” And so if your competitors aren’t growing, if there isn’t a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy. “
” But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road. “
” But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that’s what they say. It was never about that. “
” Salads was a big indicator of that – there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It’s not because some guy sued you. “
” Some of the analysts were saying, Now you’re a cash cow, there’s no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can’t invest wisely. “
” When you raise prices, you’ve got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you’re running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach. “
” When you’re doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they’re not on the same page. “
” You have got to have discipline and focus – on the customer and how you run the business. “
” I think this year we’ll open up 900 gross, we’re closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you’re moving it to another place in the marketplace. “
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