Five Guys: Jerry Murrell (2019)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Jerry Murrell's mother used to tell him, you can always make money if you know how to make a good burger. In 1986 — after failing at a number of business ideas — Murrell opened a tiny burger joint in Northern Virginia with his four sons. Five Guys now has more than 1,500 locations worldwide and is one of the fastest growing restaurant chains in America. PLUS for our postscript "How You Built That," we check back in with Hannah England, who turned a common parenting problem into Wash. It. Later. — a water-tight bag for soaking soiled baby clothes before they stain. (Original broadcast date: June 5, 2017) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:09.0	New years is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.
0:13.0	As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.
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0:24.0	Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.
0:27.0	Hey, it's Guy here. So, you know how there's a place in your town or city where they do amazing pizzas or barbecue or tacos?
0:35.0	So great that the line snakes out the door.
0:38.0	Well, that's kind of what Jerry Morel had in mind when he wanted to open five guys.
0:43.0	One place, burgers and fries, keep it simple.
0:46.0	And he deliberately looked for a hole in the wall, somewhere kind of out of the way, because he thought if you can get people to come there,
0:54.0	then you know you've got something pretty great.
0:57.0	We first ran this episode in June of 2017.
1:00.0	It's a really fun one and I hope you enjoy it.
1:06.0	How did you even know how to make a burger?
1:09.0	I mean, were you a good home chef? Was anybody in your family a good chef?
1:13.0	Listen, you come from my hometown and you can't make a burger, you can't live.
1:16.0	So, I mean, we knew how to make burgers. I knew how to cook a potato. That was both.
1:21.0	You knew how to grill a burger out of fried potatoes.
1:24.0	Yeah. And that's all you really needed to know how to do.
1:27.0	That's all we knew.
1:32.0	From NPR, it's how I built this.
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