Posted on 09/11/09
Fast food, quick moves: An appetite for growth
gpitts@globeandmail.com Paul Hollands sells nostalgia. As CEO of the A&W fast food chain in Canada, he shamelessly evokes a simpler era of drive-in restaurants and rock 'n' roll - before life got so complicated with credit default swaps and climate change. But there is nothing backward-looking about his strategy, which means pushing hard on expansion in the teeth of an economic storm. We caught him just as 53-year-old A&W Food Services (which is entirely independent from the U.S. chain) was opening its 701st restaurant, in Surrey, B.C.
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