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This week with John Eckbert, CEO & Co-Founder of Five Guys Europe.
They launched on 4th July 2013 with the first Five Guys in Europe, in Covent Garden, growing to currently 260 Restaurants in UK, Germany, France and Spain with 43 new ones to be opened this year: (https://fiveguys.co.uk/, https://fiveguys.de/, https://fiveguys.es/, https://fiveguys.fr/).
Five Guys Europe is a 50:50 joint venture between the Murrell Family, the owners of the Five Guys Brand out of USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Guys and Sir Charles Dunstone, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dunstone, currently turning 600 Mio. Pounds in sales with almost 9.000 Employees in the 4 European countries operating.
In this episode John talks with us about his journey from an US Banker in Florida to the leader of one of the fastest growing restaurant brands in Europe and how he and his partner where afraid that nobody will come on the day of their first opening. During the interview it becomes clear that John builds his leadership on strong human connections.
Our main learnings from this conversation are:
Tune in and listen to a great leader who believes in human connection as a privilege: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-eckbert-56166215/
© From Doubt to Drive Podcast, owned and operated by Aperitivo International B.V
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This week with John Eckbert, CEO & Co-Founder of Five Guys Europe.
They launched on 4th July 2013 with the first Five Guys in Europe, in Covent Garden, growing to currently 260 Restaurants in UK, Germany, France and Spain with 43 new ones to be opened this year: (https://fiveguys.co.uk/, https://fiveguys.de/, https://fiveguys.es/, https://fiveguys.fr/).
Five Guys Europe is a 50:50 joint venture between the Murrell Family, the owners of the Five Guys Brand out of USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Guys and Sir Charles Dunstone, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dunstone, currently turning 600 Mio. Pounds in sales with almost 9.000 Employees in the 4 European countries operating.
In this episode John talks with us about his journey from an US Banker in Florida to the leader of one of the fastest growing restaurant brands in Europe and how he and his partner where afraid that nobody will come on the day of their first opening. During the interview it becomes clear that John builds his leadership on strong human connections.
Our main learnings from this conversation are:
Tune in and listen to a great leader who believes in human connection as a privilege: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-eckbert-56166215/
© From Doubt to Drive Podcast, owned and operated by Aperitivo International B.V
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