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Farmworkers use Florida march to pressure other companies
"A 5 day march is wrapping up this weekend that began from one of Florida's poorest migrant farming communities to the ritzy oceanfront town of West Palm Beach to call attention to the plight of farm workers. They're hoping to catch the attention of grocery retailers as the migrant farm workers seek better working and living conditions. March organizer gerardo Reyes Chavez. There was a case of modern day slavery where workers hundreds of workers were forced to work under threats of that for them and their families. There were arm guards here. One worker says they're paid very little and aren't treated well. Like sometimes no water. In Florida sweltering heat. And women sometimes are subjected to sexual mistreatment. They're hoping to get more stores signing on to the fair Food Program for improving, working conditions, which is already enlisted companies like McDonald's, Walmart, Taco Bell, and whole foods. I'm Jackie Quinn
AP News Radio
Chipotle looks to hire 15,000 amid continuing labor shortage
"Chipotle is looking to hire 15,000 more people. I'm Lisa dwyer. Restaurants are beginning the new year with a reoccurring problem, labor shortages. Chipotle is looking to hire 15,000 more workers, that push aims to ensure that the stores are fully staffed between March and May chipotle's busiest months, Taco Bell has more than 25,000 listings for crew members posted on its website. The national restaurant association says U.S. restaurants have added jobs for 24 consecutive months, but restaurant employment is still 3.6% lower than before the pandemic. That's the equivalent of 450,000 jobs in a November survey 62% of restaurant operators said they did not have enough staff to meet customer demand. I'm Lisa dwyer
The Dan Bongino Show
Re-Read 2017 Article 'Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire'
"This political article sums up the whole thing It's called Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire It was written right as Trump was getting into office January of 2017 It explains everything One last time easily summed up Biden is a foreign agent He was taking money from foreign countries through his son And I believe it was influencing what he was doing inside the Obama White House It's why Obama did not agree with him about a lot of his Ukraine stuff even though Biden was the point man on Ukraine The Obama team knew he was compromised and they did nothing about him making them just as guilty Biden's a foreign agent his son is taking money The Ukrainians who were paying off Biden for his influence in The White House They knew Trump knew about the scandal because a guy who was working in Ukraine Paul Manafort was Trump's campaign manager He knew the whole scam So they had to take out Trump and Manafort at the same time They made up a fake story these Ukrainians in conjunction with Democrat operatives here chalupa being one of them No not that Taco Bell thing They made up a fake story about Paul Manafort taking payoffs For pro Russia forces in Ukraine enhancing the Russia collusion narrative look Manafort with Russia too He's working with Trump And they said that the payments were documented in what they call the black ledger You can go look it up Ladies and gentlemen the story was fake There was no black ledger It was fake The whole story was fake It was a hit on Manafort and Trump at the same time because Manafort told Trump about the whole Ukrainian payoff deal with Biden and other Democrats
Dennis Prager Podcasts
What's Changed in the American Diet? Vinnie Tortorich Explains
"Go back to diet now. What changed in diet? We got away from meeting red meat, we got away from eating fish. We got away from eating fresh red meat and vegetables. And we started getting into processed foods, we got all the sugars and grains that come with that. We made processed foods, grains are very cheap. I always use Taco Bell as an example when I was in college, you got two for 99 cents. And in today's world, you can still get two for 99 cents or less. So everything else has been inflated except Taco Bell. So how do they magically do this? Every fast food restaurant can get sugars and grains is subsidized by the government. It's almost free to give to people. We have these school programs for kids where we're telling them that pizza is a vegetable. And I'm not making that's not being funny. That was done during the Obama administration. We tell people that chocolate milk is good for these kids. Strawberry flavored milk is good. They're adding sugar to milk. We're putting sugars and grains everywhere at dinner.
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"taco bell" Discussed on Business Wars
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That's better help HELP dot com slash BW. Hey, welcome back to business wars. Our guest is Mary meissen salt. She is a fast food reporter at Business Insider, and it doesn't get much faster than Taco Bell. Hey, Mary, I want to try something here. When I say chipotle, what are some of the words or images that come to mind? I mean, guac probably first of all, right? I love a burrito burrito bowl. And kind of their restaurants have that like iconic wood finish look. Yeah, I think sort of industrial almost, right? Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah. All right, I'm going to try another phrase. Taco Bell. What comes to mind? I mean, it's kind of not that all the restaurants look like this anymore, but that kind of neon 90s design is still the gold standard in my head. And then like a crunchwrap supreme bag full of full of tacos. Well, what about the crowds? I mean, do you notice a different clientele? Yeah, I mean, chipotle definitely skews more towards like college age and well to do higher income customers than Taco Bell. Taco Bell kind of skews younger and lower income, although there's some crossover and they're both always trying to kind of eat up the others. What accounts for that differential do you think? Do you think this is a conscious decision on the part of both chains? I mean, to a certain extent, yes, is something they're going for, for example, Taco Bell really emphasizes its reputation as a budget destination with its app and all the different meal deals that you can get. While chipotle doesn't, they'll offer freak walk or something like that, but the budgetary side is not so much their emphasis more on the quality of the ingredients. Yeah, it seems like they're really putting an accent on freshness. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. And yet, have you noticed any shift in the chipotle branding over the past few years? I mean, I know especially after chipotle dealt with issues relating to contamination of food. They were really scared there for a while. So we're a lot of chipotle fans, too. I mean, you know, there was an issue that really reached out to folks nationwide. And I'm curious if chipotle has fully recovered from that. I mean, I would say I definitely have and they kind of gave a masterclass on how to respond to something that could have completely destroyed them because, you know, your trust with customers is really everything you have, like your reputation, but now they're doing better than ever. They're seeing huge success with drive-throughs, even though that's kind of a break from their original model. And they keep raising prices and it's having basically no effect on sales. So I would say they've more than recovered. They're doing better than ever. I'm fascinated by the fact that you characterized what chipotle did there as kind of a masterclass in how to overcome this. What do they get right? So they really focused on winning customer trust back. They kind of, as we alluded to, they brought in Taco Bell executives. They really looked to the fast food industry for how to proceed and how to have staying power. So they brought in those former Taco Bell executives and kind of stayed true to their branding of fresh ingredients and kept opening new restaurants and it worked. Persistence persistence persistence, and of course trying to send the message to folks that we are doing everything in our power to make sure that the food is clean. And yet, if you were to pull back, maybe someone from another planet were to land here and they saw Taco Bell in chipotle, they saw the food on offer. I'm not sure that they would necessarily know that, you know, these two fast food purveyors were purveying food from the same category. I mean, what chipotle has is a big juicy, a burrito. That's their thing. You don't see tacos at chipotle, although I gathered that you can probably get them. And of course there's quesadillas at both, but they look different. They taste substantially different. And I wonder if they see themselves in combat with each other, or if they're sort of in their own lanes, and leave each other alone. What do you think? From what I've gathered from speaking to executives, they do see each other as competition, but not exactly in the same category. Chipotle tries very hard to brand itself as not fast food. And emphasizing their fresh ingredients and kind of their food resembles more like what it would look like at like if you sat down at a restaurant or something as far as like chicken or steak. Although they have clearly moved in a fast food direction with hiring these executives from Taco Bell and especially in their huge emphasis in the last year or two years or so on drive-throughs, especially. And almost every new restaurant that they're building has a drive-through, which is kind of like the hallmark of fast food. Yeah, I guess so. And it's a little jarring for people who've eaten at chipotle for some time. It's like, wait a minute. What? It's a drive-through. You can do that. Absolutely. When I visited chipotle headquarters, they also told me that they worked really hard in their branding to kind of get across to customers that it's not a traditional drive-through because you can't order it the window, which is another perk in their eyes because it forces you to download their app and interact, which means you're more likely to come back. You're more likely to spend more. So it's a huge win for them. So it's really more of a pickup than it is an actual drive-through as we think of it. Yes, yeah, it's more like somewhere between curbside pickup and a drive-through. Well, speaking of picking, do people usually pick one over the other? Is there any is there much of a crossover?
