John Adams virtually grew up with restaurant work. Watching his mother work with a crew at a local diner, the Calico Kitchen in Scottsville, NY. John began working as a dishwasher at age 14 in the same location.
This has led to several restaurant, banquet hall, and pizzeria experiences from the front line to the Leadership Team over a 39 year career! Over the last several years, John was engaged as a District Manager, a Leadership Trainer, and a Business Development Manager. John was on track to become a Domino’s Franchisee but chose to become a consultant instead.

John has received Local, Regional, and National awards from various organizations over his career. This includes a Top Ten Sales Building Award for having top ten highest sales growth out of 5400+ units Nationally with Domino’s in 2014. This was in a store that had been open for thirty three years previous to his taking over the location and then sending sales into the stratosphere!

John had become a leader in having great results in his stores and was known as a “Turn Around Guy”. He has been in very difficult environments with crews that were not performing well and having terrible results, all with highly positive changes! Beginning with a principle based approach, correct hiring, creating a vision for the Team, training to high proficiency, and setting the examples that each Team Member needed to see; Great Results always followed!

John has understood that each restaurant or pizzeria can have delicious, well presented food. However, without the right people in place, success will be elusive. True success in food service always comes down to the Team in place!