Brentwood · Nashville, TN
Based in Brentwood, TN. Recruiting for clients across the country.
Peter Platt runs Platt Partners from Brentwood, minutes from Nashville. His 25-year practice spans restaurant, hospitality, technology, and sports & entertainment — for clients across the country. Being local to Dollar General, Cracker Barrel, Tractor Supply, HCA Healthcare, and Nissan North America gives us a strong Middle Tennessee bench. It's where we are — not what we do.
Trusted by chains, hospitality groups & growth-stage operators
Middle Tennessee — the multi-unit ops hub
Nashville is where multi-unit operators actually live.
The Middle Tennessee corridor is one of the densest concentrations of multi-unit operating headquarters in the country. Dollar General, Cracker Barrel, Tractor Supply, Bridgestone Americas, HCA Healthcare, Asurion, and Nissan North America all sit inside a 30-mile radius. Add the growing roster of restaurant and hospitality groups building on the Nashville tourism boom, and you have a market where physical presence in the network matters — where you can sit down with three C-suites before lunch.
Dollar General
Goodlettsville, TN
Fortune 100 multi-unit retail — District Manager, Director of Ops, RVP, and VP HR bench live here.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
Lebanon, TN
660+ restaurant + retail units with a national footprint. Multi-unit ops leadership headquartered in the market.
Bridgestone Americas
Nashville, TN
Corporate HQ plus a national multi-site retail service network — Firestone Complete Auto Care.
HCA Healthcare
Nashville, TN
180+ hospitals nationwide, with multi-site operations leadership concentrated in Middle Tennessee.
Nissan North America
Franklin, TN
North American HQ. Corporate leadership and multi-plant operations roles anchored in Franklin.
Tractor Supply Company
Brentwood, TN
2,200+ stores across the country. District Manager, Director of Ops, and Regional Ops bench right down the road from us.
Asurion
Nashville, TN
Multi-site retail service operations. A quiet Nashville anchor with a large field-leadership footprint.
Nashville restaurant + hospitality operators
Nashville metro
Growing concept operators, hotel groups, and F&B operators building on the Nashville tourism boom.
Local coverage — three of our verticals
Verticals we serve in the Nashville market
Each vertical has its own page. Our broader recruiting practice also includes technology and sports & entertainment — served nationwide from Brentwood.
Role coverage
Role families we work in Middle Tennessee
Peter's 25-year network is deepest in these five role families. If your open role sounds like one of them — or one we haven't listed but hires at the same altitude — we've done it before.
District Manager
Multi-unit field leadership — typically 8 to 25 stores or restaurants. The single most-recruited role in Middle Tennessee multi-unit operations.
Director of Operations
Regional or divisional ownership of P&L and store standards. Bridges corporate strategy and field execution across a division.
Regional VP / Regional Ops
Multi-district oversight, capital deployment, and market growth. Answers to the CEO or COO on operating results.
VP HR / CHRO
People leadership at multi-unit scale. Talent strategy, benefits, and workforce planning across thousands of hourly and salaried employees.
Multi-Property / Multi-Unit GM
Hospitality-side leadership across portfolios. Rooms division, F&B, guest experience, and brand standards across three or more properties.
Based in Brentwood
Peter is here — in the market, on the phone, in the room.
Our office is in Brentwood, minutes from Cool Springs and downtown Nashville. When a Middle Tennessee client needs to meet a finalist in person before extending, we're in the room — same day. When a candidate wants to talk about a move without the market hearing, we meet privately, not over Zoom.
Physical presence in the network is how discreet executive search works. Middle Tennessee is a small market for senior multi-unit leaders. Peter has spent 25 years building the reputation that makes those conversations possible.
Platt Partners
Brentwood, TN 37027
Common questions
Recruiting in Nashville — answered
Platt Partners, based in Brentwood, TN, is a recruiting practice with 25 years of experience placing Directors, VPs, and C-suite leaders across the four practices — restaurant, hotel, tech, and venue operations. Multi-unit operations is one of our deepest specialties. Founder Peter Platt places leaders at chains headquartered in Middle Tennessee and for clients across the country.
Start with a recruiter who already knows the DM bench in your vertical. Platt Partners specializes in District Manager and Director of Operations searches for restaurant, hospitality, and multi-unit retail brands — and works the Middle Tennessee market daily. For role types we've placed before, first candidate slates land in under 5 business days.
Platt Partners places VP of Operations and Regional VP searches for multi-unit brands. Peter Platt is based in Brentwood, TN and has placed operations leaders at Jack in the Box, El Pollo Loco, Del Taco, QDOBA, and Petco — plus regional restaurant and hospitality groups. Physical presence in the Nashville market means back-channel references happen in person, not just on the phone.
Nashville-based clients
Tell us what you're trying to fill
We'll come back with a candidate slate inside 5 business days — usually faster for role types we've placed before in the Middle Tennessee market.