Flashy fresh

  • By Traci McMillan Beach
  • | 10:00 a.m. January 23, 2015
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Bob Basham and Nick Reader wanted something “flashy” for their next restaurant concept. So when Basham, an Outback cofounder, and Reader, former CFO of the Tampa Bay Bucs, put their heads together with former Carrabba's VP Bill Kadow to diversify the PDQ empire, they came up with pizza and burgers.

 

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