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How Just Salad finds people to keep growing

Nick Kenner, founder of the 50-unit salad chain, joins "A Deeper Dive" to talk about the chain’s growth challenges.

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How does a growing chain find enough workers to staff its restaurants?

This week’s edition of the Restaurant Business podcast “A Deeper Dive” features Nick Kenner, founder of 50-unit fast-casual salad chain Just Salad.

He talks about the challenges to that growth, including how the company finds workers and trains them to continue staffing new restaurants. He also discusses the chain’s unique reusable bowl program and talks at length about delivery and digital.

Please have a listen.

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