Ron Shaich
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He'd come out of MIT and had been involved in the entertainment business for many, many years, engineer.
And he had a vision for taking a space, 40,000 square feet, all kinds of different things.
We said to him, let's drop a farm-to-table restaurant in the middle of it, a brewery.
We opened the first one in Natick, Massachusetts at the Natick Mall.
I have never been involved in a business as powerful as this.
Blew me away.
We've since opened in Providence, Rhode Island.
We're opening in Tyson's Corner in D.C.
in four weeks.
We're opening in Disney World down in Orlando in the coming year.
It's going to be at a location close to you anytime soon.
But sometime soon.
But there's another one of these powerful businesses.
Last year, we made an investment in a business in Barcelona, Spain, called Honest Greens.
Again, very high volumes.
It's basically chefs in every restaurant, real vegetables, greens, salmon, chicken, put together in a way that lots of
of the young Spaniards have found exciting.
That business is now 30-odd restaurants in Spain and Portugal, on its way to the UK and France next year.
Again, we think that there's a powerful opportunity to bring some of these disciplines to Europe, but to do it right.
We also have another business that we're involved in with Act III,