Bud Kanke, CA: President, Kanke Seafood Restaurant Ltd

The restaurant business for many is an expensive
lesson in risk management. Not so for Bud Kanke.

In 1971, with a $900 savings balance, Bud and several
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seafood experience. The Cannery.

Mulvaney’s followed in 1975. Seafood with a dash
of Southern spice. Viva in 1979. A classic supper club. In
1984, The Ninth Ave. Fishmarket. Then Joe Fortes, in
1985. Seafood downtown style.

The menu grows. And now Kanke Seafood Restau-
rant Ltd., with some 300 employees, reels in annual

Along the way, Bud Kanke has earned
the deserved reputation of a man with the skills

sales of nearly $10 million.
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to transform the most modest opportunities into
prize catches.

He credits his CA for providing him the base to
develop his entrepreneurial strengths. “It gives me disci-
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PhotoDave Baxter

_The Other Press