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The chain has at least 10 locations in Northeast Florida.

The brands plan to open in the Englewood and Grove Park areas.

The restaurant’s fourth location is in the Gates of Beach Boulevard shopping center.

Finalist, $15 million and up | 2020 Revenue: $17.5 million Ben Hakimian came to the U.S. from Iran in 1977 with hopes of earning a mechanical engineering degree and a job in the field back home. After completing his studies at the University of Nebraska, Hakimian said he thought he would have an engineering job in Iran “once I landed at the airport.” Ben Hakimian First product or service you sold: A car. Business strategy in brief: Help people get what they want, and you will get what you want. Best business lesson: Get in the business where when you sleep, you make money.

DAYTONA BEACH — As national retail and restaurant chains flock to this city's fast-growing LPGA area, Vittorio and Catarina Tiano quietly opened their new eatery on West International Speedway Boulevard in January. "If this location (at One Daytona) didn't pop up as being available, we probably wouldn't have opened a second location," said Catarina Tiano. She and her husband also run a Tiano's restaurant that opened in 2009 next to New Smyrna Beach Municipal Golf Course. The new Tiano's across from Daytona International Speedway is one of a handful of new stores and restaurants that have...