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Don't look for Bob Wyman to join Frank Sinatra in a chorus of "My Way" when "Ol' Blue Eyes" performs at the Coliseum next month.
Mr. Wyman, President of Wyman Corp. in Garfield Heights, candidly admits that buying Sisters Chicken and Biscuit restaurants out of bankruptcy in December 1990 was a big mistake.
"If I said that I didn't regret that decision, I'd be taken off to the loony bin," Mr. Wyman said. "It was not my best decision."
Two years ago, Mr. Wyman took money he made on selling his franchise of nine local Burger King restaurants to buy the 40-store Sisters chain for $3 million. Today, only 11 stores remain and Mr. Wyman is trying to pay off a $221,024 lien filed by the Internal Revenue Service on unpaid employers' withholding taxes for the first quarter of this year.
The problems with Sisters are stifling Mr. Wyman's efforts to grow another restaurant chain, Italian Oven,...