When Ron Shaich was a shaggy-haired college student in the early 1970s, he persuaded his school’s student government to start a non-profit convenience store that would sell soda, snacks and other sundries.
He spent the summer on campus building the shop with an ageing, drunken carpenter who lived nearby. And when students returned in September, Mr Shaich did everything from ordering goods to stocking shelves, to running the cash register.
“For a kid who couldn’t dance or sing, it was the closest I came to being creative,” he says.
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