Meet Alan Daviduk. A dedicated dad to 8 (yes, 8) amazing children. Alex, Aaron, Phoebe, Autumn, Joshua, Emma, Lily, and Noah are each in their own unique way the apple of his eye. A devoted husband to his wife Karen of 32 “blissful” years.
Alan is also a son, brother, and friend to many. Faith, Family and Finance…in that order. Family really is the fuel to his fire—the reason he does all that he does. His goal is to provide and demonstrate an incredible work ethic and responsibility with entrepreneurship to those he cares so much about.
Alan’s background spans over three decades of articulation of the restaurant, manufacturing, and retail industry. His many years with Dunkin’ Donuts is where he learned the unique skill sets of building high-performance teams, dive-thru systems, and the mechanics of team speed operating systems in a multi-unit environment.
“It’s one thing to run a location inside 4 walls, it’s another to have problems in multiple areas miles apart.”
In an effort to solve the biggest problems he was having in his restaurant operations, People, Alan worked with his development team to develop the SMART System. His People strategy has honored the doers, irritated the deceivers, grown hundreds of careers for individuals, and developed countless transferrable skills for many as they proceed to the next stages of their lives.
Alan believes that unfortunately there is a massive gap being experienced in the workforce—a gap of incompetent, inconsistent people who could weaken the workforce and customer experience for years to come. Every interaction, including great, truthful or even the hard conversation is designed to teach, expand and develop better employees and people for tomorrow. Create those ideal employees, the employees we proudly call RockStars.
Intrigued? Given a few minutes, and a few Alanisms, we’re confident the conversation will be so interesting that it turns into an hour or even more of learning how to ATTRACT, DEVELOP, ENGAGE & RETAIN RockStar Employees!
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Alan often speaks at corporate events, symposiums, and offers coaching. Contact us if you have a future event in mind.
Read some of Alan’s Articles full of RockStar Tips, Tricks and QRS and Retail Resources
HOLIDAY HANGOVER
Summary Is your organization experiencing the Seasonal Holiday Hangover? You know the time of year that hit every January, February and hopefully rebounds in March? Join us for Holiday Hangover insight and learn how you can make them work FOR you.In the restaurant...
QUIET QUITTERS
Summary Quiet quitters and what you need to know ? With 50% of the workforce today Quiet Quitting. Employers must know what the signs are BEFORE this happens and how to help turn that narrative around. Read below to learn how you can spot the signs and help turn it...
6 REASONS HIGHER WAGES HAVE CONSEQUENCES
Summary Is your organization experiencing DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS? You know them, the little digs that seem to be occurring daily in today’s retail and restaurants, and aren’t going to let up anytime soon. Many small businesses suffer from “death by a thousand...
The Life and History that is Alan and the RockStar Journey to the SMART System!
1985
Cut from the soccer team, was “too fat” in JR High School, learned a huge lesson. “Don’t ever think you will automatically get something”, you need to earn it, and then keep doing the work to keep it.
1986
Lost 90lbs, walked into Brockton MA High School Freshman year, no one recognized me.
Joined Wrestling Team and Football Team
Worked for father at York’s Steakhouse, multiple locations.
Brockton MA, Dedham MA, Hanover MA and Methuen MA
1988
Parents Opened their first Dunkin Donuts (DD) location in Plaistow NH.
Began to learn the owner side of the business.
1990
Graduated Haverhill High School
Headed Donut Production and all Bakery Production
1991
Graduated Dunkin Donuts University Franchisee Training program
1992
Helped Family to open second location in East Hampstead NH
My first son Alex was born
1994
Helped Family to open third location in Plaistow NH
1996
Helped Family to open Forth location in Plaistow NH
1999
Family opened multiple Pizza Restaurant locations throughout Southern NH
Karen and I were Married
2000
Co-Founder, Board Member, Operations and Treasurer of a cooperative Bakery Manufacturing Facility providing bakery products for 100+ Dunkin Donut Independent locations
My son Aaron was born
2001
My daughter Phoebe was born
2002
My daughter Autumn was born
2005
Helped Family to open Fifth location in East Hampstead NH
2006
My son Joshua was born
2007
Worked with Dunkin Brands Corporate on training and development programs
2008
My daughter Emma was born
2010
My daughter Lily was born
2011
My son Noah was born
2015
Entered into a partnership to produce and manufacture frozen retail Pizza, company
2016
First product line Half Baked Pizza is approved to be sold at all Market Basket locations
My employee problems at all our Dunkin Donut locations begin, stress was overwhelming
Turnover percentage topped at 280%, people did not want to work for me
Weight swelled to 415lbs, became very sick from Diabetes, High Blood Pressure and leg edema.
Finally came to the realization that I was the problem and “I” had to change.
Joined a Development Program for married Businessmen with children, called Wake-Up Warrior
Entered into the Warrior Week program to be “woken up”, began new journey on life and wake up I did.
The Journey begins.
2017
Began to put the Building Blocks together of my NEW People Strategy, began to test and refine every aspect of the way I operated to lead my teams and get results.
Half Baked Pizza signs agreement with Papa Gino’s Company to license its Supermarket Retail Pizza line.
2018
Lost 150lbs, and transformed all of me and began to repair the relationship with my wife and children.
Half Baked Pizza and Papa Gino’s Retail line break $8MM in sales.
Led my Team at Dunkin Donuts in 10 months to a complete end to end transformation internally. Developed the systems and processes that will become The SMART System foundation.
Witnessed people transformation after people transformation.
Developed layers of Training teams, hiring and onboarding systems.
Recorded system wide increases in sales, customer counts and guest satisfaction.
Dunkin Brands took notice, wanted to understand how I was achieving the success.
2019
Increased retention rates significantly, realized turnover percentage did come down from 280% to under 200%, but the target was incorrect. Eliminating the problematic candidates much faster was the actual key to success, in turn there had to be an attrition rate.
While walking on a 5 mile walk, felt massive pain. Had to undergo surgery to remove a bone infection from my previous unmanaged Diabetes.
Undergoing this treatment revealed damage to my Aortic heart valve, immediately underwent a Quadruple By-Pass and Aortic Valve Replacement.
Was able to heal myself in 12 weeks because of the physical transformation.
While undergoing treatment, Pizza Manufacturing partners, stole and pilfered the company funds stealing and mismanaging $1.5 MM from the company coffers and driving the company directly into an Iceberg.
The Pizza Legal War begins
2020
Faced with a long drawn out, very expensive legal battle. Decided to walk away and start over.
Made the decision to go all-in, use the core principles of my tested people strategy to help others and add value to their business and transform their teams.
Made the decision to leave the family business (Dunkin Donuts)
Terminated role and transitioned duties with the Donut Manufacturing Company.
Walked away completely.
My wife Karen was convinced I damaged my brain during the open-heart surgery 😊
Repackaged and branded to The SMART System.
Made the decision to build my own QSR and be my own case study.
Developer added to the Team to build automation and technology around the delivery and execution of the system.
2021
Opened my case study Restaurant in Derry NH.
The SMART System is the foundation of the entire business, core Culture & Environment driver, Complete recruitment to onboard system, Engagement and Retention System and process.
In the middle of the pandemic.
First 8 months broke $1MM in sales, which doubled projections.
Had less then a 30% turnover rate in those 8 months.
2022
Continuing the success in Derry NH.
Negotiating 2 more locations.
Kreativ Strategies added to the Team to bring The SMART System to transform Business owners people systems and help them to love their business again.
My first Granddaughter Jade was born