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Jack Yao and the Trouble with Sharing Dinner
Before Big Way Hot Pot crossed into Ontario and California, Jack Yao and Christiana Luo made a small change to a familiar ritual: everyone got their own bowl. His next challenge is making that freedom work across a growing restaurant company.
Thomas Galligan
Thomas J. Galligan III is the longtime restaurant operator who ran Papa Gino's, the New England pizza institution, and its sister chain D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches. A PepsiCo and Morse Shoe veteran, he joined Papa Gino's in the mid-1990s, took the top job in 1996, pulled the chain out of a crushing debt load with a 1997 recapitalization, then turned a struggling pizzeria into an acquirer by buying D'Angelo from Pizza Hut for $55.5 million. In 2005 he co-founded Papa Gino's Holdings Corporation alongside Boston's Bunker Hill Capital, and he stayed at the helm as Chairman, President and CEO before serving as Executive Chairman until his retirement in 2014.