Lunch and Learn:

Concept to Reality 7/14/20

NextGenChef Presents Lunch & Learn Tuesday

ABOUT THIS TALK...

Mel's

Bubba Gump

Johnny Rocket's

All of these concept are recognizable and iconic to multiple countries and generations. So lets talk about...

Concept Development.

How to take an idea and turn it into an operating business. From creative concept to business plan to funding and opening.

Join Johnathan Zilli and NextGenChef as we explore restaurant and business concepts and common missteps entrepreneurs come against. Zilli's experience in business as a consultant has taken him from South America to Hollywood. This talk is perfect for anyone working on a new food concept, looking for investors or advice.

Grab you salad and pull up a chair for a fascinating Lunch and Learn Tuesday 7/14 at 2pm PST

#Sales, #marketing, #networking, #leadership, #careers, #strategy, #entrepreneurship #restaurants

Share with your network and we look forward to a productive Lunch and Learn this Tuesday!

Event outline:

45 min panel discussion

Q & A to follow

Jonathan Zilli is an experienced entrepreneur and consultant with an extensive track record in business development crossing over a broad spectrum of industries and markets around the world.

Currently based in Simi Valley, California, Jonathan has been an investor in start-ups as well as consultant for start-up companies as well as established companies since 2001. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur Jonathan ran the International Licensing & Merchandising division at Paramount Pictures for many years. While with Paramount he launched the theme restaurant business for the studio. He and his team created and developed the Bubba Gump Shrimp Restaurant Company concept which generated over $350 million in revenue last year from 56 locations worldwide. Jonathan continues to provide advisory services to start-up restaurant entrepreneurs in addition to restaurant operators looking to expand through franchising and or licensing in the US and markets outside the US.

Jonathan was born and raised in South America and has traveled across the world for business purposes in major markets in Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America and North America. He attended the University of San Francisco, where he earned a BS in Business Administration and Economics in 1981. He was an active rower and is currently a board member of the UCLA Men's Rowing team