TL;DR
Toni Ronayne, founder of C Society, discusses the need for C-level leadership in emerging restaurant chains on the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive. C Society provides experienced executives to fill this need.
This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features Toni Ronayne, the founder of the fractional C-suite firm C Society.
C Society provides experienced executives who can work with emerging and other restaurant chains, filling a need for c-level leadership. Ronayne is a longtime industry executive whose past stops have included Perkins and Freshii, among other companies.
We discuss why companies need this and how these executives can help. But we also talk extensively about several other issues regarding leadership in the restaurant industry.
This is the latest in a series of podcast episodes that we recorded at the National Restaurant Association Show and it’s a good one so please check it out.
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This story was originally published in Restaurant Business on June 3, 2026. Burnaze summarizes and links to the original reporting.
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