In addition to celebrating 25 consecutive quarters of positive comp store sales, opening its first international restaurant in Mexico City and becoming the Official Wings of the Dallas Cowboys, Wingstop has expanded its management team in 2009 through promotions and new hires.
- Andy Howard was promoted from executive vice president of marketing, purchasing, research and development to chief marketing officer, executive vice president of purchasing, research and development.
- Mike Sutter was promoted from senior director of training to vice president of training.
- Bev Rich was promoted from director of franchise development to senior director of franchise development.
- David DeLaGarza was promoted from director of real estate to senior director of real estate.
- Sean Murphy was hired as director of research and development.
- Phillip Maldonado was promoted from senior district manager to director of operations.
- Jennifer Hubbard was promoted from purchasing manager to director of purchasing.
- Patrick Campbell was promoted from associate director of training to director of training.
- Lisa Spooner-Whyte was promoted from field marketing manager to senior field marketing manager.
- Stephanie Petersen was promoted from franchise development coordinator to franchise development manager.
"The dramatic growth of our chain, as well as our success at the store level, required that we continue building our management team," Jim Flynn, CEO of Wingstop, said. "Fortunately, we were able to do much of that building from within as well as bring in some highly successful industry leaders."
Wingstop has 433 restaurants open in 34 states.