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"taco bell" Discussed on Business Wars
"Mary meissen saw welcome to business wars. Hey, thank you for having me. Now, you cover fast food for Business Insider. And when it comes to Mexican fast food chains, I have to ask. This is you have to take off your reporter head here. Do you have a favorite? I mean, I'm a huge Taco Bell fan. I could eat it pretty much any time. I actually reached a limit the other day, which was kind of stunning for me. I feel exactly the same way about Taco Bell, but I think I ordered too much. You know, I was one of those nights where you just really order way too much. And I actually topped out, you have a go to? I love the spicy potato taco. I was so thrilled when they brought that back. I could eat that every day, honestly. Yeah, well, I've tried the Mexican pizza. The new Mexican pizza. And I have to say, it tastes different to me. Just a little bit different than the first one, but maybe I'm being nostalgic about that. What do you think? Yeah, I mean, I see what you're saying. It's hard to say. It's possible to have different suppliers or something, but I still like it. I understand you actually got a chance to visit the Taco Bell test kitchen for an article you wrote, that's pretty darn cool. What was it like walking in? Can you describe it for us? Yeah, so everything is themed like a Taco Bell restaurant, but turned up ten times, like painted on the walls. You can't forget that you're in Taco Bell headquarters. And then in the menu testing room for the test kitchen, there were the make line that they would have normally in the kitchen and a restaurant, but it's in front of a bunch of conference room type seating. So you can watch them make something for you and then try it and kind of say, you know, oh, it needs this. I like this aspect of it, stuff like that. You know, we're talking about test kitchen here. I'm sort of imagining a mad scientist's lab with bubbling pots, but this almost sounds like it was created for the stage. You know, you have all these graphics on the wall and the whole deal. Are they actually doing bona FIDE taste tests and hearers this the show that they put on this kind of an extension of their brand footprint, if you will? A bit of both. So they do like invite influencers and it's made to be photographed and shared as a video. But then there are also they really do have people both work at Taco Bell and other customers who come in and sit in these little booths and they'll be given through the wall two different dishes and taste them both and then give their impressions and say which one they prefer and then talk about takes that into account when they decide what to move forward with. I heard that you can actually ask them to make up your own creation. I guess it's always the same 5 or 6 ingredients kind of just remixed but pretty much any combination of those I've had is always good and yeah, they were happy to make whatever combination when I visited it was the new vegetarian protein that they're testing. So putting that in a crunchwrap supreme on the Mexican pizza, kind of however you wanted it. Did you try any of it? Oh yeah, it was great. I actually had them put it in the potato taco and they went together so well. You say this actually tastes tasted good did it taste like meat or no? I would say it's not like the same as the beef that you would get at Taco Bell it's definitely its own distinct thing, but it was really good. Like the seasoning, it almost feels like some kind of like chorizo or like a spicy like crumble meat that you would interesting. Out of everything that you tried, did anything stand out to you sort of as number one was there something that's like yeah, they gotta roll this out soon. I mean they didn't they didn't let us try too many potential new things but I'm hoping that they do bring that plant based protein to more markets because I would love to try it on more dishes. Did you get a chance to see how they actually come up with this stuff? I mean, I'm guessing that they don't just spin a wheel and add whatever the arrow lands on. Yeah, so they kind of take into account from the executives and workers I talked to. They take into account what they're hearing from customers and restaurants and on social media and vegans and vegetarians are a huge part of their customer base. So they said, you know, they've noodled with potentially doing a dairy free cheese at some point, but I mean, there's nothing right away in the works, but that's kind of how they think about it. So I have to ask about the business side of this. Taco Bell seems to be somewhat more adventurous when it comes to adding new items and kind of mixing things up and experimenting. Am I wrong about that or no? No, you're exactly right. They kind of have established a reputation as bringing a lot of short term limited time offerings to their menu. So they have kind of a built in excitement with their fans of knowing, hey, there's going to be this new item and it's only going to be available for a few weeks or months. So they've kind of created a cycle of help around items that come in and out. So they can afford to have the added complexity of changing their menu more frequently. But I've always been curious because, you know, it seems like some of the best known restaurants, some of the most successful restaurants in this country are known for one or two signature products. Do you sense that Taco Bell is kind of fishing around for that signature product and maybe it's the Mexican pizza. I don't know, but when I think about like a signature product from Taco Bell, I'm not sure I know what that is. It's not necessarily the tacos. Yeah, I mean, I would say if it was anything, it's probably like a crunchwrap supreme, but they do have the advantage of almost every menu item using pretty much the same basic ingredients so they can afford to experiment and kind of people associate them with those combinations. You know, when we were talking about the possibility of vegetarian options, you revealed that your favorite Taco Bell. So I'm assuming you're not a vegetarian. No, I'm not. And yet you didn't mind the taste experience that you had when you had that mash up of not real meat and the potatoes. So I'm wondering you think that Taco Bell could be instrumental in perhaps getting folks off of off of beef? Yeah, I think if a mainstream fast food chain is going to have success with it, I would put my money on Taco Bell because they do already have kind of those other protein options like people get beans and it kind of has that reputation among people who already don't eat meat. And people already kind of understand that they things are able to be swapped when you order a taco or whatever your menu item of choices. So I think that they are kind of poised to have it be more successful than like McDonald's mcplant, which kind of didn't go anywhere. Taco Bell also seems to be in it for younger people too. I mean, when you look at the numbers, does it seem like Taco Bell sort of speaks to a younger clientele, then, well, certainly than chipotle, I would think. Yeah, absolutely. A big part of that is even as prices are going up. Taco Bell still has relatively inexpensive fast food and it certainly has a reputation for being kind of one of the cheaper chains where you can get a taco for a couple bucks. So that goes a long way. And then they also have invested a lot in kind of staying relevant, like pop culture wise, like teaming up with Lil Nas X and Dolly Parton, even though she's an older star, she has a lot of resonance with younger people. Well, we are talking about Taco Bell, but inevitably chipotle has come up and chipotle has some tricks to try to win over Gen Z our guest Mary meissen Saul is a journalist covering fast food at Business Insider and after the break.
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"taco bell" Discussed on Business Wars
"A few weeks later, at Taco Bell headquarters, mentioned his team present their findings to Taco Bell chief Greg creed. Mensch leads the presentation. Instagram and social media have changed attitudes to food. Young people no longer see food as fuel. They want food that's an experience, something they can share and gain social currency from. Colleague Jeff fox takes up the baton. We call these customers fast foodies. Their adventurous social. They seek the exotic and quirky, and they've replaced the punk spirited generation xers who wanted their food to be fast, filling and cheap, creed, interjects. So how do we win over these fast foodies? Drop the think outside the bun slogan. That treats food as fuel and having delicious and convenient food isn't enough now. It must also be memorable and shareable. Any thoughts on a replacement? We're thinking live moss moss being Spanish for more, right? It captures the fast foodies adventurous nature. But you'll also need new products that appeal to this demographic. We're developing a Doritos taco shell. That adventurous enough, the admin grin. It sure is. By fall 2011, Taco Bell's reboot is good to go. It's got its live moss slogan, Lorena Garcia's finalizing her recipes for the cantina bell menu, and after three years and 30 prototypes, Frito lay and Taco Bell have perfected the Doritos taco. Taco Bell's about to mark 50 years by showing chipotle and the Instagram generation, then it snow fast food, dinosaur. Well, the midterm elections are upon us. I hope you're ready to vote because all 400 35 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 seats in the senator up for grabs. Of course, we need to fill these roles with the most qualified people, which is not an easy task. But not every role has to be that difficult to fill, especially if you're hiring for your business. That's because there's zip recruiter.
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"taco bell" Discussed on Business Wars
"On the countertop in front of Gomez, are a dozen hard shell tacos, all lined up like targets at a fairground shooting gallery. Gomez aims, and let's rip. Doritos dust blasts out. The tacos turn from yellow to orange, Gomez circles at tacos. I ain't them to make sure he hasn't missed a spot. By the time he's done, the tacos encounter top are covered in orange dust. A colleague enters the kitchen. They're good to go. Yeah, let's see what the Guinea pigs think. In a small, narrow room nearby, a dozen people are seated in cubicles facing hatches in the wall. They are the Guinea pigs. Food testers hired to sample whatever creations Taco Bell puts before them. The hatch is open to reveal trays bearing the next test item. On the trays, our tacos covered in orange dust and filled with seasoned beef, sour cream, lettuce, cheese, and tomatoes. The man in one cubicle leans in for a closer look. That orange dust looks familiar. He runs his index finger along the taco shell, the dust collects on his finger. He licks it and his eyes widen. No way. It's a Doritos taco. He grabs the taco, pivots his head 45° and bites in. But instead of the classic crack of a Doritos chip, there's the gentler snap of a Taco Bell shell, and the tangy Nacho cheese chip flavor he expected is overpowered by the familiar Taco Bell flavors. In the cubicles next to him, the initial excitement is also fading. The concept's great, but the executions awful. This prototype only offers disappointment. The
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"taco bell" Discussed on Business Wars
