Clarence otis jr. biography

Thanks to Rose for the heads up. Each week tens of thousands of diners eat at an Olive Garden or Red Lobster restaurant. Few of these diners know that the CEO heading these large restaurant chains is a black man. Clarence Otis Jr. The firm operates nearly 1, company-owned restaurants coast to coast serving million meals annually. His father was a high school dropout who worked as a janitor.

The family lived in Watts at the time of the riots.

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In the post-Watts period, Otis recalls being stopped and questioned by police several times a year because of the color of his skin. A high school guidance counselor recommended him for a scholarship at Williams College, the highly selective liberal arts institution in Massachusetts. Otis landed on Wall Street as a merger and acquisitions attorney for J.

Morgan Securities.