Noodles & Company CEO Dave Boennighausen has seen the future during the coronavirus pandemic, and it is smaller.
It’s not the size of the Broomfield-based fast-casual chain (Nasdaq: NDLS) that will shrink in coming years. On the contrary, company leaders who eased back on a planned push to boost franchising and grow locations this year expect to rev that up next year and see unit growth of 7% in 2022, just one year later than originally expected, Boennighausen said in an interview.
Instead, it’s…
