Orange County, Calif., Couple Cooks Up Profits with Millie's.(Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: September 14, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Sep. 14--For a woman whose name is on 17 restaurants, Millie Villavicencio isn't exactly a wizard in the kitchen.

That would be her husband, Ruben.

"He can bake a pie in the time it takes me to take the ingredients out of the cupboard," Millie says.

And a darn good pie, apparently.

Ruben's creation of rolled-out dough stuffed with cherry-rum filling and sour cream won first place for original cherry dessert in a nationwide contest he entered in college.

"For $500, I thought I'd learn how to make a pie," Ruben, 56, recalls of his fluke entry ...

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