How Marcia Davis Built a Multi-Restaurant Empire From St. Louis to Atlanta | Portrait on a Plate

How Marcia Davis Built a Multi-Restaurant Empire From St. Louis to Atlanta | Portrait on a Plate

Marcia Davis | Owner, Multiple Restaurants & Event Centers (Atlanta, GA)
Instagram: @MarciaJuryDavis | @BadassMarketingChick
Restaurant: Esco Marietta (IG: Esco Marietta)
Connect & Book: Marcia@PortraitOnAPlate.com
"You can't really stay in the business to have it grow. You have to train people, put them in place." —Marcia Davis
What does it take to run multiple restaurants, event centers, and once 37 Airbnbs without burning it all down? On this episode of Diversified Game, Kellen Coleman sits down with Marcia Davis, restaurateur and entrepreneur who moved from St. Louis to Atlanta with her husband Chef Mark Davis and built a self-taught empire from a 2011 catering company.
Marcia breaks down the difference between owning a ton of businesses and owning five successful ones, why she moves slow and strategic, how she mastered payroll, hiring, and systems through trial and error, and why she sold off her Airbnb arbitrage at the right time. We get into raising kids with an ownership mindset, putting them out at 18 to learn real life, community give-backs, and why she still answers her own DMs for free.
No celebrity hookup. No overnight hype. Just systems, discipline, and generational thinking.
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🎬 CHAPTERS:
00:00 Welcome to Diversified Game
01:08 Meet Marcia Davis — owner, multiple restaurants & event centers
01:39 Where it started — the 2011 catering company
02:19 From catering to BBQ, Airbnbs, and Esco Marietta
03:31 Shout out to Chef Mark Davis
03:51 How two people run it all — building a team
08:21 Knowing your numbers and learning from failed businesses
10:13 Self-taught: courses, YouTube, and trial by error
15:54 Does school still matter in the AI era
19:50 The real skill set — slow, strategic, fully planned
28:25 Airbnb arbitrage: 37 units and the system behind them
32:11 Where the courage came from — leaving St. Louis
36:51 Community give-backs and One Chance partnership
37:38 Reality TV offers and saying no to the same old
38:53 Raising kids with an ownership mindset
42:38 Putting them out at 18 to learn real life
46:54 Building her own platform over chasing YouTube money
48:45 Where to find Marcia Davis
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