Business View Magazine l October 2022

170 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 10 Group when he began working as an assistant lot manager. “I think we are in more of a customer service industry than a retail one,” Kunes explains. “So, I gained a lot of useful knowledge during my career as a chef around things like inventory control, purchasing, and people management. That’s why I love hiring people from the restaurant industry to this day.” With 40 locations, Kunes Auto Group has around 2,000 employees in total, made up of both full- time and part-time workers. The size of the workforce demands efficient management, with employees spread across approximately 500 miles north to south and about 200 miles east to west. “We cover a pretty large geographic territory,” Kunes acknowledges. “In the past three years, we’ve experienced some rapid expansion, which has been accompanied by some growing pains. We’ve been working out how to manage this growth as we go.” The last two years, in particular, have presented Scotty Kunes, COO