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To open a Portillo’s is not cheap. You have to have a hell of a lot of money to compete with Portillo’s. You are going to spend $5, $6 million on just the training, the research, the construction, the land. It’s not an easy concept, but that’s by design. That’s the moat that has long protected us. I remember one time Jim Cantalupo was in line at my restaurant in Downers Grove, which we opened in 1983 as our seventh restaurant and was relocated in 1997. Jim—standing in line next to construction workers and soccer moms—served as chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald’s Corporation until his sudden death by heart attack at the age of 60 in 2004. Jim told me, “You know, if you could ever simplify this, you could open a lot of these places but it’s very complex.” I told Jim that I didn’t want to simplify it because that will invite competition.
Out of the Dog House
Dick Portillo, Don Yaeger
There are also troubling indications that China may hold coercive leverage over the younger Bush. In a 2003 deposition for his divorce, Neil Bush admitted having sex with several women in Thailand and Hong Kong who showed up at his door unannounced in hotels during business trips. This is what is commonly referred to as a “honey trap,” where sex is used to compromise targets, who are usually being surveilled. “Mr. Bush, you have to admit it’s a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her,” his wife’s lawyer said. “It was very unusual,” Bush replied.
Chaos Under Heaven
Josh Rogin
Above all, I didn’t want to fall into the trap that Buddhists call idiot compassion—an apt phrase, given John’s worldview. In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people’s feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even themselves. Its opposite is wise compassion, which means caring about the person but also giving him or her a loving truth bomb when needed.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb
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