Generational achievement for family business patriarch

Decades later, restaurateur Richard Gonzmart fulfills his father's dying wish.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. June 14, 2019
The Columbia Restaurant Group's Sarasota location on St. Armands Circle. Courtesy photo.
The Columbia Restaurant Group's Sarasota location on St. Armands Circle. Courtesy photo.
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The Columbia Restaurant Group’s fourth-generation caretaker, Richard Gonzmart, recently crossed off one of the biggest item’s on his career to-do list: buying the building that houses the Tampa-based company’s Sarasota Columbia Restaurant.

 

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