Pitbull - Franchise Times - February 2. Latino entertainer/entrepreneur raps up HOT equity deal with The New Miami Subs Grill. By Nancy Weingartner. Zero Logging. We do not log traffic or session data of any kind, period. We have worked very hard to craft the specialized technology we use to safeguard your privacy. Step Up: All In 3D(OU) *2014* [mini-HD 1080p Half Over-Under AC3 BluRay x264-SONDA] [Lektor PL] [AT-TEAM]. Park visitors could also gaze upon the lagoon from three other vantage points: A) its western rim adjoining the Fantasy Faire tent and Dumbo the Flying Elephant, B) a. In 1979, a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must. Furk.net is your personal secure storage that fetches media files and lets you stream them immediately You can use it to stream video or listen to your music from PC. 17 reviews of Mother's Subs 'Loving the new Harrisburg location at 2nd and Maclay! Very friendly and welcoming staff. Not sure where they get their bread or if they. Pitbull Latino entertainer/entrepreneur raps up HOT equity deal with The New Miami Subs Grill. Franchise Times flew into Miami the last four days of 2. Mr. 3. 05 (Miami’s area code), the international rapper/entrepreneur who had just announced his status as an equity partner in The New Miami Subs Grill franchise. Armando Christian Pérez—aka Pitbull, aka Mr. Worldwide, aka spokesman for Bud Lite and Dr. Pepper and an investor in numerous products ranging from low- calorie vodka to dissolving energy strips—was performing at the American Airlines Arena, home of the Miami Heat basketball team, on New Year’s Eve, a concert that was being aired as part of the national New Year’s Eve coverage. That concert was to be our introduction to the latest celebrity sighting in franchising—and the signal that Miami Subs, a regional chain which started business in Canada 2. Mr. Submarine, is on the comeback trail with Mr. Worldwide. Thus, The New Miami Subs Grill’s new direction: Go Worldwide. Pitbull is Miami’s favorite son. Cab drivers can tell you the son of Cuban immigrants’ entire history growing up in a single- parent home in Miami. Pitbull is a man of the streets,” one American- Cuban cab driver told us. Slim down with Coach Astrid in one of her weight loss challenge groups to lose weight and win prizes. Get free coaching from Coach Astrid Bidanec with the purchase of. When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. Nobody gave him nothing. He did it on his own.” A few weeks later at a reception overlooking the Miami skyline at the Franchise Expo South, an Argentine franchise litigator with Greenberg Traurig sang the performer’s praises as well. Pitbull’s appeal, he said, is his ability to use Spanglish so artfully. The hip- hop artist/entrepreneur resonates with the U. S. Latino population, a group that is becoming more and more attractive to marketers, as well as with Latin Americans, a lucrative market south of our borders. He even receives several mentions in author Tom Wolfe’s epic novel about Miami, “Back to Blood.”. As a blue- eyed, fair- skinned teen, Pérez earned the name Pitbull because during the rap battles at underground clubs in the South, he challenged the black rappers with way more street cred than he had in rapid- fire word fights, and came out the victor. Εδώ θα δείτε το Step Up 2: The Streets (2008) online με Ελληνικούς υπότιτλους (Greek subs) | Περίληψη: Όταν ο.In an HBO special on prominent Latinos, he joked that while pit bulls are illegal in Miami, he has papers. Now—at least in his music videos—he’s a lover, not a fighter. His style of rap has evolved into a musical mix including hip- hop and reggae; he lets other artists like Shakira and Chris Brown sing, while he relies on the spoken word. His rat- a- tat style is a shower of images that often work in the product he’s endorsing, such as Kodak in “Give Me Everything Tonight.” Another video includes a beautiful woman pouring a glass of Voli, the premium, low- calorie vodka, he also has a stake in. Expect to see The Miami Subs Cafe appear as the backdrop in some of his upcoming videos. Pitbull does have some history with the brand. The story is that Pitbull used to write lyrics in the Miami Beach restaurant on Washington Avenue while he waited for his lawyer—entertainment, not criminal—to bring over papers for him to sign. That’s true, he admits, but the part of the story now making the rounds, about him telling the manager that someday he wanted to own a Miami Subs, is bull- -- -, he said, laughing. Why rap? “The beautiful thing about music is it relates to everyone,” he said during a phone interview. It’s admitting to what was wrong by painting pictures. Everyone has a story; a struggle.”. The company he entered into a hefty equity agreement with has had its struggles, as well. And just as Pitbull had to reinvent himself as both an artist and an entrepreneur (he is the rare rapper who wears his pants at his waist and suits and ties in music videos), Miami Subs has taken a number of colorful twists and turns to get to where it is today. The road from Mr. Submarine to Mr. Worldwide. The chain that started as Mr. Submarine in Canada has had nine lives, said Donald Perlyn, the former president of Miami Subs, who worked with the founder Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis. Perlyn was the one who instigated the sale to Nathan’s Famous in the summer of 1. TV news interview went dreadfully wrong. Perlyn remained with Nathan’s when Miami Subs was later sold to the current owners, and is on Nathan’s board of directors. It was the classic story of a Greek