"Going to be addressing a room full of shareholders in Wall Street analysts. He planned to thrill them by talking up Taco Bell's plans to move into breakfast and expand internationally. But now, a shadow has fallen over today's shareholder summit. The newspapers are full of reports about how dozens of Taco Bell customers in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are now sick with E. coli. Novak knows this foodborne bacteria is serious. It can cause kidney failure, even death. In 1993 an E. coli outbreak nearly destroyed the burger chain Jack in the box. After four kids died and more than a hundred people were left with permanent injuries, including brain damage. He figures being up front and transparent is the best, and only viable strategy here. An hour later, Novak enters the shareholders meeting. Places packed in everyone's wondering how he's going to handle the E. coli outbreak. He sits at the table on the stage and talks into the mic. I want to open by talking about the E. coli outbreak that's been linked to taco bell. First, may I wish those infected a swift recovery? Naturally, yam and Taco Bell are working with authorities to isolate the cause. The current thinking is the contamination originated at a distribution center, not at our restaurants. An analyst in the front row raises his hand. What makes you think that? The CDC believes that since so many restaurants are involved, it's most likely that the food was contaminated before it reached our restaurants, but nothing certain until the investigation is complete. Another audience member asks a question. Did your beef cause the outbreak? We don't think so. Green onions seem the prime suspect right now, but more tests are needed. Whatever the source, we have thrown out all the food at the restaurants involved in order deep cleans before they reopen. A shareholder raises her hand. How will this affect Taco Bell's sales? Too soon to know. But I wouldn't be surprised if this has a short term negative impact. The questions stop. The shareholders and analysts are satisfied. That day, despite the bad headlines, yum, stock rises 2.6%. But Novak's relief won't last. In the days that follow, more customers get sick. The family of an 11 year old who caught E. coli after eating at Taco Bell. Sues. The stock market's initial confidence, crumbles, and yum stocks starts to fall. Health authorities identified Taco Bell's lettuce as the source. And worried customers dessert Taco Bell. In the final quarter of 2006, Taco Bell's sales dropped 5%. And in February 2007, hopes for a speedy recovery vanish after rodents invade a combined Taco Bell and KFC in Manhattan. A disturbing story developing right now in the west village. Rats in a popular fast food restaurant. CBS two's McGee Hickey live in the west village now with more disturbing pictures so we should warn our viewers McGee good morning. Good morning. If you're having your breakfast, you may not want to see this is an amazing site here on 6th avenue and west fourth street. This KFC at Taco Bell, more than a dozen rats running around in this closed KFC Taco Bell. They've been running under the tables up on the chairs under the garbage can. Yum, permanently shuts the infested restaurant. But the TV footage of the rats at Taco Bell hammers sails again. In the first three months of 2007, sales plunge 11%, and they keep sliding for the rest of the year. And while Taco Bell tries to recover, chipotle, keeps chipping away at its lead. In 2010, chipotle opens its 1000th restaurant, and while its local fan base of well heeled millennials helps chipotle ride out the economic crash. Taco Bell's reheating the same old value menu tactics it's been using since the late 80s. People everywhere are experiencing a breakthrough. I am full. Fullness from a value menu. Guess who got four
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"taco bell" Discussed on Business Wars
"1978, Oakland international airport, California. Taco Bell chairman Robert McKay scans the tables in the coffee shop. In a corner, he sees Belle nursing a coffee. He takes a deep breath and heads over. Belle looks up at McKay. Good to see you, Robert. McKay glares at bell. He's in no mood for pleasantries. He only learned last night that bells, selling Taco Bell. Why'd you do this, Glen? Why didn't you talk to me? Belle looks into his cup of coffee. Because you would have talked me out of it. Glenn, taco bell's expanding fast, we're doing so well. Why cash out now? If the business was in trouble or growth at peak, okay, sure, but we're just getting started. In a few years, it'll be worth a whole lot more. I need the money now. The railroad needs lots of cash up front. The railroad. Yeah. You should come up to tuolumne and see it. It's really something. Glenn, I don't even know where tuolumne is. But I'm not asking you to give up on it. I'm just saying wait a few more years. Then you'll have all the money you need and more. Belle looks down at his coffee again. Sorry, it's too late. I already signed a contract with a brokerage promising I would sell. There's no turning back. McKay slumps in his chair. You've already committed to this? So I'm wasting my breath here? Sorry, Robert, but it's my company. I'm the founder, the biggest stockholder. And I have the right. Look, I understand, but why Heinz? Come on, why Hines? What can they do for Taco Bell aside from cheaper ketchup? They know nothing about running restaurants. They asked to buy. It's really that simple. McKay pauses, then leans forward. Glenn, at least give me a shot at finding another buyer. I might find a company that will pay more. Heck, we might even be able to start a bidding war. I don't know. Heinz expects to deal before the months over. I agreed to that. Well, never mind that. How much time can you give me? Ten, maybe 14 days? McKay stands. Where you going? To find a better buyer before it's too late. In the days that follow, McKay races from city to city, seeking a buyer willing to start a bidding war with Heinz. He visits Quaker oats, Campbell's soup, Beatrice foods, and even tobacco giant RJ Reynolds. They're interested, but none feel like a good fit. The only interested party that does. Is PepsiCo, the soda and snacks giant, but it's just bought Pizza Hut and isn't sure if it's ready to buy a second fast food chain. And while PepsiCo dithers, Heinz. Ups the pressure. One 30 a.m. Friday, January 26th, 1978. An upscale hotel in Irvine, California, close to Taco Bell headquarters. John Gorman glances side to side to reassure himself no one's watching. As he waits for the elevator to arrive. Gorman used to run operations at Taco Bell. Now, Glenn bell's hired him as the chief negotiator, and there's a reason he's on edge. The negotiating teams from all the companies vying to buy Taco Bell from Heinz to Beatrice foods have set up camp in this hotel, and everyone spying on everyone else and tracking their comings and goings. The elevator doors open and Gorman slips inside. He reaches to press the button, but as he does, a Campbell super attorney appears from nowhere and joins him in the elevator. Gorman pulls his hand back. The Campbell Soup man smiles. After you, Gorman smiles back. No, no, you first, I insist. The man presses the button for the 7th floor. Gorman's going to the 6th floor where Heinz's team have called him in for a late night powwow, but he doesn't want this guy to know that. He presses the button for the 8th floor as a decoy. A few minutes later, Gorman emerges from the stairwell onto the 6th floor. He heads towards Heinz's suite at the end of the corridor, two men are sitting outside, keeping guard. Wordlessly, Gorman lifts his arms. He's used to this routine now. One of the men pats him down to check there's no recording devices. He finds nothing. Okay, he's clean. The other guard knocks on the door. The door opens and Gorman slips inside. In the Swede, Heinz president and former Irish rugby pro, Tony O'Reilly is sitting at the large table. But instead of greeting Gorman with the usual smile, O'Reilly looks stone faced. Gorman takes a seat. So what's up? I'm getting the feeling you're leading us on. You've been arguing about the small stuff for days. I feel like we're the girl you're only gonna marry if no one better comes along. I've told you Glenn bell wants an all stock deal. He doesn't want most of his money disappearing in taxes. Well, we're not doing all stocks so here's what's happening. We don't have a deal signed by 7 a.m. Eastern Time Monday. We're going hostile. I don't want a shotgun wedding, but you're leaving me little choice. Gorman can tell O'Reilly's not bluffing. O'Reilly's figured out that none of the other companies in this hotel are ready to do a deal with Taco Bell before Monday. But not every contender is in. This hotel. Saturday, January 28th, 19 78. Taco Bell headquarters Irvine, California. Taco Bell chairman Robert McKay smiles. As Pizza Hut cofounder Frank Kearney leads PepsiCo's delegation into his office. They dropped everything and flew in from New York, the moment they heard Heinz is going hostile. But they've got less than 48 hours to negotiate a deal worth $100 million. McKay welcomes the PepsiCo team. I'm really glad you're here. PepsiCo's are ideal buyer. We already sell Pepsi beverages. You're already in restaurants. We think it's a much better fit for us than Hines. Kearney nods. We agree the way I see it tacos are the next trend. Right now it's where pizza was when my brother and I started Pizza Hut was seen as an ethnic food, but it'll go mainstream in the next decade. We want to buy you. So what will it take to get a deal over the line? That's got to be all stock, and that's non negotiable. Glenn bell doesn't want to get hit by a multi-million dollar tax bill, huh? The PepsiCo team exchanged glances. PepsiCo president andro Pearson replies. We can do that. Now we've got under 48 hours to make this thing happen. So come on, let's get going. For the next 24 hours, the Taco Bell and PepsiCo teams work nonstop to pull a deal together. By late afternoon the
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"taco bell" Discussed on Business Wars
"May 1995, a Taco Bell in New York City. CEO John Martin freezes as people surge towards the counter. It's just hit 1 p.m. and that means the biggest food giveaway in restaurant history is on. A mass of bodies presses up against the counter shouting orders and waving their hands. None of them know or care that he's the CEO of Taco Bell. They just want their free lunch. Wow, they're everybody. Your free border likes meals and coming right up. If you also want to drink, let me know because those aren't free. Martin grins as he hands out the bags of free food. The people at the front snatch them from his hands and sink back into the crowd to be replaced by new faces. Martin feels like he's in a Shark Tank waving around a giant steak. And this $16 million giveaway won't be over for another three hours. But deep down. Martin knows this giveaway. Is a last ditch attempt to drag himself out of a hole of his own making. Two years ago, Taco Bell's explosive growth ended when its fast food rivals finally neutralized its value menu with their own cut price options. So Martin hit on a new plan for attracting new customers, a low fat menu to appeal to the health conscious. They named it border lights and started customer testing. But Martin ended the tests after just three months, and ordered a coast to coast rollout. Now, he's paying the price for his impatience. The border lights menu added another 8 ingredients for Taco Bell restaurants to handle, and that's massively slowed down the cruise. Before border lights, Taco Bell's churned out orders in less than three minutes on average. Now, the average order takes more than 5 minutes. For a business that sells most of its food in the two hour lunchtime window, that slowdown is fatal. Before border lights, the Taco Bell could sell $900 of food an hour. Now, they manage less than $500. Instead of growing the business, border lights is strangling it. So Martin ordered a massive giveaway in the hope that it would switch enough people onto Taco Bell's low fat options to make up for the shortfall. That day, Taco Bell gives away millions of border lights meals. But it makes no difference. With sailed sliding, Taco Bell quietly drops border lights. And Martin resigns after 13 years in charge. By then, Taco Bell's corporate overlord PepsiCo has decided to get out of the fast food game. In January 1997, it announces it will spin off taco bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut, into an independent company called tricon global restaurant. Taco Bell is now the problem child of the tricon family. And the pressure is on to find a fix. And that's when Taco Bell's ad agency comes up with an offbeat campaign idea that seems like the perfect attention grabber. July 1997, a recording studio in Los Angeles. Voice actor Carlos alazraqui stands before the microphone and waits for instructions. He got the call yesterday. Taco Bell is working on a new ad campaign starring a chihuahua who says, yo chiro Taco Bell, I want Taco Bell. Al is rocky's job is to voice that doggy. The ad executives in the booth stop chattering among themselves, and speak to Alice rocky through his headphones. Okay, Carlos, so to reiterate you're a street chihuahua and you want the Taco Bell that some guys eating. But you're not really a dog. The dog's really the Taco Bell customer. He's like a 19 year old trapped in a dog's body. A cool 19 year old, you know? We want Taco Bell customers to see themselves in this dog. Okay. Shall I just go ahead? Yeah, yeah, we're ready. Hey, yo Kyoto Taco