On this week’s Working Lunch, Joe Kefauver and Franklin Coley of Align Public Methods check out Steak & Shake CEO Sardar Biglari’s ongoing assaults on Julie Felss Masino, the CEO of Cracker Barrel. Final week, Biglari posted a billboard in downtown Nashville calling for her firing.
As an activist investor, Biglari has lengthy been pressuring Cracker Barrel for change. Is it bitter grapes over a takeover bid gone awry, the podcast asks? Or is Biglari on the lookout for a pat on the top from the White Home? Or is it each?
And the assassination of Charlie Kirk has sparked political tensions which can be creeping into the restaurant world. How do manufacturers keep out of the morass?
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