Contributors
Taj Adhav
Taj Adhav was a CPA for fifteen years, with experience in the Big Four, and is now the Founder and CEO of Leasecake, a location-management platform for tenants, landlords, and brokers who operate multiple locations with a distributed team.Zafeiris Akranis
Zafeiris Akranis is the President of Philly’s Best Steak Company, a trusted, family-owned supplier of authentic Philly steak product. A growth-oriented leader, Zafeiris plays a key role in carrying out the long-term vision for the organization, ensuring ongoing expansion while continuing to supply the highest quality product to restaurants and distributors nationwide. Zafeiris and his family take tremendous pride in bringing the authentic taste of Philly to the masses.
Kelli Anstine
Kelli Anstine is President of Bernstein-Rein Advertising, where customer insights drive creativity and ideas for food service and retail clients. With a deep understanding of what influences customers to make choices, Kelli and her team focus on getting close to customers at the ground level. That includes in the aisles, behind the counters, and in the moments before a purchase is made… when real customer motivations are revealed. And they turn those insights into brand platforms, customer acquisition and loyalty strategies, and local store marketing programs that drive results.
Bracha Arnold
Bracha Arnold is a former chef and current content writer at Placer.ai. You can find her analyses on everything from salad chains to fine dining concepts at Placer.ai/blog.
Tim Arpin
Tim served as Vice President of Franchise Sales at Scooter’s Coffee and Vice President of Franchise Development for ServiceMaster Brands. Additionally, he has held executive leadership positions with high-growth franchise brands such as Restaurant Brands International, Steam Global Services, and Self Esteem Brands.
Alex Asnovich
Head of Global Marketing, Video Security & Analytics at Motorola Solutions
Victoria Avery
Victoria Avery is the Communications Specialist for GRUBBRR, the emerging leader in self-ordering technology. Prior to GRUBBRR, Victoria graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in Creative Writing. Victoria's specialties include: marketing writing, advertising, PR, and journalism.
Kent Barkouras
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Rebecca Barnatt-smith
Rebecca is a freelance content writer who talks about all things business and marketing.
Tisha Bartlett
Tisha Bartlett serves as Vice President of Marketing for Fazoli’s, leading all facets of marketing and customer experience while driving vision, value, and growth. She brings over 20 years of experience in corporate and franchise marketing for multi-unit systems.
Sean Behr
Sean Behr is the CEO of Fountain, a technology company providing high-volume hiring solutions to leading companies in the manufacturing, retail, construction and restaurant industries.
Bill Bellissimo
Bill is the Founder and President of CrunchTime! Information Systems, an industry leading back-of-house restaurant operations platform. Prior to founding CrunchTime in 1995, Bill was the President of a large restaurant chain in the northeastern United States. Before working in the foodservice industry, Bill was a banker on Wall Street.Robby Berg
Robby's love of food has found expression in the areas of grocery store and restaurant management since 2007.
Kristina Bladecki
Kristina worked in the foodservice industry throughout restaurants and country club dining before coming back to Alto-Shaam to work as a sous chef on the Alto-Shaam culinary team. Within a few years working on the business side of foodservice, Chef Kristina made her way to Corporate Chef. She has since been promoted to Corporate Executive Chef and Manager of Culinary.
Jordan Boesch
Jordan Boesch is the founder and CEO of 7shifts, a scheduling and team management platform that helps restaurant operators schedule, evaluate, and communicate with their staff, founded in 2014. While the product began as a simple tool to help his dad manage the work schedule at his local franchises, it has since evolved into a leading global restaurant platform.
Lissa Bowen
Lissa Bowen is the Chief People & Culture Officer of Full Course, a restaurant development and investment firm which incubates, accelerates and invests in emerging fast casual restaurant brands - where all faces and flavors have a seat at the table. Bowen also serves as the Executive Director for the Full Course Foundation Learning Center, a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost restaurant specific educational resources, high quality training programs and coaching.
Jeff Bradbury
Jeff is currently Senior Marketing Director at Hughes, a leading provider of fully managed SD-WAN and digital media services dedicated to transforming distributed organizations into better-connected, customer-focused enterprises. In this role, Jeff works across markets to understand customer needs, technology adoption trends, and the direction of digital transformation to ensure Hughes is ready with the solutions customers need to meet their business goals.
