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AUGUST 16, 2023

In 2008 I began bartending at Please Don’t Tell. After launching and then closing Proteau just three years after it hit the market, John deBary has come to realize that sales aren’t the only way to measure success Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about failure. My career in the beverage industry had an extremely auspicious start.

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The Restaurant Times

AUGUST 25, 2022

Vikas Punjabi – When I was planning to move back to India, I got the master franchise rights of The Chocolate Room for India. By 2008, we figured out that franchising was the way to scale The Chocolate Room brand. In Conversation with Vikas Punjabi of The Chocolate Room . And that’s how my entrepreneurial journey started in 2007.

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MAY 29, 2020

Nick Kokonas explains his businesses’ pivots on Eater’s Digest As restaurants around the country furlough or lay off their workers or permanently close, Chicago’s high-end tasting menu destination Alinea is bringing in record revenue and has brought back its staff. Nick Kokonas is an owner of both operations. Nick Kokonas: Great to be here.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. This version was dyed with squid ink.)

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

In the late aughts, Rivera ran his own mortgage insurance and financial services business when the Great Recession hit. There’s this game-of-life kind of thing — you’re raised to believe that you need the nice house with the picket fence, the car. He was forced to shift primarily to insurance. Checkmark, checkmark, checkmark.

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EATER

JULY 6, 2022

At stake was how one of the most influential food and agricultural nonprofits in the country would use its formidable resources — more than $100 million in assets, the backing of the Rockefeller family, and an enormous public profile — to create a better food system. Some came out crying. Of an office team of 17, six were laid off.

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