Raleigh's Wine & Design featured on 'Shark Tank'

Friday, May 12, 2017
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Friday, the season finale of Shark Tank features two Raleigh entrepreneurs. Harriet Mills was 7-and-a-half-months pregnant when she and her husband Patrick went on the show to pitch their business Wine & Design.
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"It's going to be very interesting," said Harriet. "They saved us for the season finale for a reason."

And they got a good reception.

"When I told them we were over 70 locations at this point, they fell back in their seats. They said they never had a franchise system come up on their show with that many units and being that successful. And they were impressed," she explained.

Every night of the week - in locations all over the country - people get together to sip wine while a teacher walks you through how to do a painting in a 2-hour class.

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But Harriet is ready to take her business to the next level, so she emailed Shark Tank producers and they invited them into the tank.
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Harriet and Patrick pulled out all the stops, even unveiling a new type of art class right there to the sharks.

"We have a division that's a little bit more risqué. When we put this on Shark Tank, their reaction was 'Oh my gosh', they were yelling to the producers 'Oh my gosh I can't believe you're doing this, this is crazy' and all I could do was laugh because it was funny to see their reaction.



So will it be enough to get a deal? The show airs at 9 p.m.

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