Bell. Uh, yeah, yeah, a little bit too aggressive. Let's go again. Hey, yo, Taco Bell. Yeah, not working for me. We could, what have I tried like I'm asking for privileged information? Okay, sure. Sure, give it a go. Yo chiaro Taco Bell. Alice rocky waits as the men in the booth talk amongst themselves. He sees them smile. The ad man comes back over the headphones. I think you just nailed it. Let's work with that. Couple of weeks later, the new ads debut with a bug eyed chihuahua begging for Taco Bell. The campaign immediately catches fire. Yo chiro Taco Bell becomes a national catch phrase. The dog in the ads lands movie roles and appears on access Hollywood, Entertainment Weekly declares that chihuahua, a hot trend. And Taco Bell restaurants do brisk trade in toy chihuahuas. The chihuahuas so popular that Jack in the box launches a parody ad where Taco Bell chihuahua meets the burger chain snarky clown. Yeah, so. You're a dog. It's not like dogs are picky. Do me a favor. Tell your owner about the sour dough check. It's a juicy quarter pound patty covered with melting cheese and bacon stacked on crunchy sourdough bread. It's amazing. But for all the buzz. Taco Bell's still barking up the wrong tree. Instead of rising, Taco Bell sales fall. The dog might delight the chain's most loyal fans. But it's not enticing anyone else to try Taco Bell. And as Taco Bell struggles, chipotle is getting intimate with its biggest enemy. Late 1997, in a chipotle in Denver, founder Steve elves is sitting with three VIP guests who flown in from Chicago to check out what he's doing. As they tuck into their foil wrapped burritos, Elle's updates them on the state of his business. We now have 16 locations all in the greater Denver area. One of the man looks at the minimalist interior. Do all your locations look as bare bones as this? Yeah, I didn't have much money starting out, so I used really functional fittings, but it's become part of the identity. It echoes what we're about. Realness, authenticity, it's why we have the open kitchen, that way people can see the foods made fresh. Shows were a different kind of fast food place. Another member of the group puts down the burrito, he's been devouring. Well, the food's great, but $5. You know, that's a lot. How many do you sell each day? This restaurant's doing nearly 1000 burritos a day. That's not untypical. Annual sales are about $14 million. People pay more because of the quality and it's all word of
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"taco bell" Discussed on Business Wars Daily
"From wondery, I'm David Brown and this is business wars daily on this Thursday, June 16th. Today, a quick trip to Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, in that suburb of Minneapolis, one story seems to be dominating local news. You've never seen a drive-through quite like this one. This is Taco Bell defy. Defy. Defy, right? It looks like a kind of like a bank, maybe. It looks like a bank. Yep. Taco Bell defy. It's the newest concept for the fast food chain, and I can confirm it does look a bit like a bank. The hype has been real for defy since it was announced late last summer and looking at the building. It's not hard to see why. It's two stories with the kitchen on top to find gravity get it. Down below are four drive-through lanes, and perhaps the buzziest part food is delivered from the kitchen to drivers via tubes, much like a bank. The store may look kind of cool, but the real point of it is to get more hungry customers to use Taco Bell's app. One drive-through lane is more traditional where you can order via an audio and video screen setup. But the other three prioritize app orders and allow customers to pick up their crunch wrap supremes and Baja blasts quickly and efficiently. Emphasis on quickly. Taco Bell president Mike Graham said the store had a goal of creating a two minute or less drive-through experience. Now if only the bank took two minutes, right? Beyond its emphasis on technology defy also represents a broader partnership between Taco Bell and one of its franchisees, border foods, it's one of the largest privately held Taco Bell franchisees in the country with more than 200 locations across the upper Midwest. It was that Minnesota based franchisee that initiated the defy concept its 82nd time building a physical Taco Bell location. My gram says partnering with franchisees to test new concepts is a quote huge unlock of learning for us. What we learned from the test of this new divy concept may help shape future Taco Bell restaurants. Right now, defy exists only in Minnesota, but hey, if you find yourself near Raleigh, North Carolina, there's another fast food location that just might scratch your itch. That's the home of Chick-fil-A's only two story location. It opened in 2012 and comes complete with an outdoor patio and atrium. Now this one isn't super high-tech, although it does have a dumb waiter that carries food to customers on the second floor beyond that the location relies on pleasant in person drive through interactions that the chain has become notorious for. While Chick-fil-A doesn't seem to be messing with its tried and true drive-through strategy, Taco Bell is pushing the envelope. And if all goes well, more defy concepts could be cropping up. And that means more tacos, less time and decidedly less gravity. From wondering, this is business war statement. I'm your host David Brown written and produced by Jessica Ross. Our executive producers aretino Rubio and Marshall will. We get support for Mack Weldon from hanging at home to that much needed vacation. The conference room to the happy hour. Mack Weldon has got you covered. Look, I'm particular about my shirts. And Mack Weldon makes him with a perfect combination of great quality at a reasonable price and a field that is second to none. I keep a stack of pima crew neck tees in different colors. There are go to for me because like everything I found at Mack Weldon. There is comfortable and classy at work as they are at play..
The Mason Minute
Exotic Foods (MM #4056)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. Last week, my wife and I were watching the history channel on Sunday nights we watched a show called the food that made America. And they were talking about tacos. I'll be honest with you. I think I can remember the first time I had tacos. Probably in the late 1960s. I know we were living in Wyoming, so I was in first grade when I had tacos, at least for the first time, or at least when I remember. And they were saying on the show, the guy who basically created Taco Bell was the one who brought mainstream hard shell tacos to the world, and at the time in the late 50s, early 60s when he was getting started, tacos were considered exotic food. And the word exotic just kind of hit me in a weird way. When I think of exotic, I think of like that bizarre food show with Andrew zimmern. Sure. I mean, I've had Elk and I've had ostrich and I've had rattlesnake and I guess those are exotic foods or maybe I don't know. I don't even know what an exotic food is. At one time, tacos were exotic. Of course, now they're one of my favorite foods that have been since forever. But now I wonder when was the first time I had a taco? Was I eating exotic food in first grade and didn't know it? Wow.
The Mason Minute
Exotic Foods (MM #4056)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. Last week, my wife and I were watching the history channel on Sunday nights we watched a show called the food that made America. And they were talking about tacos. I'll be honest with you. I think I can remember the first time I had tacos. Probably in the late 1960s. I know we were living in Wyoming, so I was in first grade when I had tacos, at least for the first time, or at least when I remember. And they were saying on the show, the guy who basically created Taco Bell was the one who brought mainstream hard shell tacos to the world, and at the time in the late 50s, early 60s when he was getting started, tacos were considered exotic food. And the word exotic just kind of hit me in a weird way. When I think of exotic, I think of like that bizarre food show with Andrew zimmern. Sure. I mean, I've had Elk and I've had ostrich and I've had rattlesnake and I guess those are exotic foods or maybe I don't know. I don't even know what an exotic food is. At one time, tacos were exotic. Of course, now they're one of my favorite foods that have been since forever. But now I wonder when was the first time I had a taco? Was I eating exotic food in first grade and didn't know it? Wow.
The Mason Minute
Exotic Foods (MM #4056)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. Last week, my wife and I were watching the history channel on Sunday nights we watched a show called the food that made America. And they were talking about tacos. I'll be honest with you. I think I can remember the first time I had tacos. Probably in the late 1960s. I know we were living in Wyoming, so I was in first grade when I had tacos, at least for the first time, or at least when I remember. And they were saying on the show, the guy who basically created Taco Bell was the one who brought mainstream hard shell tacos to the world, and at the time in the late 50s, early 60s when he was getting started, tacos were considered exotic food. And the word exotic just kind of hit me in a weird way. When I think of exotic, I think of like that bizarre food show with Andrew zimmern. Sure. I mean, I've had Elk and I've had ostrich and I've had rattlesnake and I guess those are exotic foods or maybe I don't know. I don't even know what an exotic food is. At one time, tacos were exotic. Of course, now they're one of my favorite foods that have been since forever. But now I wonder when was the first time I had a taco? Was I eating exotic food in first grade and didn't know it? Wow.
The Mason Minute
Ghost Kitchen (MM #4037)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. There's a phrase in the food and beverage restaurant, even delivery industry. You're going to be hearing more about the coming years. It's called the ghost kitchen. A ghost kitchen is basically a kitchen and a warehouse, if you will, where the people at the grill make all sorts of different types of food. And what I'm reading about is restaurants, fast food places like Taco Bell, like McDonald's, all doing these kitchens where they don't have drive up customers, they're strictly creating these kitchens for delivery sake. So if you get your McDonald's or your Burger King or your pizza delivered, it's not coming from a store necessarily. It's coming from a ghost kitchen. Then some of these kitchens are even pretending to make these foods. I've got a friend who's getting involved in the ghost kitchen industry. And he won't talk a lot about it because it's got a hush hush right now, but I'm reading more about ghost kitchens here in Nashville. And it's going to get very interesting. I have a feeling. Ghost kitchens could be the future of food delivery. Could be the future of restaurants in general because nobody wants to go sit in a restaurant anymore. You can't find help. You can't find service and the food just isn't as good as it used to be. An interesting thought.
The Mason Minute
Ghost Kitchen (MM #4037)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. There's a phrase in the food and beverage restaurant, even delivery industry. You're going to be hearing more about the coming years. It's called the ghost kitchen. A ghost kitchen is basically a kitchen and a warehouse, if you will, where the people at the grill make all sorts of different types of food. And what I'm reading about is restaurants, fast food places like Taco Bell, like McDonald's, all doing these kitchens where they don't have drive up customers, they're strictly creating these kitchens for delivery sake. So if you get your McDonald's or your Burger King or your pizza delivered, it's not coming from a store necessarily. It's coming from a ghost kitchen. Then some of these kitchens are even pretending to make these foods. I've got a friend who's getting involved in the ghost kitchen industry. And he won't talk a lot about it because it's got a hush hush right now, but I'm reading more about ghost kitchens here in Nashville. And it's going to get very interesting. I have a feeling. Ghost kitchens could be the future of food delivery. Could be the future of restaurants in general because nobody wants to go sit in a restaurant anymore. You can't find help. You can't find service and the food just isn't as good as it used to be. An interesting thought.
