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September 23rd, 2025 Mature Content

Carin Stutz: Restaurant Industry Icon Pays It Forward

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  1. Carin Stutz: Restaurant Industry Icon Pays It Forward Carl Landau 48:27

Who doesn’t like to go out to eat? Carin Stutz gives you a behind the scenes look into the restaurant business. She is a true icon in the industry spending 40+ years as a C-level Exec. She started as a manager trainee at Wendy’s International and she worked her way up to Division Vice President. 

She shares stories of working with the celebrity Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s, as well as her brush with fame by meeting movie star George Clooney. The rest of her career was in the hot trend of “fast casual” dining, with C-Level positions at Applebee’s, Chili’s and another half dozen other successful chains. 

Carin shares what the restaurant business is really like, as in the long hard hours, the missed vacations and Family events. Yet she truly loves the industry and the people. She is making up for lost time now with lots of international Travel and attending concerts every week. She is also giving back to her industry. She helped start a wildly successful non-profit and serves on lots of very worthwhile boards. She has dedicated her (un)Retirement to giving back!

 

Carl Landau Author, Podcaster

Carl Landau is co-author of the new book, Pickleball for dummies. He has been an entrepreneur since the age of 26 and now in (un)Retirement is founder of Pickleball Media. He has started and sold three successful media companies, published five magazines (software development, winemaking and craft brewing industries). He currently hosts the popular podcast I Used to be Somebody, inspiring 50-plus-year-olds how to build their (un)retirement good life, including, of course, a little bit about the virtues of the game he loves — pickleball.