Business Observer, 09/02/2016 | “Comfort Food”
September 2, 2016
Comfort food BY: MARK GORDON | MANAGING EDITOR September 02, 2016 John Horne operates four locations in Manatee County. Executive Summary Company. Anna Maria Oyster Bar Industry. Hospitality, restaurants Key. Owner John Horne battles over-regulation in the hospitality industry. Manatee County restaurateur John Horne learned a key business lesson back in the early 1980s at a summer job in a Polk County phosphate mine. “When you’re selling your labor,” his supervisor told him, “sell it to the highest bidder.” The line resonated with Horne, then a teenager. It still does more than 35 years later, both for the role it
