Savory is excited to announce its first ever food and beverage technology investment into 86 Repairs.

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Savory, a Mercato Partners Fund, is focused on delivering outsized returns through strategic investments in the food and beverage industry. Savory partners with high-potential, profitable, emerging restaurant brands, to deliver financial capital, industry expertise, revenue opportunities, profitability enhancements, and new location development. The Savory team contributes directly to all aspects of growth and replication by using a proven playbook and methodology. Founder involvement in the expansion of a brand is a central theme of the Savory approach as founders carry the tribal knowledge around the uniqueness that has energized early success and is essential to future growth. read more

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CEO: Shauna Smith

Shauna Smith Savory Restaurant Fund CEO Rating

Savory Restaurant Fund's CEO, Shauna Smith, has 52 employee ratings and a score of 98/100, placing them in the Top 5% of similar size companies on Comparably with 51-200 Employees. When breaking the CEO score down by factors such as department, gender, and ethnicity, we see that females at Savory Restaurant Fund rate Shauna Smith higher than males, giving the CEO a score of 100/100.

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Savory Restaurant Fund CEO Shauna Smith Bio

With over 12 years of executive management experience in the F&B industry, Shauna serves as President of the Savory Value Add team. This 50-person team of industry veterans supports all Savory portfolio companies in their pursuit of brand efficiency, revenue growth, and site replication.

Shauna co-founded Four Foods Group in 2008, a multi-brand restaurant operations and investment company that built and operated 170 restaurants across the U.S. Four Foods surpassed $1B in food and beverage sales in 2019 and was named one of the fastest-growing restaurant operations companies in the nation two years in a row by Restaurant Monitor. Shauna appeared on the cover of the November 2018 issue of Franchise Times with her partner and husband, Andrew K. Smith (co-Founder of Four Foods Group). Four Foods was also an 8-time honoree of the Inc. 500 program between 2011 and 2019.

Shauna was a recipient of Utah Business’ 30 Women to Watch in 2019 and Executive of the Year in the 2020 spring edition of BusinessQ Magazine. Utah Business Magazine recently awarded CXO of the Year in 2020. Born and raised in Dothan, Alabama, Shauna resides in Utah with her husband and two sons.

Who Ranks Savory Restaurant Fund's CEO Rating the Highest?

Department - Marketing 100/100

Ethnicity - Hispanic or Latino 100/100

Experience - Entry Level 100/100

Who Ranks Savory Restaurant Fund's CEO Rating the Lowest?

Experience - 3 to 6 Years 95/100

Experience - 6 to 10 Years 95/100

Department - Operations 96/100

Savory Restaurant Fund CEO Shauna Smith At a Glance

The CEO score provides an understanding of how employees feel about the CEO’s leadership style and effectiveness at Savory Restaurant Fund.

Savory Restaurant Fund's CEO is highly regarded by the Marketing department, Hispanic or Latino employees, and employees with Entry Level experience. However, employees with 3 to 6 Years experience, employees with 6 to 10 Years experience, and the Operations department have a less favorable view of the CEO and believe there is room for improvement. Overall, the CEO score has remained stable over the last 90 days.