Empire Builders · EB-003
He Was Sixty-Two. The Highway Took His Restaurant. He Put The Recipe In His Car And Started Driving.
At sixty-two, Harold Stone faced financial ruin when a highway bypass eliminated customers at his restaurant. With only £105 and a recipe for pressure-cooked fried chicken, he drove across America to turn rejection into opportunity, ultimately creating a franchise empire.
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