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AUGUST 16, 2023

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. In 2008 I began bartending at Please Don’t Tell. In 2017 I was at an inflection point in my career.

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EATER

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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Aaron Allen & Associates

MARCH 19, 2020

March 18, 2020 Subway Reduces Franchisee Royalties by Half Expecting at least two months of steep sales declines, Subway — the largest fast food chain measured by number of units — reduces royalties and ad funding by 50% for its franchisees, in addition to offering to support operators with rent abatement, reduction, and deferral.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MARCH 19, 2020

March 18, 2020 Subway Reduces Franchisee Royalties by Half Expecting at least two months of steep sales declines, Subway reduces royalties and ad funding by 50% for its franchisees, in addition to offering to support operators with rent abatement, reduction, and deferral. Ignoring macro risks is riskier than ever. March 19, 2020.

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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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MAY 29, 2020

I brought in, we have about 22 front of house and back of house managers across the group in Chicago. How much money can we afford out of our capital fund to give to our employees, to bridge them to the point where they get unemployment? Nick Kokonas is an owner of both operations. Clair Supper Club. We have to do it.

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