Edible Arrangements stores generate approximately $600 million in combined annual revenue
Tariq Farid · Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid · Aug 21, 2017 · at 39:36
Tariq Farid, founder of Edible Arrangements, responds to Guy Raz about the combined system-wide annual revenue across all franchise locations.
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“About six hundred million.”
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