who has to read reviews all the time, and not just one restaurant specifically, but all of them Like it's always brought my attention the bad stuff and it's like guys, give them a break, because if you keep complaining, these restaurants will no longer exist and then you're really gonna be sad.
Speaker 4:And I feel like I've said this a million times too, like on my own account and stuff, but like if I get great service, great interactions with the workers, management, all that stuff like that far out rules the food to me. It just shows you that they're making an effort and they're trying their best and stuff and you know the food will come along the way. But just see someone like actually put forth and put effort into their customers, like that's huge for me.
Speaker 2:And there are so many wonderful, amazing restaurants that have, like you mentioned, but isn't Dan Bush like just an incredible? Influence, in this Like in everything that's been done, and Chad Cushman, who we've worked with, is incredible. There's just so many amazing humans that are doing it the right way and I think we all just need to remember to support them. And it takes no time at all to go online and leave a review on Google and Facebook. That is positive and that means so much more of these people than you could ever know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm curious. What is the trait of, like you know a business owner like Dan Bush he's been on the podcast before you know great guy making like huge waves downtown Davenport and beyond? Like what is a trait that makes it right that you know you can see outside looking in? This is the way to go.
Speaker 4:This is actually a conversation that him and I had recently. For some of his businesses he was like I have to make sure that I'm always putting the customer first and that, like I could wanna build a business, that's like something that I love, something that I want, but that's not what the people want and I have to be doing what the people want and I have to put them first and that's I feel like that's huge. Like I think he brought up the barbecue that he started with barbecue at Armored Gardens and that was just not what people wanted. They go to a sports bar and they want it. He had to totally adjust and switch to bar food and it was a hit. But he was he originally wanted the barbecue and stuff. So it just, I think, making sure that you're looking out for your customers.
Speaker 2:For sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah and personally I worked for Michael Dewitt and he owns Yoso and Foundry and we just opened Edison's and it's exactly that. It's listening and being able to adjust with what the customers are saying. Right, you don't take those negative reviews that you get and just scoff at them. You make it right with the customer and then you listen and make the changes that they're suggesting, because at the end of the day, that's who if we're not making them happy, they're not gonna come back. So it's being able to learn and adjust and also just be in it for the right reasons.
Speaker 1:I think everything you guys have outlined all the way back from when you were talking about just being your transparent selves on your accounts, is just so Quad Cities, because it's very like we're down to earth, we're genuine, we're real people and I think that's what people find when they come to visit us. You know that they are gonna get just the authentic experience, no matter who you talk to. If you come in to visit Quad Cities Destination Center, we're gonna tell you our favorite place to go have lunch, you know, not the one that's like advertising the most, or something like that. You're gonna get the real stuff and I think that's just something that people really can learn to appreciate and learn that that's what we're about. So, on that note, annie Bailey, if you had to send somebody to breakfast, to lunch, to dinner, where are you gonna send them? Ooh, okay.
Speaker 2:Take your breakfast. Well, I didn't prepare, I didn't either.
Speaker 4:And there's so many answers, but here's what first comes to mind. So I am like a regular at the coffee house in the village. Okay, Banana Bread, Latte, sitting outside on that little patio is like a simple pleasure. But then you gotta go to Quad City pancake house and get your whole breakfast meal, Bailey. What's your coffee and your breakfast? What's start there?
Speaker 2:Ooh, I would say breakfast because I'm typically on the go. Cafe Lucy. It is out of the country style in East Moline, but they have the best breakfast burritos. They even. This might sound crazy, but their most popular one is a hot dog breakfast burrito and it might sound nuts, but it is so freaking fire, it's so good Wow.
Speaker 2:That would be breakfast, I have to pick breakfast, lunch. This is not a biased answer, I swear to God, because this is just where I like to eat. Lunch is foundry, because the menu is so big that, no matter when, I can eat there like 30 days in a row and still pick something different and not get sick of it. So I love the menu there. I would say for lunch, what about you?
Speaker 4:Lunch. I'm a sandwich gal, so I'm gonna say Arthur's over in Thailand. Yes, blue spruce downtown, or like the Village Corner Deli.
Speaker 2:Village, corner Deli. Yes, I was gonna say that too. It's a good one, and dinner yeah.
