Brett Lantz

Brett Lantz is President of KitchenSync Insurance Services, the restaurant-focused brokerage built inside KitchenSync's bookkeeping and back-office platform. He leads coverage strategy across workers compensation, general liability, liquor liability, commercial property, and employment practices liability for hospitality operators. Brett's defining approach to restaurant insurance: re-bid every renewal against live payroll and revenue figures pulled directly from the operator's books, rather than last year's estimates or aging proposals. Because KitchenSync Insurance Services lives inside the same platform that handles bookkeeping and payroll, his team can pull current numbers at any moment and shop the program across the carrier network using what the restaurant looks like today. Programs stay calibrated to actual operations (staffing, revenue mix, premises, hours) instead of drifting away from reality between renewals. That same data hookup powers the team's Pay-As-You-Owe Workers' Compensation program. Live payroll data from KitchenSync's bookkeeping platform feeds the carrier's billing each cycle, so premium tracks actual hours worked rather than estimated wages. The result for operators: no large down payment at policy bind, and no audit reconciliation surprise at the end of the year, the two things that make traditional WC the most painful line item on the P&L. Before joining KitchenSync, Brett spent more than two decades in commercial real estate and insurance brokerage. His career began at Marcus & Millichap, moved through BAK-CO Ventures, and into insurance brokerage at Wood Gutmann & Bogart in 2009. He went on to hold producer and leadership roles at Heffernan Insurance Brokers, HUB International, an independent agency, and Newfront Insurance, before joining Trucordia / PCF Insurance Services as Senior Broker & Risk Management Consultant. He took on the President role at KitchenSync Insurance Services in 2024. In 2026, Risk & Insurance named Brett a Power Broker in the Entertainment, Hospitality & Gaming category. The recognition is reserved for brokers whose clients describe them as instrumental in solving difficult coverage problems. Earlier in his career, Heffernan Insurance Brokers named him Producer of the Year. Brett holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, with a History minor, from UC Davis.