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    From Intern to Franchisee

    A sweet internship with Kona Ice helped Derek Taylor open his very own franchise.
    by Jason Daley Nov 01, 2013 2 minutes

    Derek Taylor may have scored the sweetest internship of all time. In 2008 he started as a driver for Kentucky-based gourmet shaved-ice franchise . For the next five summers, while earning his bachelor's degree and master's in architecture at the University of Kentucky, he returned to the internship, gaining experience managing trucks and accounts and eventually going on

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