Before the retail shop opened in 2007, it was wholesale, starting with a caramel apple tartlet.
Employee was late because he attempted to cut his own hair before work and the clippers stopped working, so he had to wait until the barber shop opened to fix his hair.
And by a miracle (don't say it), a nearby shop door opened and out stepped an American who had heard the commotion.
All that is a long way from the one-man tool-and-die shop Stronach opened in 1957 in Toronto, where he kept a cot in the corner for sleeping.
The Apple Shop was opened at Wroxham Barns - a collection of shops near the Broads village - 20 years ago by Mr Fisher's brother, Stephen, after he started up the Norfolk Cider Company in 1987.
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Nuraini runs a small shop the family opened to try to make ends meet.
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The new Paris shop, which opened late last year, is already a big hit.
But the team pulled together and got the shop, which opened 20 years ago, back up and running.
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Brazin bought diva in 2005, when it had expanded to 67 stores from a single shop in Sydney opened two years earlier.
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Lanvin, under the direction of designer Alber Elbaz, a self-proclaimed L.A. admirer, opened a shop last year.
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Soon after she opened the shop, she joined the Rotary Club and began taking part in local civic life.
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He opened his shop on Christopher Street, a crime-ridden area with cheap rent.
"When I first opened my shop in the '80s, people were outraged by mixing antiques with modern pieces, " she explained.
With a loan from a German institution, he acquired the equipment, imported hops and barley, and opened up shop in August 1997.
This was flooded out, so they upped sticks and moved to the mid-Wales town of Machynlleth where they opened a shop on the main street.
In front of a newly-opened phone shop, the sales assistant flashed an iPhone to the Foxconn employees, with everyone focused on his every "cool" gesture, as if it was something new.
Tam opened a shop in Shanghai's upscale Xintiandi district and Beijing's China World in 2004, and later paired up with Disney for "Year of the Mouse" projects in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
With the profits from the sale of the Turkish goods, Mazzei opened a shop specializing in wines, silks, olive oils, anchovies, parmesan cheese and other Italian products that were almost impossible to buy in London.
Graff grew up on Commercial Road in London's gritty East End, where he spent his first seven years living in a single room with his Jewish Rumanian immigrant mother, behind the corner sweet shop his Russian father opened just before leaving to fight in World War II.
The navy has even opened a vegetable shop near one of its biggest camps in Colombo.
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Four years ago he opened his own shop to advise oil companies, governments and investment banks.
Olympic gold medal winner Heather Stanning has officially opened a village shop staffed by volunteers.
In 1906 his great-grandfather, Benjamin Salinas, opened a furniture shop with a brother-in-law, Joel Rocha.
They settled in a working-class part of Cambridge, where the father, Anzor Tsarnaev, opened an auto shop.
Lavazza, which sells coffee under its brand to other retailers, recently opened a coffee shop in Bangalore.
Schnatter opened his first shop in 1985, after selling his beloved Camaro to buy his first pizza oven.
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"Everybody has had a tough time, " said Ron Provenzano, who opened a barber shop in Sandy Hook in April.
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When he opened his first shop in 1982, he said his mission was to create beautiful environments to shop in.
Visit the city's recently opened organic food shop Reindyrka for goodies such as Isrosa's winter ice-cream, with spices, pineapple and chocolate.
No. 151 Marian Ilitch and husband Michael opened a pizza shop in 1959 and grew it into the Little Caesar's Pizza chain.
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