John Foley Email & Phone Number

John Foley is a serial entrepreneur, journalist, publisher, chef, author and suffers from self diagnosed culinary masochistic tendencies. It seems to be incurable. It’s not an over the counter disease. He is also the co-founder of HotelDamageOntrol.com. Other Credits include a 20 year journalism career as Editor and Publisher of weekly and daily papers - when papers consisted of sections and pages and bags on handlebars - before becoming a self proclaimed culinary masochist. He rarely passes a “Restaurant For Lease” sign without thinking opening night. These days are tough.Along with his patient wife and partner Karen, he has created numerous restaurants, eateries, and internet platforms. The two were jettisoned into the food world when Time Magazine featured Karen, and her newly acquired antiquated St. Paul grocery store, Crocus Hill Market, in the April 8, 1991 edition, highlighting “The Simple Life”, the two had chosen when moving from Manhattan to St. Paul.His thirty year career has been anything but simple - focused on the food sector, in 2000 Foley decided the cost of “Help Wanted” advertising in the San Francisco Chronicle was eating away at any possible profit and refused to put a ‘Help Wanted’ sign in the window. “You wouldn’t get on a plane with a ‘Captain Needed’ sign, why would you eat in a restaurant with a “Dishwasher Needed” sign in the window?” was his elevator pitch.The couple pivoted, sold their San Francisco restaurant and entered the Internet sector launching needwaitstaff.com the first Industry focused employment site. The tagline, Solving Your Staffing Concerns Online, was enough to partner with SYSCO Foods. Today he is redirecting his energetic focus on the Hotel and Motel sector developing a technology solution for motels & hotels struggling with guests who consistently damage, abuse or disrupt, due to rowdiness, motels and hotels across the country. With its restitution management system the platform will offer damage collection restitution software while allowing hotels to share a National Data Base of hotel disruptors.Simultaneously he is working on a collection of short stories focused on the restaurant business. Of late, the couple sold their herd of Mammoth Donkeys and along with their champion dog Griff traded the fires of California’s Northern Sierra for the shores of North Carolina’s Inner Banks, turning the page on a 27 year chapter that began as a honeymoon weekend in Carmel in 1994.