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| How Kat Cole Made It |
When I posted this article on Google+ I prefaced it with: The real story here is Kat Cole, President of Cinnabon, not those cinnabons per se; and it's an awesome one.
In business circles, Cole’s origin story is becoming as well known as her rolls: She got her start as a teen waitress at a Florida Hooters, taking on increased responsibility until she was managing the location. At 19, the chain tapped her to open a restaurant in Australia — until then she had never left the country — and her days of working to pay for her engineering degree at North Florida were soon over. She was now working to work.Cole was, and no doubt still is, a scrapper, even as a young woman, working at a joint - Hooters - that openly flaunted sexy women in both name and attire. Her manager must've seen not just her go-getter attitude, but also her leadership potential.
I remember having read about her a year or two ago, and annotating the article in one of my journals. She is intelligent and beautiful rolled up into one not-so-common combination. Here are more about her: How Kat Cole Went from Hooters Girl to President of Cinnabon by Age 32 and From Hooters To Hot Buns: How Kat Cole Turned Cinnabon Into A $1 Billion Brand.
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