Company Overview
Infinity Business Solutions provides strategic management, business development, marketing and key operations consulting services to select clients in restaurant, retail and food service industries. These services include: Business Start-up or Launch, Access to Start-up Capital & Funding, Business Brokering and Site Development.
Services Offered
Business Start-up or Launch, Access to Start-up Capital & Funding, Business Brokering and Site & Commercial Real Estate Development.
Broker Profile
Alton C. Shields is the Principal Consultant and Managing Member of Infinity, L.L.C., a Business Development Consulting Firm and the parent company of both Infinity Business Solutions (IBS) and Infinity Real Estate Solutions (IRES), with locations in Birmingham, AL, Hunsville, AL and Atlanta, GA. Alton is a former food industry executive with over twenty (20) years of training, management and leadership experience in food processing, packaging and restaurant operations. He founded Infinity, LLC in 2002 to provide services that simplified business start-up, expansion and ownership transition for entrepreneurs and small companies. The firm now provides services in Site & Commercial Real Estate Development, Business Brokering and Business Development Consulting primarily in the retail, restaurant and business-to-business industries.
Alton started his career in food manufacturing as a production and sanitation supervisor and quickly moved through the ranks to Assistant Plant Manager at two different Fortune 50 companies. He has been a field and corporate operations executive for some of the largest corporate, franchise and start-up restaurant chains in the country. Alton was a Vice President of Operations and Operations Support for the largest privately held restaurant franchise group in the world. He was also the key operator and partner in one of the largest franchise organizations of QSR Magazine’s #1 rated (2005 & 2006) drive-thru chain. Alton has over fifteen (15) years of site development and commercial real estate experience.
Alton is a graduate of Purdue University with a B.S. degree in Industrial Management & Engineering, and also attended graduate school at Louisiana State University where he concentrated his studies in Marketing. Alton is a licensed commercial real estate agent, a licensed business broker and a certified ServSafe Instructor and Proctor. He has been a member of The Executive Committee (TEC), and Alton is a graduate of the Leadership Development Program at the prestigious Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, NC.