> No one except the utterly delusional would think a mom & pop restaurants ... would become a F500 company. The F500 has quite a few restaurants on the list. O

> No one except the utterly delusional would think a mom & pop restaurants ... would become a F500 company. The F500 has quite a few restaurants on the list. Other than maybe Starbucks, it seems all of them have humble "mom & pop" beginnings. Who opens a business thinking "I hope customer response is so poor that I will struggle and never be able to grow"? That is often the outcome – but when is that the dream?