Bryan Barton Email & Phone Number

Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Central/Southern Illinois

• Oversee and manage the franchise operations and regional support team for clinics in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, central and southern Illinois, and Colorado, encompassing 70 franchised locations, and 3 co-op groups.• Identify, generate, and secure business growth opportunities to maximize sales, as well as bolstered strong franchisee relationships through engagement and mentorship for their continued success. • Champion corporate initiatives within the franchise community by orchestrating construction and design refreshes, coordinating relocation efforts, and ensuring compliance and improvements with all corporate standards and guidelines.• Facilitate support of the franchisees in coaching leadership techniques, fostering collaboration, and ensuring compliance. • Partner with marketing agencies to develop, incorporate, and administer a marketing budget, along with initiatives. • Spearhead new Clinic Openings and ongoing training support; lead recruiting initiatives and deliver recruitment and retention management solutions to decrease costly turnover. • Oversee and contribute to the success of three district managers.• Successfully elevated a legacy region from third quartile in KPI rankings, to first quartile; my region ranked #10 in 2016, #4 in 2017 and #1 in 2018 out of 54 total regions.• Nominated for Regional Director of the Year (2017) in less than two years with the company. Committees: OSR/Compliance; Field Visit Cadence; Regional Director of Operations and District Manager Onboarding; Franchise Business Consultation Review.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Recruited and selected with the goal and responsibility of turning a failing market, encompassing of 50 locations, around to become profitable; two locations were on the verge of closing due to poor sales, P&L inefficiencies, increasing turnover of all staff, and poor customer service scores. • Traveled to other regions to help onboard, shape, and motivate newly hired director of operations.• Programmed and directed succession planning and selection of great new talent to lead stores. • Conceptualized, created, launched, and fronted development classes for restaurant managers and team leaders, including topics on P&L analysis, management training, and how to properly utilize the systems and tools to their advantage.• Conducted yearly performance review for all levels of management.• Synchronized forces and aligned efforts with the marketing director to brainstorm new exciting ideas to capture new and/or previous customers. • Coordinated and hosted Jack in the Box President, Francis Allen, with two visits to my region to house investor tours; revenue increased by 47%, which has not happened since their first year in the market.• All restaurant managers were achieving bonus, which included low volume managers; first time a corporate owned region continued to grow locations outside of “seed” locations.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Formulated, planned, and operated the opening of six Bakery-Cafes from ground up, and oversaw two Certified Training Bakery-Cafes.• Achieved a complete market turn around in the Wichita market bringing them into profit.• Supervised, enabled, and guided 7 district managers and 35 restaurants with diverse cross-functional teams from day-to-day activities to succession planning.• Specialized in and accelerated the advancement of top performing managers; developed and promoted two Senior General Managers in my district, two general managers in my district were promoted to district manager for the company.• Headed monthly P&L analysis and quarterly budget creation, scrutinizing expenses, waste, and profit margins to increase bottom line market profits.• Controlled weekly inventory analysis. • Compiled reports and chaired operations meetings with senior management to review P&L successes and opportunities, staffing initiatives, marketing campaigns, and review of declining budget. • Culture committee 2012 – 2013 Member; Finance committee 2013 – 2014, Creator and facilitator