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How to rebuild a restaurant chain

A Deeper Dive: Jim Greco, CEO of the fast-casual chain Tijuana Flats, joins the podcast to discuss strategies for helping struggling chains rebound.

How does a restaurant chain come back from bankruptcy?

This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features Jim Greco, the CEO of the recently-emerged-from-bankruptcy Tijuana Flats.

Greco is an industry veteran who has engineered turnarounds at Bruegger’s and Sbarro. He recently took over Tijuana Flats, the fast-casual Mexican chain, and is working on that comeback plan.

We wanted to talk with him to go over the best strategies for resuscitating struggling restaurant chains. It’s an important topic because a lot of companies are doing just that. So we talk about the importance of operations, marketing and, of course food.

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