My plan gave me advanced warning, though, and so we were able to take steps—looking for a greater number of smaller projects to offset the loss of larger ones, for example—to mitigate the problem.

With new CEO Liz Williams at the helm, El Pollo Loco is drawing up a blueprint to drive sales, decrease costs, and ultimately spark new unit growth.. Williams laid out a five-point plan for getting ...

The “economy” section, for example, advises identifying sites for industry, providing a variety of housing to attract employees and industry and updating zoning and city policies to draw industry.

“The customer that they are trying to connect with is something special and something unique,” Marsh says. “And it is to be valued. And so our goal in creating a platform here is that we bring to the ...