The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 87

THt NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN. Sunday. January 10. 1971 'Involvement' Darner Foods Growth Secret One of fie 8usesf Town susceptible to expansion, Wifh growth only for the year 1 970, the building has become one of the busiest in town. This attractive new brick headquarters building and commissary for Danner Foods located at 1727 Elm Hill Pike was completed in October.

Like all structures designed for fast growing companies the building is Don't drift from temporary employment to unrewarding jobs. Don't hope and dream for a career that vou are not trained for. Come by and let us adv ise you and prepare you for a career that promises challenges and opportunities for advancement. As wu eclcbra 7lh Anniversary in personnel service we look back with pride on the thousands of young ladies that we have placed in businesses in Nashville and we look forward to the many, many more that ill hav the opportunity to direct toward exciting careers in the future. Won't you join us? are operating in the ten states.

A subsequent agreement was entered into between the same partips amending to some extent the earlier agreements. The transactions have not yet been closed although efforts to bring this about are presently being pursued. There is, within Danner s' management, the utmost confidence of continued success. With the rapid growth of the company and the continuing trend of more and more families eating out on a regular basis, there is every reason to believe that this year's sales and income will dramatically exceed 1970's record breaking Final preparation i3 handled by each restaurant to assure freshness. On July 2, 1970, Danner Foods' Inc.

entered into agreements with Alex Schoenbaum of Charleston, West Virginia, whereby, subject to approval by its board of directors and certain conditions the company would acquire all of the stock of Parkette Commissary, Inc. and eight affiliated companies, and Big Boy Franchises, Inc. of West Virginia and five subsidiary com-p a i s. The agreement represents Big Boy Iranchise rights for 10 states and ownership of 10 Shoney's restaurants. Currently 137 Shoney's Big Boy Restaurants administrative office building in the Metropolitan Industrial Park on Elm Hill Pike in Nashville.

The complex of approximately 23,000 square feet provides space for a full line bakery, meat processing plant, fresh food and seafood preparation and cold storage. DANNER FOODS' requires the preparation of 15 tons of meat each week (including 1.5 tons of hamburger patties daily), one ton of fish daily, an average of 9,466 loaves of bread, 3,074,330 buns weekly and 175,000 strawberry pics each year. Add expansion into Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia and the figures become astronomical. The commissary, approved by the U.3. Department of 1 Agriculture, prepares the ingredients for the completed R.

L. Danncr, president of Danner Foods, said "Growth, involvement and innovation were the three dominant guidcposts charting the success of our company during 1970, our second year as a public company." The involvement of the company's more than 1650 employees set the pace for unsurpassed hospitality and helped to pave the wa for an approximate 25 percent increase in sales and a 34 percent gain in net income compared to the same period the previous year. DURING 1970, Danner Foods, Inc. increased by 11 units the number of company-owned stores, both through acquisition in February of the Columbus, Ga. a Opelika, Ala.

Shoney's Big Boy franchise and construction of new stores. The Columbus acquisition included two sites which gross in excess of $1 million annually. On Nov. 10, 1970, the company opened its third Shoney's Big Boy Restaurant in this Georgia market. Seventeen Big Boys in Middle Tennessee and Columbus are now owned and operated by the Nashville based firm.

N. Webb Sherrill, vice president in charga of the firm's Shoney's Big Boy restaurants reported that the 17 restaurants in his division have contributed approximately 607o of the total corporate profits. Leland Dowdy, vice president and general manager of the division operating 11 Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants and holding the expansion franchise in Louisville, said his division has moved forward to break sales figures for the previous year and is studying sites for other KFC locations in Louisville and Jefferson County. THE FASTEST growing division of Danner Foods this year was Mr. D's Seafood and Hamburger Shops.

David K. Wachtel, director of this division said the opening of the new Mr. D's in Birmingham, now in final planning stages, will bring to nine the number of company owned units operated by this division Wachtel said, "As a part of Danner Foods' Youth Incentive Program designed to interest young people in the Personnel Service 707 Sudekum Bldg. 255-6622 restaurant industry, a Mr. D's Seafood and Hamburger franchise has been awarded to a Nashville Junior Achievement Company, the first in the nation to hold a franchise and the first to operate a food business.

