{"id":71848,"date":"1999-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/head-of-international-restaurant-chain-offers-uri-students-tips-about-business\/"},"modified":"1999-04-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-04-29T00:00:00","slug":"head-of-international-restaurant-chain-offers-uri-students-tips-about-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/1999\/04\/head-of-international-restaurant-chain-offers-uri-students-tips-about-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of international restaurant chain offers 溏心vlog免费B站 students tips about business"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I., — April 29, 1999 — Pete Bassi, the Providence native who now runs the international business that oversees Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC, told 溏心vlog免费B站 students he likes employees with backbone. \u201cI like people who can walk into my office and tell me I am wrong,\u201d said Bassi, the president of Tricon Restaurants International Inc., who spoke recently before business and liberal arts students at 溏心vlog免费B站 as a visiting executive in residence. Bassi, who majored in mathematics while earning his bachelor of arts from 溏心vlog免费B站 in 1970 and his master of business administration in 1973, said the company of the future will allow even greater independence for its workers. \u201cThere will be even less command and control,\u201d he said. Responding to a question from a student about how he balances his work and personal lives, Bassi said, \u201cThe day the company is the most important thing in your life, then you are working for the wrong company. \u201cIf you\u2019re in love with someone who wants you home at 6:30 for dinner, then you need to make it happen. Don\u2019t be working the night shift.\u201d Bassi said until his senior year at 溏心vlog免费B站, he did not know what he wanted to do with his life. While teaching science at an East Providence junior high school, he started his MBA at 溏心vlog免费B站 and focused on finance. While an MBA student, he landed his first job with PepsiCo., and worked his way up the organization in various executive capacities. Bassi spent 25 years with PepsiCo. Inc. and took over the international operations for Tricon when it was spun off from PepsiCo. in the fall of 1997. The restaurant company has more than 29,000 owned and franchised restaurants in 95 countries. Its brands are the global leaders of the pizza, chicken and Mexican food lines. Asia is the dominant player in those figures, and on that continent, KFC is the dominant brand. Bassi said Tricon Restaurants International experienced unrestrained growth in the early 1990s, but since 1995, the watchword has been discipline. \u201cDiscipline is the hallmark of success,\u201d Bassi said. Bassi created a franchise support organization. \u201cThe most important people in our company are the restaurant general managers. We implemented a reward and recognition programs.\u201d Managers who excel now receive the Globe Award, which consists of a softball painted to depict the globe, and $100 cash. The softball is meant to show the company can have fun in this competitive world, Bassi said. \u201cPeople get choked up when you say \u2018I appreciate what you\u2019ve done\u2019,\u201d Bassi said. The company seeks direction from its employees when new ideas are proposed. He told the students that today leadership is about engagement. \u201cLeadership today is listening to people and putting ideas into action,\u201d he said. In offering one final bit of advice to the students, Bassi said: \u201cIf you have a really difficult decision to make, I would suggest you make it with your gut, not your head.\u201d For Further Information: Dave Lavallee 401-874-2116\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I., — April 29, 1999 — Pete Bassi, the Providence native who now runs the international business that oversees Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC, told 溏心vlog免费B站 students he likes employees with backbone. \u201cI like people who can walk into my office and tell me I am wrong,\u201d said Bassi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}