Roger Glickman

Roger E. Glickman is co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Great Circle Family Foods, the exclusive franchisee and area developer for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts in Southern California. He brings more than 20 years of management, food service, retail and real estate experience to the company. Under Roger’s stewardship, the Krispy Kreme brand entered the Southern California market, solidified itself as a part of [national] pop culture, and quickly garnered more than 50% of regional doughnut market share. Roger fostered that rapid growth while maintaining a unique, “family” culture. He created systems that have yielded recognized excellence in operations execution and unit-level profitability. GCFF became one of the first and most serious victims of the Krispy Kreme franchising scheme. Roger confronted those challenges head on, devising and implementing a restructuring plan that has produced a vast reduction in liabilities, system-leading positive sales trends and sustainable profitability.

Roger was chief executive officer of A.O. One, LLC, the first franchisee of Noodles & Company. He served as director of real estate for Sony Retail Entertainment’s Sony/Loews Theatres division, and he has been a licensed Real Estate Broker in California since 1991.

Roger was honored to chair the 2005 Young Presidents’ Organization International Restaurant Industry Roundtable. He was named one of Franchise Times’ “20 to Watch” in 2002, Orange County Metro Magazine named him one of the “Hot 25” in 1999. He was awarded a Certificate of Achievement from the Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation Manager’s Training Program in 1998. He is a member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization.

Roger earned an MBA in Finance and Real Estate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. He completed his BS degree in Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College in 1989.