Smart, Driven and Successful
A Shared Passion
for Franchising
by Elizabeth Denham
Franchising offered Heidi Morrisey more than just a successful career. It also gave her a shared passion with her father and an undiscovered level of understanding and knowing in their relationship. “Working with him was interesting,” she said. “I was able to come in and see him in a completely different light,
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and it gave him the opportunity to see me in a different light. Looking back, I realize he didn’t know me from that perspective, and I don’t know that I really knew my dad that well, either. I knew him as a daughter would know her father, but with three brothers, they spent more time with him, and I spent more time with my mom.”
Dave and Cindy Haglund founded Kitchen Tune-Up in 1988. They have five children, and according to Heidi, her dad had worked with a few of her brothers, and it hadn’t really worked out. “So, my dad was sitting there in 2003 and wondering if he would ever be able to take a little of a break,” she remembered. “And he said, what you
