Business | Clifford Hudson | The CEO who grew Sonic Drive-In from $800 million to $5.5 billion
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
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🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Z on today's show, we are interviewing the former CEO of the Sonic Drive-In Company. |
| 0:06.3 | I bet it's going to be a blast. It's going to be a blasty blast. Now Dr. Z, I see what you did there. |
| 0:10.4 | This guy's growing, this guy grew his, the, the Sonic company, from $800 million in sales |
| 0:16.0 | to $5.5 billion in sales. That's, that's, that's, that's huge. And he's written a book about it. |
| 0:23.0 | And I think all the listeners should check it out. And in addition to covering his new book, |
| 0:26.6 | he talks about how Sonic kept him involved for 35 years because he was an employee then. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, it's a great story. And it's a, it's an all-American dream come true kind of story. |
| 0:38.6 | He also shares with you how to climb the corporate ladder, how to inspire hourly employees, |
| 0:44.1 | how to keep the employees from eating all the food, what to look for, and hourly employees, |
| 0:49.1 | all of this and more on days of the throttie time. Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. |
| 0:54.0 | But I have to report, someone's going to be upset out there, because they're going to think |
| 0:57.9 | that they're going to get a tutorial on how to roller skate from the CEO of Sonic. And it's, |
| 1:02.0 | it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. Is that, is that a game changer for some? |
| 1:05.0 | Hey, why don't you give it a try? Let me do this. Let me just, I'm going to queue up what I believe |
| 1:09.3 | to be the appropriate music for quad skating during such a time as this. This whole, we need to |
| 1:15.8 | bring quad skating. This whole, there's a whole kind of a, a COVID chaos. And there's a certain, |
| 1:20.4 | at time and place where, where quad skating is, is appropriate. COVID quad. And I believe right now |
| 1:26.3 | is, is a perfect, let me, let me queue it up. Let me get my, because this is my COVID recommended |
| 1:31.2 | quad skating music. Let me get this going. I got it going on. Okay, here we go. Okay, here we go. |
| 1:35.9 | Okay. Now, if you can just walk, the listeners through the proper way, maybe quad 40, my wheels got |
| 1:40.3 | right now clear. Were you pretty good at quad skating? Oh, my, I'm serious. I like my favorite |
| 1:44.4 | move is the front flip. Oh, by the, and then I do the boomerang. The boomerang was one of my |
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