Michael Mindel Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Restaunomics helps restaurant companies navigate the dynamic competitive landscape and manage eroding business models in the age of COVID-19. Our team can assess, improve and manage every facet of restaurant operations, finance, marketing, IT, research, development and design. We collaborate on specific key initiatives to manage sales while observing new rules in social interaction, reduce costs and improve brand perception.From creating and implementing financial and marketing plans, to designing and launching innovative restaurant concepts and new menus, to ongoing restaurant management, we have successfully opened, marketed and managed dozens of restaurants across the US. Restaunomics also consults with a select group of restaurant service companies specializing in restaurant IT and customer research. We can help manage IT and POS transitions and comprehensive customer research projects.Today’s rapidly changing restaurant environment presents challenges unlike those faced in prior generations. If you need assistance making your existing restaurants successful, or are considering a new location or concept, Restaunomics can help. Using our proprietary MAXSAMINE planning process, we will make sure that you have the appropriate economic foundation and ongoing guiding principles to help your restaurants thrive.

Sausalito, Ca

Sacramento, California Area

Corte Madera, Ca

Il Fornaio includes some of the highest volume restaurants in the US, averaging over $5 million per location. As SVP-Marketing of Il Fornaio, Mindel was responsible for a multi-million dollar annual marketing budget and all marketing, communication and sales programs, including branding, advertising and promotions, menu strategy and design, pricing, public relations, corporate communications, digital and social media strategy and other strategic initiatives for the formerly publicly-traded (NASDAQ:ILFO) now privately-held organization. Mindel was instrumental in the IPO process in 1997 as well as the going-private transaction in 2001, directing the development of all communication, SEC documentation and collateral for both transactions. Since the IPO, Mindel supervised the preparation of all board meeting materials for the company and directed the content and distribution of earnings reports each quarter while publically-traded as well as organizing quarterly conference calls with analysts and annual shareholder meetings. He oversaw the preparation and presentation of all Il Fornaio board of directors material since 1996.A 27-year veteran of Il Fornaio, Mindel supervised the company’s brand strategy for 21 years. Prior to the marketing post, Mindel was Director of Retail Operations that consisted of 8 free-standing bakery-cafes and 12 retail bakeries inside the Il Fornaio restaurants. Previously he managed the company’s flagship restaurant in San Francisco that grossed over $6 million a year in the early 1990’s. Most recently, he led the pre-opening marketing and communications for the company’s 23rd restaurant that opened in Santa Clara, CA in November 2016.

San Francisco Bay Area

Greater Chicago Area