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Boldly positioned on every pizza box that lands in the hands of hungry customers, <a href="http://www.toppersfranchise.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=toppers-pizza-introduces-new-vice-president-of-information-technology-to-bring-better-pizza-into-the-future-5223" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">T</a><a href="http://www.toppersfranchise.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=toppers-pizza-introduces-new-vice-president-of-information-technology-to-bring-better-pizza-into-the-future-5223" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">oppers Pizza&#8217;s</a> rallying cry says it all: &#8220;Never Settle.&#8221; It might seem like a simple phrase, but it carries huge meaning. &#8220;Never Settle&#8221; serves as the guiding mantra for everything Toppers does. From the food and customer service to delivery and technology, it&#8217;s about being the very best at what they do &#8211; and that&#8217;s leading the better-pizza category. Now, as <a href="https://topperspizza.1851franchise.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=toppers-pizza-introduces-new-vice-president-of-information-technology-to-bring-better-pizza-into-the-future-5223" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Toppers</a> continues to embark on a quest to gain the upper hand in a competitive industry, the brand is proud to announce the recent hire of Tony Ellis, Toppers&#8217; first-ever Vice President of Information Technology. As a key member of the leadership team, his job is to take the brand&#8217;s overall technology strategy, innovation and execution to the next level. <span style="Our goal is to continue to show more and more pizza fanatics that they don&#8217;t have to settle for mediocre pizza. But in order to do so, we need to keep upping our game so that we&#8217;re better than the big chains in every way. It&#8217;s a never-ending process of growing and evolving, and that applies to the backbone of Toppers&#8217; system, too&#8212;our technology,&#8221; said Scott Gittrich, founder and president of Toppers Pizza. &#8220;We&#8217;re excited to bring Tony and his expertise to the Toppers team. Our driving force has always been to provide a better pizza, quicker delivery, top-notch technology and unmatched customer service. Now, we&#8217;re taking a major step forward as a brand by focusing our efforts on developing even better technology.&#8221; <span style="cor. Planning, implementing and supporting both hardware and software, Ellis helped grow BuySeasons&#8217; revenue from single digit to triple digit millions. In 2014, Ellis also co-founded his own company, Aperture Labs&#8212;a full-service software consulting agency specializing in e-commerce and web development. <span style="Toppers Pizza. It&#8217;s a relationship that dates as far back as Ellis&#8217; college days&#8212;as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, he had spent many late nights finding solace in the brand&#8217;s famed Topperstix. Decades later, everything came full circle, and Ellis realized he could apply the same knowledge he had acquired while driving high-growth at BuySeasons to Toppers, a brand that he believed was on the cusp of even bigger and better things. Having a company culture that he could easily identify with didn&#8217;t hurt either. <span style="When contemplating my next career move, I was on the hunt for one important thing&#8212;I wanted something where I could wake up every single morning and be able to say to myself, &#8216;I love my job.&#8217; The moment you walk into Toppers&#8217; headquarters, you see the core values right there on the wall&#8212;it says to have fun and do everything with passion,&#8221; Ellis said. &#8220;The first time I met Scott Gittrich, I was blown away by his intense entrepreneurial spirit, and you can truly feel his vision. It was very clear that Toppers aligned very closely with what I was looking for&#8212;a company with high-growth potential and a fun environment that rewards you for working hard. They give you the opportunity to make a huge difference.&#8221; <span style="Technology is a building block within an organization, and if we have a strong foundation, we can grow quickly. This starts with having an enhanced cloud-based system that&#8217;ll give us scalability. The cloud is essentially an enabler&#8212;it enables companies that don&#8217;t have a giant IT department to get those same full benefits without being slowed down as we continue to grow,&#8221; Ellis said. &#8220;We also want to give our customers what they want, and that starts with improving our mobile experience. Ease-of-use will remain a top priority as we look at ways to move forward with our technology.&#8221; <span style="and helping to guide&#8212;the next generation platform that will ultimately power Toppers&#8217; e-commerce website and growing system of 74 stores. From the brand&#8217;s back-end POS system to the consumer-facing Toppers.com, Ellis says this new project will completely reimagine the technology fueling Toppers from the ground up&#8212;a change that will ultimately put the brand one step closer to industry-wide domination. <div>&#8220;My job is to make sure technology is a support system for our brand&#8212;not something that will slow us down. We want to continue focusing on what we&#8217;re really good at and what sets us apart from other pizza brands. By introducing better, faster and more streamlined technology to our system, we&#8217;ll be able to grow at a quicker rate than ever before,&#8221; Ellis said. </div><div> </div><div>To learn more about franchising opportunities with Toppers Pizza, <a href="https://topperspizza.1851franchise.com/?utm_source=1851franchise.com&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=toppers-pizza-introduces-new-vice-president-of-information-technology-to-bring-better-pizza-into-the-future-5223" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here.</a> &nbsp;</div>

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