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 See Jane Run the CompanyGrowing up Jane Grote Abell was lulled to sleep by the blinking Donatos sign outside her bedroom window, a giant, lighted arrow pointing toward the little pizzeria her father owned. It was a magical time in her childhood. Abell remembers her father waking the four kids after his shift to escort them outside. They’d stand under the beckoning sign and her father would talk about his vision for the fledgling company—about “growing and making a difference on every block that we do business on.” read more |
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OTHER MARCH FEATURES |
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February, 2010
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Way to Wow
It takes a whole family to raise the guest experience to a new high. Employing family doesn’t always work out, but when it does—wow. Here’s how Ed Doherty of Doherty Enterprises in New Jersey runs his multiple brands with a lot of help from his fam. read moreOther February features...
January, 2010
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Going Home
Church’s Chicken’s largest franchisee Aslam Khan has come a long way from the poverty of Pakistan. When he left home at 14, he vowed never to return. Now, a quarter of a century later, he’s found you really can go home again—if you’ve reinvented your life.
There are just two kinds of poverty: the poverty that happens to other people and the poverty that happens to you.
“If you haven’t experienced poverty firsthand, you can’t understand it,” Aslam Khan states matter-of-factly as he pilots his spotless black Lexus down a tree-lined street in Westlake, Texas. He has just left the offices where he runs Falcon Holdings, a 153-unit Church’s Chicken franchisee company with sales north of $100 million, and is headed back to his palatial stone-and-brick, 15,000-plus square-foot house, tucked serenely in an exclusive neighborhood a couple of miles from read moreOther January features...
November-December, 2009
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On the Job for Victory
IFA’s first-ever CEO, Matt Shay, champions franchising on the Hill, overseas and in a state capital near you
International Franchise Association President and CEO Matt Shay doesn’t have an ego wall—unless you count all the framed pictures of his beautiful wife and children. His official IFA photos taken with U.S. presidents and influential politicians are neatly stacked in a file folder, tucked away in a desk drawer—brought out only when a visitor asks to see them. read moreOther November-December features...
October, 2009
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