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Posted on 10/31/2011 1:52:02 PM PDT by Hojczyk
"I'm Herman Cain and this ain't no April Fool's joke," he told Godfather's employees when he arrived on April 1, 1986. "We are not dead. Our objective is to prove to Pillsbury and everybody else that we will survive."
An accomplished singer and pianist, Cain occasionally led the headquarters crew in after-hours song, and performed charitable gigs in Omaha, backed by a chorus of managers. He also demanded that senior managers know every employee working for them on a first-name basis and occasionally quizzed executives on that and other personnel issues.
"That was pretty unique," Mileusnic said. "Those stories got around Pillsbury. Herman was very quantitative and analytical, but he demanded that everybody be engaged and every employee must be appreciated and respected."
By 1987, Cain and longtime executive Ronald Gartlan, now the CEO of Godfather's, stabilized the company and produced an operating profit. Cain's product development team registered market share gains against titanic Domino's and Pizza Hut with the "Hot Slice" individual servings as well as the Godfather's Jumbo Combo pizza, a five-pound monster of dough, cheese and toppings on the other end of the spectrum.
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This Brooklyn born Italian loves Herman cain. Godfather pizza, not so much.
Very good read, Lots of back ground information on Mr.Cain.
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The market punched Pillsbury down — but Cain kneaded it to rise again, and it did.
We are on the Cain Train! :-)
We miss Brooklyn Pizza, since we live in Florida. :-(
Unfortunately, these traits are exactly what the bureaucracy despises.
He grew Godfather’s from the 5th-larges pizza chain to the 11th-largest pizza chain, and kept revenues flat during his term of office, before inflation.
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