The Team

Operators.
Builders.
Dreamers.

Every person on this team has spent their career inside restaurants — not consulting on them from the outside. When you franchise with Craveworthy, this is who picks up the phone.

Gregg Majewski

Founder & CEO

“When shit gets hard, we don’t hide. We build.”

The Founder

Built the Jimmy John’s playbook. Now he’s running yours.

Gregg took Jimmy John’s from 33 to 300+ locations in under five years as CEO, turning a regional sandwich shop into a national brand. That experience became the foundation for everything Craveworthy does today.

He founded Craveworthy to build the restaurant platform he always wished existed: one that acquires concepts with good bones, embeds proven operational infrastructure, and gives franchisees the kind of firepower only the largest chains usually have access to. The portfolio now spans 20+ brands and 300+ locations.

Through Wildcat Investments, Gregg also backs early-stage food and beverage ventures, applying the same operator-first philosophy to emerging brands.

The Operating Team

The people
behind the brands.

Ten leaders, hundreds of years of combined restaurant experience. Every department head has actually done the work — opened stores, managed P&Ls, written the playbooks, trained the teams. This is the bench you franchise with.

Josh Halpern

Chief Business Officer

Runs Big Chicken day to day as CEO while serving as CBO across the Craveworthy portfolio. Twenty years across CPG, retail, and restaurants.

Kirk Hillabrand

SVP, Franchise Operations

25+ years franchise operations. The person every FBC ultimately reports to.

Kristin Albert

SVP, Restaurant Operations

Nearly two decades leading large-scale hospitality establishments. Runs the systems that keep stores humming.

Sam Stanovich

SVP, Franchise Development

30 years hospitality. Active QSR franchisee himself — he sells what he’s also bought.

Alexis Gillette

VP, Brand Management

20+ years across Raising Cane’s, 7-Eleven, Pizza Hut, KFC, JCPenney, Smoothie King. Brand storytelling at scale.

Jax Sperling

VP, Culinary & Supply Chain

15 years purchasing, culinary R&D, and brand acceleration. Why your COGS go down as the portfolio grows.

Chris Gumprecht

VP, Marketing & IT

20 years across restaurant operations, marketing, IT, and software. The stack behind every Craveworthy brand.

Cassie Miller

SVP, Training & Ops Services

Decade-plus developing training initiatives across the Craveworthy portfolio. Why day one looks like year three.

Nicole Dore

VP, Financial Reporting & Treasury

20 years finance and accounting across retail, fashion, and restaurant. Keeps the platform honest.

John Silvestri

General Legal Counsel

25 years corporate legal. JD, University of Illinois. The reason your FDD lands on time.

Strategic Advisor

Foodservice at scale.
Learned from the inside.

Perry Miele

Former President & CEO, Nestlé Professional

Perry led Nestlé Professional — the global foodservice arm of the world’s largest food company — as President & CEO from 2009 to 2016. He’s spent his career operating at the scale Craveworthy is building toward.

At Nestlé he ran a multi-billion-dollar P&L across thousands of foodservice operators in North America. He understands the supply chain economics, the operator psychology, and the brand-portfolio dynamics that make multi-concept platforms work — because he ran one.

At Craveworthy, Perry advises on platform strategy, category expansion, and the operational discipline required to scale a multi-brand restaurant company past the inflection points where most franchisors stall.

Nestlé Professional (2009–2016)Multi-billion-dollar foodservice P&LGlobal supply chain expertiseMulti-brand portfolio operator

Capital Partners

The investors
behind the build.

Craveworthy is backed by a council of capital partners with deep experience across financial services, asset management, and public-company governance. They advise on capital structure, growth strategy, and the long-arc thinking required to build enterprise value.