0028 Jim Mizes, Blaze Pizza & SiteZeus

3 main takeaways:

1. Examples of the initiatives restaurants have taken to reach customers in new ways.
2. What restaurant professionals should be doing to ensure they make it to the other side.
3. How the future of the restaurant business will look.

Speaker bio:

Jim Mizes started his career in the retail industry as a young man working at his father’s pharmacy. He then went to school and received a degree in accounting and began working in typical finance jobs. After realizing that accounting wasn’t what brought him joy, Jim joined Taco Bell as a general manager and quickly worked his way up to their VP of operations. In 1989, Jim repositioned the brand’s 59, 79, 99 campaign and saw a 60% growth in same-store sales. After building up several restaurant brands, Jim finally joined Blaze Pizza where he grew the brand from 2 stores to over 340 in only 6 and a half years.

Jim is now retired and recently joined SiteZeus’ board of directors to continue to help retail and restaurant brands grow into new markets.