He had done many things, including selling fish, trading clothes and running a restaurant, before he opened his first foot massage business in Henan.

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He dreams of running a restaurant but that can surely wait.

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Mr. Niederauer honed his managerial skills running a restaurant in Atlanta, then went to business school at Emory University and eventually talked his way into a job at Goldman.

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In the 1990s drama Pie In The Sky, he played Henry Crabbe, a retired detective running his own restaurant, who was continually called upon to solve more crimes.

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"A man came running out of the restaurant with the money, " she recalls.

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Combs continued on, from his early days running Bad Boy Records, to become a cottage industry with everything from clothing lines to restaurant chains, not to mention music-making.

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The restaurant, tucked in a cove on the rocky coast of northeast Spain, maintained a three-star Michelin rating for more than a decade and was ranked the world's best place to eat five years running by Restaurant magazine.

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