Antonio Swad
22 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 6, 2026 by Guy Raz · across every show →
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Apr 6, 2026
Apr 6, 2026 negative
Swad sued Wingstop's buyers to recover the $12 million owed on his note
“Well, me and that one lawyer, we sued him. And keep in mind, they owed me twelve million dollars. Okay, that's a lot of money to a young, young man from Ohio who started off at the dish machine, you know. So I sued him. I sued him for my money.”
Apr 6, 2026 positive
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Apr 6, 2026 negative
Wingstop's private equity buyers diverted cash flow to avoid paying Swad's note
“Instead of using the money to make the payment to me for the company that I built, they took the money and they built corporate stores with it, which was adding to the intrinsic value of the company. They were bonusing themselves. If it ever looked like at the…”
Apr 6, 2026
Swad sold Wingstop for $22 million, carrying a $12 million seller note
“Twenty million turned into twenty-two million. It's got, the deal got sweeter. But it would only give me ten million at closing, and that's, that was part of the reason that we bumped the price up by 10%. Then I would carry the note for 10 years on the twelve …”
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Apr 6, 2026 positive
Franchising builds company value by using franchisee capital to scale proprietary IP
“If you want to build a company that's worth a lot of money, Franchising is a way to build it, and it's primarily the growth of the company is funded by other people. It's funded by the franchisee, and as long as I could control all the intellectual property an…”
Apr 6, 2026
Apr 6, 2026 positive
Wingstop sold beer specifically to anchor an adult concept and higher prices
“And in the early stores too, I sold beer, but it was like three percent of the sales, but I put beer in the store to position the concept as an adult concept and not fast food. Because I wanted people to think of it as a place where it's okay to spend more mon…”
Apr 6, 2026 negative
Apr 6, 2026 bullish
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Apr 6, 2026 positive
Wingstop acquired early customers by handing out samples to neighboring Blockbuster patrons
“Yeah, I thought that they would, it was a great food to go with movies, and I had people coming on the lot already, and that's why we sampled to them, you know, and a lot of our customers were developed from that, you know, and eventually, you know, Blockbuste…”
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Apr 6, 2026
Emotional buy-in near closing makes sellers vulnerable to unfavorable last-minute deal modifications
“The closer they get you to closing on a transaction like this, at this point, you're emotionally kind of already there. You're, you might even be spending the money, you know, in your mind. Oh, when I get that check, here's what I'm going to do first and all t…”
Apr 6, 2026
Swad strategically opened his second Pizza Patron in Dallas's densest Hispanic neighborhood
“After being open a little more than two years in that first location, I was able to open a store number two, and this time, instead of being the second densest Hispanic neighborhood, I looked for a location in the first most dense area of Dallas called Oak Cli…”
Apr 6, 2026
Swad wore a Ponderosa Steakhouse uniform under his high school graduation gown
“I was in the restaurant business since I was 15, and I remember graduating from high school, and I had my Ponderosa Steakhouse uniform on under my cap and gown, and as soon as the ceremony was over, I went straight to work and pulled my shift.”
Apr 6, 2026
Swad's original company-owned Wingstop location eventually eclipsed $2 million in annual sales
“The store that I owned, it quickly continued to grow, eclipsed a million dollars in sales. By the time the franchising program was in full swing, the store was doing well over a million dollars a year, and eventually the store did over two million dollars a ye…”