With , Founding President and CEO of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurants, Inc., Author:
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After the phenomenal success of the movie, Forrest Gump, the studio behind the movie reached out to see if there was any interest in creating a restaurant based on the movie. In his book, Gumption, Scott talks about the creation, growth and sale of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company.
This is also the personal story of the author’s growth as a CEO and creator of restaurant concepts, and he talks about a host of situations such as restaurant concept creation, high stakes boardroom confrontations and escaping corrupt officials in foreign lands. The narrative is partly an unvarnished peek behind the everyday scenes of restaurants, movie studios, and Wall Street. There is also an almost step-by-step recounting of how the Bubba Gump concept and others were created and operated – providing rich lessons on the unorthodox methods used in moving from traditional approaches to untried ways of doing business.
