Dawn Lafreeda: Managing Denny's Amid Coronavirus Crisis

WSJ Secrets of Wealthy Women

The Wall Street Journal

Careers, Business

4.6 • 955 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Dawn Lafreeda, one of the largest Denny's franchisees in the country, tells WSJ's Veronica Dagher how she's running 90 restaurants during the past month and how she's supporting her employees during the coronavirus pandemic. For next week's episode: Have a question about your personal finances that you'd like answered on the show? Text or call-in to our Secrets hotline at (314)-200-5947.

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0:00.0	If only life had a remote control, you could pause or rewind.
0:03.6	Well, life doesn't always give you time to change the outcome,
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0:15.0	Hey I'm Veronica Dagger, and this is the Wall Street Journal's Secrets of Wealthy Women,
0:25.0	where women share how they tackle career, money, and the world.
0:29.0	The coronavirus has forced many businesses to ramp down, shift gears, or even temporarily
0:34.9	close their doors. Millions of people have lost their jobs. Restaurants have
0:40.7	especially been hard hit and their owners are having to make a lot of hard decisions about their businesses and their employees
0:48.2	No one knows that better than Don La Frida
0:51.2	Don owns 90 Denny's franchises in seven states, but she also understands what it's
0:57.1	like to work in the service industry. She started out as a restaurant hostess herself, and she's been through tough times before
1:04.7	keeping her business alive after 9-11 now she's having to manage another crisis and
1:10.8	she joins us today to talk about how she's doing it.
1:18.0	Dawn, we're so happy to have you with us.
1:20.0	Hello, how are you?
1:22.0	Doing well, how are you? Doing well, how are you?
1:23.0	Well, I've had the hardest three weeks of my life,
1:26.0	but I'm surviving.
1:28.0	The whole country is in survival mode, I think.
1:30.0	I'm not alone at least.
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