Speaker 4:Okay, this is hard. So it just kind of depends. The vibe Half Nelson, I think is like a great like date night, you know kind of more like intimate setting, maybe like a little bit more of a special occasion kind of thing. Let's see, I do love Kitchen, brigade, eve yeah, I would say those two. But maybe if I'm going like a little more like casual, I do like an armored gardens.
Speaker 2:Oh, the Frisco burger there. I like dream about it.
Speaker 4:So good.
Speaker 2:So good.
Speaker 4:What about you?
Speaker 2:Monarch, I love.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Monarch is great too. Where else for dinner? I'm trying not to save my restaurants because, even though I want to, because that's where I like to eat.
Speaker 4:Good Sam, yeah, they're great.
Speaker 2:I love Yosso for dinner. Yosso is like one of my favorite places to go for dinner, but where else?
Speaker 4:You know, where I went recently is the river room.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I just thought something. What Mel just posting from there? Right yeah, I went there.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't know when I went, but anyways, we just got apps and like some cocktails, okay, like a little view of the river. It was a 10 out of 10 experience. It's great.
Speaker 2:And you know where else we were just talking. We were going to go there last week and then we ended up not making it, but smash pizza. I've not still not been there, and I've never heard anyone say anything but incredible things about that too. That's on our list to do together soon yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my husband and I had a random rare date night Like this was right. It was like maybe five months ago now. It's just it's so few and far between, but I remembered I had been into Yosso for some like just you know, basic restaurant shops for our archives and I had been in before and he's not much for like sushi.
Speaker 1:So I was like it was never on my radar. Um, I go in. And I was like, oh, like it's pretty in here. You know, I was just attracted to it. And then I went home and told him about it and I was like we have to go there because it looks really cool. Like the people there were happy eating their stuff. You know, they just look excited to be there. And then, like, pleasantly surprised, they had way more than just sushi on the menu, which was really cool. Um, so he got what he wanted and I got what I wanted. Um, but yeah, I just, I think it's it's so important to not like judge a book by its cover. You know, if you think a place has, you know, one genre of food like, who knew about a hot dog burrito breakfast? Right, I'm going there right after this podcast. I love that. And then I forgot to ask you guys about dessert. Oh gosh, the dessert place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love dessert. You do have to follow Annie for the dessert stuff because I'm not a huge sweets person, you're not? No, I don't know why. I never really have been oh gosh, like. I mean I don't hate them, but I just don't. I'm not like I would definitely. I'm a savory like for breakfast we're doing biscuits and gravy over pancakes always.
Speaker 4:Okay. Yeah, I'm not expecting it. You gotta go to Whites. Um, for us Lager-Mercinos, they have really good Sundays. Um, here's a scoop in the village. I don't know. I also do. You guys know I'm here at a Trattoria tiramisu. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, not in front. I forgot to mention that place. It was incredible.
Speaker 4:It's a little Italian place and they have the best tiramisu too, if you just go and like get a bottle of wine at a tiramisu it is like the greatest night at the best.
Speaker 2:See, that's when I can do dessert. If I'm just doing dessert, I think the problem is I always eat so much before that part that I never get there. I'm always, you know. A shout out, though is out on a limb pie company because she makes the best pies and she has like sweet and savory pies as well. Julie was out on a limb, so I have not heard of her off to take a look. She's always at the farmer's market too, on Saturdays. Okay, good to know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll have to check that out too. I love pie and I love rhubarb pie from the rhubarb. She makes it.
Speaker 2:Oh yes.
Speaker 4:I'm so you treated what's yours. What's your favorite dessert? Well, I guess local dessert.
Speaker 1:So my favorite dessert ever since I was a kid has been country style. Oh okay, you lived out of town. I moved here in my twenties, but like when we'd come to visit family, we'd be driving in the car, like first stop when we get there we're going to country style. Yeah, it's just, yeah, just simple, delicious, old fashioned.
Speaker 2:What's your order at country style.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, so it's evolved as I've aged, but it used to be just like a chocolate and vanilla twist cone and yes, and now it's a full blown chocolate soda the large size.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't think I've ever had a chocolate soda.
Speaker 1:No, you have to. What is it Go there today? It's vanilla ice cream and some kind of delicious. I don't know if it's like a you who or what, but it's chocolate. I don't even know how they make it. You will not regret it. It's delicious.
