Guy Fieri’s kids are going to have to hit the books in the event that they ever need the keys to Flavortown.
The restauranteur and TV star has informed his sons that they’re going to need to go to grad college if they need to inherit his fortune.
“I informed them the identical factor my dad informed me: ‘When I die, you may anticipate I’m gonna die broke and you are going to be paying for the funeral,'” Fieri informed Fox News final week. “And I informed my boys ‘None of this that I’ve been constructing are you gonna get except you come and take it from me.'”
Fieri, who has greater than a dozen institutions in his restaurant empire as well as to his thriving media profession, says that his strategy to leaving wealth for his kids was impressed by NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal.
“Shaq mentioned it finest: ‘If you need any of this cheese, you have gotta give me two levels,'” he mentioned. “My two levels imply postgraduate.”
He has already gotten pushback from his youngest son concerning the coverage.
“‘Dad, that is so unfair,” Fieri mentioned the highschool senior mentioned to him. “‘I have never even gone to faculty but and you are already pushing that I’ve gotta get an MBA? Can I simply get by way of faculty?”
But Fieri, who laughed all through the interview, did not appear too involved.
“They’re on their method,” he mentioned.
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