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Why a Franchising Veteran Launched an Employee Stock Plan

Kelly Saxton has spent over 30 years running restaurant franchises, and one thing he's learned is that good employees are crucial to success and should be rewarded.
Enabling employees: Kelly Saxton of the Saxton Group.

Kelly Saxton doesn't really know what it's like to be an employee. For his entire adult life he has owned and run restaurant franchises. But that doesn't mean he doesn't appreciate the grunt work--over his 30-plus years in franchising he has mopped floors, worked a register and taken out the garbage. What that has taught him, and what has been reinforced multiple times, is that good employees are

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