What do business and politics have in common in today’s climate? Panera Bread Founder and Chairman of the Board Ron Shaich and FoodCorps Co-Founder and CEO Curt Ellis discuss how responsible leadership can inform both business and politics and the central role that food could play. “One of the most...
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Ron Shaich is one of the most successful executives in the restaurant industry. He developed his business from a four-hundred-square-foot bakery into the chain Panera Bread, which he sold for nearly eight billion dollars. Panera, and Shaich, became instrumental in creating the “fast casual” niche of the restaurant market, which...
The Long Game: Panera Founder Ron Shaich Is Preaching Against Short-Term Thinking In Business & Politics
Ron Shaich, the founder of Panera Bread, the ultra-successful fast-casual chain, resigned from his CEO job in 2017 and is now talking more about what he sees as one of the unique plagues in American business, as well as politics: short-term thinking. We talk in this conversation about how Shaich,...
