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Joshua Wallack, owner of Mango’s Tropical Cafe on International Drive, doesn’t have one of those stories about discovering his passion later in life. His father opened the original Mango’s in South Beach in 1991, when Wallack was 13.
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“I was born into it,” said Wallack, now 49, describing growing up while helping his father with the club. “We became a hit in the mid-1990s with the rise of the Latin salsa beat.”
The CEO of Wallack Holdings LLC is staring down the barrel of economic uncertainty, but remaining bullish on the year ahead.
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