Fans of the Mexican casual food chain Guzman y Gomez were surprised to learn last week that the Australia-based competitor to Chipotle Mexican Grill had abruptly closed all of its U.S. locations. And the chain’s customers weren’t the only ones surprised by the news. Now, some of its former employees are suing the company over the unexpected closures. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? On May 21, Guzman y Gomez, a chain of Mexican fast-casual restaurants based in Australia, abruptly announced that it was closing all of its U.S. locations. According to the company’s Australian website, Guzman y…
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Katelyn Ide was thirteen when she first logged onto Twitter from a small town in Connecticut and discovered Justin Bieber’s fervent online fandom. Like most fans, she wasn’t content to just hang back and idolize from a distance, but to actively participate any way she could. She ran multiple fan accounts, mastering engagement back when Twitter allowed only 140 characters. Her “finish the lyric” tweets and song prompts circulated widely enough that she accumulated nearly 20,000 followers. “It became my whole personality,” she told me. What Ide didn’t realize at the time was that she was gaining valuable skills for…
In Japan, there is a national public holiday called Keiro no Hi—Respect for our Elders Day—dedicated to honoring the wisdom of the generations that have come before us. In Hindu tradition, the third stage of life, Vanaprastha, frames later years as a period of spiritual depth and accumulated authority. It is hard to picture an analogue in a country that produced “OK, boomer.” Here, the picture is grimmer. According to the World Health Organization, ageism in the form of negative age stereotypes costs the United States $63 billion a year in excess healthcare spending. An AARP study estimated that age…
Generation Z has reshaped workplace expectations. Valuing transparency, authenticity, and purpose-driven leadership, in some senses they have mobilized management to up their game. It could probably be said that these aspirations should have been prioritized all along, however, work simply has not always been this intentional. As companies have returned to the office and established new norms, value-driven elements are no longer nice-to-have’s, they are baseline expectations. So, what happens when these expectations are not constantly met . . . by anyone? As asynchronous work has been replaced by on-demand performance, a surprising truth is emerging. The same Generation Z…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Many successful businesses are discovered rather than invented. They often emerge from frustration, side projects, failed ideas or founders solving problems right in front of them. Companies like Airbnb, Slack and Shopify succeeded because founders paid attention carefully enough to notice where value was naturally emerging. Many founders spend years searching for a billion-dollar idea, but many transformative companies begin with ordinary frustrations. Everyone loves the clean version of entrepreneurship. The founder spots a perfect opportunity, builds a strategy, raises money and executes against a master plan that works exactly…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways When leaders delay decisions, teams stop escalating concerns early, partners hesitate before committing resources and managers avoid taking strong positions in meetings because past suggestions remained unresolved. Dashboards, meetings and updates stay active, but the quality of what gets surfaced declines as people filter risks based on past leadership response patterns. Once teams lose confidence in concerns moving once they’re raised, organizations become harder to read from the top. By the time leaders recognize the shift, the most important warnings have already stopped traveling upward. A senior leadership team spends…
The same European Union that cannot control its own borders, cannot stop economic contraction, cannot keep factories from fleeing, cannot keep farmers from revolting, and cannot even keep the lights on without deindustrializing itself is now discussing some absurd “associate membership” for Ukraine while the country is still actively at war. This is what happens when unelected bureaucrats and failed politicians start treating geopolitics like some university fantasy project instead of reality. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is now proposing that Ukraine receive an “associate member” status within the EU, allowing participation in summits, ministerial meetings, portions of the EU budget,…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Leading with your personal planning will make you a stronger business owner. For entrepreneurs who struggle with self-doubt, knowing your personal mission can build confidence in everyday business decisions. Personal planning can increase the value of your business. My first business — before I owned the Exit Planning Institute® (EPI) — was a landscaping and snow removal business. It was the kind of work where, if you were willing to grind, there was the potential for success. Revenue, sales, hiring/firing, even jumping in a plow myself — my name was…
Consumer sentiment has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded since the University of Michigan began tracking the data in 1952. The index declined to 44.8 in May as Americans increasingly fear inflation, rising fuel costs, and economic instability tied directly to the expanding conflict with Iran. This is precisely how stagflation unfolds historically. War drives commodity prices higher, governments increase spending, central banks become trapped, and the population loses confidence in the future. The political class always pretends inflation is some mysterious event. Anyone could have seen this coming. Inflation rises during periods of war and geopolitical instability because…