kevin,.gross@gravityexecutives.com

Kevin Gross spent nearly 10 years inside hospitality operations before he made his first recruiting call. That sequence is not incidental. It is the foundation of everything he brings to a search.

His career began on the floor and moved through the management track across full-service restaurants, bars, and high-volume concepts. That progression taught him how leadership actually works in this industry: what separates operators who hold teams together from those who fracture them, what unit-level financial accountability demands, and what a client is really describing when they sit across the table and define the leader they need.

Since transitioning into an elevated search capacity, Kevin has partnered with independent restaurant groups, franchise organizations, private-equity-backed hospitality companies, and emerging concepts nationwide. His placements span General Managers, Executive Chefs, Directors of Operations, Vice Presidents, Chief Financial Officers, and senior leaders carrying organizational growth and bottom-line accountability. Across every engagement he brings working knowledge of team development, guest experience, staffing strategy, financial performance, and operational execution.

What distinguishes Kevin is the precision of his assessment. Labor economics, franchise complexity, unit performance, and organizational culture are not abstract concepts he studied. They are the operating environment he came out of. That background allows him to evaluate talent at a level a conventional recruiter working from a job description cannot replicate.

His approach to every search starts from the same belief: the right leader does not simply fill a role. They change what an organization can accomplish. Kevin's work is to find that person, and to build a process rigorous enough that clients can trust the result.