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Executives on the move: 16 people who took on new roles at Focus Brands, Panera Bread and more restaurant chainsExecutives on the move: 16 people who took on new roles at Focus Brands, Panera Bread and more restaurant chains

September saw new C-suite appointments at some of the largest restaurant companies

Holly Petre, Assistant Digital Editor

October 2, 2020

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Sixteen executives across 14 restaurant companies were named to new roles in September, more of them women and people of color than in previous months. There was also a single retirement amid the crowd.

A bigger portion of September’s appointments were women than usual. Focus Brands named a woman to be its new president of specialty brands, Panera Bread hired two women to take on the roles of chief operations officer, and chief of staff and customer officer (the former is also a woman of color), Bojangles’ new chief people officer is a woman, and both Zaxby’s and Domino’s named women to new roles.

In more diversity and inclusion news across the C-suite, Popeyes’ new president, Sami Siddiqui, is a person of color.

There was one retirement this month, the CEO of Culver’s, and a single CEO appointment, at SPB Holdings (formerly Craftworks Holdings), so it was quite the non-traditional month in the restaurant executive suite.

See who was named to which role in the month of September by clicking through the gallery.

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About the Author

Holly Petre

Assistant Digital Editor

Holly Petre is a digital editor for Nation’s Restaurant News as well as the host of NRN’s podcast, Extra Serving, and producer for Informa Restaurant and Food Group’s other three podcasts, One On One by Food Management, Off the Shelf with SN and In the Kitchen with Bret Thorn. Holly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture, fibers and Material Studies and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native New Yorker, Holly enjoys her place on staff as the resident pop-culture expert and millennial with a sassy attitude and great sense of style.

Holly Petre’s work on Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality often covers marketing and trends, either aimed-at or examined-through the millennial mindset. Holly is responsible for introducing TikTok and Twitch to NRN and RH readers as well as explaining terms like “Karen” to staff and readers alike. She also spends her time on staff trying not to make every headline a pun.

Holly Petre hasn’t spoken at any events or on panels, but she is readily available with a killer shoe wardrobe and several witty quips.

 

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