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Kenneth L. Keymer most recently CEO of VICORP Restaurants between April 2007 and May 2008 has nearly 30 years experience as an executive with large chain restaurant operations. As CEO of VICORP whose operations encompassed 390 restaurants under the Baker's Square and Village Inn brand names two commissaries and a dessert manufacturing operation he led a senior executive team in developing sales- and profit-enhancing menu initiatives and prototype designs successfully reducing losses and improving profitability. He had served as a member of VICORP's Board of Directors since July 2005 before additionally becoming CEO at the request of the Board of Directors and investors.
Mr. Keymer served as CEO of 1 800-unit AFC Enterprises between September 2005 and May 2007 having been President of that publicly traded company's Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits business segment between June 2004 and September 2005. In those capacities he was instrumental in achieving new unit growth of approximately 10% per year broadening the menu and leading the company through the crisis of Hurricane Katrina which severely impacted one of its most important geographical regions. In the 1984 through 1986 period he had been a Vice President of Popeyes. | 