OAT on the cutting EDGE; A Twin Cities entrepreneur got some help from some industry veterans to help his nondairy ice cream substitute, OatsCreme, take off. Next up: an oat-based milk substitute and an orange-flavored beverage.(BUSINESS)(Dick Youngblood)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: November 17, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Dick Youngblood; Staff Writer

CORRECTION PUBLISHED 11/24/02: The last name of Stephen Frances, CEO of American Oats Inc. of Minneapolis, was misspelled in this column.

John (Buck) MacDonald is a compulsive entrepreneur whose focus on natural foods inspired him to start an organic grocery in Dinkytown, an organic deli in Rochester and a frozen organic soup business in Minneapolis.

With those and other businesses long since sold or folded, he's laboring now to raise capital for an organic fast-food restaurant he wants to open in suburban St. Paul.

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