Article: Made from scratch: from brokering flour to peddling bread and pizza, this restaurant chain's founder has been rolling in the dough.(BOOK EXCERPT)(Company overview)

Now based in Greensboro, with 54 restaurants in North Carolina and Virginia, Biscuitville Inc. grew out of two bread stores that Maurice Jennings opened in Burlington 43 years ago this month. High Point lawyer and serial entrepreneur Phil Johnston chronicles the company's "recipe for success" in his new book. In the abridged chapter that follows, Biscuitville's founder tells how it came about.

My dad bought an interest in a bakery in Burlington in 1941, so we moved there from Greensboro. The bakery had a retail store and about a half-dozen wholesale routes. The first Christmas there I worked setting up carryout boxes. I could pretty much eat all of the bakery ...

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