MONTREAL – For Jean-Robert Ouimet, making his family’s food company successful was more than a matter of principle: it was a path to spiritual enlightenment.<\/p>\n
The devout Catholic installed meditation rooms at facilities of his Aliments Ouimet-Cordon Bleu Inc., held prayers before meetings and put “Pray to manage in God” on company letterhead.<\/p>\n
But when his son, Jean-Robert Ouimet Jr., bought the Montreal business (which sells canned beans, ham and meatball stew under the Cordon Bleu and Clark labels) from him last April, he vowed to take a different path, by separating church and steak.<\/p>\n
A schism ensued, and the spat between the 69-year-old retiree and his 34-year-old son ended up before Quebec’s Superior Court last fall. The matter was quietly resolved in a “gentlemen’s agreement” two weeks ago. I wonder if they sold Adam Ribeyes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MONTREAL – For Jean-Robert Ouimet, making his family’s food company successful was more than a matter of principle: it was a path to spiritual enlightenment. The devout Catholic installed meditation…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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