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From a high-rise office building just off a freeway in suburban Atlanta, for example, the eight virtual bosses of Popeyes last month orchestrated a restaurant opening in Iceland, designed a new outlet in Honduras and handled a chicken-supply crisis in Fairbanks, Alaska (which is so far from both the Atlanta headquarters and its vendors that it's treated like a foreign outpost...
...breast-and-thigh emergency at the new Popeyes outlet in Fairbanks landed in the e-mail box of Karen Youstin, 43. She's Popeyes' director of international training and operating systems, based in Atlanta. She explains that the hard part about opening a Popeyes in a remote location is not getting people to come for the chicken; it's getting the chicken to the people. Popeyes' chicken is always fresh, never frozen, and the chain normally requires that shipments spend no more than eight days traveling from farm to franchise. But it will take 12 days to transport the chicken...
...customers' tastes vary tremendously too. At the first few stores that Popeyes opened in South Korea, customers were ignoring the red beans and rice combo. The Atlanta team learned from the franchise owners that red beans are usually served as a dessert in Korea. Within six weeks, the team had created Red Bean Slushes: beans and rice served over a mound of ice, topped with Gummy Bears and marshmallows. In the summer months, the slushes now make up more than 12% of Popeyes' total sales in Korea. "It takes some getting used to, but it tastes pretty good," says...
...seven-year-old Atlanta boy will probably forget one day what he did to earn the Rev. Arthur Allen Jr.'s ire. But the memory of the punishment that followed will surely live on. Police say three of Allen's flock, heeding the pastor's teaching, held the boy down in the House of Prayer church while a fourth whipped him with a switch. On Feb. 28, when the boy told a teacher he was in pain, she found welts on his body...
...pastor and some of those followers have been convicted before of similar charges. Even now, out on bail and awaiting trial, Allen, 68, vows to keep encouraging corporal punishment, which he believes Scripture condones. His nondenominational church is located in a mostly African-American neighborhood of northwest Atlanta, where the churches outnumber the stoplights. "We can't sway from the Bible because we're in trouble with the state," Allen told TIME on Friday, his followers standing around him intoning "Mmm-hmm." He says the country's notorious school shootings prove the need for discipline. And he points out that...