I’m not a CEO or a fancy corporate manager. I never even went to college. I’m a pizza guy, born and bred on the streets of Chicago. In 2010, my two restaurants brought in over $3 million each in sales, about six times the sales for the typical pizza restaurant. We were the country’s 6th…
Posts by Nick Sarillo
As the founder and CEO of the sixth busiest independent pizza company in per-store sales in the United States, Nick Sarillo of Nick’s Pizza & Pub has garnered national media attention for the impetus behind his business’ success—an inventive, purpose- and values-driven approach to training and leadership. Under Sarillo’s direction, Nick’s Pizza & Pub, located in Crystal Lake and Elgin, IL, boasts an 80 percent employee retention rate in an industry in which the average annual turnover is close to 150 percent. Sarillo’s forthcoming book (Portfolio, 2012) will highlight his “on purpose” principles for building an inspiring, high-performance organization from the bottom up.