John Fink

John Fink is the current Chief Financial Officer at High Noon Restaurant Groups. Prior to that, they were the Chief Financial Officer for Le Duff America from January 2018 to December 2020.

Le Duff America is the North American subsidiary of Rennes, France-based Groupe Le Duff. When John started their tenure there, Le Duff America operated or franchised 200 locations and annual sales were in excess of $350M.

During their time at Le Duff America, John engineered the sale of the Mimi’s Café brand ($150M annual sales and 76 locations) to a strategic buyer, without the benefit of a sell-side M&A advisor. John located the buyer via “cold calling” and was a key member of the team that negotiated the sale agreement and continuing services agreement, populated an online data room, responded to diligence requests, and closed the deal.

John also rolled out a cost of sales and labor management platform to all locations (CrunchTime!), redesigned the FP&A reporting regimen, both for US-based constituencies and the parent company in Rennes, France, extracted Le Duff America from several non-performing joint ventures, negotiated and executed an outsourcing agreement and coordinated the outsourcing of accounting functions, sponsored the redesign of the IT infrastructure, between on-site servers, colocation, and the cloud (Microsoft Azure) to be most cost-efficient and improve data security, and obtained $7M of PPP loan

John Fink has a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Florida.

John Fink reports to David Damato, Chief Executive Officer. and Jordy Hill - IT Specialist reports to John Fink. Some of their coworkers include Sallie Woods - VP of Human Resources and Training, Don Rizzie - VP of Operations.