{"id":892,"date":"2009-07-20T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T09:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/07\/20\/andy-gunkler-74-joins-aci-as-chief-franchise-officer\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T09:55:08","slug":"andy-gunkler-74-joins-aci-as-chief-franchise-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/07\/20\/andy-gunkler-74-joins-aci-as-chief-franchise-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Gunkler &#039;74  Joins ACI as Chief Franchise Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" height=\"163\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/andy-k.jpg\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">Andy Gunkler &#8217;74<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small\"> as been named the Chief Franchise Officer for Al Copeland Inventments (ACI). &nbsp;Andy brings more than 25 years of experience in the franchising world to ACI. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">Andy&#8217;s background includes&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">companies such as Houlihan&#8217;s Restaurant Group, Kelsey&#8217;s International, Quaker Steak &amp; Lube, and East Side Mario&#8217;s.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">Gunkler was an economics major at Wabash and worked in the banking world before taking his talents into franchising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Andy &#8211; a special request from the Grunge? &nbsp;Can you send a couple of those restaurants our way? &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Seriously, congratulations to Andy on the new position. &nbsp;Thanks to Marilyn Smith for the tip.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: medium\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"loose\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Gunkler &#8217;74 as been named the Chief Franchise Officer for Al Copeland Inventments (ACI). &nbsp;Andy brings more than 25 years of experience in the franchising world to ACI. Andy&#8217;s background includes&nbsp;companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}