Episode
Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit
How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mar 30, 2026 · 1 h 23 min
A lot of founders spend their lives chasing one big idea. Antonio Swad had two. The first? Migrating chicken wings from the Happy Hour buffet to the center of the plate. The second? Building a pizza business that catered to a very specific demographic: Latinos. That first idea became Wingstop, a deep-fried wing concept that grew to 3,000 stores. The second became Pizza Patron, a franchise that…