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Pollo Campero Jose Cofino

One of Jose Cofino's earliest memories is plucking chickens as a 6-year-old in his father's poultry shop in Mexico City. "I remember saying, 'I don't understand why God gave chickens wings. They don't fly and they're hard to pluck,'" he says. Years later the mysterious ways of chickens surfaced again in Cofino's life with the high-flying Pollo Campero brand, a Guatemalan franchise that has plucked a faithful following from the Latin American community in the U.S. Cofino is president and COO of Adir Restaurants, the master franchisee for Pollo Campero for six Western states.  read more

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May, 2008

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Reflections of a Big man on campus

How Jimmy John Liautaud grew Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches into a force to be reckoned with

This June will be the 44-year-old Liautaud's 25th year in the sandwich business. He refers to it as his 51st semester, since he started making sandwiches right out of high school on a college campus. "I had an idea 25 years ago and worked it through," he says. "I thought once you had a good idea, Ronald McDonald, Dave Thomas, the Colonel and Ray Kroc would want to come to your house," he says, only half in jest. But the food business isn't a fraternity of guys with big ideas swapping recipes. It's a lonely place, as he found out.  read more

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April, 2008

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The way they were

Cutting edge couple elevates hair care and franchising

Franchising has come a long way in a short time, and as more founders are turning over the reins to "the professionals," we thought it might be instructive to look back at some of the pioneers of franchising. Our first choice for this occasional series, Joe and Florence Francis, were innovators in the hair-care industry. Their journey is a love story—they were in love with each other, with their own family and their franchise family and with their industry. They poured their heart and soul into elevating the hair-care industry and in the process, into franchising. read more

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March, 2008

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Follow The Leader

PostNet's Steve Greenbaum packs a lot of charisma into his dual roles as company CEO and IFA chair.

PostNet's Steven Greenbaum is the consummate risk-taker, and therefore, his business partner Brian Spindel concedes, the true entrepreneur between the two of them. It was Greenbaum, after all, who wanted to take their original business of helping independent mail centers get started and turn it into a franchise. Spindel—who says he deals with the "nuts and bolts" of the business as president/COO—acknowledges that he was against the decision initially, but once they looked at the competitive landscape, he grudgingly admitted franchising was the way to go.  read more

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