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Podcast: A Deeper Dive
Episode: Why Charlie Morrison left Wingstop for an upstart
Description: Why would you leave a 1,800-unit chicken wing chain for a salad upstart?
This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive seeks to answer that question. It features Charlie Morrison, now the CEO of the nearly-60-unit Salad and Go.
Morrison is the now-former CEO of Wingstop, which he led for nearly a decade, growing it from 500 locations to about 1,800 units and helping to turn it into a powerhouse, one that would spawn dozens of competitors during the pandemic.
We asked him about that decision to leave that position to...