Nobody was going to feed me, and I had a large appetite.

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Restauranteur Hy Aisenstat

Before he opened his first Hy's in Calgary in 1956, Hy Aisenstat had enough false starts as a businessman. "I chased a fast buck for 10 years," he recalled. Roughneck on Alberta oil rigs, real estate salesman, chief factory representative for a Calgary trailer company, public relations man for an oil magazine, stock broker and then for 3 years, president of his own small, unsuccessful oil company. "It was a scrambling time," he said. "Nobody was going to feed me, and I had a large appetite."

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