In 1977, McCall sold his interest in Quincy ’s to what would become Trans World Corp., but he retained the freedom to compete. Quality at his steak house began with using fresh meat, not frozen. After the hired manager lost $50,000 in three months, McCall took the reins and developed a formula based on principles of quality he had learned as a contractor. The first restaurant was on Wade Hampton Boulevard in Greenville, built by employees from his contracting business. In 1970, inspired by the successful Ponderosa chain, he started his own, Western Family Steak House, most of which took the name Quincy ’s in 1976. McCall ’s search for interesting businesses to run brought him to restaurants. This led to property development eventually he built and ran a Volkswagen dealership in Sumter, South Carolina. His initial success prompted him to quit his accounting job to form McCall Construction Co., which, according to McCall, showed a $43,000 profit its first year, 1958. The restless McCall next began to build houses. He continued his habit of moonlighting, which earned him more than his regular salary. When he returned to Greenville, he joined an accounting firm and married. He also moonlighted as a bookkeeper for a restaurant and a gas station, both of which provided practical perks. After serving a year in the Navy at the end of World War II, he studied business and accounting at schools in Greenville, South Carolina, and Johnson City, Tennessee.
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As a teenager McCall delivered newspapers and also cleaned a movie theater and worked in a couple of grocery stores, including a Dixie Home Store, one of the forerunners of the Winn-Dixie chain.Īfter graduating high school, McCall served a stint at a mortuary owned by the father of a friend. His entrepreneurial bent showed itself at an early age as he recruited his sister Martha to help him raise chickens, peppers, and tomatoes for sale. His parents worked at a mill in Pelzer, South Carolina, and he and his siblings grew up poor. McCall, Jr., was born in 1927, ninth in a family of 11. Ryan ’s, which operates over 225 restaurants in the southern and midwestern United States, has been consistently recognized as one of the best small companies in America by Forbes and Business Week magazines. Ryan ’s Family Steak Houses, Inc., one of two successful restaurant chains founded by Alvin McCall, competes by selling high-quality food at modest prices. SICs: 5812 Eating Places 6794 Patent Owners and Lessors
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