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Slutty Vegan promotes Jason Crain to president

The restaurant’s chief revenue officer has been promoted to the new role on the heels of the company’s latest $25M funding round

Holly Petre, Assistant Digital Editor

July 20, 2022

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Slutty Vegan — the vegan burger restaurant from Pinky Cole has named Jason Crain its first president, the company announced on Tuesday.

Crain has been serving as Slutty Vegan’s chief revenue officer since 2020 and led the company’s recent Series A funding round for $25 million, which resulted in the brand’s $100 million valuation in May 2022.

Unknown (1).png“I’m so excited to promote Jason to president of Slutty Vegan,” said Cole in a statement. “Since 2020, Jason has been an asset to the company through his implementation of our CPG Retail Division, negotiating our $25 million Series A round and the hiring of our C-suite executive team, just to name a few. I’m confident that Jason will continue to elevate the Slutty brand with his brilliance in business, and I know for sure that Jason will work his hardest to make our organization a billion-dollar brand.”

Prior to joining Slutty Vegan, Crain was an entrepreneur in residence at Amazon, where he built visual search and augmented reality products. Before that, he was the co-founder and COO of visual search and machine learning startup Partpic, Inc., held various leadership roles at Shazam, and spent his early career working as an account manager for Google.

Slutty Vegan, based in Atlanta, has five locations with three in the works, including the company’s first entrance into New York City. It was named a Nation’s Restaurant News Hot Concept in 2021.

About the Author

Holly Petre

Assistant Digital Editor

Holly Petre is a digital editor for Nation’s Restaurant News as well as the host of NRN’s podcast, Extra Serving, and producer for Informa Restaurant and Food Group’s other three podcasts, One On One by Food Management, Off the Shelf with SN and In the Kitchen with Bret Thorn. Holly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture, fibers and Material Studies and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native New Yorker, Holly enjoys her place on staff as the resident pop-culture expert and millennial with a sassy attitude and great sense of style.

Holly Petre’s work on Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality often covers marketing and trends, either aimed-at or examined-through the millennial mindset. Holly is responsible for introducing TikTok and Twitch to NRN and RH readers as well as explaining terms like “Karen” to staff and readers alike. She also spends her time on staff trying not to make every headline a pun.

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