Masters of Scale Live: Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer with Caffè Panna's Hallie Meyer
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Danny Meyer is best known as the founder of Shake Shack and the legendary restaurants of his Union Square Hospitality Group in New York City. He joined host Jeff Berman on stage recently for the first Masters of Scale Live, presented by Capital One Business.
Later in the conversation, Danny's daughter, Hallie Meyer, joined them on stage. Hallie is busy scaling her own food venture, the gourmet NYC ice cream shop Caffè Panna. The Meyers offer invaluable insights on how to scale great experiences for customers and teams.
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| 0:49.0 | Welcome to a very special edition of Masters of Scale. |
| 0:52.6 | We recorded this one with a live audience in New York City |
| 0:55.8 | just this month. I'm Jeff Berman, your host. I was so grateful to have Hospitality legend |
| 1:04.0 | Danny Meyer join me on stage for this first in a series of live events presented by Capital One |
| 1:09.8 | business. You probably best know Danny Meyer as the |
| 1:13.5 | founder of Shake Shack, which now has more than 500 locations in 23 countries around the world, |
| 1:19.4 | and it was just announced we'll be serving their world famous burgers on Delta Airlines. |
| 1:25.8 | Danny also leads an ever-growing portfolio of one-of-a-kind restaurants and investments |
| 1:31.1 | through his Union Square hospitality group. Midway through our conversation, we invited a rising |
| 1:37.7 | entrepreneur to join us on stage, and it's one who made a lot of sense for this conversation |
| 1:42.9 | because it was Danny's daughter, Halley Meyer. |
| 1:46.1 | She's making her own name in New York City as the founder of Cafe Pana, a growing ice cream empire of her own. |
| 2:03.6 | You've got to have incredible talent at every position. |
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