Charleston Gazette-Mail – He’s no pushover boss, this Jim Cowie fellow. Read the full article.
“I am tough,” says the Suzi’s Hamburgers co-owner. “I work seven days a week, and I’ve worked hard all my life. So, if you’re someone who has to have your phone on you and respond to a new text all the time, or take three and four smoke breaks an hour, this isn’t the place for you.”
For decades, tough love worked well enough for Cowie and wife, Susan. Before starting South Charleston’s Suzi’s in 1982, he managed 72 stores for a national chain.