I sat down with one local creative mini-Steve Jobs, by the
name of Greg Cutchall who is the founder and CEO of Cutchall
Management Company. By placing Steve and Greg in the same
sentence, you can tell that Greg as a national franchisee and
restaurant management consultant is a business innovator.
“Big Cheese is a dual concept
restaurant which will share space
with Cutchall’s gourmet burger shop,
Burger Star.”
From Greg’s start as a wanna-be photography artist to food business
maven, it may seem like an abandonment of creativity. The
assumption that to be corporate is to abandon creativity in this case
is so wrong.
Cutchall has come a long way: “From picking up trash in the
neighborhood at my father’s South Omaha A&W at the age of 8 to
developing or acquiring over 80 restaurants in 7 states ... under a
dozen brand names, I’ve seen it all.”
His animated, positive energy must have radiated outward to the
some 1400 colleagues and employees that he calls his team because
his company is now the 43rd largest employer in the metro area and
someone who has seen Omaha dining go through huge changes.
“The biggest change I’ve seen in the restaurant and catering
business is that, since the year 2000, the number of restaurants in
the Omaha area has increased by 1,000 %, while the population
has only slightly increased. The good news is that those people are
eating out more often,” Greg said.
Cutchall Management has succeeded when so many others in the
restaurant business have clearly not. Presently he is launching three
new ventures in Phoenix, AZ: Salty Señorita, Union Barrelhouse
and Lola’s Coffee House. In the Omaha Area, his new restaurants
include First Watch, Burger Star, Big Cheese, and he’ll offer
consulting expertise for PIEOCRACY. The latter three will be
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A burger and fries at Burger Star
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