The Mason Minute
Ghost Kitchen (MM #4037)
"The mason minute. With Kevin mason. There's a phrase in the food and beverage restaurant, even delivery industry. You're going to be hearing more about the coming years. It's called the ghost kitchen. A ghost kitchen is basically a kitchen and a warehouse, if you will, where the people at the grill make all sorts of different types of food. And what I'm reading about is restaurants, fast food places like Taco Bell, like McDonald's, all doing these kitchens where they don't have drive up customers, they're strictly creating these kitchens for delivery sake. So if you get your McDonald's or your Burger King or your pizza delivered, it's not coming from a store necessarily. It's coming from a ghost kitchen. Then some of these kitchens are even pretending to make these foods. I've got a friend who's getting involved in the ghost kitchen industry. And he won't talk a lot about it because it's got a hush hush right now, but I'm reading more about ghost kitchens here in Nashville. And it's going to get very interesting. I have a feeling. Ghost kitchens could be the future of food delivery. Could be the future of restaurants in general because nobody wants to go sit in a restaurant anymore. You can't find help. You can't find service and the food just isn't as good as it used to be. An interesting thought.
Wisdom From The Top
"taco bell" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"King. So they call me. And this Sheila Grady says, hey, are you interested? And I basically said, well, thanks for the call. But I don't really even want to meet with you because I know what will happen. I'll get all excited about it. You'll fall in love with me. And then at the last moment, I'm going to say, I don't want to do this because I don't want to do it. I'm retired. I've worked my whole life to be where I'm at. I'm healthy. I'm golfing. Life is and it was Taco Bell that she specifically wanted to talk to you about. And it was specifically the Taco Bell brand. So anyway, a week later, Sheila drives down to Carlsbad calls me and says, I'm at the Starbucks down the street from you. Will you come have a coffee with me? So I did, and she tells me about the job. And I said, okay, well, I'll talk to the right people. Well, then I start, I talk to my daughter, what do you think about Taco Bell? Oh my God, dad, Taco Bell's the greatest brand in the world. She's a marketer for an eyewear company. She goes, oh my God, that's a cooler brand than Adidas. You got to go to Taco Bell. And of course, we're big Taco Bell fans. We eat there all the time. But I didn't really realize the brand was so cool. Then I started meeting with the people, and I love the people. And then I find out more about the brand. And it's this brand based on creativity. Breaking the status quo, innovation, kind of category of one, kind of this license as a brand to do new and cool things. And I get really excited about it. And then in June, I said, yes, I'll become the CEO. And so I started in August of 19. You moved to an entirely different category, a brand new learning experience at this phase in your career because it's food. It's restaurants. Completely different supply chain completely different business model. So presumably you're spending the first four to 6 months, just trying to understand the business, right? Guy, when I walked in the door the first day I went to the first meeting, I am like, what am I doing here, right? So it was bizarre, but the people here are so nice and they welcome me and again, I'm just going to go back to the Rita king rule, right? It's like, okay, I'm here. I have a role. I bring a lot of senior leadership. I know a lot about brands. I kind of look the same as the franchisees and I think that could be a big opportunity for me. I think the executive team needed some leadership. It was a fairly dysfunctional team at the time to bring some maybe new players in to rebuild the executive team and so I'm just going to take it one day at a time and learn. So I'm traveling around, meeting people, learning as much as I can. What's your approach in that situation? You're coming in. There's an executive team, some of whom have been with the company for a long time. You're new, they would have read your bio and they would have known your record. So there's obviously respect for your record, but you're coming into a completely different space and I think understandably, there might be some skepticism, what's your approach to start to win people over? Well, it's fairly bizarre because the first day I said, look, I'm pretty sure no one here wants me to be here and can't understand why I'm hired. Fortunately for me, I'm the boss. Unfortunately for you, I'm your boss. So we just have to figure out how we're going to do this. And I just said, look, I don't bring a lot of expertise in food or restaurant or whatever, but let me tell you what I do know about, right? I do know about people. I do know about business. I do know about how to be disruptive and I will stay in my lane and I'll learn from you and I'll help you develop as executives. And together, we're going to do great things. And it started slowly. So you come, this is really the first time that you are heading up a company that's doing well, right? It wasn't like Adidas, which was in crisis or tailor made, which was kind of in crisis. When you got to Taco Bell was doing well. And so what did you see your sort of your kind of charge at this point? What did you want to try and accomplish? I wanted to, I could see from the minute I walked in that there was some level of complacency with the culture because they had like 15 years in a row of same store sales growth of more than 3% and outpacing industry growth for 15 straight years. And so you start to get more conservative, you start to take less risk. You talk more about the past than you do the future. I mean, every successful company goes through the same thing. So I could see that I needed to bring to re energize the DNA of the company. Even though they're doing great, I still needed, I thought, to re energize the DNA, which is about disruption and big and bold. So you start the job, August 2019, and presumably you're traveling around, you're meeting franchisees. And we should point out, Taco Bell is a franchise model. So really, the power centers at Taco Bell are not with corporate. It's with franchise owners who own hundred, 200, 300 taco bells, right? Yeah, really, what the franchise or does is find new franchisees to build new restaurants because you want to add restaurants every year. And then we create the product we create the marketing. We create the ops standards that allows franchisees to operate really successful businesses. I mean, that's the model. We do own almost 500 ourselves. So we still operate and own and operate 500. But we have 7500 restaurants and 7000 are owned by franchisees. So yeah, it's a different model that I'm using. And a model which means that you are not only running so you're running a restaurant business and then you're also running kind of like almost like a trade association because you are you've got all these constituents who have sort of generally similar interests, but also diverging interest depending on where they are. So there's a lot of presumably a lot of just retail politics that you have to engage in to be successful at that job. Yeah, I think it's a lot like walking through a minefield because you have big franchisees that have a set of things that they need. You've got mom and pop that might have one, two or three restaurants. You've got middle people that so and they all have different needs because of the size of their businesses. So, and then to kind of have one blueprint that applies to all is very, very tricky. And you have to be able to bring the system along, whether it's new product launches, pricing, compliance, all operations, store hours, how you treat employees. Those are all challenges that you have to do by influence more so than mandating when you own all of the restaurants yourself. So it's very challenging, very tricky. So you're spending the first part of your tenure just learning about the business and then early into your tenure. Pandemic. Like the entire world shuts down and the immediate, the repercussions were immediately felt in the food and restaurant industry, like right away, it was, I have to imagine in March, let's say it was March, I can't remember 11th when I have to imagine that you gathered your team and you were thinking, we got to prepare for a disaster, a disastrous year. Well, honestly, you know, if you remember, we were going to be shut down for two weeks. That was the first, it was going to be two weeks. And then by the time we got to April 1st, there was no reopening in sight, right? So I would say the first two weeks, okay, we can make it through two weeks, no problem. But once we once it.
Wisdom From The Top
"taco bell" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"You couldn't get those shoes. You can't get them. Nope, there's a scarcity. Yeah. Right. But it created this brand halo and we started selling retailers, put the product in. We had all kinds of athletes in our commercials. So in 2014, we ended the year at 1.5 billion in 2018, and I left in 2018. We did $5 billion in revenue. That's insane. The Kanye story, I mean, that's a whole separate episode of this show because it's a little bit like Michael Jordan and Nike. I mean, he helped build Nike, right when they signed him in 1994 or something. Yes. And there was a guy he was when I took the job running the North American market, he took the job as chief marketing officer, his name is Eric. I know a friend. He's a really great guy. Wonderful guy. He's the one that had the courage to tell Kanye West. Hey, you create whatever product you want. We'll give you the creative freedom. And Kanye West was quoted. About a year into our deal with him. They asked him, why did he leave Nike to join Adidas? And he said this. It was one of the most powerful things, he said, Adidas gives me the ability to breathe. They want creators. They want people to come in here and challenge things and create things. They're the creator brand. And that moment, everything changed. So there's the luck, right? I mean, we could have moved headquarters. We could have, we signed an ad agency, 72 and sunny out of LA. All those things were strategic. We never could have counted on the Kanye West phenomenon. And then we did all the right things. We launched the right product. We were closer to the market. We had better athletes. And then we also, I guess there was a fourth thing guy. We just challenged the people inside. Same thing we did a tailor made. I remember it was my first all employee meeting. I said, look, we've been flat for 20 years. Adidas is this amazing brand outside the U.S.. We're going to make it amazing inside the U.S.. And we're going to do it together. And we're going to figure out how we come up with bold new ideas to break the industry orthodoxies and do things outside of normal. And we didn't have an athlete that we did the collaboration with, like Jordan. We did Kanye West. It was a cultural icon. And so we just started to do all these different things and it changed the trajectory of the company. It's so interesting because you went from golf to sports apparel, right? And it's a little bit like it reminds me of your experience at Salomon where you had ski executives kind of taking over a golf company and not really understanding it. So how are you able to understand. One thing? And this is going to sound really corny, but it's really true. This is a very true story guy. When I was in high school, I was struggling in a class. And I went to my mom and I was all depressed and I was all like mom. I'm so dumb. I don't know how to do this. And she said, look, being smart isn't having the answer, being smart is to know where to go to know where to go to find the answer. Yes. And at tailor made, we actually had something called the Rita king rule. And that you're not paid to have the answer, your paid to find the answers. And I've always had that mentality guide, like no matter what job I have, whether it was at Adidas or now a Taco Bell, you're not paying me because I have the ideas of the next burrito. You're paying me because I'm able to help find the next creative product or advertising campaign or whatever. And I've just I've never been command and control manager. I've always been about finding the solution. And what I find is that when you give people as Kanye said, the ability to breathe or create, great things happen. And so everywhere I go, things have gone well because I think it's unlocking human potential that's the key. That's the key. The Rita king rule is your mom still around. No, she passed away right before 9 11. She was four three or four packs of cigarettes a day, remember I told you about the piano lessons and she died of lung cancer at 71. But her memory lives on with the Rita king rule with the world. You have the answer. It's important you know where to go to find the answer. When we come back in just a moment, another company and another offer Mark just can't refuse. Stay with us. I'm guy Roz and you're listening to wisdom from the top. This message comes from NPR sponsor, Shopify, the all in one commerce platform to start, run, and grow your business. Shopify gives entrepreneurs the resources once reserved for big business, so they can sell everywhere, whether it's shopping in person, online, or across social networks with integrations and apps. Shopify powers millions of businesses from first sale to full scale. Go to Shopify dot com slash wisdom, all lower case for a free 14 day trial. Support for this podcast and the following message come from order groove. Do you run an ecommerce business? If so, it's time to let your customers enjoy the products they love without the friction of reordering. Order groove turns one time purchases into long-lasting relationships through subscriptions. That's why the world's most innovative ecommerce brands rely on order groove subscriptions to attract and retain their subscribers. Become the next big ecommerce subscription success story in order G ro VE dot com. Hey, welcome back to wisdom from the top. I'm guy raz. So it's 2018 and Mark kings decided to take a kind of a victory lap. After all, he turned things around for tailor made and Adidas, and Mark thought it was time to retire. Maybe give some speeches. Play some golf. At least, that was the plan. I started speaking publicly about a decade ago, and I just love to talk about changing the dynamics of a company and leadership and it's no longer command and control and how do you unlock potential of people. So I was going to play golf, give a few speeches and enjoy life. That's what I was going to do. Okay, that was your plan. That's what you would have been doing right now, but the plan did not go as planned. Nope. You got to call, I guess what? In 2019, from Yum Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell. Well, actually, I'll tell you how it happened. I was back visiting Ed stack at Dick's Sporting Goods. And I'm leaving his office. It's Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania. Lauren Hobart, who was the president of the company, is now the CEO of the company and on the board of Yum Brands. She comes running down the hallway and she says, Mark, Mark, how are you? How it's retirement, blah, blah, blah, and I hadn't seen her in a year or so. And I said, oh, God, life is great. She goes, oh my God, I got a call from Spencer Stuart, and they're looking for a CEO for Taco Bell. And your name popped into my mind. Oh, and Spencer Stewart's, which is a recruitment company. Yes, and so the Sheila o'grady, the recruiter, said to Lauren, we're looking for a CEO, any ideas. And my guess is they probably were thinking about Lauren and she said, no, but I have the perfect guy for you. Mark.
