June 22, 2011

Salsarita’s Acquired By Former McAlister’s CEO

Fast Casual: Former McAlister’s Deli president and CEO Phil Friedman has acquired the Salsarita’s Fresh Cantina restaurant chain. The chain has 80 stores across 19 states and is now owned by Salsarita’s Holdings LLC, a company formed and controlled by Friedman, who serves as CEO. Larry Reinstein will join Salsarita’s Holdings as president and chief

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Door-To-Door For Men’s Clothes

The Wall Street Journal: Somewhere in Dallas, there’s a woman driving around in a $1,000-a-month Lexus selling J. Hilburn dress shirts. She’s one of more than 1,000 commission-based “style advisors,” J. Hilburn LLC’s traveling band of fabric swatch carrying, collar-and-cuff experts that are expected to push the company’s revenue to around $25 million this year.

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Doctor Only Accepts Cash

Health care in this country is going to go one of two ways: Way number one involves government control and long waits for service. The second way looks a lot more like the “good-old-days”: Dr. Susan Rutten Wasson sits on the corner of a bed in the cramped bedroom of Alice Johnson, a 91-year-old Osakis

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Small Biz Owners Love Their Work

Business Insider: Some 77 percent of small business owners in the Small Business Happiness Index by Vista Prints are either “very” or “extremely” happy about running a business and working for themselves. (The survey focused on 900 U.S. microbusinesses with one to 10 employees and less than $100,000 in annual revenues–primarily home-based businesses.) Are you

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Four Easton Students Receive Dunkin’ Donuts Scholarships ‎

Patch.com: After a rigorous application process that included an essay and teacher recommendation, four Easton students were awarded with a prestigious Dunkin’ Donuts Scholarship Friday afternoon in Providence. The four Easton students emerged from a competitive pool of participants. 100 students out off 2300 applicants were chosen from the Rhode Island area and southeastern Massachusetts

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