Serial Entrepreneur Invades Ridgeway

By Mike Switzer

Published October 6, 2017 at 5:20 AM EDT

For the past couple years, our next guest has been busy restoring and operating Magnolia Farm Lodge, a bed and breakfast, outdoor school and working farm in Ridgeway, SC. He is also a practicing attorney in Columbia, SC and the leader of the band the Plowboys. But if that isn’t enough, he has now added two new projects in Ridgeway: Honeysuckle Hill bed and breakfast and Brice’s Country Store, a barbecue restaurant featuring award-winning and tv-star pit-masters as his partners.

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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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