Dan Whalen
Sr. Vice President of Operations at College HUNKS Hauling Junk & Moving
Dan Whalen is Sr. Vice President of Operations at College HUNKS Hauling Junk & Moving, where he oversees franchise operations, corporate operations, training, and events and leads the team that supports the brand's franchise partners and company-owned locations. He joined College HUNKS in 2016 as general manager of the Tampa corporate location and later held the roles of franchise business consultant, director of franchise business consulting/franchise operations, director of operations, and vice president of operations. Before College HUNKS, he worked in operations management, sales, and business ownership in the health and fitness industry.
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“It's tried and true. those company-owned stores that I said, we funnel a lot of stuff, a lot of innovation, a lot of thoughts through those things, and a lot of them never see the light of day. But if there's statistical significance and it holds up over a long period of time, we're the first to go share that and run like the wind with our franchisees.”
“I don't want a location that's doing 700,000 staffed to do three million in the office, right? Or through the owner wages, and vice versa. you don't want something with a shell of a, you know, management team operating a huge business. Mm-hmm ... certainly a middle ground there and a lot of nuance, but I like looking at both ODI as well as, just that fully burdened EBITDA look.”
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