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Article: Ground Control.(Thomas Russo's strategies for pulling Ground Round out of nosedive toward bankruptcy)(Brief Article)
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- Restaurants & Institutions
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- July 1, 2001
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Thomas RUSSO'S touch-minded strategies for pulling Ground Round out of its nosedive toward bankruptcy are Succeeding.
Credit is due to Dr. Seuss, who played a part in the turnaround at the once-ailing Ground Round. So says Thomas Russo, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Ground Round parent American Hospitality Concepts Inc., who read the children's book, "Oh, the Places You'll Go!," to general managers of the 130-plus units when he returned to Ground Round in 1997 after a 12-year absence from the company.
"The message I wanted them to get from the book was simple," says Russo, who borrowed some of its basic Wisdom. "'You have brains in ...
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