Banks weren’t exactly tripping over themselves to loan a 20-something recovering addict with zero kitchen experience $2 million to open a gourmet drive-thru. So Guiliano Raso buckled down, worked six and seven days a week at three jobs for almost three years, put away six figures and set up a food truck in the parking lot of a Chinatown strip club. Guiliano Raso of 303 In The Cut with one of his food trucks as he opens his first brick-and-mortar location on Friday, April 3, 2026, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images That business, 303 in the Cut, has expanded to a second truck at Centennial Hills Hospital and a new bricks-and-mortar restaurant in the southwest valley. Along the way, Raso started assisting other local small-business owners in ways he could only have dreamed of being helped. “I try to encourage those entrepreneurs and business owners,” he says. “Like, ‘Hey, I’ll show you. I’ll show you exactly what I did. There’s no secrets behind it. I don’t gatekeep.…