Franchise Business Consultant - NO QSR
3 days ago
Kansas City
Join a well-established, growth-focused restaurant franchise system as a strategic advisor to franchise owners and multi-unit leaders. This field-based role combines operational coaching, financial analysis, and hands-on restaurant support to improve profitability, guest experience, operational consistency, and sustainable growth. Franchise Business Consultant Benefits and Compensation: • Base salary of $140,000$145,000, • Quarterly performance bonus opportunity, • Comprehensive benefits package, • Employer-sponsored retirement benefit with matching up to 5% after one year of service, subject to current plan terms, • Professional development planning and budget support, • Relocation assistance for qualified candidates, based on location and business need, • Opportunity to join a stable organization with significant franchise growth plans Franchise Business Consultant Requirements & Qualifications • At least three years of progressive multi-unit restaurant operations leadership, franchise consulting, or comparable field-support experience, • High-volume, full-service restaurant experience with responsibility for annual restaurant sales of at least $3 million; candidates whose experience is limited exclusively to quick-service restaurants are not the target profile, • Strong command of restaurant P&Ls, budgets, labor models, food costs, unit economics, guest counts, average ticket, turnover, operating KPIs, dashboards, and scorecards, • Demonstrated ability to coach franchise owners and restaurant leaders while diplomatically reinforcing operating requirements, performance expectations, and brand standards, • Experience identifying performance gaps, determining root causes, building corrective action plans, and holding operators accountable for measurable improvement, • Ability to travel frequently by air and motor vehicle throughout an assigned territory, • Valid drivers license and acceptable driving record, • Ability to reside in or relocate to support one of the following territories:, • Chicago and St. Louis region, • Kansas City, Kansas, Salt Lake City, and Colorado region, • Virginia and North Carolina region, • Strong understanding of food safety, hospitality, labor management, restaurant operations, and the guest experience, • Ability to work independently, manage multiple markets and restaurant visits, and follow through on commitments with limited day-to-day supervision Key day-to-day responsibilities • Conduct regular restaurant visits and comprehensive operational reviews covering food safety, cleanliness, hospitality, sales, profitability, labor, food cost, turnover, and guest experience, • Document visit findings, commitments, and action steps, then follow up to confirm deficiencies have been corrected, • Analyze P&Ls, budgets, operating dashboards, compliance results, guest feedback, and trend data to identify priorities and recommend practical improvements, • Partner with franchisees to build annual business plans, local restaurant marketing plans, and performance strategies, • Develop and monitor corrective action plans for restaurants with operational, financial, staffing, or guest-experience concerns, • Coach franchisees on multi-unit infrastructure, delegation, leadership pipelines, district oversight, and operational consistency, • Support new restaurant openings, conversions, reimages, site readiness, training, opening execution, and post-opening ramp-up, • Help operators implement new products, promotions, technologies, systems, and strategic initiatives, • Advise franchisees on community engagement, digital marketing, local activations, and guest-relations opportunities, • Coordinate with training, marketing, food and beverage, supply chain, technology, and other support teams, • Guide restaurant leaders through urgent labor, safety, performance, guest-service, and reputation issues Franchise Business Consultant Preferred Background & Skills • Bachelors degree in Business, Hospitality, Restaurant Management, or a related discipline; equivalent experience will be considered, • Experience leading or supporting restaurants with annual sales of $4 million or more, • Prior franchise business consulting or franchise field-support experience, • Experience supporting full-service, high-volume, multi-unit restaurant operations, • Background with new restaurant openings, conversions, reimages, product launches, or portfolio expansion, • Familiarity with HACCP principles and restaurant food-safety compliance, • Experience with succession planning, organizational design, delegation, and district-level leadership structures, • Success helping operators adopt point-of-sale systems, analytics platforms, training portals, and restaurant-management technology, • Strong presentation, communication, coaching, influencing, and change-management skills, • Familiarity with one or more of the identified geographic territories