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While Lone Star Texas Grill may specialize in Tex-Mex fare and be famous for bringing Fajitas to Canada, the company also does its part to help charities. To help kick of the Lone Star Windsor Foundation a cheque for $25,000 was donated by the corporation. In the photo are from left: Sue Paterson, Marketing Manager and from the Lone Star Group of Companies Whit Tucker, Paul Newman, Jack Cowin and Barry Taylor. Photo by Rod Denis. BIZ BITS Windsorites Return Home To Christen New Restaurant & Support Local Charities While the Lone Star Texas Grill, 4140 Walker Road (LoneStarTexasGrill.com) has been open since March, a group of home grown Windsor boys returned from far and wide on April 21, 2014 to ofcially open the location and present a cheque for $25,000 to their foundation. Jack Cowin, Paul Newman and Whit Tucker were all born and raised in Windsor and were childhood friends. While they have followed diverse paths, they stayed in touch over the years, and joined in business a number of years ago when they took over Te Lone Star Group of Restaurants in 1992. Cowin (who attended Walkerville Collegiate where he played football and also went to the Western University in London, has earned an international reputation as Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis, shown with Jack Cowin an entrepreneur and business builder. He and his mother Dorothy, attended the April press moved to Australia in 1969 to develop a conference. Photo by Rod Denis. food service business with the backing of was named a Director of Lone Star in 1992 30 Canadians who lent him $10,000 each. and on his retirement in 1999 he assumed Te business has grown from a single the CFO duties for Lone Star Texas Grill restaurant to 370 Hungry Jack’s hamburger and sits on the company’s Advisory Board. outlets and a food manufacturing Whit Tucker holds many city-wide business, which exports meat products to records and awards in multiple sports, as 30 countries, has sales of $1.4 billion and noted in the Windsor Essex Sports Hall employs 16,000 people. In addition, Cowin of Fame to which he was inducted in 1985. is Chairman and largest shareholder in Tucker also excelled at sports during his the listed public company, Domino’s Pizza tenure at Western University and following Enterprises, with 1,300 outlets, the largest university he played in the CFL and was franchisee in the world. “Rookie of the Year” in 1962, All-Star three Windsor native and Walkerville years running, won two Grey Cup rings and alumnus, Paul Newman, who played was inducted into the CFL Hall of Fame football and basketball also attended in 1993. Afer his football career, Tucker Western University, but moved to Toronto started a successful career as a wealth and enjoyed a successful 35 plus year career management executive and continues to in fnancial management with the Bank of work with the RBC wealth management Montreal and Manulife Financial. Newman group in Ottawa. BIZ X MAGAZINE • JUNE 2014 29 BizX2014June52.indd 29 2014-05-27 9:43 PM