The student-businessmen operate the unit one half-day a week and they purchase, prepare and serve all the meals during that half-day. In addition, the group creates their own advertising and marketing concepts and sells stock in their company. Danner Foods' regular staff operates the facility during the other hours. WHARTON K. Burgreen, vice president and division director of Mr.

D's Islander, anticipates exciting growth for Danner Foods' oriental gourmet restaurant. Phil Chin, manager of the Hunts-ville restaurant, described the menu as one including many oriental delicacies mostly of Canton3se origin with exotic Polynesian style drinks. A tract of land in Birmingham is presently under consideration for a second Islander location with other Southeastern markets under consideration. Danncr Foods' new concept in restaurant operation, Mr. D's Family Restaurant, opened in Louisville in 1970 with immediate success which has prompted the firm to begin construction on a second Louisville location.

One of the proudest achievements of the company in 1970 was the completion of a modern commissary and serving under the best quality controlled conditions. Airport Looks 1970 At Future Plans (Continued From Page 8) iraua Fidelity rede pens to that city and the re gion that surrounds it. i started mis article wun a mm I description of the new city surrounding the rectangle of runways that will be our edir amanx coraiTiu region's airport. I emphasized that the airport chief function is as transfer station be tween the various forms of transport including the private automobile. That Is why, even though Mr.

Businessman We Invite You To Make many of the airports passengers a' delivered by mass transit, the airport authority is likely to be the largest provider of parking space for cars in any region except the central city government itself. And the airport will be doing so many other things. With all due respect to downtown the airport is likely to be the convention center for Metro and every other city. That means hotels, entertainment, retailing, and all other kinds of goods and services will be clustered within or near the new city where the planes land. All of these extra functions, of course, are largely private in nature and the space leased will increase the revenues for BARKY MFG.

CO. (Your Personal further airport expansion. TAILOR -4 in iv1 mm and eniov a J'MAih Many sales promotion people believe that what the commercial realtors call 100 display space for clothing and most other consumer items in the future will not he found in the display windows of the town's main street or even at the largest shopping center. Instead, the 100 space will be special show and display windows at the airports of the given city. complete.

New Wardrobe at up to 40 savings on The Latest in Men's Fashions SUITS One airport per region, regardless of size, can not meet all of the variety of requirements nor perform all of the functions I have mentioned in this article. That's why the Nashville Regional Airport Authority has acquired Smyrna Air Base in Rutherford County to provide the site for some of these services. That is why we will acquire and build other airports even as many as five or six by the There are more than 50,000 reasons why Fidelity Federal is Middle Tennessee's largest and fastest growing Federal. 50,000 loyal Fidelity Federal savers and homeowners. SPORTCOATS SLACKS time tne Js-year time span If you have not yet discovered the Barry Factory Ware house for men's clothes, you would be wise to 'investi gate by making the short trip to Barry's in Nashville we nave neen using in this article has passed.

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A good year for Fidelity Federal a good year for the Nashville Community. 1970. Fidelity's assets increased a record setting $12,000,000. ,1970. Fidelity opened the College Loan Department to help students and the Mobile Homo Financing Department to create funds for lower priced housing.

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Bracey. V. President C. Richard Felts V. President Jack N.

Sloan Assistant Secretary W. Raymond Denney. Counsel Vaden Lackey, Jr Attorney-at-Law BOARD OF DIRECTORS W. H. Browder.

of the Board J. G. Blakemore. Emeritus Stanley D. Overton Joe L.

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prices to you start at $23.95 for Snort Coats, for Suits, losses of profit on the scale of 1970. But we are strongly convinced that such a condition will not persist. We have waited until the end of this article to unveil a most significant short run gain for Nashville aviation. At a.m. Wednesday a Boeing 747 will land pt the airport.

It can carry 480 passengers at 625 mnh. It can lift 800.000 pounds off a 10,000 foot runway. It'll be a thing to s'. It's propor'. wiii d-var" the other jets happen 'o be here wh i if gf's here.

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