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How I Did It Series- Dennis Quaintance- September 22

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (ET)

Greensboro, NC
How I Did It Series- Dennis Quaintance- September 22

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Event Details

The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship hosts the “How I Did It” Series one evening per month. This series presents a successful entrepreneur as they share the ups and downs and ways in which they went from entrepreneur to business owner...

Heavy Hors d'œuvre will be served

September Speaker:

Dennis Quaintance
CEO & CDO (Chief Design Officer)
Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants & Hotels

• In 1973, he began his hospitality career at age 15 as a housekeeper’s assistant at a hotel in Missoula, Mt. He quickly worked his way up to assistant general manager. 

• For four years after high school, he worked in leadership at several hotels around the Northwest. 

• In 1979, he moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, to help a friend open a  restaurant, Franklin’s Off Friendly. 

• Dennis teamed up with Mike Weaver to form Quaintance-Weaver in 1988 and opened Lucky 32 

restuarant in Greensboro in 1989. Lucky 32 was named for Dennis’ father’s racecar 

(‘46 Mercury flathead V8).  

• Today, the Quaintance-Weaver family includes a second Lucky 32 Kitchen and Wine Bar in Cary. The four-diamond, 131-room O.Henry Hotel and the adjacent Green Valley Grill opened in Greensboro in 1998. The 147-room Proximity Hotel and neighboring Print Works Bistro opens in 2007, just a stone’s throw from the O.Henry. 


Early Years Trivia

• Dennis’ spirit of entrepreneurship started at age seven when he scoured the desert for interesting sedimentarty rocks, that he would sell as “wonder stones” along a desolate stretch of Nevada.