Multi-Unit Franchisee Magazine Issue IV, 2011 | Page 24

DOMINA
TORS
By Debbie Selinsky

Growing Up
Franchising

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Life is great—pass it along!

n 1969, when high school senior
Rodger Head took a job at a Burger
King, he had no idea he was entering the business he would stick with
for his entire career. One big reason was
veteran restaurateur and franchisee Billy
Trotter, who took the young man under his wing. “He had 19 Burger Kings
then, and I stayed with him as he grew
his company,” says Head. “And I grew
up in that company.”
In 1985, when Trotter sold his company and started Rally’s Hamburgers,
Head, whose responsibilities also had
grown, went with his mentor. They

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Name: Rodger Head
Title: President and CEO
Company: bd’s Mongolian Grill
No. of units: Franchisor: 35 bd’s Mongolian Grill in 13 states

Franchisee: 12 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen

Age: 59
Family: Wife Denise, 6 children, and a stepson
Years in franchising: 41
Years in current position: I bought bd’s Mongolian Grill and formed

this partnership in 2007. I’ve been a Popeyes franchisee for more than two
years in the Tidewater, Va., area.

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