Speaker 2:I need to go to the after this.
Speaker 4:Oh my goodness, that sounds delicious.
Speaker 2:Isn't this fun. We're just influencing each other here.
Speaker 1:So, having been in Bailey in Chicago and Annie traveling Iowa city, Nashville, et cetera, what's your favorite like you know, doesn't even have to be a certain meal or restaurant, but like what's your favorite thing to seek out when you're out of town.
Speaker 2:I like to ask, I like to try and find, like the food pages yeah, Like the QC Food Lovers page here is a great resource even for out of town places and most of the time everyone there is nice and friendly on the food page. So if you go and ask like I was driving through Galesburg the other day and I just posted where should I go, and there were two overwhelming responses and they were both like incredible.
Speaker 4:So I like to ask the locals yeah, same year I also love to seek out the like hidden gems, I would say, like those not so touristy places. I kind of like to feel like a local and stuff and like avoid the crowds.
Speaker 2:So avoid the crowds, yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 1:It can be tough if you're going to a place that you hadn't ever been before, like if people are coming into the Quad Cities. Obviously, filing the two of you on social media is a great place to start. You know, seeking out a visitor center, or you know, like the Quad City Food Lovers, but, like, do you have any? Like you know being kind of in the online space, do you have any tips? As far as, like, if I'm going to a random city I've never been to, how do I find their special place to find local good stuff?
Speaker 2:I mean Instagram. You can look like if you look for the influencers, they're going to the best place. Yeah, you cut out?
Speaker 4:Did you just ask where you can find like? Some of the places when you travel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I don't know, if you go online like what, as you know, kind of being on the inside of the like content creator industry, like is it best to seek out, like you know, hashtag Nashville, or go on Facebook and just kind of like start blindly searching or what's the best like method?
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah, I would say I go on Instagram. I sometimes message people and be like I'm only here for a few days, like what are the places that I have to go that are more like local places? Yeah, that's usually my tips and tricks.
Speaker 2:Yep, same Instagram I just look for. I'll look up like Nashville foodie right.
Speaker 1:And then Annie comes up there too.
Speaker 2:Yep, but the same like once you reach out to one person, most of the time they can point you in the direction of other people that can even sometimes meet up with you and show you around.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, the low, low cost of $90,000. Yeah, yeah, bonus Back of change. Goodness gracious, you guys should start charging for your advice, like, I will give you three great restaurants to go to before.
Speaker 4:Yeah, goodness gracious. Yeah, it's so funny. How's she the 90,000. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Well, and it was. The best part is like there weren't any. There wasn't really any followers, right Like?
Speaker 4:you were like okay, yeah, she must have some sort of confidence right here.
Speaker 2:I'm here for it.
Speaker 1:You got to start somewhere.
Speaker 2:I guess, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, you guys, I would love to have you fill in the blank QC. That's where, and whichever of you feels like you want to go first is fine with me, okay.
Speaker 4:QC. That's where you can get a fantastic meal with fantastic service.
Speaker 2:Love it. That was so many more words that I was just going to say QC, that's where we eat, that's good I don't know, maybe I said too much.
Speaker 4:I think I did too much.
Speaker 1:Yours is perfect. I love them. I love them both so much. Thank you so much. This was really fun. I knew it would be really fun with you guys having the both of you on the podcast, and I loved your idea about having a series together. So I'm just I'm hopeful that we can see that in the future. If you find the time and the space for it. I would really love to see more from you guys. So let's end this first with having Annie tell people where they can find you.
Speaker 4:Okay, I'm just on Instagram, so Annie's QC eats. You will see Quad City content and a little bit of Iowa City content.
Speaker 1:Perfect Bailey, where can everybody?
Speaker 2:find you, so on Instagram I'm at Ailey Bay, or, at best, eats bales. Ailey Bay is my name in Piglet, because I thought that was cool when Instagram started many years ago, and on Facebook I invest eats Bailey. Or you can find me at Yosso foundry or Edison's. All of that content is Me too.
Speaker 1:Perfect. Thank you guys so much, and visit Quad Citiescom. You can explore all of the wonderful restaurants in our area under the taste tab and look out for QC restaurant week every spring. Thank you guys so much. Awesome, thank you.
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