Steven Burge

Steven was born and raised in Texas, he moved around growing up because his father was a high school coach. He attended West Texas A & M University where he studied Physics. While working on his education, he enlisted in the Marine Corp Reserves where he spent 6 years in the active reserve. During this time, he was a server and bartender at Joe’s Crab Shack. He later moved up into management. As part of his management experience with Joe’s Crab Shack, he traveled around the United States opening new restaurants. After spending four years in the seafood business, he was recruited to be an Area Coach for a Pizza Hut franchisee. In order to grow, he and his wife Charlene moved to Indianapolis where he eventually became the Director of Operations for the franchise. After 5 years in the pizza business, he joined a restaurant group that owned and operated over a hundred and fifty restaurants in variety, including Wendy’s, Denny’s, Long John Silver’s, Grandy’s and McAlister’s.

He worked for 11 years with that restaurant organization until the owners sold off the restaurants, which is how he is now employed with Southern Rock Restaurants. He came on board with the acquisition of their McAlister’s locations in Bedford, IN and Vincennes, IN. As an Area Director with SRR, he has enjoyed working with the best McAlister’s group in the industry. He prides himself on always keeping a positive attitude with his teams and cracking an occasional “Dad Joke.” In his free time, Steven likes to follow in his father’s footstep and volunteers as a coach for his son’s baseball, basketball, and soccer teams. He also enjoys helping with his son’s scouting pack. And if you ever see anyone cooking on a grill in shorts and a foot of snow on the ground in the middle of winter, it is probably Steven.