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Portillo's on podcasts: where it advertises, what it's offering listeners, and what hosts say about it when they're not being paid.
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“talked to in the book is Dick Portillo. And he started he grew up in the projects of Chicago, the Cababrini Greens, and he didn't know how to make a hot dog and then started a hot dog company And he ended up over decades selling a lot of hot dogs to become a billionaire.”
Featured as a successful business example of a founder who built a billion-dollar company from humble beginnings selling hot dogs.
▶ Hear it“Portillo, one of you know, the heroes of the the middle of the book where we tell his story of how he started this hot dog stand and grew it to the largest private chain fast casual restaurants in the Midwest selling Italian beef and chocolate cake shakes. He sold it to Bergkshire Partners for over a billion dollars. The margins in these stores were outrageous compared to maybe a typical McDonald's. They were doing three times as much revenue and they were more profitable per unit.”
Portrayed positively as a successful fast casual restaurant chain with exceptional margins and revenue compared to McDonald's.
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