Michael Durkin Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Leading a team of hospitality-minded Workplace Experience Coordinators to create a frictionless and enjoyable workplace environment for a storied, publicly traded financial services company.• Collaborating with the corporate real estate team and other stakeholders to implement strategies that enhance the overall workplace experience.• Daily interaction with colleagues across all levels, from the c-suite to the security team.

Bridging the communication gap between restaurants and private equity, commercial real estate, and family office investing companies. Helping investors, landlords and restaurant groups make more informed decisions. Growing portfolios by providing prescient, no BS insight into current trends, headwinds, tailwinds and both the short-term and long-term future of the industry. Also happily providing both emerging and established restaurant groups with advisory roles in branding, daily operations, employee retention, growth strategy, site selection and planning for a thriving future.Behind the scenes or in public. -Director of Operations for 'Savor in Klyde Warren Park' on behalf of John and Lyn Muse and Muse Family Enterprises

Mckinney, Texas, Us

Developed, created and solely operated a neighborhood pizzeria. Grew to 3 locations. We were (are) the only cool, independent restaurant in our neck of the suburbs. Successfully and joyously sold Durkin's Pizza in the late Fall of '22.

One of the most innovative restaurants in Dallas at the time. An early adopter of community seating and upscale, fun brunches. We served duck and lobster under the canopy of music from Led Zeppelin and The White Stripes. And nobody was really doin’ that back then.

Ferre was a 6,000 sq ft. contemporary Italian restaurant that flourished in the halcyon days of Dallas' West Village. Ferre was firmly in the seat of the (then) emerging Uptown neighborhood that successfully returned youth and tremendous vibrancy to an underdeveloped part of Dallas.

I was the very first Manager of the original location of Fireside Pies on Henderson Ave., Dallas' first "artisanal" pizzeria. Hell, we were one of the first places in town to call them "pies"! A lasting concept that's still thriving and I'm very proud to have been a small part of the earliest days of Fireside.

Davie, Florida, Us

Look, I saw this company go through a lot over just a few short years. I watched them rather numbingly dilute their brand equity and abandon nearly every core competency they had established. And I still had an absolute blast while working with some of the very best people I've ever met. Love All, Serve All- forever.