From Herman Cain's Wikipedia entry.
At age 36, Cain was assigned in the 1980s first to analyze and ultimately to take the reins of Burger King, where he managed 400 stores in the Philadelphia area.
There are less than 300 Burger King restaurants in all of Pennsylvania. 21 in Philadelphia. So we must be talkin' about a much larger area.
You can use this zip code map to help you narrow them down to the metro Philly area.
Business Week takes a closer look at Cain's Godfather experience. (Chewing over Herman Cain's pizza past, 6/16/2011)
In a November 1987 interview with Restaurant Business, Cain predicted Godfather's would "exceed 1,000" restaurants within three years and take on its larger rivals. It wasn't to be. "We were smaller and we could be nimble," Wiggins says, "but cash flow was the issue for us. Going up against Little Caesars, Pizza Hut, and Domino's—we just found it daunting." By the time Cain left the company in 1996 to head the National Restaurant Assn., the industry's powerful lobbying group, the number of Godfather's restaurants had dwindled to the low 500s.
Today, Godfather's Pizza is the nation's 10th-largest pizza chain by sales, according to PMQ Pizza Magazine. The company's current officials would not reflect on Cain's leadership there—or say whether they are rooting for their old boss in 2012. Godfather's "takes no position on political candidates," the company said in a statement. "But we do make great pizza."
Godfather's Pizza currently claims to have more than 600 restaurants in 40 states.
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