Record #:

7648

Author(s):

Wood, Suzanne M.

Abstract:

James Maynard, a 1965 graduate of East Carolina University, started with a single steakhouse in Fayetteville and built it into a $1 billion business. Maynard is the co-founder and chairman of the company that runs the Golden Corral restaurant chain. Golden Corral, with around 500 restaurants, ranks number one in the family-style buffet restaurant industry with a 40 percent share of the market.

Source:

East: the Magazine of East Carolina University (NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 4 Issue 2, Winter 2006, p8-11, il

Subject(s):

Golden Corral Corp. (Raleigh); Chain restaurants; Maynard, James H., 1940-