Make the Familiar Very Profitable
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution:
Olav Kristoffer Bauer makes an unusual business mogul.
At 24, Bauer co-owns six restaurants in Beijing and is looking to expand.
The Buckhead native, who also lived for a time near Stone Mountain, has a tattoo of a Chinese flag on his back (he decided against a hammer-and-sickle design) and wears his hair in a shaggy mohawk. He figures he lost $100,000 last year by ignoring his accounting books and dreams of opening a charity school.
“It’s kind of unreal,” Bauer said over Chinese beers at the Kro’s Nest, one of two pizzerias he runs in Beijing. “I’m a 24-year-old sitting on six or seven restaurants. Where does that happen in America?”
Bauer’s eateries include one modeled on a combination of a Fellini’s pizzeria franchise and Fox & Hounds, the English-style pub in Buckhead. He’s not sure how much money he’s earned since 2006, when he opened his first pizzeria, but he estimates that the number might “push like six zeros.”
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