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Gregg Majewski, founder and CEO, Craveworthy Brands, Chicago, Ill., also finds his hardest conversations are internal and must be approached carefully. “If you do it right, you can build a person up and continue to develop them. If you come in too harsh, it can backfire,” he says. Majewski suggests mixing in some good with the bad, so you don’t completely demoralize a staff member. “People on your team are the hardest because there’s the relationship: You care about them and want them to be successful. So, my role is to give them the tools they need.” Be direct, Majewski says, and tell them what they did wrong, but leave them with something positive — something great they’ve done, too. Majewski tries to keep an open relationship with his employees to make conversations easier. And if there’s a problem, he jumps in immediately to talk to the employee “because the person usually knows it’s coming,” he says.

There are few things that can stand between Maddox Yates-Benter, 9, and banging the gong at BD's Mongolian Grill in Naperville. Maddox's fathers have driven more than an hour just for Maddox, who is on the autism spectrum, to ring the gong. This pure delight in a simple gong bang reverberated to inspire a string of resonant events that led to Maddox banging the gong Friday to officially ring in the start of Autism Awareness Month.

This week, we feature the uplifting story about a boy with autism whose obsession with a restaurant's gong inspired echoes of kindness.

Nine-year-old Maddox Yates-Benter will kick off Autism Awareness Month by ringing a gong at BD's Mongolian Grill in Naperville.

bd’s Mongolian Grill is a part of Royal Oak Restaurant Week 2016! February 26 – March 6, bd’s will feature 3-course lunch and dinner menus at $15 and $25, respectively.

Chef Stephanie Goldfarb Creates Five Unique Recipes for Leading Stir-Fry Chain

Funds Raised will Connect Hungry Children in America with up to 42,000 Additional Meals.

General Manager Jenny Phan and manager Ryan Reynolds were featured Monday morning on Fox 2 Detroit’s ‘Meatless Monday’ Cooking School (10/26/15).

bd’s Annual Workshop 2015 was held in San Diego, California

bd’s partners with American Cancer Society to host multi-location fundraising event for Relay For Life.