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The four college friends were devastated. A Wings Over near Cornell University’s campus shuttered, boarding up years of memories and future reunions.
“We started joking about opening it back up,” says Dan Leyva. “That lasted only five minutes before it turned into a real conversation about how we can do this. What would it look like?”
A month later, Leyva, along with Kevin Mok, Raunak Nirmal, and Mike Wang, signed a lease for their Ithaca, New York, outpost of the 40-unit chicken-wing chain. Construction started in January and the store opened in April.
As it turns out, the rapid process was just a precursor to something much larger.