Advance Your Career
Candidates
Today’s candidates are often tomorrow’s clients, and mutual trust is built by creating lasting relationships. The Wray Group is the bridge to an essential network for successful executives in the restaurant, foodservice and hospitality industry. Become a part of our career network to gain the competitive edge you need to build an advanced career that offers rewarding challenges, personal and professional development, and access to others who share your passion.
We want every candidate to know right from the start that our goal is to find the best fit between the job opportunities offered by our clients and the candidates we recommend. We understand how important this is to advance your career. Therefore, we honestly give you as much information as we have at the time about the company, the specific opportunity available, and your status in the hiring process. With that said, we respect your decisions, too, because ultimately you are the one who has to live with those decisions.
The Hiring Process
Submit Your Resume
Use the form below to submit your CV.
We Identify a Fit
When a job opportunity arises that is in alignment with your objectives, we will contact you to provide a general description of the position, compensation, background check of the organization, time frame, and location.
Share Your Profile
For confidentiality purposes, we do not divulge the name of the company in this initial discussion of the job hiring process. We ask your permission to send your resume anonymously to the hiring company to begin the process for hiring.
Interview(s) with Company
We will maintain contact with you throughout the job hiring process. We promise to keep you fully informed of the client’s impressions and intentions.
Job Offer
We work with both you and the client in the final job negotiations because we guarantee our clients that our candidates will be the best match. To accomplish that we have to make sure that both you and the client are satisfied.
Begin Your New Career
It does not stop there. We continue our relationship after you are hired. We strongly believe that our candidates ultimately become our best clients.
Current Opportunities
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Location: West Coast
A family-owned and operated fast casual restaurant concept with a strong brand identity, loyal customer base, and significant growth potential is in search of a CEO. The company is at an inflection point; ready to evolve from an entrepreneurial, founder-led organization into a more structured, scalable enterprise while preserving its culture, values, and legacy. To lead this next chapter, the company is seeking a seasoned Chief Executive Officer who can serve as both strategic architect and hands-on operator, building the systems, team, and discipline required for sustainable growth.
The CEO will have full responsibility for the overall performance, strategy, and leadership of the company. This is an all-encompassing leadership role requiring the ability to professionalize operations, develop infrastructure, and drive growth, while navigating the nuances of a family-owned business. The ideal candidate is a trusted leader who can influence without disrupting, introduce structure without eroding culture, and align family ownership around a shared vision for the future. This individual must be equally comfortable rolling up their sleeves in the restaurants and leading high-level strategic planning.
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Email: rebecca@wraysearch.com
Email: ray@wraysearch.com
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Location: Southwest
An exciting, fast-growing franchise organization is seeking a COO who can transition the organization from a high-growth sales engine to a world-class operational powerhouse through optimization of system infrastructure, corporate organization, franchise support, and unit economics. With 30 locations open today and a robust domestic and international pipeline, the COO will work closely with the Executive Leadership team and franchisee stakeholders to drive systematic operational improvements and location growth. The ideal candidate is high energy, comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment, possesses exceptional communication skills, and thrives in a fast-growing organization.
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Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
Email: ray@wraysearch.com
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Location: East Coast
A multi-unit, multi-state, upscale restaurant group is seeking an experienced, enterprise-minded Chief Operating Officer to lead operations through the company’s next phase of growth and performance. The COO is accountable for operational execution, financial performance, and leadership development across all restaurants and regions. This role owns the operating engine of the business—ensuring consistency, discipline, and scale while preserving the culture, hospitality, and standards that define our brands. This is a hands-on, high-impact role requiring strong judgment, decisiveness, and the ability to lead at both the enterprise and field level.
