One of many moderate Democrats to lose last November, new pick knows franchises as former owner of Baskin-Robbins shops Former Rep. Charles Melançon (D-La.) remembers the first time the International Franchise Association came to lobby him in his Capitol Hill office. Melancon “I said obviously somebody didn’t check me out because I was a franchisee for Baskin-Robbins,” he told CEO Update. In fact, he owned two of the ice cream chain’s Louisiana stores—and one of his best business moves was when he didn’t buy a third as the bottom fell out of the economy in the early 1980s. “It was actually one of the lucky times in my life when I didn’t buy high and sell low,”… Read More