Floridaweekly.com - GRANT PHELAN WOULD LIKE PINCHERS Crab Shack to be synonymous with thoughts of Florida. Outback Steakhouse built its restaurant chain on the premise of a continent. He figures his family can do the same with seafood in the Sunshine State. He would like to see their homegrown business swell to 100 locations. But he doesn’t want to franchise.

“We want to stay corporately owned,” Mr. Phelan says. “No, we don’t want to franchise. You lose too much control of your organization when you start franchising it out.” Continue