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These Top 10 Celebrity Franchise Owners Are Winning Outside the Limelight, Too

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The rapper owns nearly 30 Wingstop restaurants. Perhaps Wahlberg’s most famous venture is the Wahlburgers franchise he and his brothers founded in 2011. Founded in 1972, Popeyes boasts more than 2,700 restaurants in the U.S. In 2020, Mahomes also bought a minority stake in the Kansas City Royals sports franchise.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or what about an elegant restaurant that has a dress code prohibiting shorts? Instead of turning someone away, a restaurant staffer escorts him to a private closet that has “loaner pants.” A couple of hours later, the happy patron pays his $200 tab; he will return to the restaurant nine times the next year.

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Session 4 - Wednesday, Sept 28, 2011

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For lunch, we’d left the gorgeous Pavilion Ballroom; taking an easy, short walk to Tbones restaurant for a great buffet. The restaurant features tall sweeping glass “flames” that reach up to the tall ceiling at its entrance. The restaurant features tall sweeping glass “flames” that reach up to the tall ceiling at its entrance.

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Shaq Insists He’s Not a Celebrity

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He was on the set of Inside the NBA, where he’s been an analyst since 2011, the year he retired from his playing career. When he eats at restaurants, he leaves famously humongous tips. A few years ago, Shaq shared his idea for how to save gas with a national TV audience. Making people smile , he tells me, is his biggest goal in life.

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Experts Weigh in on 17 Investments for a Rich Life

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Whether the gift is a $10 Starbucks card or a $100 restaurant certificate doesn’t really matter much: The result is a happier workplace with better morale and better teamwork.”. The American food culture is based on ‘more is better’ and the idea that processed food from a box or a fast-food restaurant is a meal.

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Tax-Free Lunches to Kickstart the Economy and Create Jobs

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Shashi Bellamkonda has a great post on the Smartblog for Restaurants on his tax-free lunch plan.    Key quote from his blog post: "President Barack Obama and Congress could join together to pass a law that allows any taxpayer spending $1,000 at restaurants in 2011 to write off that amount." I'm in. 

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. The industries of women in business The industries these women settled into differed between the reports. of women-owned businesses.

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