Panera Bread/Au Bon Pain: Ron Shaich

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We were making spinach croissant. We buy the spinach frozen. We didn't have a way to to get rid of the water. Somebody came up with the idea, Well then let's buy a dozen clothes dryers and we'll we'll put the spinach in the clothes dryer. That will dissipate the water. Uh was a great idea until one day we blew the top off the uh the dryer and ended up with spinach in all three thousand square feet of the production space. From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Raz and on today's show, how Ron Shake built a successful bakery called Oboom Pan. and then took a big bet to build an even bigger restaurant chain. An era. Ranshake isn't a household name like Say Howard Schultz.

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