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Bruce Nelson is a restaurant entrepreneur and CFO specializing in the effective use of technology for the restaurant industry. As a 40-year restaurant veteran, Bruce spent his first 30 years of his career in direct operations of multi-store operations with annual sales ranging from $5 million-$60 million. Past job titles include, owner, general manager, catering sales manager and chef instructor for some of the leading restaurants and culinary schools in Minnesota. Interesting consulting projects include hospitality projects in Santa Fe New Mexico and the island of Bermuda. Bruce’s entire restaurants career stems from understanding the available technology of the day and applying them to the restaurant Industry, starting from the early days of Lotus 1-2-3 to today’s incredibly robust web-based applications. When not researching and implementing the latest technological advances in restaurant technology, Bruce enjoys downhill skiing, sailing and an occasional round of golf. Bruce thrives on being unconventional. Whilst most CFOs ascend to their positions by grinding it out in business schools, MBA programs and accounting firms, he took a difference path by obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree with the distinctions in philosophy - proving that true restaurateurs not only need to understand people but also need to have a sense of humor!