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Podcast: A Deeper Dive
Episode: How to grow a hot restaurant concept without destroying it
Description: How do you take a hot restaurant concept national without destroying it?This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features Chris Schultz, the CEO of Voodoo Doughnut. The doughnut chain was founded in Portland, Oregon, in 2000 by Kenneth Pogson and Tres Shannon. It quickly gained a reputation for off-the-wall doughnuts—we’ll let you check out the website for the names of said doughnuts—and a brilliantly pink color scheme. The company has been expanding rapidly with private-equity owners. We talk with Chris about some of the changes the compan...