Established 1969, Leon Gottlieb & Associates offers specialized consultation and expert witness expertise to clients in the USA and internationally.

HANDS-ON-EXPERIENCE

Formerly, Owner-operator, 210 seat, full service restaurant
Partner, Vice-President, National Restaurant & Operations & Franchising Director of International House of Pancakes, IHOP
President, Copper Penny Family Restaurant Chain (24 hour concept)

Mr. Gottlieb's expertise and responsibilities enabled IHOP to go public, be traded on the NYSE and expand multi-nationally.  His direct involvement included unique restaurant operational systems, customer standards of care, franchisor - franchisee relations, training, manuals, site selection, equipment, advertising and promotions... incorporated into the 22-division conglomerate; volume in excess of $150 million, employing thousands and licensing of over 1,200 franchisees.

He has served as a Director and officer of foodservice, hotel and franchise corporations;
Instructor at UCLA & LA Community Colleges (27 years);
Editor - Publisher "Gottlieb's Bottom Line" newsletter (11 years); 
Monthly columnist, Restaurant Business Magazine, NY (20 years); 
Author: three trade/textbooks: Seminar Speaker... continuing to present as Consultant and Expert Witness in all types of restaraunts, hotels and franchises.

EXPERT WITNESS EXPERIENCE

Expert testimony: all types of restaurants, hotels, retail, commissaries, food products, brokerage, deli/frozen foods, manufacturing, distribution, site selection, shopping malls/food courts, safety, security, manuals, multi-level marketing, damage assessment, appraisal , profit & loss, standard operating procedures, controls, systems in all types of fast food and restaurant operations, franchisor-franchisee relations and license agreements.

Mr. Gottlieb has held positions of authority, responsibility, ownership, officer and/or directorships with such diverse organizations as:

International House of Pancakes
Pioneer Take Out Corporation
Numero Uno Franchise Corporation
Accountant's Overload, Inc.
Bobby McGee's Conglomeration
Kaboby-Mexican Dan's, Inc.
China Grove Restaurants, Inc.
Royal Inns of America, Inc.

EDUCATION, HONORS, ASSOCIATIONS & VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Graduate, Sawyer Business College (Los Angeles)
Instructor: UCLA and Los Angeles Community Colleges
Action Committee, National Restaurant Association
California restaurant Association Past president: Frozen Food Council of California Who's Who in America Volunteer Executive: International Executive Service Corps and Citizens for Democracy Corps serving in: Egypt, Latvia, Mexico, Poland

PUBLICATIONS, COLUMNIST, BOOK CREDITS:

Columnist: Restaurant Business Magazine, NY (20 Years)
Restaurant and Hotels Magazine, Argentina
Hotelier for Asia Singapore Hotel/Restaurant Association
LaCarta Publications (Spanish)
Modern Franchise Journal
Quick Frozen Foods magazine
Western FoodService
Restaurant News
Editor/Publisher: "Gottlieb's Bottom Line" restaurant newsletter (11 years)
Author: "The People Factor," "The Best of Gottlieb's Bottom Line" and "FoodService/Hospitality Advertising & Promotions"

CONSULTANT, LECTURES/SEMINARS & CLIENTS

The following is a partial list that shows the wide variety of American clients that have or continue to retain the service of Mr. Gottlieb:

Big Boy Restaurants (Marriott)
Royal Inns of America (Hotels)
National Restaurant Ass'n
Del Webb's Newport Golf Resort
Holiday Inns of America
Subway Sandwich Corp.
Hot Dog on a Stick, Inc.
Restaurant Business Magazine
Will Wrights Ice Cream
Callaway Gardens Tennis/Golf Resort
Ameci In and Out Pizza Corp.
El Torito Restaurants, Inc.
Betsy Ross Ice Cream Restaurants
Orange Julius, Inc.
United Rent-All (equipment)
Accountant's Overload (temp. help)
House of Nine (ladies wear)
North American Pizza Ass'n
Kaboby/Mexican Dan's (food courts)
Pioneer Take-Out Corp.
Santa Anita Race Track
Mrs. Fields (cookies & bakeries)
International House of Pancakes
California Restaurant Ass'n
Seattle Restaurant Ass'n
Pizza Inns, Inc.
MUFSO, Nation's Restaurant News
Love's BBQ, Inc.
Marcus Steak Houses
Café 50's Diners
Castle Garden Buffets, Inc.
Diet Stores/Slender Spoon, Inc.
House of Pies
Big Brake/Tune-up Shops
Pacific Fish Broiler
Bryman/Sawyer Schools
Tiny Naylor's Restaurants, Inc.
The Dog House (hot dogs)
Golden Bird Restaurants, Inc.
Numero Uno Franchise Corp.
Better People Network, Inc.
Brookside Golf Course, Pasadena
Craig's Olympia Oyster Houses
Country Kitchens of Colorado

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Japan:
Consulting in fast food, coffee shop, dinner houses and franchise operations for Fujiya Confectionary Co., LTD.  Tokyo
MOS Corporation
Friendly Restaurants, Osaka
Tonden Co., Hokkaido
C. Itoh Trading Co.

Singapore:
Consultant, lecturer
Columnist: Singapore Hotel Ass'n

Caribbean:
Lecturer: Caribbean Hotel Ass'n
Aruba and California Restaurant Ass'n 
Panama Canal Cruise

Canada:
Popeye Burger Corp., Quebec

Switzerland:
Lecturer, International Franchise Congress, Zurich

Egypt:
Franchise/Operations Consultant, Nesmahar Co., Alexandria

Latvia:
Restaurant/Franchise Consultant, Municipal Enterprises, Balvi

Poland:
Fast Food/Franchise Consultant, Mr. Hamburger, Katowice

Korea:
Kukje Pacific, Seoul

Malaysia:
Consultant, Expert Witness, MBF Holding BHD, Kuala Lumpur
 

ARBITRATION:

American Arbitration Ass'n (since 1972)
Superior Municipal Courts of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, San Fernando Valley, CA
The California State Bar (attorney-client fee dispute resolution)
The Center for International Commercial Arbitration
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration/Mediation, Geneva, Switzerland

MEMBERSHIPS

National Restaurant Association
California Restaurant Association
The American Hotel/Motel Association