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SC Festival Benefits Culinary and Hospitality Careers

Most businesses in a community will tell you that local festivals are good for business.  And it's that time of year when outdoor festivals are starting to pop up around South Carolina.  One that's showing up on our radar this week is Charleston Wine + Food, which is celebrating it's 10th year, and whose profits go to culinary and hospitality scholarships in Charleston.
 
Mike Switzer interviews Gillian Zettler, executive director for this non-profit organization.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.