E. John Banquil Jr., president and CEO of Ling & Louie\u2019s Restaurants, has been named to the 2025 Phoenix Titan 100 Hall of Fame, which recognizes top CEOs and C-level executives in the region.<\/p>\n
Banquil joined Ling & Louie\u2019s Asian Bar and Grill in 2008 as an assistant general manager. Over the next decade, he worked in every part of the operation, eventually purchasing the company in 2019.<\/p>\n
Months later, the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered dining rooms nationwide. Banquil responded by streamlining operations, launching the delivery-only Ghost Street Asian Taqueria, and modernizing the brand. According to the company, revenue has grown 40% in the past three years.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeadership isn\u2019t about having every answer,\u201d Banquil said. \u201cIt\u2019s about building the right team and moving forward with purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ling & Louie\u2019s Restaurants now operates three concepts: the flagship Ling & Louie\u2019s Asian Bar and Grill, the fast-casual Ling\u2019s Wok Shop, and Ghost Street Asian Taqueria, which is preparing for its first brick-and-mortar location.<\/p>\n
The Titan 100 program, presented by Titan CEO, honors executives for vision, leadership and impact. This year\u2019s class represents more than $43 billion in revenue and nearly 350,000 Arizona jobs.<\/p>\n
Banquil and other honorees will be recognized Sept. 25 at Chateau Luxe in Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"E. John Banquil Jr., president and CEO of Ling & Louie\u2019s Restaurants, has been named to the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":146040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,17382,12293,18120,20947,86416,46407,59303,59301,59300,40283,86417,1589,8463,988,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-146039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-cooking","12":"tag-covid-19-pandemic","13":"tag-cuisine","14":"tag-dining","15":"tag-e-john-banquil-jr","16":"tag-food-industry","17":"tag-food-retailing","18":"tag-foodservice","19":"tag-foodservice-companies","20":"tag-gastronomy","21":"tag-ling-louie","22":"tag-phoenix","23":"tag-restaurant","24":"tag-restaurants","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115029171577064338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}