Mary Jane Riva

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719 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2016 last heard Jun 2021

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Franchise Today · Mary Jane RIva: Multi-Unit Franchisee and Pizza Factory CEO! · 30 Jun 2021 podcast
So his goal has always been to be my supporter and he has the toughest job.
He does a great job of it.
Yeah.
So that's kinda how we got started.
Yep, exactly.
He was, you know, he was pretty much retired at this point and dealing with the stores had, you know, like everybody, restaurant is very hard work.
And he was pretty much resigned to the idea that if I wanted to take on this next challenge, he would be supportive.
And he does do that wonderfully.
And he helps.
Don't get me wrong, he helps, but it's just it's always been kind of a funny thing in our family because he said, Hey, as long as you don't expect too much from me, you go for it.
Now Pizza Factory also still are.
And so I have one other brother that didn't get into it.
But yeah, so that's a little bit of a family in there doing it.
But it's certainly that's always been a great organization and it's always been the product is what basically drew us to it because the product is outstanding.
It's it's a great culture.
So it was just when we decided to take the next journey of owning the corporation, we're still franchising.
We still own stores.
That's one thing that we both agree on that in order for us to be able to really still walk the walk with the franchisees, even though we've done it for 20 years already, but still to really still have some skin in the game, I guess, we need to have stores and still understand what the challenges are because we own a store, not because we're sitting back and we remember what it was like twenty years ago, but because we're in it still now.
twenty years ago.
We have right now four stores.
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