Instead of McDonald's tearing down a ~200-year-old Georgian mansion, citizens of a small NY town forced them to renovate it instead, resulting in a uniquely historic franchise location.
7
All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple.
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Starbucks uses round tables to make solo coffee drinkers feel less alone.
11
Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
9
If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.
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