Independent by design.
Experienced by nature.
Lucora brings decades of business operations, digital design, hospitality and hands-on problem-solving together with thoughtful technology.
Let’s talk about your project ↗Business on one side.
Beautiful on the other.
I’ve spent more than two decades at the intersection of business, technology and digital design.
Before founding Lucora Systems, I spent more than 20 years helping build and operate a highly successful digital company, including more than 15 years in COO-level operations.
It was an education in what actually makes a business work: customer acquisition and retention, technology, websites, digital design, operations, people, systems, marketing, problem-solving and constant adaptation.
I wasn’t observing business from the sidelines.
I was helping run one.
Along the way, I also accumulated more than 20 years of hands-on experience with WordPress and digital design, long before either became the accessible, plug-and-play world they are today.
And yes, that company happened to be in the adult entertainment industry.
It’s an unconventional chapter of my professional history, but an extraordinarily useful one. In an industry where competition was fierce, attention mattered, privacy mattered, customer experience mattered and standing out was essential, I learned very quickly that a business can’t survive on a pretty website and good intentions.
It has to work.
Behind the brand, the systems have to work. The technology has to work. The customer journey has to work. And when something doesn’t work, someone has to be able to see the problem, untangle it and build something better.
That combination is what I bring to Lucora.
I can look at the beautiful thing your customer sees and the complicated machinery they never see, then figure out how those two worlds should work together.
A partner who
knows the kitchen.
Hospitality Advisor & Business Development
More than 45 years inside the restaurant business.
Romano brings the kind of hospitality experience you don’t learn from a software dashboard. He has spent more than 45 years in the restaurant industry and more than 30 years as a chef, including working as both a chef and purchasing agent for a number of popular Chicago restaurants.
That combination gave him a view of the business from both sides of the kitchen door: creating the experience guests remember while understanding the purchasing, food costs, vendors, inventory and operational decisions that determine whether the numbers behind that experience actually work.
Protect the experience.
Protect the margins.
Purchasing became one of Romano’s particular strengths. He understands vendors, pricing and negotiation. He knows where restaurant costs can quietly creep upward, what questions to ask and where owners may have opportunities to negotiate more effectively without compromising what comes out of the kitchen.
Today, he brings that experience to Lucora’s hospitality clients, helping us look beyond websites and automation to the restaurant operation itself.
Different industries.
Same philosophy.
Understand how the business actually works before deciding what technology, design or systems it needs.