who jumped ship in Canada,” Perlyn said. Boulis and a partner bought into Mr. Submarine, and began making real estate investments. Once he amassed some significant money, he moved to the Florida Keys and started building restaurants and hotels. He renamed the restaurants, Miami Subs, because of trademark issues. While it had “subs” in the name, the menu was eclectic. The food was good,” Perlyn said. Greek items, such as gyros and chicken pita, were prominent on the menu, plus Philly cheesesteaks and breaded and deep- fried chicken wings. The servings were hearty, which was popular with the late- night crowd. If customers asked for it twice, (the item) was put on the menu,” Perlyn said. The fast- casual restaurants stayed open late, some 2. CEO Richard Chwatt, Dom Perignon. Celebrities like material- girl Madonna would use the drive- thrus after a concert to pick up chicken wings, and bottles of Dom were fed through the sunroof of the limo. Dieuveny Louis is an executive partner in The New Miami Subs Grill, and the franchisee for the Miami Beach location. Our early R& D was asking two Greek guys if they liked it (the new food item),” Perlyn said. If they liked it, it was on the menu.”. Perlyn became involved with the chain when his business partner, John Y. Brown Jr., the former governor of Kentucky and an executive with KFC who later switched to Kenny Rogers Chicken, wanted him to find a concept for the pair to invest in. I found it” Perlyn said. It was glowing in the night, with cars lined up around it, and the place was packed. The menu went on forever.” At the same time, a flight attendant told Brown about this great place to eat in Miami—Miami Subs. The two invested in the chain and went to work making the concept franchiseable. Perlyn started working on paring down the menu and putting systems and procedures into place. It’s never easy, but the process is even more difficult with a flamboyant owner like Boulis. “He was dynamic,” Perlyn said. He would work until 1. Perlyn and others to put in the same long hours. Boulis wanted restaurants opened as quickly as possible, even if the inspectors didn’t have time to sign off on them. He liked to open restaurants on Friday night, Perlyn said, while the “inspectors were home sleeping,” so they could get in a weekend of sales before the government was back on the job. He’d rather beg forgiveness than ask permission,” Perlyn said. One of the ways the chain grew quickly in the early days was conversions. Perlyn tells the story about negotiating a deal with Bojangles’ Famous Chicken ‘n Biscuits for the 1. Miami years ago. Perlyn received permission from Bojangles’ then president to purchase the leases, and he gave Boulis the addresses so he could check out the locations. Three weeks later, while Perlyn was still working on closing the deal, he received an angry phone call from Bojangles’ president saying the landlord was calling his people, screaming at them because someone was tearing apart five of his buildings. Perlyn immediately called Boulis who said to tell Bojangles’ president the landlord was wrong. Perlyn remembers relaxing until Boulis’ next statement: “Tell him it’s eight, not five.”. The conversions were excessive, as more than one QSR chain had opened too many units and needed to get out of leases. We were swept up in available real estate,” he said. That was 2. 0 years ago—half a lifetime ago.” Miami Subs became a victim of its own success. It grew too quickly, the result of which was management wasn’t able to support franchisees as needed. Restaurants weren’t kept up, and pizza was added to the menu and name in a haphazard fashion, Chwatt said. Adding to the quirkiness of the time, a local, well- known muralist was hired to paint original Miami- style art on one wall of each restaurant. The artist, however, could only paint in the nude. The solution was to cover the windows at night so he could work without alarming passersby, said Chwatt, laughing. While Perlyn ran the company, Boulis went off in another direction. He became involved in off- shore casino boats, which needed to be at least three- miles off Florida’s coast in order not to break laws governing gambling. Everything came tumbling down, the day Perlyn and Boulis saw a TV newscast of a SWAT team repelling out of helicopters onto one of Boulis’ casino boats. Boulis rushed down to the port. Later Perlyn said he remembers turning on the television and seeing Boulis screaming at the sheriff on the local news, every third word bleeped out. We were a public company,” he said. I told him, ‘you can’t do that.’” Perlyn arranged for Miami Subs to be bought by Nathan’s Famous, a hot dog company, which at the time wanted to develop its foodservice business. Boulis’ story doesn’t have a happy ending. In 2. 00. 1, he was murdered gangland style—two cars boxed his car in, while a third vehicle drove by spraying him with bullets. Ironically, the hit took place in front of a Miami Subs restaurant. For more on the casino story, watch the documentary “Casino Jack,” which details the scandal surrounding lobbyist Jack Abramoff, which ultimately led not only to Boulis’ murder, but to the Bush White House.)Hot dog, we have a new owner. Nathan’s Famous did extremely well during the time it owned Miami Subs, but unfortunately, the sub chain was the proverbial step child. Franchisees discovered they could make more money selling off their free- standing buildings with drive- thrus to banks, Chwatt said. Co- branding attempts didn’t pan out. The chain was languishing.
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