Bloomberg Businessweek (North America)
RUPAUL
55, host, Gay for Play and Rupaul’s Drag Race, Los Angeles
What I Wear to Work
Tell me about your new show, Gay for Play, on Logo TV. It’s a game show in the tradition of ’70s hits like Match Game and Hollywood Squares, where contestants rely on celebrities to help them answer pop trivia questions. It has this fun, irreverent, cheeky vibe that’s also a bit of a throwback.
“We’re at $7 billion in revenue, 150,000 employees, and 1,550 restaurants. Our culinary innovation is what gets me excited, like our Olive Garden breadstick sandwiches. There are always a couple things coming out at each brand.” “We owned Longhorn Steakhouse, Capital Grille, and Bugaboo Creek Steakhouse. Our primary challenge was how to get control of all these restaurants with our brand name on them that franchisees owned and operated.”