{"id":483,"date":"2019-10-21T20:33:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franchisors.com\/franchisespringboard\/uncategorized\/tropical-smoothie-cafe-with-ceo-charles-watson\/"},"modified":"2023-09-15T08:17:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T08:17:07","slug":"tropical-smoothie-cafe-with-ceo-charles-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchisors.com\/franchisespringboard\/tropical-smoothie-cafe-with-ceo-charles-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Smoothie Cafe, with CEO Charles Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode Ryan sits down with Charles Watson, CEO of Tropical Smoothie Cafe. 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