Multi-Unit Franchisee Magazine Issue I, 2012 | Page 42

MEGA

Reconnecting: with Tom Barnett
“Set an example for your people, keep
expenses down, and grow slowly.”

been inordinately blessed by God. Any
success I’ve had I see as a blessing and
the result of everybody else’s efforts.” It’s
those values, along with a can-do attitude, that keep an energetic Barnett going. “I’ve been taught to never, ever give
up. If you give up, you’ve lost,” he says.
Barnett, a graduate of the U.S. Air
Force Academy, is an admitted workaholic, and in the current economy, he
doesn’t see slowing down much any
time soon—but he also doesn’t intend
to stop living life. “I’m not in the office

every day, but there’s never a time I’m
not working,” he says. “I’ll be skiing in
Colorado in February, but I’ll still work
every third day for several hours a day.
I’m relentless.”
For Barnett, the key to making it all
work remains working with outstanding
partners to run the best