January 17, 2013
No. 17: Kevin Reddy
CEO and chairman, Noodles & Company
Make a quick search for "Reddy" at FastCasual. com and the results look more like a military campaign than a set of business stories: Noodles & Company growing in Virginia and expanding in Chicago, Utah, Iowa, Nashville and Knoxville.
General Sherman didn't blitz through as many places when he took his famous stroll through the South. No wonder Technomic named the chain one of the Top 10 fastest-growing in the U.S. in 2011, and ditto for the fact that numerous trade publications have named him as an executive to watch and entrepreneur of the year.
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