Wisdom From The Top
"taco bell" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"Them to run. Yeah, I think for me, it's the north star guy. We have this, we had this big aspiration that we were going to be the best performance golf brand. And we were going to be number one and all these categories. And we were going to change the world. And my job was to push people to push boundaries on innovation, on how we market, how we go to market, I'm less intense today than I was 20 years ago. But I think intensity from the top sets the tone and I think people really love to work in an environment where they don't have to worry about making a mistake. Clearly, Adidas, the parent company was happy with your performance. Because you were, I mean, you were there a long time. You were CEO. 34 years. 14 years, CEO of presidency. Some 14 years, what CEOs see over 14 years of the company. I think Indra knew he was a CEO for 12 years of Pepsi and that's a record. Amazing. So they basically, in 2014, asked you to leave TaylorMade and head up Adidas U.S.. Which must have been an exciting opportunity, but probably mixed feelings you're leaving. Oh, guy. I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to do it. Because I'll tell you why. Well, one, TaylorMade was my life. I had been there since, you know, other than the one year I was at Calloway, basically, was there for 1981 to 2014. And the Adidas brand in the united is great as the Adidas brand is outside the U.S.. It was, it was dead in the U.S.. It had been flat for 20 years, 1996. It was 1.5 billion. And when I went there, in 2014, it was 1.5 billion. They had been through ten presidents in 20 years. Wow. So the life expectancy was two years, they controlled everything very much like Solomon, which is very European like. They were very centrally controlled out of Germany. The only reason I did it was because the guy that I had worked for for 14 years, running tailor made, he was the CEO of Adidas the exact same time. He asked me to do it. And he said, Mark, you know, we need to fix Adidas North America. And I think you have a chance to do it. And I'll give you more latitude than I gave anyone else. So I need you to do it. And again, I honestly guide this was a career ending move because probably wasn't going to make any more money because I know I've worked for the Germans for many years. So it wasn't about money and the chance of success was probably pretty low. Right. Because Adidas dominates and dominated world soccer, football. Yes. But in the U.S., I mean, certainly 2014, when you think about the NBA or football American football, no, I can't even think of an athlete identified with Adidas, which is a Nike is all Nike. Everything was Nike. 2014, Adidas had less than 25 professional athletes in the 5 major sports. Think about that. Wow. That's crazy. They didn't really have any in the MLS. And they had none in the NHL. They had some in basketball, but none in baseball and none in football. We had RG three. We had one, one professional football player. And he had one good year. Yeah, I want to go to your own result. Yeah. I think we're still paying them. So what's the playbook you brought with you? I mean, is there you take over a company that hadn't grown in at all in the U.S. and 20 years? Yeah. Well, here's what happened and it's actually not so there was some strategy to it. There was some inspiration to it and there was some luck to it. It's three things, three elements. So I started in May of 2014, and I went over in September of 2014 after spending the summer flying around and meeting customers and colleges and consumer groups. So I went over and I met with the CEO, his name is Herbert heiner. It's still my friend today, love him. And the chairman of the board. And sat in Herbert's office, and I said, there's only a couple things that we have to do to make this potentially work. I don't know that it will. But it's potentially. I said, we have to move all of the marketing function, all of the product functions that affect the United States over to Portland. And we have to create what we would call the co headquarters for Adidas in Portland, Oregon. And they looked at me and they said, well, Mark, we're not going to do that. And I said, well, if you're not going to do it, you're not going to, we have no chance. You've been doing this for 20 years. If you ask ten really smart guys to do this and eat every time, two years later, you fire them because you do the same thing. We're not winning because the largest sports market in the world. It's 53% of the sports market is in the United States. And our headquarters aren't here. Nike is here. Under Armour is here. All the sports brands that do well. They're here. They're not in Germany. They're here. So we have to, and I know you don't want to do this. I know it's really contrary to your culture, but if you want to win, you have to move these functions from Germany to Portland. I don't have to run them because when you run a region, you run the business. You don't run the product creation, but you have to have those people on the same campus with me and with my team so that we can create marketing. So a product marketing and go to market strategies together. So they reluctantly said they would. Right. So the first thing we had to do was get closer to the market. The second thing is, guys, we don't have any athletes. So I'm going to go out and I'm going to sign 500 professional athletes. The first one I signed was Aaron Rodgers. I called my he was at I knew him very well. I sit there and I want you to come to a D, he was a big golf guy, Taylor made guy. He was up that year. He dropped his contract. He left Nike and he came on. And then we signed Chris Bryant, the baseball player. And we started signing all these world class athletes. We started signing colleges because Nike had all the colleges. So what we had to do is we had to get embedded in sport in the United States. Yes. That was the second part. And a third, we got lucky. We signed Kanye West in 2016, and he comes and he on the Kardashian show, wears a pair of shoes called triple white ultra boost. And that product had been around for two years. We were just about ready to take it off the market. It was an amazing product. It was the cushioning. Boost technology, the boost. Well, it turns into the hottest selling shoe in 2016. Wow. Because Kanye West is wearing them on the Kardashian show. On the show and then all kinds of in public and then he launches at the end of the year, a product called the yeezys. Yeezys. And the yeezys based on the success of the ultra boost, it turns into the hottest selling shoe. So now we go have from having no shoes that sell to two of the hottest selling shoes and the brand becomes cool overnight. Yes. Over.
