If you knew my life and understood where I came from, you would agree that Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a modern day business miracle.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.
I didn't build Auntie Anne's alone. That would have been impossible. From the very beginning, we had a team around us that was exceptional. Our company was successful because of the dedicated people who worked for us.
I came from a real working-class show business family.
When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.
My own aunt was Merle Oberon, so movie stardom was not a faraway mystery to me as a child: it was part of the family business.
I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.
My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.
I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.
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