Happy Forgived: Schlagersängerin Betrays Her Late Father's Iron Rule of Relationship

Founder of $100 million company says she quit her day job to rebuild her father's Cape Cod chip empire—and there 'wasn't time' to worry about nepotism

Serial entrepreneur Nicole Bernard Dawes seemed destined to build million-dollar food brands. As a kid, she grew up working the counter of her mother’s health-food store and roaming the floors of her father’s burgeoning snack empire, Cape Cod chips. She would eventually follow in their footsteps as a founder, but Dawes’ first job was a management consultant for food and beverage clients. It was a short-lived career that Dawes tells Fortune she d…