Wisdom From The Top
"taco bell" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"All right, so you move on back to TaylorMade as president for an interim period. And 2002 you become CEO. And you take over a company that had really not grown in the 90s at all. So what was your plan? I mean, now it's your, this is your problem. Well, in 2001, we weren't really making much headway. And there was a guy in the company, his name was Robert herb, and he was a lawyer. And he said, look, if we continue to play by the industry rules, we're never going to catch up. Callaway is too good. The only way we catch up is if they make a mistake. So we have to change the dynamics of the industry. So we took a page guy out of the technology space, which is product life cycles back then in golf we're about three to 5 years. And we said, well, why don't we start launching new product every year? And because golfers really want new product, they just don't get it every year. So we completely reinvented our supply chain. We beefed up our engineers in the R&D space. We formed a partnership with a company from Taiwan to be the exclusive manufacturer of our metal Woods irons and putters and in 2001 we launched a product in the metal wood space and then we would one year later we'd launch another product and we lowered that price point a $100 from $500 to $400 and we launched a new one at 500 and then a year later we launched another one and within three years sky we had price points at 203 104 105 hundred. And these were for specific types of clubs. They were just drivers and they were the metal Woods. They were drivers, three Woods, 5 Woods, which represents the largest section, the largest portion, category of the equipment. So if you get the metal wood business, you could become the big player again. Right. Well, everyone thought we were nuts because we weren't going to be able to make margin and we were obsoleting ourselves and typical and what I learned about industries is that industries have an infrastructure. They have a mindset. They're run by industry vets. And when you, when you change the status quo, you can have quantum leaps in performance, not in years and literally months. And we went from 300 million to 600 million by 2003 and by 2008, we were a $1 billion and bigger than Callaway. That's amazing. This idea that there was a myopia in the industry. It is, it applies to every single industry, right? Because what you're describing is, the idea that you could basically introduce a new product every year was seen as stupid and you were undermining yourself and you're just going to cannibalize your own products and all those people in the industry who quote unquote know better that was their mindset. But actually it's part of that is because as an echo chamber, everybody is just talking to everybody else in the industry. That's right. And golf was so slow and so unsophisticated that when we came in and we went from driving 20 miles an hour to a hundred miles an hour, no one thought it would work. They thought it was crazy. I didn't have any big background of success as an executive, so they thought I was a cowboy that I was going to ruin the golf industry. And by 2011, we were $1.8 billion in sales. Incredible. Yeah. Really amazing. You guys also did some unusual things. You would do product unveils at like in public, right in front of hundreds of people. Like Steve Jobs like review product reveals. We actually copied Steve Jobs and I don't even really like to say this, but one journalist said marking is the Steve Jobs of the golf equipment industry. The difference is Steve Jobs was worth more than we did in revenue. So there was a little difference between me and Steve Jobs. But yeah, we took a category and we brought talking golf equipment and we brought energy and enthusiasm and I mean, I can remember standing in front of an audience of 2000 people holding this driver saying, you know what's the difference at tailor made? We give our clubs a heartbeat. And then we had the sound effects where it was boom boom. Boom. And it was so we just, we just had fun and we brought drama. I remember we brought Ed stack, who's the CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods in. And it was right after that movie where the guys go to Las Vegas and they all get drunk, hangover. Well, anyway, if you remember the scene on the top of the casino where they form the brotherhood and they cut their fingers and they share blood. So we have the most powerful man in sporting goods retail in our office and I have the knife and I'm slicing my finger and I'm saying Ed. Let's form a brotherhood. Let's do something extraordinary together. He said, hey, I love you, but I'm not cutting my finger. But we just did all these crazy things. And what happened is we attracted great talent, employees. We attracted golf professionals, club pros wanted to be a part of. It was different. It was just so different than the Callaway company, which was what would mister Callaway do. And just created this fun, exciting, open, disruptive brand and company, and just really did some amazing things. What I'm wondering, Mark, is why weren't you ever scared of those decisions? Because you were, you were, as you say, untested, you did not have a track record as a CEO. And you know, this could be your downfall. This could have been your last job. Never crossed my mind, guy, never crossed my mind, and I think it never crossed my mind because one, I never did anything for money. I mean, probably the dumbest move I ever made was leaving Calloway at their very Pinnacle to take a 50% pay cut to go to a brand that was dead, right? And yet I never thought about it that way. I thought this is how I want to spend my life. This is how I think this is how I operate. If we do the right things, the money will come. And I still operate that way today. I mean, I'm in no fear of losing my job. I'm just focused on what are the things we have to do to move forward. And honestly, guys, sometimes they work. Sometimes they don't work, right? We had plenty of product launches and things that we did that didn't work. But I'm just a believer that the world is moving so fast and those who are able to move with it have a chance to succeed. Those who won't, they have no chance to succeed. How did you find and identify the people around you who could help you make this happen? Because from my observations of you, you don't strike me in any way. So command and control CEO that you really need people around you to come up with great ideas and then you kind.
Shutdown Fullcast
"taco bell" Discussed on Shutdown Fullcast
"Will you know layer your stomach full of cheesy gordon korottchenko's specter just rose before me. Wait until the wait until the x. games generation. It's geriatric which won't be that far off and watch how early bird dinner gets marketed. as extreme. yes or fucking cram that gullet brother. Three o'clock smith horgan be in bed before dark. Perhaps that ryan you know. You're on board with this. I know how you feel about nine. pm bedtime. I am confused because The taco bell menu lists as edit lists the the caloric content of the following sports cup leads and napkins. Yeah that's taco bell. Yeah this is not doing anything to sway know what they're doing anything taco bell taco bell about to six clocks that you'll eat it that's it put it on clocks you'll eat it. It's for how amazing. What a taco bell casino be designed to. Not what time. Where did they put the taco bell resort. There's that thing. Yeah that's that's this. Spring actually already had a taco bell. Nine eleven episode. Yeah this is really. Do you remember when rip torn. Got so drunk that he broke into a bank thinking it was his house that's taco bells ideal consumer for all of this right so the person we're feeding all this food to its rip torn rights so drug broke into a bank because he thought it was his home seventeen rip torn teen rip torn torn now thirty three pm. Spencer they weren't. There's an easier and more legal way to turn your house into bank. Oh i bet. I bet i know what it is. Brian taste apparel tasted so the The tatra i was trying to remember what restaurant. You're talking about that but it's been a long time acorns dot com slash..
Shutdown Fullcast
"taco bell" Discussed on Shutdown Fullcast
"Like trash and white castle to. They're not my thing but they have. They have a little tiny ausage. Patty on the breakfast sandwich and i wish that more places would run a breakfast burger with this because you can get it without the disgusting slice of processed egg on it and it'll probably kill me very early Let's see let's let's go ahead to taco bell all right. That's the other one. I have a controversial take care. I don't think you should have a go-to order at taco bell. I as well i do. Not even their thousand times. And every time it's just sorta roll up look at the menu and like this is a quarterback who stays in the pocket so just like get whatever you want because really. We're just talking about like weather. We're running a short out to the laughter to the right or dumping into that. Every single there is cheesy crunchy. Whatever the only thing. I'll say the potatoes are good. Anything like the potato items. Come and go but all potato items at taco bell are good. I had to go to order at taco bell. Until because like i'm i'm drink driven. I'm kind of realizing as we're talking about this like deciding going to stop it's like do they have fountain mountain dew. Do they have cheer widened. Pebbles this is going to dictate where we stop more often than not. But taco bell got rid of the maximal which is a fucking travesty. So now i don't have a go-to order anymore. You can technically get one. If you ask for the they will just make a fuck. I like mexico because as simple right like you have your beef and you have your cheese and you have your pico the end and you have to get like a case. Oh roll up and tell them to add beef and pico to it and they'll say do you just want maximal and you're like yeah don't make doesn't anymore. I'm like yeah that sucks and they're like. Yeah that sucks to look also taco bell wide. You get rid of it. I'm looking. I'm looking at the breakfast menu for taco bell and it has what might be the most cursing item i've seen in this whole. I don't think i don't think our taco bell does breakfast yet. I don't think it's made its way to this part of the world because i have the potato breakfast. This item is not food. It's drink and it's cold. Mountain dew kickstart orange citrus. Oh no go on you in my line of fire. Why no what to attack the day or not trying to assault the day. Great point i want to attack me. Lots about us all like. I'm not gonna read the branding it. Because i don't feel like reading that copy but it's basically like hey you're ship bag right morning ship eggs. Hey mornings sold. Why not fuck mornings through their face with some moundou. Kicks her yeah. It's this drink. i'm sorry. Can i to read the cop. No i'm going to read the copy. Okay go ahead. yeah show boarding. Who's ball old. god read the print. It's like the worst bully of all time. Just picking on you when you're most vulnerable to tired of fight back especially those pecci pesky mondays. What have we ever do mondays anyway to treat us so right. Oh my god. What are you doing that. You feel this bad in the morning. Good hands forced me. All you soon feel good. Is the thing all your problem. But the mountain. Oh this is my favorite thing like basically like why do you feel bad the morning. But it's not our fault were awesome adult. Wanna waste a perfectly good sunday but the mountain dew kick. What are you doing on sunday. What kind of drugs doing on sunday that you feel this bet on monday. You're outlay that's right. But the mountain dew kickstart gets us type of people this little acres the cost. It's news irs the sleep through four alarm clocks or the mom busting through our room to wake us until as we have fifteen minutes to until school starts. Whatever though right this is why dirty cop. I am reading it for beta energy to fight through the fatigue and punch morning right and it's little eight. Am smack talk and mel. How adm cutting a promo on the morning. This morning is brilliant. This is perfect. This is this is written for nineteen year olds who thinks eight. Am is incredibly early. Spencer described the color of mountain dew. Kickstart orange yeah. It looks like a log flu. It's go on.
The Mason Minute
Full Circle (MM #3800)
"The Mason with Kevin Mason, the world of fast food is Ever Changing? Everybody's always looking for new ways to entice customers. But right now it looks like fast. Food is coming full circle back when they first started out. He basically walked up to an order window. Major order waited for it came and picked the bag up and walked away, and there may have been some picnic tables outside, but there was no indoor dining off course, news from Taco Bell. The first probably start. This says, they're going to create restaurants, that kind of look like bank. Tellers that are basically just pneumatic tubes with a restaurant above that. Nobody sits in basically a kitchen, send it down the tube, like at the Bangkok, you drive away. There will be lanes for people to come up and Order, and there'll be lanes for delivery people, because delivering food is becoming even more important. Now, that covid-19.
The Mason Minute
Full Circle (MM #3800)
"The Mason with Kevin Mason, the world of fast food is Ever Changing? Everybody's always looking for new ways to entice customers. But right now it looks like fast. Food is coming full circle back when they first started out. He basically walked up to an order window. Major order waited for it came and picked the bag up and walked away, and there may have been some picnic tables outside, but there was no indoor dining off course, news from Taco Bell. The first probably start. This says, they're going to create restaurants, that kind of look like bank. Tellers that are basically just pneumatic tubes with a restaurant above that. Nobody sits in basically a kitchen, send it down the tube, like at the Bangkok, you drive away. There will be lanes for people to come up and Order, and there'll be lanes for delivery people, because delivering food is becoming even more important. Now, that covid-19.
