Powerful & Effective People That Will Help You Create Long-Term Business Success
“His leadership and accountability with (my) staff has positively influenced the morale of all employees in all departments. His commitment to ‘Delivering the Promise’ to our (staff) and our guests is unparalleled in our restaurants."
Jeffrey Summers, Co-Founder of Summers Hospitality Group
Jeffrey is a 30 year veteran of creating, operating, Coaching and consulting with some of the most successful food service & hospitality concepts in the world, including national and international chains, franchises and independent operators.
The rest of the team – (The Group)
It isn’t that we don’t believe in having regular employees, but we believed that working with a full-time staff of people with expertise in Marketing, PR, Architecture, Sales, Finance & Accounting, Web Development, Graphic Design, etc…would turn us into just another, overpriced, consulting firm. So we went a different route:
With so much of today’s top talent opting to strike out on their own these days, we decided to create a network of specialists instead, and create project teams based on each client’s culture and specific project needs. This accomplishes two crucial objectives:
Though some of our contractors opt to work for us confidentially, below is a partial list of some of the shops we really love to work with (and it keeps growing weekly):
We are a virtual agency, which means that we work with carefully selected teams of contractors and specialists in disciplines like web design, graphic design, copy writing, PR, project management, event management, media production, market research, etc.
The advantages of this model are obvious:
Rick Gabrielsen, Hospitality Marketing & Operations
With 30 years experience in hospitality management for a variety of corporate, independent and bank owned hotels, he is one of the foremost experts in asset management and operations of boutique hotels and limited service properties.
Toni Jacaruso, Hospitality Marketing & Operations.
With more than 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Toni brings deep insight and broad expertise in sales, marketing and revenue management to Summers Hospitality Group.
