Business: Mexican restaurant
Before Bob Stucker, 48, opened his first Panchero's Mexican restaurant in Florida in 2006, he asked his daughter, Rean, if she would partner up with him. "I wanted Rean to come into business with me," he said, "so she could handle all the operations and I'd take care of the real estate and the architects and the builders."
But Rean was unsure at the outset. "Initially I was nervous, but there was some comfort in knowing that I would be doing it with my dad." So she agreed and since then the twosome have opened four additional locations and inked a 17-restaurant deal to spread the franchise across Central Florida.
The secret to their success according to Bob: "I can trust her," he said, but the downside is that "it's not an employee, it's also my daughter."
"Sometimes I want to say something but that can be perceived as overcritical or she can come back at me and it goes back and forth."
"I think people automatically assume, because you are working for your father, that it's going to be easy," Rean said. "But it also gives me something to work for because I have something to prove, not just to my boss, but to my dad as well."
Bob and Rean Stucker
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