Right before founding Mutts Canine Cantina, Kyle Noonan was an artwork key at Southern Methodist College in Dallas, Texas, while his roommate Josh Sepkowitz analyzed finance—which ended up being the excellent pairing for small business partners. “We’re a incredibly still left brain, correct mind odd pair, but we get alongside and we’ve been finest pals since we were 18 years aged,” Noonan mentioned.

Their story is part of a Franchise Times electronic sequence this thirty day period that includes founder good results stories.

They took different routes immediately after faculty. Noonan went into foodservice administration and labored as director of operations for a massive cafe in Houston, and Sepkowitz went into financial commitment banking at Merrill Lynch in New York, now rebranded as Merrill.

“He can digest an Xcel spreadsheet like nobody’s business, and I acquired into the restaurant organization mainly because I started waiting tables in higher education for