The Family Jewelers
A son uses a franchise to follow in his father's jewelry-fixing footsteps.
By Devlin Smith •
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When Ben Vargas was little, he'd sit on his father's lapand watch him fix watches. Later, father and son workedside-by-side as jewelers for the Navy.
Today, Vargas, 39, is running his own shop. The owner of aFast-Fix Jewelry Repairs franchise in Temecula, California, Vargasrepairs, designs, engraves and makes jewelry and watches, andrepairs eyeglasses.
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