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Former McDonald's CEO Tried to Turn Famous Dave's Into a 'McRib'
“He tried to turn Famous Dave's into a McRib. Got rid of a lot of the history of Famous Dave's. There was a lot of fun antiques that were part of the decor. He started pulling the stuff off the walls. He started getting rid of you know, our honey buttered cornb…”
Daymond John Calculated McDonald's Paid More Than Dealing Drugs Risk-Adjusted
“I remember doing the math one day about you know, if I were to work in McDonald's, and if I were to sell drugs over the course of five years, where, when I make more money, and it looked like I would make more money at McDonald's. Because if you look at the dr…”
Neman: Sweetgreen was built to reach 3,000 locations like McDonald's
“The vision was we want to be the next version of McDonald's. So we had, we built it to be that. It was never built to get to two 50. It was built to get to 3000.”
Chick-fil-A leads the fast food industry in sales per square foot
“The most successful quick service restaurant in the world in terms of the yield sales per square foot is Chick-fil-A. They beat everybody. Shake Shack, In-N-Out, McDonald's, even though they don't have as many locations, a typical Chick-fil-A does about eight …”
Daymond John: McDonald's nets more over five years than dealing drugs
“I've always been somewhat analytical, and I remember doing the math one day about you know, if I were to work in McDonald's, and if I were to sell drugs over the course of five years, where, would I make more money, and it looked like I would make more money a…”
Perlman: Zumba Has More Locations Globally Than McDonald's
“We have more locations teaching Zumba than there are McDonald's in the world.”
Ells: McDonald's invested around $360 million in Chipotle over seven years
“Over a seven-year period, I think they put in three hundred and sixty million dollars or so, but the majority of that was in the last couple of years.”
Ells: We refused McDonald's franchisees because our unit economics were too good
“Well, so McDonald's has a very strong franchise system, and their franchisees obviously wanted, wanted a part of Chipotle. And, you know, certainly they would have been capable of operating Chipotle. There are a lot of good operators in the McDonald's system. …”
Perlman: More locations teach Zumba than there are McDonald's globally
“We have more locations teaching Zumba than there are McDonald's in the world.”
Bosch launched SmartSweets using $8,000 saved from working at McDonald's
“I had probably at that point around 8000 dollars from just saving since I was starting at McDonald's back when I was in my early teen years.”
Murrell: Five Guys initially paid seven times McDonald's price for buns
“We were paying about seven times For a hamburger bun as McDonald's was then.”
Five Guys paid seven times more for hamburger buns than McDonald's
“We were paying about seven times for a hamburger bun as McDonald's was then.”
Five Guys priced early burgers three times higher than McDonald's
“I think we were selling something for like three times, four times what McDonald's was selling for, which everybody said we were crazy, we wouldn't make it that way, but we didn't let the kids know how much we were paying for any of the food.”
Bosch illegally worked at McDonald's at age 13
“So when I was 13 I went and Got a job at McDonald's. I was, like, an illegal worker at the time for a year because I saw really how her having dependence on someone else impacted her so greatly.”
DiGiovanni almost worked as an undercover food inspector for McDonald's
“I was preparing to accept a job at McDonald's, And it was actually a, you know, it was a really cool job that I'd gotten lined up with them. So it was a corporate job. And if you boil it down, frankly, I was just going to be an undercover food inspector for Mc…”
Rich Fulop pursued puppy portraits and vertical hot dog ventures before Brooklinen
“I had a puppy portraits business that I was trying to pursue. And I was also I was really passionate about these European style hot dogs that you eat vertically in like a baguette that I experienced when I traveled. And I wanted to really start like the next, …”