Bloom Intelligence Author
Allen Graves is Director of Marketing at Bloom Intelligence, where he leads the company’s website, content, marketing automation, and AI search strategy. He began his career on the restaurant floor, waiting tables and bartending through college and for several years after graduating from the University of Houston with a degree in Communications, which gave him a working understanding of how guests, servers, and operators actually behave that still shapes how he writes about restaurant marketing today.
Allen taught himself web development in the early days of the commercial internet, building sites in HTML, CSS, and PHP, and later spent seven years as Content Marketing Director for a national higher-education company, where he built the content and demand generation programs that brought him to Bloom. At Bloom he has run the marketing function, administered HubSpot, and rebuilt the site’s technical SEO foundation, and for the past three years has focused on how AI search engines evaluate and cite restaurant content. He is based in St. Petersburg, Florida.