What Danny Meyer has said about COVID-19 pandemic response

1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 27, 2026

Danny Meyer, American restaurateur, founder of Union Square Hospitality Group and Shake Shack, has been quoted on COVID-19 pandemic response once in 1 episode of The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk, most recently on September 27, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Meyer distinguishes nice from kind and says the kind approach to pandemic layoffs was speaking with each of several hundred employees individually.
“No one got laid off by tweet. No one got laid off by a big mass email. Everyone got spoken to by their boss”
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk: 708: Danny Meyer - How You Make People Feel: The Founder of Shake Shack & Union Square Hospitality Group on Culture as Soil, the 49/51 Hiring Formula, and Leading With Generosity (Sep 27, 2026) · Listen from 42:01

Episodes

708: Danny Meyer - How You Make People Feel: The Founder of Shake Shack & Union Square Hospitality Group on Culture as Soil, the 49/51 Hiring Formula, and Leading With Generosity
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk · Sep 27, 2026 · 54 min
Ryan Hawk interviews restaurateur Danny Meyer about enlightened hospitality, scaling culture, the 49/51 hiring formula, and how a hot dog cart became Shake Shack.

Others on COVID-19 pandemic response

Joe Rogan · 6 quotes
Andy Frisella · 4 quotes
Dan Richards · 1 quote
Dana White · 1 quote
Megyn Kelly · 1 quote
Eric Weinstein · 1 quote
Sean Kelly · 1 quote
Stew Peters · 1 quote

Danny Meyer on other topics

Enlightened hospitality · 3 quotes
Hiring and hospitality quotient · 3 quotes
Organizational culture · 3 quotes
Madison Square Park · 1 quote
Shake Shack · 1 quote
Sales skills · 1 quote
Entrepreneurship · 1 quote