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The franchisee and chief marketing officer focus on understanding the people around them
Buffalo Wild Wings franchisee Karim Webb has long been an advocate for a more equitable restaurant industry through, among other initiatives, his company 4
th MVMT, which invests in entrepreneurs largely from communities of color who are overcoming trauma and lack access to capital. But his restaurant business, PCF Restaurant Management in Los Angeles, which operates four restaurants in the predominantly minority communities of Torrance, Carson, Baldwin Hills and Koreatown, generally outperforms Buffalo Wild Wings’ system as a whole.
Those two facts are not unrelated: Webb attributes his restaurants’ success to his engagement with the communities where he operates, and to the fact that the people working in those restaurants resemble the people they serve.