About Us
ROI is a highly-respected and highly-specialized restaurant, bar, and foodservice Consulting & Venture firm. We work with clients and projects of all shapes, types, and sizes around the world.
Since our beginnings in 1987, we have only dealt with restaurants, bars, and foodservice industry concepts and businesses; therefore, our singular focus in one singular industry has helped us become experts at what we do.
You can find our world-famous books in bookstores across North America and in 76 countries around the globe, so you know we have credibility and expertise in this industry sector. Our founder, Howard Cannon is the author of these world-famous books with new books being released each and every year in both the restaurant and the children’s books sectors.
Mr. Cannon is a speaker at industry events, an instructor at universities, a magazine publisher, an entrepreneur, a husband of more than twenty years, and the father of two sons. He started his working life at twelve years old washing dishes at a neighborhood restaurant in a small town in Wisconsin. He has been a dishwasher, a stock boy, a cashier, a shift manager, an assistant manager, a Manager, a District Manager, a Regional Director, a Regional Vice President, a Vice President, a Sr. Vice President, a Chief Operating Officer, a President, a CEO, and an Owner in the restaurant industry. He has spent more than twenty-four years developing, growing, and operating ROI and has personally served many thousands of customers. In addition, he has worked with, led, mentored, and inspired many thousands of restaurant employees.
Mr. Cannon attended the University of Wisconsin and has earned his Masters in Business Administration. He has a highly driven, unique, and OLD SCHOOL hands-on management style which has earned him respect from many of the country's entrepreneurs, corporate giants, and educators, and his results orientation and style guarantees that our Clients will get results. He is not your traditional consultant or entrepreneur who tells you what you want to hear. He tells you what you need to hear and pulls no punches. He is not one that will walk on eggshells, and will not want to waste your time or ours. His style will inspire the very best out of you and your team and demand the delivery of RESULTS!
Every ROI Consultant is required to have a minimum of ten years of experience serving the restaurant industry; and, even as we add on new Consultants from a variety of disciplines associated with our industry, our CEO still insists on personally interacting with and getting to know each and every person and company that ROI does business with, without exception.
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