Jim Stryker:

Mr. Stryker is a finance and accounting consultant with 37 years of experience in the restaurant industry. Mr. Stryker began his restaurant career in 1977 with El Torito Restaurants, Inc., and while he was CFO from 1985 to 1994, was instrumental in reducing G&A expenses and was active in an LBO to take the company private. He continued to hone these skills in 1994 and 1995 at American Restaurant Group, Inc. where he implemented point-of-sale systems and financial analysis functions while cutting operational costs. As CFO at Rubio’s Restaurants, Inc. from 1996 to 1999, Mr. Stryker helped develop a site selection process that resulted in a substantial increase in restaurant count. He contracted with a new food distributor as CFO from 1999 to 2001 of The Johnny Rockets Group, Inc. where he also negotiated senior lending agreements and was instrumental in reducing general and administrative expenses. In his role of Executive Vice President and CFO at Wilshire Restaurant Group, Inc. from 2001 to 2006, he negotiated a new franchise agreement and a senior debt refinancing. As CFO of Perkins & Marie Callender’s, Inc. from 2006 to 2008, Mr. Stryker successfully negotiated a refinancing and directed the integration of the non-operations functions for the merger of two restaurant companies owned by a common private equity group. Most recently, he has served as Interim Chief Financial Officer at California Fish Grill, LLC in 2014 and HOA Restaurant Group, LLC in 2011, both during and after their respective private equity acquisitions. Mr. Stryker was Board member and Audit Committee Chairman of Diedrich Coffee, Inc. when the public company was successfully sold in 2010. Prior to his restaurant career, Mr. Stryker spent seven years at Price Waterhouse & Co. Mr. Stryker has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California (Santa Barbara) and an M.B.A. from the University of California (Los Angeles). Mr. Stryker is 68 years old