recognitions
Awards
Promotions
Kent Ward of JK&T Wings received
the 2014 Franchise Founders
Award at the annual Buffalo Wild
Wings® Business Conference in
early March at the Gaylord Texan
Resort & Convention Center in
Grapevine, Texas. Annual winners
are chosen for special recognition
based on input from the home
office, field teams, and all company
and franchised restaurants.
“It has been very rewarding to
be part of such a successful system
for the last 20 years—from its
humble beginnings to our inter(L-R) The Ward family: Caleb, Pamela, Kent and Tara,
national status today. To witness
pose together as Kent is honored with the 2014
corporate execs and franchisees
Founders Award at the annual Buffalo Wild Wings®
diligently work together to develop conference.
what is the envy of almost every
other franchise system and continue to find new ways to strengthen our brand has
been amazing. I appreciate receiving the award this year but let’s not forget the TRUE
FOUNDERS: Thank you Jim, Scott and Mark.”– Kent Ward
Additional franchisee awards
presented during the 2014
Conference included:
+ Multi-Unit Franchisee of the Year
to Dan Pictor and Jeff Applegate
of Pictor Enterprises, Inc.
+ Highest Annual Sales to Wray
Hutchinson, Tom Cook, Joe
Janaszek and Team Burbank, California of World Wide Wings.
+ Highest Weekly Sales (not
including new restaurant openings) to Matt and Bill Dragas and
Team Orange, California of Dragas
Family Restaurants.
(L-R) World Wide Wings franchisees Wray Hutchinson,
Joe Janaszek and Tom Cook accept their award from
+ Highest Single Day Sales (not
Judy Shoulak and Sally Smith.
including new restaurant openings) to Michael Ansley, Jason
Curtis and Team Downtown Detroit, Michigan of Diversified Restaurant Holdings, Inc.
Ryan Adams was
promoted to General
Manager of the World
Wide Wings’ restaurant
in Pasadena, California.
Ryan was formerly the
Department Manager
and has been with the company for two
years.
New Hires
Bill McKibbin was
hired as Chief Operating Officer of World
Wide Wings. Bill joins
the company from CCK
Restaurants where he
was responsible for
overseeing operations, menu development/culinary, human resources,
purchasing, design and construction.
New Franchisees
FBS would like to welcome new franchisees David and Melissa Hunt to
the Buffalo Wild Wings® system. As the
owners of Hunt Wings, they have one
location in Russellville, Arkansas that
opened on April 14, 2014.
We want to highlight your company’s
achievements (employee promotions,
new hires, employee or restaurant
anniversaries and sales records). To
submit information for Recognitions,
complete the online submission form
at www.myfbsonline.org/submissions,
email communications@myfbsonline.
org, or call 678-797-5161.
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Judy Shoulak, Jeff Applegate, Dan Pictor and
Sally Smith.
promoted to General
Manager of the World
Wide Wings’ restaurant in Hillsboro,
Oregon. David was
formerly the Assistant
General Manager and has been with the
company for two years.
the
Sally Smith, Mike Ansley, Jason Curtis and
Judy Shoulak.
David Focareto was