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Scott Svenson: Board disclosures led to a front-page FT story ousting CEO
“I walked back in the boardroom and shared what I had seen, and that led to a front page article in the Financial Times the next day that this CEO had been removed.”
Svenson: Restaurant price inflation caused consumers to reduce dining visits
“And then ultimately the inflationary spike that led to a lot of Price change in the industry last over the last few years started to manifest in terms of consumers eating out less or having less occasions, less restaurant visits.”
Svenson: Best-in-class restaurant brands like Chipotle and CAVA achieve mid-20s margins
“Best in class brands, Chipotle and Cava and others are in the mid twenties.”
Scott Svenson: Ousted CrestaCare CEO backed Seattle Coffee Company's launch
“Allie and I built it, and they were our backers.”
Scott Svenson: Over 90% of UK coffee was instant in the mid-1990s
“Around the world at that time, About 92% of all coffee consumed was real coffee, and eight percent was instant. In the UK, it was the inverse of that. It was over 90% instant, and the balance was real.”
Scott Svenson: Seattle Coffee Company's early food sales tripled Starbucks' share
“Starbucks food sales at the time were eight to 10% of sales, and ours were 25%.”
Svenson: Seattle Coffee Company had 68 stores and 50 in UK pipeline when acquired
“At the time we sold to Starbucks, we had 68 locations, but we had 50 locations in our UK pipeline for the next year, and we had a whole bunch of stores we were going to be opening internationally.”
Scott Svenson: MOD Pizza ovens hold 15-20 pizzas baking in 3-4 minutes
“In our ovens, we can at peak have 15 to 20 pizzas in the oven at one time, But it's still gonna take, you know, three to four minutes for that product to cook”
Svenson: 85% of MOD Pizza locations are company-owned and 15% franchised
“So today, 85% of our stores are company-owned, 15% are franchised with nine partners who were fabulous, incredibly valuable, and experienced operators”
Scott Svenson: MOD Pizza scaled from 12 to over 400 stores within 5 years
“On our fifth birthday, 12 stores in western Washington, five years later on our 10th birthday, we had over 400 stores spread across seventy-plus discrete markets around the U.S.”
Scott Svenson: MOD Pizza was US fastest-growing restaurant brand for 3-4 years
“Yeah, we were the fastest growing restaurant brand in the country for, I believe, four years. Three or four years.”
Scott Svenson: Over 95% of MOD Pizza's pre-pandemic business was in-store
“Prior to the pandemic, 95% plus of our customers would come into Maud, a restaurant, and either walk down the line and build their own product, or pick up their product and take it out.”
Svenson: Pizza is the second largest restaurant food category behind hamburgers
“Pizza, which is the second largest food category in restaurants behind hamburgers.”
Scott Svenson: MOD Pizza employs approximately 12,000 squad members
“Right now we have about 12,000 squad members.”
Scott Svenson: Joined Wall Street not knowing balance sheets vs. P&L
“When I graduated, I really had very little clarity as to what I wanted to do as a career, and A lot of people from Harvard ended up going to work on Wall Street, and I looked at it as an opportunity, frankly, very simply to make some money to pay my student lo…”