John Self has 16 years restaurant management experience ranging from manager trainee to vice president of operations, including owning three restaurants and a comedy club. After his restaurant career, he went back to school, earned a PhD and taught hospitality management at the University of Alabama, Golden Gate University, and Cal Poly Pomona. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Helsinki, Finland where he taught hospitality management and taught hospitality management twice in universities in China. INVITED INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS: •"Why restaurants fail," at GastroPRO, The Future of Hospitality, in March 2014 in Helsinki, Finland. GastroPRO is the educational arm of Gastro Helsinki, the foodservice conference for Nordic and Scandinavian countries. •"Becoming a better restaurant manager," Tallinn, Estonia for restaurant managers, December 2014. John was a guest on KPCC Southern California Public Radio on restaurants and the economic recovery and was one of the featured consultants in the Los Angeles Times series Small Business Makeover. John has many academic presentations and has published his research on turnover and restaurant failure in such journals as the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education, and the Journal of Foodservice Business Research. TMI author bio In his spare time, John loves international travel, reading post-apocalyptic and science fiction, is a private pilot with instrument rating, flying radio control airplanes, and ham radio (K6VFR). Likes: Cold pork and beans, cold apple pie, comedy, trivia, humor, bad jokes, pets, college football, and Morgan automobiles. Dislikes: the color yellow, restaurants that pick up dirty plates but not the dirty silverware, and really dislikes that Pluto is not a planet anymore. John lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Deb and cat, Chili.