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About Restaurant Expert Witness

Restaurant Expert Witness

Restaurant Expert Witness is one of America’s most highly visible, and highly-recognizable restaurant, bar, and food service industry consulting, expert witness, and advisory firms — providing industry analyses, consultation, expertise, opinions, advice, management, mediation, content, and expert witness services to clients of all types and sizes, and in markets across the country and around the globe.  Restaurant Expert Witness is a division of Restaurant Operations Institute, Inc. (ROI, Inc.) – founded in 1987.

  • Serving Clients Since 1987
  • State & Federal Cases — Plaintiffs & Defendants
  • Expert Witness, Forensic Analysis & Litigation Support
  • Start-Up, Turnaround & other Restaurant & Bar Services

Areas of Practice

Franchise Matters (serving both Franchisees & Franchisors)

  • General Negligence
  • Operations and Training Neglect
  • Marketing Neglect
  • Purchasing Neglect
  • Royalty Disputes
  • Lost Income and Lost Profit Claims
  • IP and Competition Claims

Funding Matters (serving Bankers, Investors, Vendors and Developers)

  • Partnership, Investor, Landlord & Funding Disputes
  • Mismanagement or Neglect
  • Forensic Analysis/Business Autopsy
  • Business Plan Assessment
  • Facility, Site, Construction & Equipment Matters
  • Creditor Analysis and Payment Disputes
  • Lost Income and Lost Profit Claims

Employment Matters (serving Employees & Employers)

Customer Matters (serving Customers & Businesses)

Owner/Operator Matters

  • Against Frivolous and/or Falsified Claims
  • Franchisor & Franchisee Protections
  • FACTA Claims
  • IP and Brand Protection
  • Negligence & Liability

And, dozens of other matters that pertain to restaurants, bars, and food service establishments.

Call an Experienced Restaurant & Bar Expert

Judges and Juries respect Howard Cannon's expertise and recognize his famous books found in bookstores across America and in 76 countries around the world.

Call today for a FREE confidential, no-obligation initial consultation with Restaurant Expert Witness, Howard Cannon.

About Howard Cannon

 Restaurant Expert Witness – Howard Cannon is America’s most prolific and most recognizable restaurant, bar, hospitality, food, and beverage industry forensic expert witness. He and his firms provide expert industry opinions, analyses, consultation, expertise, and content. Our services include expert witness written reports, affidavits, testimony, and oral opinions. We also write books, industry standards, course curriculums, workbooks, and tests and provide safety training classes of various kinds. We provide services to clients of all types and sizes in markets across the country and around the globe.

Every year, thousands of lawsuits, insurance claims, and disputes happen in restaurants and bars.  Attorneys, Insurance Companies, Judges, and Juries respect and rely on our expertise to provide unbiased opinions, reports, and testimony in both State and Federal courts.

Howard Cannon’s more than 35+ years of experience make him one of the most sought-after experts in the country. He takes great pride in providing the most detailed, well-written, unbiased reports and opinions backed up by, not only his vast experience in the restaurant industry, but also the most current information and research available and scientific methods; AND, he never misses a deadline!
Restaurant Expert Witness is a division of Restaurant Operations Institute, Inc. (ROI, Inc), which was founded in 1987. Howard Cannon is the founder and sole owner of ROI, Inc. His expertise as a restaurant consultant and expert witness for the restaurant, bar, and food service industry is derived from his unique and broad-based industry experience spanning over the course of his 35+ year career. He has held positions ranging from hourly staff to executive-level, employee to employer, restaurant consultant to an analyst, industry speaker to trade magazine publisher, writer and author, mediator, and expert witness.

Restaurant Expert Witness, Howard Cannon, only provides expert witness services in restaurant, bar, hospitality, food, and beverage industry-related matters.

What you can expect from Restaurant Expert Witness services

    • Objective Analysis and Reports – We provide a credible, objective, and professional perspective based on restaurant, bar, hospitality, food and beverage industry standards, policies, procedures, and best practices backed with research and information.
    • Punctuality – Our written reports, affidavits, declarations, and oral opinions are always on time. We hit deadlines.
    • Well-Written Reports – As an experienced writer and published author, with books and articles in dozens of markets around the globe, we deliver clear and concise expert reports with an effective and efficient message. Our reports include citing from materials and publications referenced, in addition to a list of all documents considered. All expert reports are based on the retaining counsel’s specific Scope of Assignment.
    • Well-Spoken Testimony – We have tons of experience speaking in front of crowds – large and small – in court rooms, as well as, hundreds of industry speeches, workshops, classes, events, and seminars. Mr. Cannon is not only comfortable in speaking in front of a size group, type of group, or any court of law, but he does so with an articulate, clear, and concise message that can be easily understood and retained.
    • Credibility – Howard is not only certified in OSHA, HACCP, and TiPs but he wrote Restaurant OSHA Safety and Security: The Book of Restaurant Industry Standards & best Practices© – 2016 and the subsequent classes that were derived from it for both Management-Level and Employee-Level industry employees. He also has nearly forty years of day-to-day, real-world, restaurant, bar, hospitality, food and beverage industry hands-on experience. This combined with his highly recognizable books and hundreds of published articles and pieces of content, ensures that you can be confident that we know restaurants and bars from virtually every conceivable angle.

We wrote the book of Restaurant Industry Standards & Best Practices: Restaurant OSHA Safety and Security ©2016, and we create the safety training courses and curriculum that restaurant managers and employees take. Others cite us.

We look forward to speaking with you to discuss your needs. All information is kept Private & Confidential. Call 800.300.5764

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