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...
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker: A Former C.E.O. Says Activist Investors Are Killing American Business
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,...
Full Disclosure: Breadwinner – Ron Shaich on the many ups and downs that went into growing the hit restaurant chain Panera
How Ron Shaich started and grew Panera Bread into one of the best performing restaurants in market history. He's also chairman of CAVA, which recently acquired Zoёs Kitchen, and manages Act III Holdings, a $300 million fund that invests in brands focused on long-term results.
How I Built This with Guy Raz: Panera Bread/Au Bon Pain: Ron Shaich (2018)
In the early 1980s, Ron Shaich bought a small, struggling Boston bakery chain called Au Bon Pain, and built it out to 250 locations nationwide. Ron then saw an opportunity to build something even bigger: Panera Bread. It was the start of "fast casual" – a new kind of eating...