Restaurant Operator Podcast
On this episode of the Restaurant Operator Podcast, host Mandy Detwiler, editor of QSRweb and Pizza Market, chats with Amanda Potts, vp of selling and innovation for A&W Eating places, about Potts’ numerous background and the way she returned to a foodservice profession after working within the automotive trade.
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July 22, 2025
On this episode of the Restaurant Operator Podcast, host Mandy Detwiler, editor of QSRweb and Pizza Market, chats with Amanda Potts, vp of selling and innovation for A&W Eating places, about Potts’ numerous background and the way she returned to a foodservice profession after working within the automotive trade.
Potts has greater than 30 years of expertise working in numerous industries together with Valvoline and Fazoli’s. She graduated from school and achieved her dream job working for an company for Fazoli’s. She left the meals service trade for about seven years and labored in automotive, the place she realized a variety of latest expertise. She needed to return to eating places given she considers herself a foodie. “I really like meals. I nonetheless saved up with all of the (meals) trade information in eating places and so I noticed this chance to and thought, ‘What an ideal probability to get again into eating places,'” she shares within the podcast.
On the time of our interview, Potts had been with A&W for simply two months, however the model is already desirous about subsequent 12 months.
“There’s been plenty of advances, plenty of modifications since I have been gone however the enterprise itself is identical,” Potts mentioned. “You are simply making an attempt to supply an ideal expertise and hope clients come again to you.”
To be taught extra about Potts’ position at A&W, click on the hyperlink on the prime to take heed to the interview . Remember to subscribe to the Networld Meda Group YOUTUBE web page for extra nice interviews.
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