As Director of Consumer & Industry Insights, Robert manages Ignite Consumer, Technomic’s ongoing chain brand health and foodservice consumer attitude and usage tracking program. Since joining Technomic in 2012, he has worked closely with both operator and supplier clients to tackle tough business questions and help shape their strategy and approach through data-driven insights. Robert has led efforts to incorporate and overlay multiple Technomic data sources to identify correlations between guest experience and financial metrics, and to derive consumer opportunity assessments across distinct restaurant user groups.