Scratch Entrepreneur

On today’s show we chat with small business icon Jeff Mease who took the work ethic he learned from an early age and built a pizza shop that sprouted a restaurant which naturally needed a brewery.  Once all of that was humming, he created a community commissary where other small food businesses could start just like he did.    After over 30 years of growth, Jeff now steers a ten million dollar per year organization and the new ideas just keep coming.   Here’s an overview: What early stories from Jeff’s life set him up to succeed as a business owner? Jeff was the youngest of five kids.  He worked at his dad’s grocery store from an early age.  He did everything from sorting recycled pop bottles and bagging groceries to running the deli.  Besides a general work ethic, one of the largest lessons was how to keep things clean. Eventually, in the early 1980’s, he left his home in Ohio and headed to college at Indiana University.  He majored in business and worked at the local Domino’s Pizza.  What he really learned