Hospitality-Centric Community Hires Former Yelp VP as CEO
Seasoned, a hospitality-centric community to connect professionals with jobs and career-development resources, as well as employers with qualified candidates, has hired restaurant technology veteran, Ware Sykes, as CEO.
In January 2017, Seasoned was spun out from HotSchedules, a TPG Growth-funded company, and a provider of back-office technologies that serves 167,000 restaurants and 2.8 million restaurant professionals.
Previously, Sykes was CEO of Nowait, the first mobile network for casual-dining restaurants that pioneered the ability for consumers to “get in line” remotely, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. After the acquisition, he was vp of Yelp’s restaurant strategy. Earlier in his career, Sykes was an executive at TheLadders, an online job-search service for corporate professionals.
“For too long, technology has ignored the 69 million hourly professionals in the U.S., and we are going to change that, starting with the 14 million people devoting their careers to the foodservices industry,” said Sykes.
Launched in 2017, Seasoned has built a collection of tools and resources designed to nurture both sides of the marketplace, connecting the entire restaurant community with better jobs, talent, and professional-development opportunities.