As general manager for the approximately $3-million hot-dog-vending company, Strahan rides herd on a workforce lousy with drifters, alcoholics, insubordinates, petty thieves, not-so-petty thieves, brawlers, and the occasional psychopath. To tat a profitable enterprise from these loosest of loose threads, he has learned to be endlessly patient, flexible to the point of fluidity, and content to take his victories where he finds them.
The Strahan mentioned here himself wrote a business management book of sorts.
Recent developments at Lucky Dogs– especially in the days since hurricanes nearly destroyed New Orleans — have not been much chronicled in the business management research literature.