"Intrigue, mystery, and strategy-all in a historical profile of Luby's Cafeterias. This is a book about an institution we all knew as home-never thinking that the foundation was a business plan destined to work for fifty years. What went wrong? Read on! A 'must' for business schools everywhere, and a fun read for everyone." -- on Brumley, Forbes Entrepreneur of the Year, Cofounder and Chairman of the Board of Encore Acquisitions Company "House of Plenty is a great tale... It will be of great interest not only to the public, but also to students of American culture. I literally do not know of a book that deals in any major way with the history or culture of the cafeteria ... a subject of great social and cultural importance." -- Robert Abzug, Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor in History, University of Texas at Austin "Who knew that the key to American success and salvation could be found on the cafeteria line? Only Carol Dawson. In crystalline prose, she tells a morality tale that is both as compulsively readable as a mystery novel and as illuminating about the American psyche as anything published in recent years. The death Dawson ultimately investigates is business ethics with a body of evidence that is utterly fascinating and utterly convincing." -- Sarah Bird, author of The Flamenco Academy, The Yokota Officers Club, Virgin of the Rodeo, The Mommy Club, The Boyfriend School, and Alamo House
Carol Dawson is a writer in Austin, Texas. She is the author of the novels The Mother-in-Law Diaries, Meeting the Minotaur, Body of Knowledge, and The Waking Spell. She has also written for Texas Monthly, Southern Living, Oxford American, and a number of other publications.
Carol Johnston is the only granddaughter of Lola Luby Johnston and the only child of Luby's cofounder and corporate executive Charles R. Johnston and Gertrude Johnston. Carol grew up in the cafeteria business. Today, she is a professional designer in San Antonio, Texas.
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