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Originally Posted by Wasillaguy
If he made enough to retire ten years ago, he obviously didn't take very good care of his employees. Unless you are suggesting they all retired as well? How can this guy live with himself, knowing he got rich off the sweat of those under him? 
Poor suckers are probably now helping some other jerk capitalist get rich. Your brother would still be working if he were a stand up guy, until all those who helped him succeed are sitting on the beach next to him. |
No so fast. He had worked in the restaurant chain since fifteen. Started in the kitchen and worked up to owning two stores. Built up the stores business through good relationships with the customers and employees. He will be the first to tell you a big part is the employees. A bad one can run people away. There are still people we run into who wish he hadn't sold them. Or they want to know when he will open another. We run into the employees still at family gatherings. They were welcomed into the family and still all these years later are around.
When he sold the restaurants the selling point was the business built up by him. The clientele and the employees. He was approached with an offer that was to good to be true.
One is still going the other is long gone. Guess which one kept the same game plan my brother started and the one who cut corners.
Barney