Steven Haught Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Norcross, Georgia, Us

The Director of Real Estate Strategy and Analytics works with the VP of Real Estate in defining and managing the strategic vision for Real Estate to ultimately meet the organization’s real estate growth and disposition goals. The Real Estate Strategy and Analytics team creates and reviews detailed analysis on all development related projects as well as monitoring trends with current Units. •Performs long range research and provides information and recommendations to the Executive team and the Growth Committee of the Board of Directors. •Provides leadership and management to the Real Estate Analyst team and the Development Research Coordinator to ensure that workflow is constant and established deadlines are met. •Lead the real estate team’s detailed analysis in selecting markets, trade areas, specific sites, as well as project performance and returns for future locations.•Manages the relationship with our third-party analytics firm (Sitewise Tetrad); train other team members on the platform’s capabilities. •Serves as a representative for RE in various cross-functional meetings and committees.•Provides an independent, objective and non-biased review and assessment of all potential locations; provides advice to help approve and prioritize all sites in the development pipeline as well as potential remodels.•Serves as a knowledge expert in market research, analytics, and site selection; provide leadership, mentoring, and development opportunities to all department personnel as well as train new RE team members in detailed financial and site analysis.•Collaborates with the Real Estate directors to provide a pipeline of locations and intelligence from the Analyst team in order to aid in their negotiations. •Plans and attends RE site selection trips to identify new locations as well as reviewing new locations selected by others while staying current on our competitors in our existing markets.

Norcross, Georgia, Us

•Helps lead the real estate team’s detailed analysis in selecting markets, trade areas, specific sites, as well as project performance and returns for future locations.•Tracks and analyzes the impact new and existing competitors have to existing and future locations.•Manages the relationship with our third-party analytics firm (Sitewise Tetrad); train other team members on the platform’s capabilities. •Contributes to accurately maintaining a forecasting model in an effort to better predict store performance to guide in future growth and the impact new stores will have on existing stores in the same market.•Completes relocation and/or disposition analysis as well as sales transfer analysis on underperforming stores.•Collaborates with the RE and Construction departments to ensure the highest quality stores are produced on superior locations. Serves as a representative for RE in various cross-functional meetings and committees.•Provides an independent, objective and non-biased review and assessment of all potential locations; provides advice to help approve and prioritize all sites in the development pipeline as well as potential remodels.•Serves as a knowledge expert in market research, analytics, and site selection; provide leadership, mentoring, and development opportunities to all department personnel as well as train new RE team members in detailed financial and site analysis.•Plans and attends RE site selection trips to identify new locations as well as reviewing new locations selected by others while staying current on our competitors in our existing markets.

Norcross, Georgia, Us

• Serves as lead on the system software suite of services for GIS Mapping, Retail Trade Analysis and Real Estate Sales Modeling. • Tracks and reports on all Real Estate Site Evaluations and Real Estate purchases. • Interfaces with various departments, as well as all levels of management to generate micro / macro-level reporting, market studies, mapping and presentations for existing and potential sites.• Extracts and utilizes GIS / RE Modeling data to provide an understanding of market variables in a given geographic location. Performs sales models analysis on potential locations.• Analyzes new markets by applying various GIS / Retail Trade methodologies to arrive at data based market recommendations.• Creates markets and sub markets for designated growth areas. These are periodically updated as needed. • Updates all new store openings, relocations, rebuilds, closed store information.• Trains users on GIS / Real Estate Modeling applications and real estate site selection tools. • Monitors system users to ensure quality and accuracy in reporting / mapping.• Evaluates and Test any potential new products and product advancements.

Norcross, Georgia, Us

• Provide tools and controls for the Finance Department to improve efficiency, minimize dollars required to achieve Corporate targets, and maximize return on investment of Development Dollars.• Support the issuing of weekly, period, and trimester reports reflecting Controls/Status of Job Costs, Expenses Reimbursed/Incurred, Development Plans, Cash Flows, Project Controls, Government and Private Industry Indexes, and Compensation Performance.• Run Real Estate site projection models to determine the performance of potential future sites.• Run scenario analysis regarding potential sites, evaluate risk of sites, and make recommendations based on evaluation.• Analyze various restaurant criteria, including financial performance, operations feedback, and construction restraints, to determine the construction schedule for units undergoing Remodels.• Assist in Auditing Development Job Costs, Construction Sites, and Expense Reimbursements.• Support Construction and Real Estate Departments as required to achieve Corporate Targets.

Consult on and provide timely feedback for clients in all business areas including; customer service, operations, finances and marketing. Work with clients on business and growth plans. Ensure that financial practices of their business are sound. View daily operations of the business in order to develop and share improvement plans.

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Service and Bar Manager•Led overall service execution in order to ensure the needs of the guest, team members, and share holders is met.•Set clear operational goals for team; established operational improvement objectives; implemented specific action plans; communicated goals and results to team. •Increased guest traffic and sales by engaging the community through local store marketing. Maintained at least a 3.5% yearly increase in same store sales for 4 consecutive years.Culinary Manager•Used labor management tools and reports to ensure all team members are being utilized properly and labor expectations are met.•Oversaw production and drove quality through adherence to total quality standards.•Managed all food inventory processes; completed all daily and weekly food ordering. •Managed food cost and waste through key metrics in order to drive overall restaurant performance. •Managed food cost through key metrics in order to drive overall restaurant performance.•Provided menu costing for catering in order to obtain profitable sales growth in large to go sales. Talent Acquisition and Training Manager•Recruited and hired a diverse team of top talent to fill needs within the restaurant. •Used future forecast formulas based on business projections to determine long term staffing needs.•Performed orientations for new team members. Completed all new hire paper work for on-boarding.•Created weekly schedules for training and all other departments of the restaurant resulting in faster on boarding, best in class services and excellent customer satisfaction.•Conducted group and one on one meetings with managers,certified trainers, and hourly professionals to provide feedback and improvement guidance.•Developed team members and managers in order to progress towards promotion.•Established and delivered timely performance review feedback for all sections of restaurant.•Created a yearly budget in order to execute a wage management strategy for merit increases.

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Regional Culinary Consultant• Duties included planning and leading quarterly rollout meetings for training ManagingPartners on culinary, service, process, and equipment updates.• Ensured that all new products for new rollouts have reached restaurants in time for trainingprior to launch dates. Communicated with vendors for upcoming product rollouts as well.• Organized and communicated all culinary and service changes to the regions managers in orderfor a cascade training approach to be implemented and conducted research to uncover bestpractices for continuous improvement.• Collaborated with Director of Operations to perform QA self audits and enforce company SOPs.• Created and updated SOPs through observation and consistent feedback from the region.• Served as test location for the division for new service, products, and equipment. Led these testand delivered clear feedback on the test to the Restaurant Support Center.• Coached 8 locations through out the coastal region on inventory control and waste reduction,leading the region as a whole to perform at or below goal during the 2015 fiscal year.• Set strategic plans with Managing Partners for financial and culinary operations of therestaurant in order to achieve more profitable results. This resulted in driving higher flowthrough of money delivering an extra 1.5 million to the bottom line as a region during the 2016fiscal year.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Hotel And Restaurant Management