Dave Douglas has spent the last 25 years delivering technology solutions to the Restaurant and Hospitality industries. Mr. Douglas has launched several successful restaurant technology companies and has delivered a variety of different technologies to virtually all types and sizes of restaurants, restaurant chains, and other hospitality providers. In 1983, Mr. Douglas founded ReMACS (Restaurant Management And Control Systems) and served as President and CEO. ReMACS was a pioneer provider for back office management software solutions for the food service industry and became the largest provider of restaurant management systems with over 15,000 installations worldwide.

Mr. Douglas sold ReMACS to Radiant Systems, Inc. in 1997 and became Radiant’s first President for their then new hospitality division. During his employment contract with Radiant, Mr. Douglas was responsible for launching and growing the Hospitality Division and he also played a key role in the acquisition and integration of three other restaurant technology companies.

In June of 1999, Mr. Douglas was recruited by the founders of priceline.com to launch a new suggestive selling restaurant technology business called RetailDNA. Mr. Douglas became President and COO of RetailDNA and was chartered with planning, launching, and growing the business. During his two-year contract with RetailDNA, Mr. Douglas recruited a top management team, hired more than 100 employees, helped raise two rounds of capital, secured alliances with all the major POS providers, and successfully penetrated the QSR industry’s major restaurant chains.

David Goronkin was appointed a director of Redstone American Grill, Inc. on February 7, 2006 and was elected Chief Executive Officer, President and Secretary on January 7, 2008. 

David Goronkin was appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Famous Dave's of America in August 2003. Prior to Famous Dave's, Mr. Goronkin served as Chief Operating Officer since August 2000, Director since October of 2000, and as Executive Vice President of Operations with Buffets, Inc. since October 1996.

David was formerly Vice President of Operations with HomeTown Buffet Inc., prior to HomeTown Buffets' merger with Buffets, Inc. Mr. Goronkin began his career with HomeTown Buffet in May 1994 and held a variety of operations-related positions. From 1984 through 1994, David held a variety of positions with Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurants, TGI Friday's and Godfather's Pizza.