When Damola Adamolekun, 36, accepted the CEO role at Red Lobster, the nation’s largest casual dining seafood chain was in bankruptcy and weighed down by years of operational missteps. On paper, it was the kind of job most executives might politely decline: high risk, thin margin for error, and limited time to stabilize. For Adamolekun, though, it was an irresistible equation.
“I think this can be the greatest comeback in the history of the restaurant industry,” he told me in a wide-ranging interview for Fortune‘s newly-launched CEO Playbook vodcast. “To lead that would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
