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Arriving on a motorcycle, wearing jeans and a carrying a backpack, Alain Cojean is hardly the image of a Paris restaurant mogul. But then again the 45-year-old with an unassuming but frenetic demeanor hasn't created your typical Paris eatery. On an unusually warm April morning across the street from the Louvre, in a former tea salon in a building built in the mid-19th century, he is inspecting progress on the construction of what will be the newest location of his namesake fast-food restaurant. Five or six weeks from now, the team of workers sanding...
...also has no public relations department nor even a business card - just his cellphone and backpack and motorcycle, deciding each morning at which location he'll spend the day. Alain Cojean would be a decidedly unconventional CEO, if ever he cared to take the title. Daily menus and product development is more and more solely in the hands of Fred Maquair, his associate and old friend of almost two decades. After the first few restaurants opened, Cojean bought a large kitchen in an industrial section of the Left Bank, where the food for the day is prepared then delivered...
...unidentified assailant attempted to rob an undergraduate at knifepoint early Sunday morning, but was thwarted when the victim threw his backpack at the suspect and disarmed him, according to police...
...victim then “indicated to the suspect that he was going to comply with his demand for his wallet,” but instead threw his backpack at the attacker, the advisory said. Once the attacker had fallen to the ground, the suspect fled...
...amazed that he would be so bold as to throw his backpack,” said Trevor J. Bakker...