30-year restaurant operator and founder of ShiftTrained — an AI-powered menu training platform purpose-built for restaurants. Career arc: dishwasher → GM → owner-operator, with 20+ concepts opened across multiple markets including fine dining, sports bars, and casual spots. Now using AI to solve a problem every operator knows: pre-shift meetings don't actually train staff. Recent coverage: AP News, Bloomberg, Knoxville News Sentinel, Columbus Dispatch, Crunchbase. Speaks fluently on: restaurant operations, hospitality industry trends, AI in small business, allergen training and liability, restaurant labor, server training, restaurant tech adoption.