Schulman: Scaling physical restaurant operations requires upfront capital unlike SaaS
Brett Schulman · Advice Line with Brett Schulman of CAVA · Jul 4, 2024 · at 41:03
Brett Schulman, co-founder and CEO of CAVA, advises Rootless Coffee founder Sean Murray on capital requirements and scaling physical locations versus software businesses.
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“Scaling restaurants is not like scaling SAS software. It takes people. It takes process. It's building physical restaurants. You're building physical roasteries. So that takes capital and it's hard to scale these things. So being able to afford the capabilities, the talent, the infrastructure before the business necessarily affords it for you through your profits allows you to scale faster and grow faster and do it sustainably and successfully.”
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