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Ron Shaich: ‘Panera is one cafe’

Panera Bread founder, Chairman and CEO Ron Shaich shared his one-cafe-at-a-time focus at Winsight’s Restaurant Leadership Conference. He told the audience that what happens in the cafe drives more value than any other aspect of the business. The trick is in executing that across the fast-casual chain. 

 

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