Nick Raucci

Nick Raucci has over 25 years of experience in restaurant operations specializing in growth restaurant companies. Most recently he served as the Chief Operating Officer of BurgerFi International and was instrumental in taking BurgerFi public, through a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) in December, 2020. Nick served as General Manager and Regional Director of Operations for Ted’s Montana Grill, the casual dining restaurant brand founded by media mogul Ted Turner and restaurateur George McKerrow Jr. as a for-profit effort to stop the extinction of the American Bison. He was also a part of Five Guys Burgers and Fries where he was a multi-unit operations leader and Regional Vice President. In those roles, he helped drive Five Guys’ national expansion on both the franchise and corporate sides of the business as well as its growth to over a billion dollars in revenue. Mr. Raucci is a graduate of Johnson and Wales University, the largest food service and culinary arts educator in the world.