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After Nearly Going Bankrupt, How Franchise Jersey Mike's Fought Back and Won

CEO Peter Cancro learned to prepare for the worst, which set him up for lasting success.
Source: Courtesy of Jersey Mike's
Courtesy of Jersey Mike's

One night in 1975, 17-year-old Peter Cancro knocked on his high school football coach’s front door in Ocean County, N.J. Cancro, a senior and the team’s quarterback, was there to ask for a to buy the sub shop he’d worked at for the past four years. Hours later, Cancro left with the loan, a seven-year payback plan and the intent to

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