Spectacular Failures

Sqirl finds itself in a jam

The Los Angeles restaurant Sqirl had lines down the block for brunches that featured its famous house-made jams on toast. But then a photo of discarded mold scraped from the jam, snapped by someone in the Sqirl kitchen, blew up the internet...and led to a reputation crisis Sqirl is still dealing with. Our sponsors this week: Bombas - <a class="default" href="http://bombas.com/spectacular">Bombas.com/spectacular</a> Ourcrowd - <a class="default" href="http://Ourcrowd.com/spectacular">Ourcrowd.com/spectacular</a> Sign up to receive our brand new newsletter, featuring weekly recommendations from Lauren and the rest of the team at <a href="http://spectacularfailures.org/newsletter">spectacularfailures.org/newsletter</a>. Read the transcript of the episode at <a class="default" href="https://www.spectacularfailures.org/">spectacularfailures.org</a>. You can follow Spectacular Failures on <a href="https://twitter.com/FailureShow">Twitter</a> at @failureshow and like us at Facebook.com/failureshow. We're <a href="https://www.instagram.com/failure_show/">@failure_show on Instagram</a>. Follow Lauren Ober on <a href="https://twitter.com/oberandOut">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/oberandout/">Instagram</a> at @oberandout.

Corporate crookedness. Family feuding. Hilariously half-baked decisions. Host Lauren Ober tackles some of the most spectacular business failures of all time, and what could have been done to avoid them. Some of these stories are shocking. Some are funny. Some are just downright sad. But each one will give you a totally new perspective on big business… and big failure. From American Public Media.