Kelly Cook

Kelly serves as President for Pan American. He started his restaurant career in 1986 with Steak ‘n Shake and immediately fell in love with the restaurant business. In July of 1991 he joined St Louis Bread Company (Panera Bread) managing one of their 6 locations. Kelly was promoted to Operations Services Manager in 1996 and Area Director in 1997 with operations in St. Louis, MO and Atlanta, GA. After a successful career in company operations Kelly joined the Franchise Operations team in 2002 as a business consultant and then was promoted to Director of Franchise Operations supporting 1,100 cafes in the U.S and Canada. Kelly joined the Flynn Restaurant Group in June of 2018 as Sr. VP of Operations and now is the Brand President for Pan American operating ~134 bakery cafes in Washington, Northern California, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri.