Danny Meyer will share his leadership philosophy in a book coming later this year.
Random House will publish the legendary restaurateur’s What Could Possibly Go Right?: The Essential Journey to Scale an Enduring Culture in the fall, the press announced in a news release. It says the book offers “an insightful, practical, and transformative roadmap for success, yes, but more important: for making things that matter and endure.”
Meyer opened his first restaurant, Union Square Cafe in Manhattan, in 1985, when he was 27; it quickly became a staple of New York’s fine-dining scene. He went on to establish several more restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern, the Modern, and Maialino. He also founded the fast-casual restaurant Shake Shack, originally a single hot dog stand that now has more than 400 locations across the world. He co-wrote two cookbooks and is the author of a previous nonfiction book, Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business.
His new book, Random House says, “offers fascinating, lively stories from the last twenty years of Danny’s career, along with plenty of his trademark mantras (D.F.S—Don’t F’ing Settle; Change Your Grip; and Think Like a Winemaker) and leadership concepts (the Hospitality Quotient; the Rule of Two; and the Four Gears of Leadership).”
Meyer announced the new book on Instagram, writing, “I’ve always tried to stay anchored in a simple question: what could possibly go right? This new book is my attempt to answer that—with optimism, candor and vulnerability. Building something meaningful is rarely a straight line, but the outcome is where true essentiality lies.”
What Could Possibly Go Right? is slated for publication on Sept. 29.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