Doughboys
"taco bell" Discussed on Doughboys
"Than her. Like i was born without an off valve but there are like six four. And it's me and i'm like i can literally eat as much as them but i don't. I don't fit in my pants. I'm going for the college arden's giving it a four hundred fifty six thousand everyone story well depending on the rating of our final guest. Pf t your yours on closing argument. Your fork score go for. I was kind of excited to revisit taco bell. It had been such a long time. I have to say. I will echo that. When i'm in the mood for fast food a place like mcdonald's i feel like delivers something that feels substantial when you eat And that to me is a big a big part of if i have a craving for that kind of junk if i'm gonna if i'm gonna adult myself into something that i really shouldn't have. I have no business having then. I wanted to at least feel like i ate a meal you know and i so i eight three my wife and i shared them but i eight You know i tried three different things from taco bell. And i felt hungrier after i ate them than i did before i ate them. And there's something that feels very insubstantial about at all. And i don't know if by design what you're supposed to do as order half the menu every time you go there or something or if they're just like really. They've just really leaned into like their high clientele where they're like. Look people are just going to buy a bunch of shit. They're not they're they're tasting it in a different way. I don't know but it was very disappointing. It was really not it wasn't that it wasn't fun. You know i didn't feel like wow. I got this tastes that i never get and i really enjoyed it So and. I don't think that i really. I don't think i really ever crave it again. You know it didn't do it for me. Because there are better options out there than taco bell. And so i'm going to give it to forks wa back to three point five. It's okay so lever underwhelming. Maybe maybe it's just the branch we wouldn't do but that's the same. You know what i mean. Not at the same. Both of your so. Both of your meals came from the same taco bell and are delivered by the same. Yeah and i mean. I have if if the the the soft tacos supreme tasted exactly as i remember it from like having had five ten years ago. I can't imagine that the other menu items were anomalies. And did it taste like they do it every taco bell you could go into. That's fair that's fair. pendulum swing for taco bell. From last night reentering the golden plate club to the next night twenty four hours later being ushered out the door gives your thoughts. How do you guys feel well. I'll tell you right now. And i look. I won't be as pro. Cnn you guys are wearing your views here. But i will try my heart. I want to get better. I wanna give a shout. Greg shields from quincy nick. One of my friends who gave one hundred dollars. What's up shields. Thank mother-in-law's kathy woods. If you want to expand the quin.
Doughboys
"taco bell" Discussed on Doughboys
"If i was on a road trip and driving across the country and i get off at a rest stop. I see a bunch of like fast food. I would still go mcdonald's. Before taco bell to be really honest i love mcdonald's i really like taco bell but like i i love mcdonald's and so for that reason and all the sour cream i'm going to give it three and a half forks. I'm sorry it was all sour cream. It was odd today. fuck this. i'm afraid that was arby's it. I i love you over. Lewis no fucking over during your honest. Evaluation is the right way right way to go. I mean because i also want your chance to to trust me. That when i say like i love the cheesecake factory. They know that i mean it. You know i think i hear. I think if you had a if you had to your your high you had your expectations. We're taco bell and this order did not deliver on that three and a half forks. Three or four times is very much a fair score. So i don't feel like you have to retract under pressure from us or the chat. Ridden reorder at leg. That i would go get it and make sure the sarah cream wasn't it so i i don't i don't wanna be like the i don't wanna do it just to like fit in. This was a three and a half or quarter. I think if. I don't see i see in the chat we that we reached one hundred and fifty six thousand. Oh shit which is amazing. But now because you bumped taco bell out of golden plate wanna taking their money back okay fine okay four for for for folks. Taco bell has been nothing but good to me. I gained thirty pounds in college partially from taco bell. So because of that like the this restaurant that made me partially not fit in my pants. Let's give it back to andrea. We're back before back to fly from the flash from the past art and chowan down. Go to keep up with people that were a foot taller than her. Like i was born without an off valve but there are like six four. And it's me and i'm like i can literally eat as much as them but i don't. I don't fit in my pants..
AP News Radio
Return of the Automat Restaurant-Auto intro and wr
"Waiter Lisburn face style auto mats were thought to be the future of dining in the early twentieth century but they died out in the seventies but auto mats are making a comeback the food is in copies and you pick out what you want Stratos more friggin owner of the Brooklyn dumpling house in New York brought back the auto mats what I wanna do is have the whole concept the whole guest experience controlled by your smartphone restaurants have been struggling during the pandemic morph again says auto maps will save jobs in the long run my Gramps with Taco Bell likes the idea of some of its for safety and I want to contact with experience for other people it's I just want to be left alone and go do my thing in its Times Square cantina Taco Bell has what it calls copies Morgan says cubbies alone won't work it is the food if your food is not on point you will fail Morgan says he's already sold almost one hundred franchise options I made Donahue
The Mason Minute
Recycling Efforts (MM #3683)
"The Maison with Kevin nation in spite of confusion and cost increases in the recycling industry many companies seem to be ramping of the recycling efforts these days. I've been a big fan of the Nature Valley crunchy granola bars. I bet since they came out in the mid-seventies. I don't know why I like him so much and I go through spurts of eating them and not eating them even though they're not the healthiest alternative for me. But recently they repackage them. Same colors say look but a different make-up of the packages and they're now encouraging recycling. In fact, if you've seen the TV commercials, they mentioned the recycling of those packages when you go back to the grocery store another company that's going to be trying is Taco Bell of announced they're going to start recycling their sauce packets and they're working on a plan to recycle the empty packages to make their life easier to make your life easier know how easy this recycling process is because I hear mailing the packets in as part of the process will find out what's happening. But obviously many companies are ramping up their recycling efforts and that's a good thing even though it's going to take a long long time to right this wrong.
The Mason Minute
Recycling Efforts (MM #3683)
"The Maison with Kevin nation in spite of confusion and cost increases in the recycling industry many companies seem to be ramping of the recycling efforts these days. I've been a big fan of the Nature Valley crunchy granola bars. I bet since they came out in the mid-seventies. I don't know why I like him so much and I go through spurts of eating them and not eating them even though they're not the healthiest alternative for me. But recently they repackage them. Same colors say look but a different make-up of the packages and they're now encouraging recycling. In fact, if you've seen the TV commercials, they mentioned the recycling of those packages when you go back to the grocery store another company that's going to be trying is Taco Bell of announced they're going to start recycling their sauce packets and they're working on a plan to recycle the empty packages to make their life easier to make your life easier know how easy this recycling process is because I hear mailing the packets in as part of the process will find out what's happening. But obviously many companies are ramping up their recycling efforts and that's a good thing even though it's going to take a long long time to right this wrong.
The Mason Minute
Recycling Efforts (MM #3683)
"The Maison with Kevin nation in spite of confusion and cost increases in the recycling industry many companies seem to be ramping of the recycling efforts these days. I've been a big fan of the Nature Valley crunchy granola bars. I bet since they came out in the mid-seventies. I don't know why I like him so much and I go through spurts of eating them and not eating them even though they're not the healthiest alternative for me. But recently they repackage them. Same colors say look but a different make-up of the packages and they're now encouraging recycling. In fact, if you've seen the TV commercials, they mentioned the recycling of those packages when you go back to the grocery store another company that's going to be trying is Taco Bell of announced they're going to start recycling their sauce packets and they're working on a plan to recycle the empty packages to make their life easier to make your life easier know how easy this recycling process is because I hear mailing the packets in as part of the process will find out what's happening. But obviously many companies are ramping up their recycling efforts and that's a good thing even though it's going to take a long long time to right this wrong.
All Things Considered
Retailers Try to Hire Tens of Thousands of Workers
"We're looking for a big jump in retail sales as consumers who got him cashed those $1400 virus relief checks. High retail sales, of course, could mean will be seeing a whole bunch more retail job openings, which would be a good thing. Dollar general in point of fact. Just announced it's looking to hire up to 20,000 people. Other chains IHOP, Taco Bell and McDonald's among them are on hiring sprees as well. But even with the labor market as loose as it's been retailers or having a hard time finding people marketplaces, Marielle Segarra explains, what's going on. We talked a lot about pent up demand this idea that people will spend more money when they get vaccinated that they'll go to restaurants and buy clothes to wear those restaurants and on vacations. Andy, Challenger, Challenger, Gray and Christmas, says retailers are preparing for this. These employers are clearly anticipating a huge surge in demand through the summer through the end of the year as people start to feel safe. But that doesn't mean potential Retail workers feel safe, Shawn Ashworth AlixPartners says. A lot of people are worried about getting sick and they're asking themselves Do I want to go back into retail and work in an environment with high contact with other employees and customers? Or do I want to consider work from home job? A lot of people who used to work in retail have probably found other jobs at home or not. Jed Kolko is chief economist at indeed, during insured when retail wasn't hiring many people, other sectors were manufacturing, warehousing, driving, jobs, Pharmacy and other help Your lady jobs. One obvious way for retailers to attract workers would be to offer more money. And Andy Challenger says some are giving bonuses. But when you look at like small retailers, small restaurants, those businesses have been under enormous pressure for a year. It's been a really, really difficult environment. It's easier for the big retailers. Mariel Sierra for
WBZ Afternoon News
KFC, Taco Bell to Start Taking Orders via Text
"Another way to order a Chiluba, pan pizza or big bucket of chicken, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC owner Yum brands. Is buying Israeli startup company Tick Tuck, which enables people to place orders by a text message and social media. My test of that feature was recently carried out in 35 countries outside the U. S. And
First & 10s
"taco bell" Discussed on First & 10s
"Savings at checkout, right? Let's get into offsides and let me just preface this. This was a Taco Bell in Arkansas. So don't get excited everybody else. So there's a Taco Bell employee. Should we say for sure. Her name is Lana Wells. She's out of a job after a co-worker was none too thrilled that she was showing her Taco Bell before she worked at Taco Bell dog. Complaint against law and has passed because Lana is a pornstar. But Taco Bell claims a wait a minute. That's not what happened. Solana saying that the Taco Bell and Newport Arkansas got rid of her less than a week after she landed the job. She reportedly started working at Taco Bell after she stopped doing porn because she was afraid of catching coronavirus as if that's the the worst of your worries to catch when you're working strangers. So she said look, I mean, I don't understand obviously. I'm kind of a big deal on PornHub. I've actually scored two AVN Award nominations, which Amy, that's like the pornos green. Yeah, that's like a big thing. That's like the Oscars through the grape. It's like the Oscars writers, right? Yeah, cuz you're performing you're not singing unless it's practical corn, which I'm all about music. Gives the name cats a whole different meaning..