Pizza Hut Franchise: Another Slice of Trouble for Le-Van Hawkins
April 4, 2008 by Sean Kelly
Filed under Business
(FranchisePick.Com franchise blog) More trouble for the once-heralded minority entrepreneur and multi-unit Pizza Hut franchise owner.
Source: Tax Girl
Pizza Hut Mogul Fails to Deliver
La-Van Hawkins, who built a fortune with Burger King, Pizza Hut and Checkers Drive-In franchises across the country, has another legal battle brewing.
Hawkins grew up in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project where he was an admitted gang member and cocaine addict. He began working at a McDonalds cleaning toilets and eventually became general manager of a McDonalds in downtown Chicago. Hawkins continued to rise through the ranks until he was able to parlay his experience in the franchise industry to buy a Checkers franchise. Five years after Hawkins bought that franchise, he was managing the most successful African American franchise restaurant company in the United States.
A millionaire by all accounts, Hawkins quickly made friends in the political arena… CONTINUE READING
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It’s just so bizarre to me that someone who has obviously endured a tough life at first, and subsequently worked his way up to be so esteemed would make these kinds of choices.
HEY I WAS JUST IN DICKERSON CORRECITIONAL FACULITY ON HIS CELL BLOCK- HES A NICE GUY BUT LE VAN TOLD ME HE CAN MAKE PEOPLE DISSAPEAR = WHAT EVER THAT MEANS