SHANNON HENNESSY
CEO
HABIT BURGER & GRILL
WHY: Yum! Brands transfer from KFC company to Irvine-based burger chain in 2020 as president, then named Habit CEO in 2022.
IN THE NEWS: Oversaw slight name change for restaurants, now known as Habit Burger & Grill (formerly The Habit Burger Grill).
NOTABLE: Counts almost 20 years in consulting before entering restaurant industry; currently focused on growing Habit’s margins by improving restaurant economics.
QUOTABLE: “Being part of the Yum! family means that we now have access to suppliers that are very sophisticated in the approaches that they use, and so we’ve been learning from them about how we can do things differently.”
