Board Member

Patrick Yearout - patrick@keepclam.com

Ivar's Restaurants
Pier 54
Seattle, VA 98104

Phone: 206-423-1432

Patrick Yearout has been working in the hospitality industry since 1992, but that is not where he intended to end up.  After graduating with a degree in Finance from Western Washington University in 1990, he moved into a position as a Corporate Finance Analyst for Dain Bosworth in Seattle, but eventually learned that he was more than just a numbers person and decided to switch careers.

Patrick’s entry into the world of restaurants came soon after his departure from Dain, as he and a friend took over as owners and operators of a local sandwich franchise, where he worked until 1999.  Since then, he has been employed for the last twelve years in a training capacity for Ivar’s Restaurants, which owns a mix of quick-service and full-service restaurants in Washington State.   He currently works as the Director of Training and focuses his main efforts on creating and developing training programs for the quick-service seafood division.

Patrick joined the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers in 2002 and has been an active participant in the organization – he has attended numerous conferences, served on five conference teams (including one stint as Conference Director), and volunteered as the Northwest Regional Forum Director for CHART from 2006 to 2011.  In addition, he is also a three-year member of the Northwest Learning Forum, an organization like CHART that includes a wide variety of employers in the greater Seattle area.