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Alabama Alumni Magazine: Successful Checkers Franchise Efforts Run In The Family For University Of Alabama Graduate

Alabama Alumni Magazine: Successful Checkers Franchise Efforts Run In The Family For University Of Alabama Graduate

Ryan Joy, senior director of research and development for Checkers and Rally's, is recognized as an Alabama University alumni.

Brian Jaeger

By Brian Jaeger

<p>1851 Contributor</p>

October 22, 2016

The University of Alabama has produced thousands of graduates who have gone on to make an impact on the world and recently, Alabama Alumni Magazine took a look at 15 alums from the first 15 years of the 2000’s who are making a difference.
 
For Ryan Joy, a University of Alabama graduate and currently the senior director of research and development for the Tampa-based franchise brand, the Checkers brand is in his blood. His father was the first Checkers franchisee, opening a location in St. Petersburg when Ryan was in middle school, which drove Joy to earn his UA bachelor’s degree in restaurant and hospitality management in 2001.
 
Joy has been instrumental in the brand’s innovative menu and active R&D program, pushing for a test kitchen to help plan for the launch of successful products.
 
“Customers can taste the food and give feedback in real time, which is really valuable,” Joy told Alabama Alumni Magazine about the brand’s 4,300-square-foot design and research center. Joy has helped keep the brand’s offerings fresh, introducing homeruns such as the Cold Creations menu. “For them to trust me, and trust me to give them products that are going to sell, that’s a huge reward. It puts a huge smile on my face.”
 

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Brian Jaeger is a Vice President of Media Relations at No Limit Agency. Brian joined No Limit Agency after seven years working for local television news stations in Florida, four years at WCJB in Gainesville and three years at Bay News 9, the 24-hour local news station in the Tampa Bay area. Brian is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he studied journalism and telecommunications. He brings a journalist’s viewpoint to the public relations field, and when he’s not busy telling the stories of No Limit Agency's brands, you can find him writing, on a karaoke stage, or cheering on the Gators.

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