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Why Panera Does Its Own Delivery

PYMNTS

Current CEO Blaine Hurst was the prime mover behind Panera’s first large-scale delivery test in Louisville, Kentucky, four years ago. The leadership team actually voted to kill the project, but Hurst was able to talk then-CEO Ron Shaich into keeping the pilot going for a little while. I said, ‘Just let me finish the Louisville test.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

So, when the community bank’s leadership learned of a fintech that needed a bank partner to launch a credit-building tech product, they were intrigued. Louisville. We lent to retailers, restaurants, nonprofits, small mom-and-pop stores, barber shops, beauty salons, day cares, churches … we did not turn anybody away,” Frank says. “We