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Original Source: DOLANS UNSCRIPTED
KEN DOLAN, CNNfn ANCHOR, DOLANS UNSCRIPTED: It all depends upon your appetite. Who doesn`t love Billy Joel? "I Can`t Believe I Get Paid To Do This!" But wait a second before we shoot this little puppy and put this little puppy on you, let`s talk a little bit about the restaurant business.
First of all, Daria, profit margins are around 3 percent of sales. It`s a.
DARIA DOLAN, CNNfn ANCHOR, DOLANS UNSCRIPTED: That`s why so many restaurants come into business and go right out again.
K. DOLAN: A multibillion dollar - 11.7 million employees in the restaurant business. But, Daria, your dad owned a restaurant for 40 years, and you`ve been telling - and I`ve been wanting to open a restaurant called Ken`s, like the great steakhouse with garlic fries and stuff like that. I wanted to call it Ken`s. I`d be there every night eating with you.
D. DOLAN: I think it`s already taken, the name Ken`s, so you`re out of luck there because there are 870,000 locations of restaurants around the country.
K. DOLAN: Well, but you`ve always discouraged me from the restaurant business because it`s the toughest business in the world.
D. DOLAN: It is extremely tough.
K. DOLAN: Yes, but we found somebody who really, really loves it....
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