Skift Table's Top Restaurant Marketers 2019

Today, we're launching Skift Table Top Restaurant Marketers 2019, our new franchise focused on the top marketing leaders the restaurant industry. With this list, we'll highlight the people that are defining and innovating across brands big and small — as well as budgets big and small, too.

The 22 leaders, below, represent restaurants, brands, and technologies that are shaping the business of dining out across the U.S. and, in some cases, beyond borders, too. Each one is dealing with the same challenges on one hand — fickle consumers, new technology, changing competition — and ones unique to their brand on the other.

Through our short interviews and profiles, below, we explain why these marketers are giving their companies their best shot at success in the year ahead.

Go Deeper

In addition to profiles of top marketing leaders, below, we'll bring you in-depth, one-on-one interviews with three leaders over three weeks (we will link to these additional stories when they are live):

• Find out how Pei Wei CMO Brandon Solano stays ahead of rivals.
• KFC's CMO Andrea Zahumensky is new to restaurants. Read why that's an edge.
• Learn why data is Tock CEO Nick Kokonas' favorite marketing tool.

Top Restaurant Marketers 2019

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Lauren McCutcheon is a writer and editor who specializes in features writing. Her work has appeared in The Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer, Domino, Philadelphia magazine, Every Day With Rachael Ray, Better Homes & Gardens and more. Her day job is content manager for Visit Philadelphia. Connect with her via LinkedIn.