From Jimmy John's Counter to CEO: The Breadless Story ft. Marc Howland
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Most people don't look at a sandwich and think, "I can disrupt this." Marc Howland did.
In this episode of Brick & Brand, we sit down with Marc, Co-Founder and CEO of Breadless, the Detroit-based fast-casual brand built on a simple idea: ditch the bread and keep everything people love about a sandwich. He takes us from Wall Street and Harvard to the counter at Jimmy John's, and back to the early days of selling sandwiches out of brown paper bags in Detroit gyms.
We also dig into Breadless's shift to national franchising, how Marc's private equity background shapes his approach to unit economics, and what makes a great Breadless location.
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