John Georges likes to tell you he got his start sweeping the floors of his grandfather’s business. He likes to tell you he watches both Fox News and CNN. He likes to tell you he rebuilt the Greek Orthodox church in New Orleans after Katrina, brought the shuttered Greek consulate back after 20 years and was made honorary consul — a title he likes to tell you he never asked for.
Because John Georges cares what people think.
He says so himself, freshly returned from his other home on the Greek island of Mykonos, in a conference room at the Imperial Trading Co. headquarters, the $2.5 billion enterprise his grandfather started. Behind him sit framed photos of himself with at least four U.S. presidents…