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Michael Moore, a Pizza Inn franchisee in Hobbs, New Mexico, spent the first week of August preparing to open for outdoor dining, going to considerable expense to put up a 30-foot-by-50-foot tent, outfitting servers and more. "We got it open," he said, on Friday, August 7. "We had a court order late that afternoon so we had to shut everything down."

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Shairoz Lakhani grew up around food and watched her father build a portfolio of franchise brands but never thought she'd follow a similar route. Not long after earning an economics degree from Emory University in Atlanta, however, she decided to start working in one of her family's local Church's Chicken restaurants, “and found out this is something that I actually enjoy,” says Lakhani. “The inventory management, marketing, I took an interest in those.”