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Ezell's Famous Chicken

Lewis Rudd, left, and Ezell Stephens, boyhood friends from a small Texas town, began Ezell's Famous Chicken with family members 23 years ago. "I think they exemplify the best of what you want a small businessman to be," former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice said.

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