Perkins began as a small pancake house, founded by Ivan and Matt Perkins in 1958. Today there are over 500 locations locations in 35 states and five Canadian provinces, along with its original location in Cincinnati, Ohio. Perkins Restaurant & Bakery has moved beyond the pancake, now featuring a vast menu of over 90 breakfast, [...]

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Jeff Sinelli purchased Genghis Khan’s Mongolian Feast, a Dallas restaurant, and transformed it into Genghis Grill, Americanizing the Mongolian barbecue menu. The company began franchising in 2001.

During the 1970s, brothers Makis and Chris Havadjias worked in restaurants to earn money for college. They helped the owners of one of those restaurants rebuild the establishment, and later bought it. With the experience they gained at that first restaurant, the brothers bought a poorly performing restaurant in Perris, California, that they built into [...]

Since 1955, Ledo has been making pizzas with a recognizable rectangular shape and thick-sliced pepperoni. Ledo’s more than 40 franchise locations offer East Coasters several appetizers; soups and salads; pastas such as portobello mushroom ravioli and chicken and broccoli; fettuccine Alfredo; burgers; submarine sandwiches; calzones and desserts.

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In 1987 Donald J. Dwyer Sr. purchased GNU Services Corp., a company that offered bathtub refinishing, repair and replacement. The company changed its name changed to Worldwide Refinishing Systems one year later and began doing full bathroom and kitchen remodeling. Last year, under the direction of Dwyer’s son Doug, the name changed to DreamMaker Bath [...]

Owner of a Chevrolet-Cadillac dealership in Marion, Indiana, James F. DeVoe learned how profitable used cars could be when he added a used car dealership to his operation in 1979. With a $19 ad in the local paper, DeVoe sold eight cars the first week for a gross profit of $1,000 each.Ten years later, DeVoe [...]