{"id":5690,"date":"2024-09-19T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=5690"},"modified":"2024-09-19T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:02:57","slug":"jakob-grimm-awarded-chocolate-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2024\/09\/19\/jakob-grimm-awarded-chocolate-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakob Grimm Awarded Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis has been my goal \u2013 what I have been working toward throughout my entire college career.\u00a0 This is an opportunity that is not presented anywhere else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5691\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5691\" class=\"wp-image-5691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2024\/09\/GrimmSquare.png\" alt=\"Jakob Grimm\" width=\"253\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2024\/09\/GrimmSquare-200x142.png 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2024\/09\/GrimmSquare-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2024\/09\/GrimmSquare-400x283.png 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2024\/09\/GrimmSquare.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jakob Grimm &#8217;23<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jakob Grimm, a 2023 graduate of the Craig School of Business at Missouri Western State University, was awarded a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise in the latest competition sponsored by Missouri Western\u2019s Center for Franchise Development.\u00a0\u00a0 Grimm, from St. Joseph, was one of eight students in a senior-level Applied Business Ownership class this spring. Students in the class prepared business plans, and two finalists presented their plans to a panel of judges that included Steven L. Craig, creator of the franchise competition, Robert Sarlls, CEO of Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, other business leaders and Missouri Western graduates who won franchises in previous years.\u00a0 \u201cIt was a very spirited competition,\u201d Craig said. \u201cI would like to thank everyone who has supported this program for the past 14 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis has been my goal \u2013 what I have been working toward throughout my entire college career.\u00a0 This is an opportunity that is not presented anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,25,44,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5693,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5690\/revisions\/5693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}