Chief Executive Officer
CurrentLead the beverage negotiation practice for BevTrust. With 35 years of beverage and food service industry experience, I get to help clients get the most out of their soft drink contracts and relationships.
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Ben Kitay is listed as Soft Drink Negotiation Professional at BevTrust, based in Atlanta Metropolitan Area, United States, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at benjaminkitay.com, phone signal with area code 770, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Ben Kitay.
Ben Kitay previously worked as Chief Executive Officer at Bevtrust and Chief Negotiation Officer and Restaurant Practice Founder at Enliven, Llc. Ben Kitay holds Ba, American History (United States) from Georgia State University.
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I spent more than 15 years with The Coca-Cola Company in a number of roles serving the foodservice industry, including leading the Fountain Department in Japan for four years as Vice President of Fountain, Leisure, and Transportation. I was the pioneer member of the Coca-Cola Customer Agreement Team, a role in which I helped negotiate every major fountain contract in the U.S.After leaving Coca-Cola, I co-founded and built Crazy Crepes into a chain of 130 stores in five years in Australia, Japan, USA, Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines. Crazy Crepes is now the leading franchisor of crepes in five countries with current revenues exceeding $30MM. I served as President of Sarku Japan Restaurants, President and Chief Operating Officer of Sega Entertainment USA, Senior Vice President of Operations at Cinnabon, and Global VP of Beverages at IPC/SUBWAY.At BevTrust, we use our skills and experience to help save your business money on your soft drink agreement and get you the very best contract language.
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Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Lead the beverage negotiation practice for BevTrust. With 35 years of beverage and food service industry experience, I get to help clients get the most out of their soft drink contracts and relationships.
Nashville, TN
Led negotiation for clients across the Foodservice, Aviation, and Health Care Practices of Enliven. Established the foodservice practice.
Miami, FL
Global negotiation and management of soft drink and snack programs for SUBWAY's 43,000 restaurants worldwide. Soft drink contracting process design. Management of global beverage team including Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, Latin America, and North America. Global integration of beverage marketing efforts and operational standards.
Greater Atlanta Area
Responsible for all company and franchised operations for the domestic Cinnabon retail business.
Toronto, Canada Area
220 unit QSR chain specializing in freshly prepared teppanyaki and sushi. Brands include, Sarku Japan, Sakkio Japan, Ming Tree, Sarku Japan Sushi Bar, and Kato's Cajun. Sarku Japan is the leading Japanese QSR in North America, with development underway in Southeast Asia, South America, and selected countries in the middle east. Sarku Japan's specialty is.
Glendale CA
GameWorks chain of entertainment and restaurant establishments.
Greater Atlanta Area
The Hybrid Group Inc. consulting practice clients included Subway, Suntory, and Royal Cup Coffee. Focused on beverage contract negotiation, The Hybrid Group eventually spun off the Beverage Contract Negotiation Institute, led by Ben Kitay, which today is a part of BevTrust Associates (www.bevtrust.com.) Founded and operated Crazy Crepes LLC, a 130 unit.
4 years in Tokyo Japan managing the Fountain, Food service, Leisure, and Transportation business. Various positions in food service in the United States over 15 years including Financial Analyst, Senior Grade, overseeing all Fountain Beverage contracts in the USA prior to approval by the President of the Fountain (now Foodservice) Division.
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Ben Kitay has worked for Bevtrust, Enliven, Llc, Independent Purchasing Cooperative, Cinnabon - Focus Brands, and Sarku Japan.
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Ben Kitay holds Ba, American History (United States) from Georgia State University.
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