{"id":2944,"date":"2019-12-19T16:52:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T22:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/?page_id=2944"},"modified":"2020-06-23T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:23:37","slug":"alumni-entrepreneurs-are-largest-franchisees-for-which-wich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/alumni-entrepreneurs-are-largest-franchisees-for-which-wich\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni entrepreneurs are largest franchisees  for Which Wich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:30px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p>Seth Lyons \u201908 and Ross Theesen \u201915 are standouts in the franchise field, and they both got their start in a class offered through Missouri Western\u2019s Center for Franchise Development. In 2009, Seth was the first alumnus to be awarded a franchise in the Applied Business Ownership class, and Ross \u201915 was awarded a franchise in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Ross and his wife, Mackenzie \u201915, formed a business partnership with Seth in 2017, and today, they own 12 Which Wich? Superior Sandwiches stores, the most of any owners in the company. Their businesses generated $7.1 million in sales last year with 175 employees and a payroll of $1.5 million. Additionally, Ross and Mackenzie own two Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory stores.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2949,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2944\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}