One NAYA restaurant nearly broke the bank. Now its founder wants 200 | Fortune0

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• August 30, 2026

When Hady Kfoury opened his first restaurant in Manhattan in 2008, he was already out of money. He had raised cash from friends and family to bring the Lebanese food he grew up eating to New York, but construction had cost more than he expected. He still owed money to his general contractor and resorted