[3] Chin began selling clothes out of her home in South Minneapolis[4] while she and her husband raised their five children.

Chin cooked free meals and hosted dinner parties[3] for her customers as a way of thanking them for their business.

[3] Another location, which also opened in 1984 in downtown Minneapolis served more than 1,000 customers on an average business day.

[3] In 1985, Chin, who had run the day-to-day operations, sold the rights to her name and her restaurants to General Mills.

[1] Leeann Chin died from complications of liver cancer on March 10, 2010, in Seattle, Washington, aged 77.