Joshua Baumann

Was hired to help open Old Chicago's franchises for WD Ventures. We opened the first one in Logan Utah in Oct 2019. Owners had bought the rights to all of Utah and planned on opening more locations over the next few years with plans to open a total of 10 units over the next 10 years.

During 2022, Craftworks LLC the parent company of Old Chicago when out of business before being bought out of bankruptcy court by Fortune.

Owners did not like the way new company was running the company and choose to depart ways with Old Chicago. During the change over I oversaw the transition from Old Chicago to Ruby's Pizzeria & Grill.

• Developed new menu, recipes and processes for all back of house
• Set up new vendors and sourcing of new product, POS systems, Restaurant360, Host platforms , uniforms, menus
• Trained all staff and managers on new systems and new menu.
• Run all parts of operation. I am HR, Payroll, IT, hiring, training, ordering, inventory, P&L , Menu development,
• Complete understanding of Toast, Restaurant 360 , Sling , Loman Ai and Kickfin. I do all the programming on all platforms and built out all system we use.
• I work for Two owners that are pretty hands off, both live out of state and have other business that they focus on.
• I make all day to day decisions and work with them on marketing and long term planning for their company.
• Have built sales growth over the past 2 years with 12-20% same store sales year over year.
• 2025 grossed over 3.2 million dollars in sales.

• In charge of overall operations of store.
• Took store from negative SSS to positive.
• Lowered turnover from 212% to under 65%. And have maintained 30% turnover rate for the past 4 years.
• Have beat sales budgets for the past 4 years along with beating profits every month with a balanced approach to staffing and overall operation.
• 4 years of positive growth for location. Anding 1.5 million in increases sales over 3 years.

• Oversaw overall all operations leading thru my management team.
• Three new store openings Texas and one in Logan Utah, was in charge of hiring and training new teams in all new store openings.
• Top 25 GM’s in company for 3 years, we had 1200 units at the time
• One of only 30 managing partners for the company.
• Test kitchen for BWW. We tested new menu items for the company.
• Serv Safe Alcohol proctor for DFW market. I trained all new servers for market to make sure that all servers for all stores were certified in 8 hour course.
• Positive SSS year over year with 11% growth rate each year.
• Lowest turnover in company for 2 years.

• Worked in training store for managers. Trained new managers for the company to send to other stores.
• One of the busiest stores in Texas with sales of 120K a week.
• In charge of hiring and training of staff and writing schedules for staff.
• Was lead manager behind the GM.
• Serve Safe proctor

• Opened and operated bar for private owners.
• In charge of all store operations including booking bands for weekends.
• Took care of all payroll and invoicing for store.