Corporate Site Selection with Lisa Walker and Cheryl Fry

The CRE Project

In this episode we sit down with real estate manager's for McDonalds and El Pollo loco to discuss corporate site selection. We talk about the correct way to present sites to corporate real estate managers and the process behind them reviewing sites.

Lisa Walker has over 30 years of corporate restaurant real estate experience. She joined the National real estate team at McDonald’s in 2019 and quickly became a top performer with the highest signing inventory in 2020. She has recently been elevated to a Real Estate Lead and oversees the deal makers in the southwest part of the country.

Prior to McDonald’s she led the real estate teams for El Pollo Loco and Wendy’s Hamburgers and has handled multiple markets across the nation for Corner Bakery Cafe and Which Wich Sandwiches during the critical growth years for those brands.

She holds a BS in Organizational Communications from the University of Texas and is a former member of the origin dance drill team, the Kilgore College Rangerettes, where she recently served as president of the Rangerettes Forever alumni group. She is a former volunteer of the year for the Women’s Foodservice Forum and an active member of a professional DFW women’s real estate group called Deals in Heels.

When she’s not busy sourcing great real estate she can be found spending time with her son and daughter-in-law, reading classic and current books, country western dancing and planning international travel with her shopping buddies.