Denny’s, Hotels, and the Full Portfolio

By 2000, Nath Companies owns Burger Kings, Denny’s restaurants, hotels, and commercial and residential real estate simultaneously. The complexity of managing operations across four distinct sectors is enormous. This week looks at how Mahendra and the leadership team managed that complexity — open-book management, business units run by individual leaders, weekly meetings with every division head — and what it taught them about the limits of scale.