Tim Rottet, has led a fascinating career having worked with hundreds of restaurants across the country the past 30 years. He is widely regarded as not only one of the pioneers in Email Marketing, but as one of the nation’s foremost authorities on Email Marketing since 2001. His success has always been attributed to his constant search for ways to increase restaurant profits while further enhancing their brand at the same time. His vision for this Industry, in combination with the countless programs and partnerships he has forged over the years, are still considered revolutionary today.Mr. Rottet found his true calling early in life, was graduated with a degree in Advertising from the School of Communications, University of Texas at Austin and has worked diligently to help others in his chosen field his entire career. His youthful ambition and keen business sense was recognized early in his career when he was offered one of only 3 prestigious appointments to The Chicago Tribune following a nationwide search they conducted at major Universities from coast to coast. Following a brief, but successful career in Chicago Mr. Rottet returned to Houston and accepted the position at Southwest Art Magazine as their youngest Advertising Sales Manager in the company’s history. It was here that he was able to combine his natural marketing skills along with his wife and family’s passion for the Arts. Although Mr. Rottet thoroughly enjoyed working for the current owner of Southwest Art magazine, ex Texas Governor John Connally, he found himself heading to the West Coast in search of new challenges and what would define his true passion in business.It was in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California that he first became heavily involved in the Restaurant Industry and his ultimate passion in business was realized. Tim Rottet began to consult with some of the top minds in the Restaurant Industry for Guest Informant and worked directly with iconic Restaurant Industry “legends” like Wolfgang Puck at Spago’s, Larry Flax & Rick Rosenfield at California Pizza Kitchen and David Overton at the Cheesecake Factory. There is no doubt that Tim Rottet found himself in the middle of a virtual revolution of “thinking outside the box” and seized that opportunity to both teach and learn how to play a role in redefining the principles of Marketing and Advertising in the Restaurant Industry.
