Contributors
Jennifer Loper
Jennifer Loper is president of C3, a Kansas City-based marketing and design agency that brings brands to life for families with children through experiences and entertainment. C3 uses insights, strategy and expertise to produce award-winning programs and custom products to help major restaurant, hospitality and service industry partners connect with families wherever they are—in person, at home or in the community at large. More information about how C3 creates connections that grow sales and get results can be found at www.c3brandmarketing.com.
John Ludwig
John Ludwig, CEO With a focus on restaurant branding and marketing, Push has spent over 25 years partnering with such pizza brands as Old Chicago, Uno’s, Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza, Giovanni’s and California Pizza Kitchen. Along with these and other national restaurant brands, the agency develops and implements innovative strategies rooted in measurable guest traffic count and on- and off-premise sales.
Deepti Mendiratta
Deepti Mendiratta has more than 20 years of experience in software development, product management, and client engagement, and works to connect restaurants with HungerRush’s cutting-edge technology and innovative restaurant management solutions.
John Meyers
John Meyers joined Marcos in January 2020 and currently serves as our Chief Operating Officer. In this role, he leads the FP&A, Marketing Analytics, Operations Analytics and Business Intelligence team. Meyers is passionate about finding ways to leverage insights that drive sales and profitability for the system. Meyers has a Bachelors in Economics from Eastern Illinois University and an MBA from the University of Florida.
Michael Morris
Michael Morris is the Co-founder of Hyperlocology, a multi-location marketing platform that solves the pain of managing digital advertising for hundreds or thousands of brand locations. Hyperlocology empowers brands to centrally manage digital advertising, tailored for each location, with transparency and collaboration required to drive results in every market.
Shahpour Nejad
While working at the pizza restaurant, he fell in love with the industry, from making the pizzas, to serving customers, to creating new menu items: he loved it all. After graduating, Shahpour was looking for his next challenge, so he moved out west to Sacramento, California to start his new business in pursuit of a slice of the American Dream: Pizza Guys. Since its founding in 1986, Shahpour has grown Pizza Guys to over 70 locations throughout California, Oregon, and Nevada.
Shahpour Nejad
Shahpour Nejad is the founder and CEO of Pizza Guys, a rapidly growing pizza chain with locations throughout California, Nevada, and Oregon.
Jete Nelke
Jete Nelke is the Head of Marketing at FoodDocs. Her dedication to helping businesses grow and passion for everything content research and online visibility enable her to shape the proper information.
Lauren Olson
Lauren is interested in waste, consumerism, circular economy, hazardous chemical management, cradle-to-cradle design, life cycle analysis, behavioral psychology, and scientific research. Lauren holds a Master's degree in Community Sustainability specializing in decision-making about waste, and a Bachelor of Science's degree in Environmental Economics and Policy with a specialization in Environmental Studies and Applications-- both degrees from Michigan State University. In addition to her distinguished career, she also has a hobby business creating new clothing from old t-shirts called Remark Clothing.
Amir Orad
A serial entrepreneur, Amir specializes in growing big data and cybersecurity businesses, most notably at NICE Actimize where he grew the business 10x to a $200M revenue run rate, and as co-founder of Cyota which he sold to RSA Security. Amir holds an MBA from Columbia University and has been acknowledged as a Top 50 SaaS CEO.
Mark Plumlee
Mark Plumlee is the Senior Editor at MustHaveMenus. He writes about trending food topics and restaurant management.
Michael Plummer
After serving our country as a US Army Medic, Michael Plummer, Jr. returned to the family business (Our Town America - the nation's premier New Mover Marketing franchise started by his father in 1972) in 2001 to work in the IT department. 15+ years later, Plummer now leads the business as its CEO and CTO - using his extensive technology/data experience to make Our Town America the savviest analytical player in the industry.
Rob Press
Rob is a content marketing manager at Deputy, a robust scheduling software that can be used to manage workforce in a wide variety of different industries. Aside from helping businesses reach operational efficiency, he keeps up to date with the latest trends in SaaS, B2B, and technology in general.
Jeffrey Ricker
He has a 30-year career working with the financial industry, start-up companies and the Defense Department.
Mary Jane Riva
Mary Jane Riva is the CEO and president of Pizza Factory, an iconic neighborhood pizzeria with 100 locations in states across the West Coast. Mary Jane has been in the industry for more than 30 years and has helped Pizza Factory grow into a community staple.
Miriam Robinson
Miriam Robinson is the Marketing Content Specialist with SpeedLine Solutions Inc., a leading pizza and delivery point of sale developer.
Daniel Rodgers
Daniel is a serial entrepreneur involved in a number of ventures before seeing an opportunity to disrupt global hospitality with digital self-service. Daniel has delivered on market opportunities, such as kiosk, to ensure QikServe is on the digital pathways that lead to mobile self-service.
Adam Ross
Adam Ross spearheads the Americas division for Deputy, a global workforce management platform. Previously a securities lawyer, Adam manages scaling Deputy's software for users in over 200,000 workplaces around the world.
Ben Ross
Ben Ross, COO of Green Payments, leads a disruption in the traditional way merchants and consumers communicate through transactions. Ross is a skilled professional in establishing merchant relationships, enabling Green Payments to elevate industry standards from a unique perspective. Ross utilizes his expertise and dedication to the mission of empowering merchants of all sizes to achieve financial freedom through minimizing fees within an already turbulent, make-or-break market.
Vincent Rotolo
Vincent Rotolo is an award-winning pizzaiolo based in Las Vegas. After spending more than 25 years in the hospitality industry, the Brooklyn native decided it was time to pursue his longtime dream of opening his own pizzeria, and the concept of Good Pie was born. Good Pie offers Grandma-style, Brooklyn and Detroit-style pizzas as well as vegan and his critically acclaimed gluten-free pie, as seen on “Chopped.”
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