Our Guests for the January 8th/9th edition of PlayMakers Talk Show:
Tim Taft, CEO, Fiesta Restaurant Group
Jim Sturm, CEO, Brierley + Partners
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Tim Taft, CEO, Fiesta Restaurant Group
Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc. President and CEO Tim Taft joined the company in August 2011 to spin it off from Carrols Restaurant Group, Inc., forming a separate, publicly traded company, Fiesta Restaurant Group, to operate the Taco Cabana and Pollo Tropical brands. Both brands have thrived under his leadership, celebrating record gains as one of the fastest-growing restaurant companies in the nation. In 2014, Fiesta is poised to launch its third brand, Cabana Grill, created by Taco Cabana, in Atlanta.
Tim is a restaurant and hospitality veteran with more than 35 years’ experience as a successful operator, marketer, brand builder and franchisor within the industry. Prior to joining Fiesta, Tim was president/CEO of SSI-Grandy’s LLC, and before that served in the same capacity at Pizza Inn Inc., where he was also a director from 2005-2007.
During his 10-year tenure at Whataburger, where he served as president and COO from 2000–2005 and in previous other senior management positions from 1994-2000, Whataburger achieved 44 quarters in a row of same store sales increases. It was also named a Texas Treasure by the Texas Legislature and Nation’s Restaurant News “Hot Again” concept.
PolloTropical.com TacoCabana.com
Host, Steve A Klein, Tim Taft
Jim Sturm, CEO, Brierley + Partners
Jim Sturm joined Brierley+Partners in 2007, is now President and CEO, and leads the globally recognized company in loyalty and CRM marketing.
Brierley+Partners is a pioneer in Relationship Management®– advancing loyalty and CRM for more than 25 years. The company has designed and implemented some of the world’s most successful loyalty and CRM programs for clients such as GameStop, Hard Rock, Hertz, Bridgestone and 7-Eleven.
Jim’s reputation for creating industry-differentiating lifetime loyalty programs for his clients has driven double-digit growth at Brierley. All services focus on a single mission: Making clients’ customer relationships dramatically more profitable.
Phone: (214) 760-8700
Host, Steve A Klein, Jim Sturm