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Florida: The Pizza Connection. In Sanford, a new cloverleaf will serve no other purpose than to provide access to 4,000 acres of development property owned by Pizza King Jeno Paulucci. He calls it visionary; critics see it as $14.5 million worth of pepperoni...
...copied a Pillsbury package design. After Jeno's agreed to change its box, Pillsbury last month filed a second suit claiming patent infringement by Jeno's and pointing out that Jeno's new design copies yet another Pillsbury package. Fumed Jeno's crusty founder, Jeno Paulucci, 63, as the pizza war dragged...
...minimum, most businessmen are convinced, the scandal has temporarily sidetracked actions on tax reform, the energy crisis, balance of payments and other matters that demand immediate attention. Says Jeno Paulucci, a Duluth executive who was vice chairman of Independents for Nixon: "I just wish everybody would cleanse their souls enough to get back to running the country. In business, when nobody is minding the store, you go broke...
...Paulucci, 54, an Italian immigrant's son, started in the food business helping his mother sell home-canned pasta in her living room. In 1947 he borrowed $2,500 and created Chun King, the purveyor of canned Chinese food. He sold out to tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds in 1966 for $63 million in cash, later started Jeno's Inc., a producer of frozen pizza and other foods. Last year Jeno's sales were $50 million. Customers apparently like the products better than Consumer Reports does; in the June issue it rated several types of Jeno...
There is no debate, however, about the quality of the company's workers. Paulucci insists that his employment policy is not a charitable act, but "serves our own interest." The company's handicapped employees are exceptionally hard workers who make few mistakes; turnover is extremely low and absenteeism near zero. Booz, Allen & Hamilton consultants were amazed by what one of them called "an atmosphere in which everyone works as hard and is as dedicated as if he were a member of a religious cult...