While many plant-based food brands have struggled recently, Pinky Cole’s fast food chain Slutty Vegan keeps growing, with new restaurants across the U.S. Pinky sits down with Rapid Response host Bob Safian to explain how she’s scaling the brand despite lawsuits, social media attacks and a flurry of vegan restaurant competitor closures. Pinky also shares the ... Show More
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DraftKings’ next big bets, with CEO Jason Robins
Prediction markets. AI. Super Bowl ads. Hear how DraftKings co-founder and CEO Jason Robins is placing bets on the future. Robins talked with host Jeff Berman just ahead of the Super Bowl in San Francisco about how he stays focused, cultivates company culture, and navigates a tum ... Show More
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1005: Pinky Cole CEO and Founder of Slutty Vegan
<p>Pinky Cole is the CEO and Founder of Slutty Vegan, based in Atlanta, GA. Pinky's first restaurant, Pinky's Jamaican and American Restaurant, operated in Harlem for 2 years, but closed down in 2016 after a grease fire. She opened her first Slutty Vegan in 2018 through a food tr ... Show More
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Taco Bell vs Chipotle | Taco Talk | 5
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38m 16s
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Study Finds Plant-Based Diet High In Nuts Reduces Parkinson's Risk, What Ad Campaign Would Save Plant-Based Meat, Does Cultivated Meat Need a Rebrand?
Wednesday, August 30th — In this episode we talk about: Bad review for Starbucks vegan drink Weather report: Anchovies are America's most hated food, Columbus Dispatch AI botches sports article, people like donating to charity at registers more than they like tipping, Irish EPA d ... Show More
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KFC vs Chick-fil-A | The Henhouse Heats Up | 4
<p>It’s the late 1960s and Kentucky Fried Chicken’s new owner takes the rapidly expanding franchise public. America’s hottest new IPO makes dozens of employees instant millionaires, but not Harland Sanders, who sold his company for cash. Now brand ambassador, Sanders regrets his ... Show More
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