{"id":2944,"date":"2019-12-19T16:52:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T22:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/?page_id=2944"},"modified":"2020-06-23T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:23:37","slug":"alumni-entrepreneurs-are-largest-franchisees-for-which-wich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/alumni-entrepreneurs-are-largest-franchisees-for-which-wich\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni entrepreneurs are largest franchisees  for Which Wich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Seth Lyons \u201908 and Ross Theesen \u201915 are standouts in the franchise field, and they both got their start in a class offered through Missouri Western\u2019s Center for Franchise Development. In 2009, Seth was the first alumnus to be awarded a franchise in the Applied Business Ownership class, and Ross \u201915 was awarded a franchise in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Ross and his wife, Mackenzie \u201915, formed a business partnership with Seth in 2017, and today, they own 12 Which Wich? Superior Sandwiches stores, the most of any owners in the company. Their businesses generated $7.1 million in sales last year with 175 employees and a payroll of $1.5 million. Additionally, Ross and Mackenzie own two Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory stores.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2949,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2944","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-01 08:27:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2944\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}