Ryan Day

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About Ryan Day

Summary Throughout my rewarding 25+ year tenure in Restaurant and Hospitality verticals, I have optimized my ecosystem and maximized profitability by developing, guiding, and mentoring talent, implementing, and executing leading systems, deploying cutting edge technology solutions, and offering best-in-class operations and franchise management. I believe that my significant success, both at Whataburger and beyond, have stemmed from my passion for surpassing capabilities, my compassion for my team and customers, and continuously learning from leading and listening to those with different points of view. I think being curious is one of the most important prerequisites for success. Curiosity leads to discovery and insight. As companies and organizations are born because someone identifies with someone else's pain, and so they create a product or service to relieve that pain. Compassion drives me to understand my customers better and put them first. Yet, it's also more broadly about putting people first, including employees and communities, and prioritizing efforts to dig deep enough to understand the root of someone's problem and try to help. Areas of Expertise Executive & Organizational Leadership // Area Budget Management // Brand Innovation // Franchise Restaurants // Joint Venture Development // P&L Management // Strategic Advisement // Operations Development & Transformation // Market Research // Executive Consultation // Business Intelligence // Systematic Problem Solving // Menu Management // New Restaurant Openings // Human Resources Key Achievements Oversaw 12 restaurant openings at Whataburger and served as a Director of Operations for two new concept openings. Enhancing full-service and quick-service concepts from $1.5M to $6.5 million in yearly revenue, I helped diversified restaurant owners expand and build businesses by creating a full-service concept lifecycle and financing roadmaps. Exceeded nine sales records over two units at Whataburger. Optimized mid-level Whataburger restaurant engagement by 30K a week through acting as area manager, spearheading internal turnaround management, and leading facilities reconstruction, resulting in cultivating the busiest store in Oklahoma and Arkansas. At Whataburger, spearheaded formal turnaround of two units in one year. At Blaze Pizza, diminished food and labor costs by 4% through creating best-in-class systems. Please feel free to contact me at ryanday36@gmail.com.