Smoothie Franchise (Begun by College Student) Flourishes
It didn’t take David Lopez long to figure out the last thing he wanted was to be just another cog in a corporate wheel.
During his freshman year at the University of Central Florida while completing an internship at a Fortune 500 business, Lopez, now 26, was marched into the company cafeteria with his co-workers and informed that 50 would be fired on the spot. No questions asked. Clean out your desk. Go home.
”I wasn’t right for the whole corporate thing,” he says. “I wanted the American dream, but I didn’t think I’d achieve it with a corporation.”