Jerome "Pop" Pentsky

Born:	August 26, 1950 (1950-08-26) (age 56) New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupation:	Co-Founder of Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits
Salary:	$650,045 USD (2005)[1]
Net worth:	$3.2 million USD (2007)

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Pentsky is currently the Co-Founder of Popeyes Chicken and has a net worth estimated at 3.2 million dollars. Net worth (sometimes net assets) is the total assets minus total liabilities of an individual or company. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ...

Early life and education

Jerome Pentsky is the son of Jamal Pentsky, a now retired janitor at a local high school, and Denisha Pentsky, the eighth and youngest child of a poor family living in the same area.

Pentsky attended a local grade school, and later went to De La Salle High School. He met childhood friend Al Copeland at a local pool, and the two became fast friends. De La Salle High School is a co-educational parochial high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...

Business

In 1972, Pentsky and Copeland founded a fried chicken restaurant named Chicken on the Run in a small suburb in New Orleans. Pentsky began calling the restaurant "Popiz", a portmanteau of Pop and biz (short for business) and Copeland was inspired to rename the restaurant Popeyes, both in homage to his friend's nickname and fictional detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, a character from the movie The French Connection. However, business was slow, and Pentsky and Copeland realized they had to do something different from all the other chicken restaurants. This prompted the pair to begin selling spicier, Cajun flavored fried chicken. The new flavor was a hit, and the restaurant's popularity exploded among the local African American population. The success in the local Louisiana area eventually led to the franchising of the chain. New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... A portmanteau (IPA pronunciation: ) is a word or morpheme which fuses two or more words or parts of words to give a combined or loaded meaning. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Popeye Doyle is a fictional New York City police detective portrayed by actor Gene Hackman in the movie The French Connection. ... The French Connection is a 1971 Hollywood film directed by William Friedkin. ... Cajun cuisine originates from the French-speaking Acadian or Cajun immigrants in USA. It is what could be called a rustic cuisine--locally available ingredients predominate, and preparation is simple. ...

References and notes

1. ^ [1] U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission