Kent Taylor

 

Texas Roadhouse founder and CEO Kent Taylor dies by suicide aged 65 after suffering severe post-COVID symptoms

• Texas Roadhouse announced Kent Taylor's death aged 65 on Thursday
• Family said he suffered severe post-coronavirus symptoms, including tinnitus
• 'Kent battled and fought hard like the former track champion that he was, but the suffering that greatly intensified in recent days became unbearable,' family said
• Taylor founded Texas Roadhouse in 1993 after writing the idea on a napkin
• Last spring he made headlines when he gave up his salary to help pay frontline workers during the pandemic 

By Megan Sheets For Dailymail.com

Published: 09:38 EDT, 21 March 2021 | Updated: 10:12 EDT, 21 March 2021 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9385981/Texas-Roadhouse-founder-Kent-Taylor-dies-suicide-suffering-severe-post-COVID-symptoms.html

Texas Roadhouse is an American chain restaurant that specializes in steaks around a Texan and Southwestern theme^[3] and is a subsidiary of Texas Roadhouse Inc, which is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.^[4] The chain operates about 572 locations (as of October 2020) in 49 U.S. states and in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain,^[5] the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Philippines, Mexico, Taiwan, and South Korea. It is known for its free buckets of peanuts at each table along with free dinner bread rolls with honey cinnamon butter. 

Texas Roadhouse serves Texan and American cuisine, including steak, ribs, chicken, and seafood.^[20] Their main suppliers are JBS Swift and Smithfield Foods.^[21] The chain boasts several cooking championships across the country with their ribs and steaks. Everything on the menu is made from scratch to order, with the exception of certain children's menu items (Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, applesauce, and hot dogs). This includes the salads and dressings (the only dressings not made from scratch are low-fat ranch and oil and vinegar), sauces and side dishes. Each store employs its own baker and butcher/meat cutter. Their steaks are hand-cut (with the exception of the Porterhouse steaks, which are cut off-site and vacuum-packed) and are never frozen. Salmon is also cut off-site and vacuum packed.^{[citation needed]} The main seller on the menu is the 11-ounce USDA Choice Sirloin.^[20]

 Smithfield Foods, Inc., is a pork producer and food-processing company based in Smithfield, Virginia, in the United States, and a wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group of China.^[a] Founded in 1936 as the Smithfield Packing Company by Joseph W. Luter and his son, the company is the largest pig and pork producer in the world.^[5] In addition to owning over 500 farms in the US, Smithfield contracts with another 2,000 independent farms around the country to grow Smithfield's pigs.^[6] Outside the US, the company has facilities in Mexico, Poland, Romania, Germany, and the United Kingdom.^[7] Globally the company employed 50,200 in 2016 and reported an annual revenue of $14 billion.^[3] Its 973,000-square-foot meat-processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, was said in 2000 to be the world's largest, processing 32,000 pigs a day.^[8]

Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion.^[9][10] It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date.^[11] The acquisition of Smithfield's 146,000 acres of land made WH Group, headquartered in Luohe, Henan province, one of the largest overseas owners of American farmland.^[b]

 WH Group (Chinese: 万洲国际; pinyin: Wànzhōu Guójì), formerly known as Shuanghui Group (Chinese: 双汇集团; pinyin: Shuānghuì Jítuán),^[4] is a publicly traded Chinese multinational meat and food processing company headquartered in Hong Kong.^[1][5] Sometimes also known as Shineway Group in English-speaking countries, the company's businesses include hog raising, consumer meat products, flavoring products, and logistics.^[6] It is the largest pork producer in the world,^[5] and the largest meat producer in China.^[7]

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