Ryan Blevins

Ryan Blevins is an award-winning Executive Culinary Strategist with over 20 years’ experience managing the full cycle of culinary product development across various sectors of the Food and Beverage industry. He is currently the Food and Beverage Director of Innovation at Weigel’s where he is pioneering transformative strategies proven to drive traffic, sales, and profits. Prior to Weigel’s, Ryan spent many years in QSR, fine and casual dining leveraging competitive menu positioning and consumer insights to create unparalleled, craveable experiences, directing processes from ideation, testing, and analysis through launch. He has worked in kitchens all over the world including places like Italy, Thailand, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. He is a father of Daniel and Heather and husband to Isabel and has just started to learn the game of Pickleball.