Value Added: This painter must beat the clock to get his cash

23 May 2013 – I am on a leafy street in McLean on a breezy May morning, trying to make sense of the business oddity unfolding before me.

Here is veteran Washington restaurateur Craig Merrills (the man behind Madhatter and Cedar) standing on a front lawn directing a small army of painters crawling over a four-bedroom colonial.

They are racing the clock as part of Merrills’s latest business venture: Wow 1Day Painting, a Vancouver, B.C.-based painting franchise company that Merrills brought to Washington less than six months ago.

Read Article at [Washington Post].