salesman

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El Pollo Loco traces its history to the 1970s in Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico, where it was started by shoe salesman Pancho Ochoa using his family’s citrus-marinated chicken recipe.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Or as my father, the car salesman, would describe it, “they were negotiating.”

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026

Ostrover gained a reputation as a junk-bond salesman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

Some said war was all but inevitable, while one salesman who gave his name as Mehdi predicted the negotiations would succeed, saying: "The Americans are bluffing."

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

On June 29, Burry received a note from his Morgan Stanley salesman, Art Ringness, saying that Morgan Stanley now wanted to make sure that “the marks are fair.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis