To hear Paul Brown tell it, anyone with ears could have put the juice back into Arby’s, a nearly 50-year-old brand that wheezed like one when he became its CEO in mid-2013. Associates are the ones who provide the qualifier that there’s listening, and then there’s paying attention a la Brown. Consider, for instance, what Brown took from an exercise …
Arby’s has signed development agreements to build 25 new restaurants in the Chicagoland area over the next five years, including the downtown area, creating nearly 700 jobs in the process. The company has made the Windy City a priority growth market for the brand, seeking to triple its footprint in a metro where it already has 64 restaurants up and …
