By his own admission, Larry Lundy is in the fight of his business career.
Starting in the mid-1980s, the New Orleans native rose up the corporate ranks at Pizza Hut‘s headquarters in Kansas. In five years, Lundy became the highest-ranking African-American in any national restaurant company, he once boasted in an interview, responsible for helping start up more than a thousand corporate-owned restaurants.
Lundy, who public records suggest is in his early 60s, was considering retirement when company executives sought him out to take control of a market. Any market, they said, according to a court filing in January. Full story. More.