With Janine, 46, as MD, and Jeff, 47, as CEO, the Boost Juice group boasts 250 Boost Juice stores in 14 countries and 20 Salsa's Fresh Mex Grills across Australia.
HERE'S the romantic version of how Jeff and Janine Allis got together: a blind date at the Avalon Air Show "16 or 17 years ago" hadn't been so great but they decided to give it another shot with a second date at a restaurant and "just connected".
"Halfway through the dinner, I went to the bathroom and went 'wow, she is amazing' ... I knew I'd met my wife, I told my best friend I was getting married and within six months we married," Jeff says.
"Well, it was eight months," countered Janine, "and
I was pregnant within 12 months ... and we did see each other every single day for six months but that's another version ..."
A sheepish Jeff concedes the blind date came about because "I decided I was going to get married before
I was 30 so I asked this girl to set me up with all her girlfriends to find the one I was going to marry. Janine was fourth on the list."
"He was dating four of them when I met him," laughs Janine.
Back then, Jeff was a high-powered exec with the Austereo radio group (he signed up a couple of lads called Hamish and Andy) and Janine was a publicist with UIP, having earlier worked in all sorts of jobs including as a nanny with David Bowie.