Kristin Corcoran Named VP-Company Counsel for Marco’s Pizza

• In her new function, Kristin Corcoran will assist the Marco’s authorized group in day-to-day actions and work carefully with the chain’s enterprise items.
• As a extremely skilled authorized skilled, she has held top-level management roles within the trade for greater than 30 years.

Kristin Corcoran has been appointed vice president-corporate counsel for Marco’s Pizza, the corporate has introduced.

The information comes on the heels of the latest appointments of Gerardo Flores as chief growth officer, David Gladstone as VP of building, and Paul Williams as VP of actual property.

Marco’s, listed by Nation’s Restaurant Information because the nation’s fastest-growing pizza model in 2021, goals to strengthen its govt group whereas making ready for its subsequent period of development. Marco’s crossed the $1 billion annual systemwide gross sales milestone for the primary time in 2022.

As a extremely skilled authorized skilled, Corcoran has held top-level management roles within the trade for greater than 30 years. Most not too long ago, she served of counsel to DLA Piper and beforehand was a accomplice in Appleby & Corcoran, LLC, offering counsel to franchisor shoppers. Previous to her transfer to personal apply, she was the senior affiliate normal counsel at Subway for 25 years.

Corcoran brings a wealth of franchise and normal enterprise experience to Marco’s. In her new place, she supplies worthwhile assist to the Marco’s authorized group in day-to-day actions and works carefully with the enterprise items in her function as a authorized advisor to the corporate.

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“I’m so happy to have Kristin be a part of our authorized group. She is a extremely achieved legal professional whose management, experience and enterprise contributions have had a considerable, optimistic affect on the manufacturers she’s suggested,” stated Marco’s Pizza Senior Vice President and Chief Authorized Officer Todd Watson. “Her expertise navigating franchise legislation in earlier positions makes her extremely certified for this new function. She is the suitable particular person to assist our franchise regulatory and compliance features as we dive into new and thrilling strategic initiatives.”

Marco’s franchise growth continues to speed up, with greater than 200 shops in numerous levels of growth and greater than 350 agreements signed. The corporate’s management is prioritizing investments in enhancing the franchise growth program, new expertise, personnel, strategic vendor partnerships, multi-channel nationwide promoting, and extra—all with a watch on maximizing franchisee income whereas assembly the wants of right this moment’s fashionable buyer.

“It’s an thrilling time to hitch the Marco’s group,” Corcoran stated. “With a number of tasks in growth, franchise growth surging, and new partnerships being shaped, it’s my objective to supply the authorized recommendation wanted to maintain up with new traits, challenges and alternatives, as Marco’s continues on the quick monitor to pizza royalty.”

The model continues to rise within the ranks as Nation’s Restaurant Information Prime 500 Report exhibits Marco’s achieved the best % year-over-year gross sales change (+18.2%) when in comparison with the nation’s prime 4 pizza manufacturers, making Marco’s the No. 5 pizza model in systemwide gross sales in America.

With robust development and efficiency, Marco’s now units its sights on changing into the No. 4 model in pizza because it skilled a 12.8% improve in year-over-year Common Unit Quantity (AUV), and the highest 50% of Marco’s franchised shops generated $1,198,201 AUV for 2021.