Cooking Up Resilience: Running a Restaurant in a Disaster-Prone State

Running a restaurant is tough under any circumstances, but when you’re in a disaster-prone state, the challenges multiply—fast. Soaring insurance rates, labor shortages, and inflation-driven price hikes are pushing many operators to the brink.  

Join Andrei Stern, Co-Founder and CFO of Miami-based SuViche Hospitality Group, and Julianne Gomez, R365 Manager of Commercial Sales, as they reveal proven strategies for building resilience in today’s most challenging markets. Stern, whose company oversees some of South Florida’s most successful restaurant concepts, will share how technology has been vital in streamlining operations, controlling costs, and boosting profitability. 

In this webinar, discover how features like inventory management, recipe costing, and menu engineering can deliver the insights needed to optimize performance, maximize margins, and ensure your restaurant stays agile and competitive—even in the face of disaster. 

Meet the Speakers

Julianne Gomez

Manager, Commercial Sales

Julianne Gomez is a scientist turned top-performing AE, turned sales leader here at R365. She currently manages the top-performing commercial sales team, known as ‘The Honeybadgers.’ She specializes in the Southeast territory, covering Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, where many of her customers have been impacted by recent disasters like Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. She works closely with her team to help restaurants use technology to improve their operations and prepare for unexpected challenges.

Andrei Stern

Founder and CFO

Andrei Stern is an entrepreneur with a focus on financial and strategic decision-making. Stern is Co-Founder and CFO at SuViche Hospitality Group, a hospitality company that owns the brand of two of South Florida’s most popular restaurant concepts: SuViche and Novecento. Andrei focuses on streamlining and facilitating financial information across the company, developing long-term relationships with vendors, and leveraging technology to increase operating efficiencies. In addition, he focuses on continuing to build the foundations that have aided in the group’s continued growth.

Restaurant365 bridges the gap between accounting and operations by centralizing all data, helping restaurant operators to become more efficient, accurately forecast, and tackle any challenge or opportunity with speed and accuracy.