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Joe Drury
Chairman, chief executive officer
Bojangles Inc.
Charlotte, N.C.
Joe Drury is more comfortable holding meetings in a restaurant kitchen than in a boardroom.
"I was raised in the kitchen," says the president of Bojangles Inc.
Drury began working in the restaurant business when he was 14. He was night manager of a store while still in high school and supervisor of eight stores by the time he was 20. He spent much of his career at Wendy's, building a successful franchise operation...