#31: Food Management Associates
This entrepreneur is causing quite a stir with his food services company.
By Sara Wilson •
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Company: Food ManagementAssociates, a Yorba Linda, California, contractor of food servicemanagement and consulting
Founder: Richard Warmolts,58
Began: May 2001
2001 Sales: $1.4 million
When did you know that you had madeit?
Richard Warmolts: When I was awarded a national contract toprovide food services for children in a behavioral rehabilitationprogram.
Who is your business rolemodel?
Warmolts: My Uncle Joe, who, through hard work and familyinvolvement, built a most successful golf course, when the expertssaid it was impossible to grow grass in the local soil.
Do you have any businessadvice?
Warmolts: Be honest and straightforward in your businessdealings. Earn the business by delivering a valued service.Don't buy the business. Good business ethics will earnlong-term success. Lastly, you're in the people business, notthe "food" business--so take care of your people and makesure you satisfy their career and economic needs.
What are your plans for thefuture?
Warmolts: To have fun in business and give something back tothe community. Assisting organizations dedicated to helping abusedchildren seems to be the direction I am being led.
