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Resilience Stories: After Her Father Was Deported, She Bought and Expanded His New Jersey Restaurant

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Her first thought was the officer saw her talking on the phone. She left her job, withdrew every cent of her 401(k), and bought her father’s Peruvian restaurant, El Gordo. She purchased a second location from her mother in 2012 and has since opened one more, giving her three locations in New Jersey. “My

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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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How Women Are Rising in Business

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from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” She moved on in 2012 and founded Mina Shah Enterprises the following year, self-funding with income from consulting. trillion.”

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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

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Idiom dissection wasn’t how I had planned to begin this story before my phone interview with Daron Babcock. So in 2012, he sold his house in Frisco (a suburb of Dallas), quit his job of eight years, and moved to one of the poorest areas in Dallas. “It The food they produce is sold to both Bonton residents and local Dallas restaurants.

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

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Far fewer employees have laptops (39 percent), mobile phones (40 percent) or tablet computers (13 percent) available to them at work. In 2012 Serena joined the new born Coalesse team within Steelcase, being responsible for Marketing, Communications and Public Relations in EMEA.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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A Sudanese woman, Alik, who was pregnant and had two young children in tow, arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, without her husband, Dyan, in 2012. One afternoon, while mopping the floor, she overheard a phone call that left him in a terrible frown, Insurance asking for more money than he had, and her heart began to drown. Unsolicited Help.

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