First Watch co-founder, former CEO dies at 70

By Mark Gordon
| 4:45 p.m. March 6, 2024

Manatee-Sarasota

The leadership — and life — lessons people absorbed and learned from working with, knowing and being around longtime restaurant executive Ken Pendery were legion. Some teachings were simple and obvious. Others were more nuanced.

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