After inaugurating its franchise program in a challenging year, Outer Banks Boil Company is eyeing future success. July 6, 2021 4 min read This story appears in the July 2021 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Outer Banks Boil Company has been serving seafood boils for nearly a decade, but its original purpose wasn’t to feed anyone. It was just to get Matt Khouri a good grade in college. The concept began as a senior project, which Khouri didn’t think would work in the real world — but it had more potential than he imagined. Since opening its first brick-and-mortar in … Continue reading For a College Project, He Envisioned a Seafood Boil Business. Then He Graduated and Turned It Into a Franchise.