Roundtable's Brands division recruits for multi-site concepts: QSR, fast-casual, casual, coffee and café brands. These are brands that scale across many sites and, increasingly, across many markets. We recruit across every function, from mid-senior management to C-level, for franchisors, franchisees, homegrown and multi-branded operators.
Multi-unit F&B sits on a different cycle to luxury and lifestyle. Most of the UK and Europe are already established, they are mature markets that set much of the operating standards. The GCC has seen significant growth across QSR, fast-casual and coffee, with Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar all expanding. International franchise brands continue to enter the region for the first time. Leadership requirements lean towards genuine multi-unit profit-and-loss responsibility, real estate experience, supply chain depth and franchise experience. The talent layer is mobile, and leaders move between markets within the same group.
That means COOs and Heads of Operations, alongside the real estate, supply chain, marketing, finance and HR leaders who scale a brand, from mid-senior management through to C-level. The full list of functions we recruit is on the Clients page.
Multi-unit F&B hiring can be a single role or a full leadership team, and both carry equal value. The emphasis is rarely operations alone: supply chain, real estate and development, and marketing all carry real weight. We understand the relationships between franchisors and franchisees, and what is required on both sides of the fence; we lean on knowledge, network, references and industry news. We give honest, consultative advice on organisational structure as well as on people.
