You know the story . . .employee works for a company for a long time; one day, the owner comes in and says he/she is going to sell the business; employee frets, then thinks about it, talks it over with the family; employee buys the business.That's it! Just a straightforward story of a person living his dream. In this case, it's two brothers, close in age, and both worked at the store right out of city college, starting when this Canoga Park branch was opened in 1996. Through the years, they both worked their way up the ladder, eventually becoming the general manager and assistant manager, and that remains so to this day.Tile Boutique has a long history because it has a unique business model:It is both a distributor (Tile Boutique sells to other tile stores) and a Retailer who sells to you