Canines Inspire Sauce Entrepreneur

By Mike Switzer

Published December 14, 2016 at 5:54 AM EST

Over the 20+ years we have been doing this show, we’ve heard many reasons why people decide to go into business for themselves. But our next guest’s inspiration might be a first. He says his family’s dogs are the reason he is now in the sauce and marinade business.

Mike Switzer interviews Will Lacey, president of Savvy Foods in Columbia, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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