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

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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 Look how popular Mexican food, Asian food, Italian food restaurants are.

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Saving Starbucks: What We Can Learn From Brian Niccol’s Vision to Refocus the Coffee Giant

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The strategy behind alleviating consumer guilt in a new age of consumerism In 2012, social critic and philosopher Slavoj Žižek argued that the Starbucks experience in the early 2000s mastered a crucial marketing strategy: alleviating consumer guilt. It didn’t work.

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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. Founded in 1972, Popeyes boasts more than 2,700 restaurants in the U.S. LeBron James The NBA icon hit a slam dunk in 2012 when he invested less than $1 million in the build-your-own-pie startup Blaze Pizza, headquartered in Pasadena, California.

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3 Eco-Tourism All Inclusive Holidays for 2012

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The Xpu Ha Palace boasts a Mexican-Italian restaurant, a grill snack bar, and three bars. Post from: Eco-Office Gals 3 Eco-Tourism All Inclusive Holidays for 2012. This resort is located in La Barra de Santiago, in El Salvador and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on one side and a quiet estuary on the other.

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One Meal at a Time: How Christine Ha Defied Vision Loss to Become a MasterChef

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In 2012, she became the first blind contestant on cooking competition MasterChef —and won. Now, Christine owns two Vietnamese restaurants and has written a cookbook, Recipes from My Home Kitchen. Lonely and missing her independence, Christine taught herself to cook all over again, this time relying on her other senses.

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All Kidding Aside: Bill Murray’s Love of Golf and Giving Back

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Caddyshack restaurant. It’s great for all of us to come to Florida, spend time in the restaurant, play these great courses with our friends and do some good things for this community. The idea for the tournament came even before the Caddyshack restaurant opened in the World Golf Village in St. and Paul Teutul Jr.

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Food Truck Nation

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We think the key quote from the report is: “You can create your restaurant on wheels for $50,000 to $60,000. We've long covered the food truck industry and in 2012 released what is still our favorite study,  Food Trucks Motor into the Mainstream, in partnership with Intuit. Boston, BTW, came in last.

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