El Pollo Loco
El Pollo Loco, Spanish for The Crazy Chicken and pronounced L Po-yo Loco, serves authentically prepared flame-grilled, citrus-marinated chicken. Yummm-eee! El Pollo Loco was founded by Juan Francisco Ochoa in … Read more
T-Mobile: the “T” is for Telecomm
In 1999, T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG holding company was founded and later renamed to T-Mobile International AG). In 2002, as Deutche Telekom consolidated its international operations, it changed the … Read more
Panda Express: Orange Chicken Heaven!
Panda Express opened its first restaurant in Glendale, California, in 1983. Since then, it has brought folks together for great meals and good times. Today, Panda Express has 2,105 restaurant … Read more
Safeway: ingredients for life
March 25, 2019 Known today as Safeway, the company that was founded in 1912 by Sam Seelig was originally called the Sam Seelig Company. Seelig left the company in 1924 … Read more
True Value: one of the world’s leading hardware wholesalers
In 1948, John Cotter founded Cotter & Company, which was. The company was made up 25 independently-owned and operated retail hardware stores. In 1963, Cotter purchased Hibbard, Spencer and Bartlett, … Read more
Wawa: “Gottahava Wawa”
How did a chain of retail stores ever get a name like Wawa? Well, as the story goes, Wawa is the Native American name for the Canada Goose, which was … Read more
Outback Steakhouse
Thirty-one years ago, in 1988, Bob Basham, Trudy Cooper, Chris T. Sullivan and Tim Gannon founded the first Outback Steakhouse in Tampa, Florida. The Outback Steakhouse was owned and operated in the United States by OSI … Read more
Applebee’s: Eatin’ good in the neighbourhood!
Bill and T.J. Palmer opened their first restaurant in Decatur, Georgia in November, 1980. A rather strange name for a restaurant, it was called T.J. Applebee’s Rx for Edibles & Elixirs. Now, that’s a mouthfull! The … Read more
Dollar General: Serving Others
Dollar General Corporation has been delivering value to shoppers for over 75 years. During the Great Depression (1939-1949) J.L. Turner began buying bankrupt general stores and liquidating each store’s stock. … Read more
Krispy Kreme
How do you sell doughnuts? Just cut a hole in the wall of your bakery. Okay, that sounds a little crazy, but it’s true! Back in 1937, Vernon Rudolph cut … Read more