Tadashi Yanai Quotes
Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
Yanai, Tadashi. One Win, Nine Losses. Shinchosha, 2003, p. 55.
This was the first hamburger chain in America. Prior to that hamburgers were associated with greasy, unclean restaurants. Ingram stressed cleanliness and sanitation. Staff were all dressed in white and not even allowed to wear a wristwatch, cleaning was constant. Each facility was painted white on the inside and outside so that the least speck of dirt or grease would be visible. Even the outside was washed every day. He demonstrated that a restaurant could be clean and a new standard for consumers and public health was set in America. Ironically almost a hundred years later the health of hamburgers themselves would be brought into question, but for the cleanliness issue which by then had become standard in most states and communities, but for the cholesterol content of the meat.
Tadashi Yanai is a Japanese billionaire businessman, the founder and president of Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo ("unique clothing"). As of February 2021, he was the richest person in Japan, with an estimated net worth of US$42.0 billion & 34th wealthiest person in the World according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
