Panera: Ron Shaich. The Big Bet That Changed Fast Food (2018)
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Hey everyone, so today we've got an episode I still think about eight years after it first aired, is my conversation with Ron Shake, the founder of Panera, and it's full of wild twists and turns. A college kid making more money than anyone expected, a frozen spinach disaster, and then a huge bet that almost everyone else thought was crazy. And by the way, This episode inspired so many founders, including the founders of Fairy, a clothing brand, that said this particular episode changed the way they do business. Here's a story of Panera with Ron Shake. We were making spinach croissant. We'd buy the spinach frozen. We didn't have a way to
to get rid of the water and 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 the spinach in all three thousand square feet of the production space. Welcome to 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 Oboan Pan. and then took a big bet to build an even bigger restaurant chain. Panera. NWSL history is being written in real time, and the next generation is watching. This year's champions are about to leave it all on the field, and Nike's Toma El Juego is bringing a new wave of young athletes to see it firsthand, so they can elevate their game to become the champions of tomorrow.
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