Food

How Melt Shop evolves its menu in sync with today’s tastes

CEO Spencer Rubin continues to focus on big, bold flavors and craveable formats as the concept grows.

The Melt Shop grew from a concept serving best-of-class grilled cheese sandwiches and melts to offer fried chicken, mac and cheese, and wings. Throughout the brand’s growth, new menu extensions had to fit founder and CEO Spencer Rubin’s basic criteria: How do we “Melt Shopify” it with big, bold flavors and other points of differentiation?

Listen as Rubin talks about The Melt Shop’s evolution and how he is growing and positioning the concept for a post-pandemic world. 

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