Rhys Johnston

Rhys comes with over 10 years of experience in working with franchisee businesses, from growing local businesses himself to building scaled strategies to improve profitability and accelerate growth. As the manager of the growth partnerships team, Rhys focuses on building new, innovative franchise-first growth partnerships with his team, covering over 3000 restaurants in ANZ.

Before DoorDash, Rhys’ career spanned QSR, travel, and recruitment, where he specialised in building scalable strategies that drive efficiency and long-term success from franchise-led retailers to large corporate entities like Wesfarmers. Rhys’ work has covered transforming businesses from losses to profitability at scale, supporting franchisee recruitment with transformative hiring strategies in post-COVID employment markets through benefit-led advertising.

Rhys brings a post-COVID view on the ANZ market, completing his master’s in marketing management at RMIT in 2023. Rhys is truly passionate about building from the ground up and making sure everything done benefits everyone involved. Growing is a team effort.