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Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
Email: ray@wraysearch.com
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Location: North Carolina
The Chief Operating Officer (COO) will serve as a key member of the executive leadership team for a 70+ unit Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) franchisee. This individual will oversee all aspects of day-to-day restaurant operations, ensuring operational excellence, consistent execution, and a best-in-class guest experience across all locations. The COO will play a central role in driving growth through new restaurant openings, strengthening training and people development programs, fostering collaboration across functional leaders, and leveraging data and metrics to deliver measurable performance results. This is a hands-on, results-driven role requiring a strategic leader who can scale operations, build strong teams, and implement systems and processes that position the organization for continued success and expansion.
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Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
Email: ray@wraysearch.com
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Location: Southeast preferred
The Head of Operations will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, ensuring efficiency, as well as developing growth strategies for franchise locations. The Head of Operations will drive firmwide and systemwide profitability, operational consistency, and brand growth. They will bridge strategy and execution, overseeing supply chains, training, technology adoption, and franchisee compliance. In addition, a primary role of the Head of Operations is to maintain quality and brand consistency across franchise locations as well as executing on key goals including rapid unit expansion, high-performance culture, and maximizing revenue.
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Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
Email: ray@wraysearch.com
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Location: Washington, DC
Our client is a leading national trade association dedicated to advancing the restaurant and hospitality industry through advocacy, education, and cutting-edge business solutions. This organization is committed to innovation, professional development, and industry leadership, ensuring its members have the tools and resources needed to thrive.
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Email: rebecca@wraysearch.com
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Location: Southern California
A growing restaurant organization focused on delivering exceptional guest experiences through operational excellence and smart use of technology is seeking a Vice President of Restaurant Technology. As the business scales, technology plays a critical role in enabling consistency, profitability, and speed across our restaurants. We are seeking a Vice President of Technology with deep restaurant systems expertise to lead, optimize, and evolve the technology ecosystem that powers our field operations.
The Vice President of Technology will serve as the senior leader responsible for all restaurant-facing technology and systems, ensuring tools are intuitive, integrated, reliable, and aligned with how restaurants actually operate. This role is highly cross-functional and operator-focused. The ideal candidate has lived in restaurant systems; POS, labor, payroll, inventory, accounting, delivery, loyalty and understands how technology directly impacts margins, team productivity, and guest experience. While this role will oversee broader IT considerations, the primary focus is restaurant technology strategy, execution, and continuous improvement.
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Email: ray@wraysearch.com
Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
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Location: Connecticut
A long-standing, upscale catering company, with a reputation for exceptional quality and flawless execution, is in search of a Director of Accounting and Finance. This person will bring structure, insight, and forward-thinking financial leadership to the business, while preserving the quality and standards that define the brand.
This role is a unique blend of hands-on bookkeeping/accounting and forward-looking financial strategy. The ideal candidate will own the day-to-day financials while also partnering with ownership to improve profitability, enhance planning, and support smart, sustainable growth. They are looking for someone who can elevate the financial function, while also thinking creatively about cost management, ensuring efficiencies are gained without compromising the premium nature of their product and service.
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Email: ray@wraysearch.com
Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
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Location: Mid Atlantic
A dynamic, growing, full service, multi-location restaurant group is looking for a Head of Accounting/Controller to join their team. This person will partner with the senior leadership team to drive all accounting and audit processes, as well as business strategy to improve financial results. This will include but is not limited to preparing accurate and timely financial statements. Taking ownership in all accounting processes and performing business analysis. This is a player-coach role who is equally comfortable engaging our ownership as they are “doing the accounting.”
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Email: kevin@wraysearch.com
Submit Resume
FAQs
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No, we will never share your resume or personal information without your explicit permission. We value your trust and confidentiality, and you will always have the opportunity to approve where and when your resume is submitted.
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You will hear from us when we have a client with a position that aligns with your skills, experience, and career goals. While we review every submission, our outreach is tailored to match you with opportunities that best fit your profile.
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The duration of the process can vary depending on the specific needs of our clients, the roles they are seeking to fill, and how closely your qualifications align with those roles. Some placements may progress quickly, while others may take more time. Rest assured, we will keep you informed throughout the process.