How I Built This with Guy Raz
Panera: Ron Shaich. The Big Bet That Changed Fast Food (2018)
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エピソード概要
In the early 1980s, Ron Shaich took over Au Bon Pain, a struggling group of Boston bakeries, and helped grow it into a national chain with 250 locations. But Ron saw an even bigger opportunity in a small bakery chain in St. Louis. So he made a remarkable gamble: he sold Au Bon Pain to focus entirely on what would become Panera Bread. That bet helped transform the way Americans eat—and turned Panera into a multibillion-dollar business. What You’ll Learn How customers asking for sliced baguettes helped Ron discover a bigger business in sandwiches What he saw in a 19-store bakery chain with surprisingly low real estate costs Why Ron sold Au Bon Pain after building it into a national chain to concentrate on Panera How Panera used falling real estate and construction costs to expand during the Great Recession Why Ron believed staying on Wall Street could threaten the long-term bets that made Panera successful Production Credits How I Built This is produced by Podcast Pointman and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Follow How I Built This: YouTube → @HowIBuiltThis Instagram → @howibuiltthis X → @HowIBuiltThis Facebook → How I Built This Follow Guy Raz: Instagram → @guy.raz X → @guyraz Substack → guyraz.substack.com Website → guyraz.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices