{"id":9055,"date":"2014-05-06T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T03:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=9055"},"modified":"2014-05-06T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T03:41:05","slug":"marvin-agustin-is-now-a-successful-restaurateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/06\/marvin-agustin-is-now-a-successful-restaurateur\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Agustin is now a successful restaurateur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/marvin-agustin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9056\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/marvin-agustin.jpg\" alt=\"marvin agustin\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/marvin-agustin.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/marvin-agustin-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Facebook Page of Marvin Agustin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marvin Agustin has definitely found a career outside show business.<\/p>\n<p>Even without a business degree under his name, he has managed to build\u00a0 a huge empire of famous restaurants that include SumoSam, Marciano\u2019s, John &amp; Yoko, Johnny Chow, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with moneysense.com, he said: \u201cI only finished high school.&#8221; (But) I took up short courses like Management of the Arts program sa AIM and also took up (a) culinary (course at) the International School of Culinary Arts and Hotel Management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He shared that prior to being a successful restaurateur, he first worked as a mascot for a pizza chain when he was 16.\u00a0 Agustin added that he was also selling barbecue and halo-halo to earn extra money.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from his successful ventures, he also bagged the Young Entrepreneur award at the Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 Philippines banquet.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old businessman recently opened Banzai: The Great Teppanyaki Theater, the biggest authentic Japanese buffet restaurant in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Marvin Agustin &nbsp; Marvin Agustin has definitely found a career outside show business. Even without a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[2927,2928],"class_list":["post-9055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment-ph","tag-marvin-agustin","tag-restaurateur","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}