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Why a Rebrand Almost Never Fixes a Struggling Restaurant Brand (And what a $5 billion turnaround CEO does instead)

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That is the playbook of Joe Guith, CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s. That is about 3,800 restaurants and roughly $5 billion in system sales.

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