Leading the North American division of a global restaurant brand to accelerate growth at the unit level and expand the footprint of locations across the U.S., Canada, and their territories.Hot Palette is the parent company of multiple restaurant brands across all service models. Pepper Lunch is the flagship brand with over 500 locations in 15 countries. The brand continues to see rapid expansion across Asia with its eye on growth now in Western countries, which is grounded in its success with 6 U.S. stores in California, Las Vegas, Texas, and Guam.Visti www.pepperlunchrestaurants.com

Join Troy Hooper, CEO of Hot Palette America, as he explores what hospitality means in every business with industry leaders. Troy and his guests will tackle how they came to deploy hospitality in their businesses, how it impacts their results, and how they came to understand, adopt, and deploy this mindset and framework. Leveraging Troy’s experience, insight, and straight talk - listeners will walk away with a plan of action that’s right for them.If you feel you have deployed a unique hospitality tactic to your business, reach out to be a guest by emailing connect@krpusa.com.This show is sponsored by Pepper Lunch. Find a location near you: https://www.pepperlunchrestaurants.com/locationsProduction and Administration work completed by Smart Podcast Solutions and Elevate Virtual Business Solutions.

Kiwi Restaurant Partners is a hospitality consulting, management, development, franchising, concept creator, builder, scaler, and ownership firm based in Los Angeles, California. KRP was founded with a single mission: To be the best partners to ensure your success in the restaurant industry. We use creative proven and novel approaches and systems. We collaborate with each of our clients and engage with fresh eyes to develop customized unique strategies.Specialties include Systems, Operations, and Strategy Consulting, Full Organizational Management, Business Development, Concept and Brand Development, Corporate and Franchised based scaling for all types and sizes of restaurants.Visit us at www.krpusa.com

nurish is a platform to deliver a collection of like-minded native and acquired micro restaurant concepts brought to life through a variety of future-forward venue models utilizing the most innovative technologies and systems driven by the most experienced and accomplished industry professionals.All of our brands stand on the foundation of regional, seasonal, sustainable, organic, known or direct sourced ingredients.We utilize cutting edge and future technologies to gather data, build low energy micro footprint venues, utilize on-site or near site vertical farming to grow our own ingredients, prepare our food with no gas or fryers, and use our business as a platform to uplift, empower, and improve the vibrancy of our communities.We are committed to rectifying food insecurity and uplifting our communities to empower everyone with the knowledge and tools to have clean fresh food available at an affordable price everywhere.Visit Us At www.krpusa.com/nurish

SNDWCH is a gastropub inspired gourmet sandwich concept serving artisan sandwiches, salads, soups, and desserts. All made fresh to order with clean, sustainable, and regionally sourced ingredients. SNDWCH features craft beers and wines which are paired to the current ingredient profile. SNDWCH focuses on sustainability practices in all areas of our business, from our vendors to our packaging, as well as energy savings.Visit us at www.eatatsndwch.com

Licensed to support our clients in Commercial Hospitality and Restaurant advisory services.Resource specialist for investment portfolios, individuals, or institutional companies. Connecting creative financing solutions and other partners to ensure the close of the most complex sales.

HVC is an Ed-Tech and Education Programming startup. My role was to bring operational and business development expertise, strategies, and execution capabilities.I authored and managed partnership contracts and handled negotiations. Developed the Go To Market strategy along with being responsible for all Sales and Partnership relationships and presentations.For 2020 I transitioned to high-level relationship cultivation and sales pipeline development.

Kiwi Hospitality Partners is a team of exceptional results-driven leaders who love to work with our growing clientele. Our team is focused, collaborative, and adaptable to the fast-changing and increasingly complex hospitality environment. With over 75 years of hospitality service, management, and executive leadership in all areas of our industry, KHP's executives have the diversity and depth of experience to exceed your goals. Specialties include Consulting, Management, and Development of hotels, resorts, private membership clubs, and restaurants.Visit us at www.khpusa.comRecent Projects Included:• Provided whole property management services with full business turnaround over eighteen month project for TPC Valencia Golf Club.• Executed all due diligence activities in sale of TPC Valencia to ARCIS Golf; Engineering and other surveys, all document requests, asset inventory, extensive transition of IP and historical data, and much more. • Successfully managed transition of ownership of TPC Valencia Golf Club to ARCIS Golf; Employee termination and rehire, implementation of all new systems and SOP’s, and other mandates for a contracted 90 day period post purchase. Completed all planned actions in six weeks. • Provide a full suite of services to TNB Hotels largest property, the Sheraton Tucson, a 207-room full-service property. Services included Secret Shopper reports, full property evaluation, P&L review, leadership evaluation, leadership transition and new team structure implementation, profit center evaluation, and whole property strategic planning. Additionally, provided input on new profit center creation, The VENUE Conference Center and its’ website, marketing, and sales strategies. • Managed site selection and developer engagement for TNB Hotels to determine best locations for portfolio expansion. • Engaged in a variety of disparate sales, networking, and strategy solutions to a number of clients both venue and vendors alike. Visit Us At www.khpusa.com