John Alexander is president and founder of The CBORD Group, Inc., a company inspired by his foodservice experience at Cornell University. While earning an undergraduate degree in physics, John worked in several capacities for the Department of Dining Services at Cornell, including managing the university's first two "Pickup Store" convenience stores. Later, as assistant business manager, he developed the dining department's systems for food production and cost control. John Alexander is a graduate of Cornell University
But I've had great partners through my life. When you are building a business from scratch, survival is the key word. We had many, many years where there were no paychecks, where survival was in question, whether the easiest thing to do was lay a few people off and just get on with it. We never c...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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