Mindy LeBlanc

Mindy LeBlanc is District Manager for Pentex’s Iowa Taco John’s. Mindy joined the Pentex team in June 2022, although it was a reunion to the Taco John’s brand as her first restaurant job at the age of 16 was at the Taco John’s in Sauk Rapids, MN. Mindy attended culinary school with an emphasis on Restaurant Management -studying the Le Cordon Bleu program under Chef Jay Thomas at St. Cloud Technical College.

After Culinary School, Mindy was Head Chef at two privately owned restaurants, where she worked coaching owners on how to eliminate added costs by recreating efficient menus and focusing on cross utilization of menu items, showing extreme savings to food costs while producing cost-effective recipes. After 20 years those recipes and menu items she helped create are still found at both restaurants.

Mindy worked as a General Manager/Multi-Unit manager for 9 years for a frozen yogurt franchise and was involved with opening 5 new locations for that QSR before taking on a District Manager role with a growing coffee business in 2018. In that DM role, she was leading 12 operations in the state of Iowa.

In Mindy’s spare time, she enjoys, cooking (creating new recipes) crafting, hunting for rocks, hiking, spending time with family, playing Frisbee with her rescue dog Gigi, and car riding with her pug, Mr. Pickles.