The Copper Cellar Family of Restaurants was founded in 1975 and remains an East Tennessee favorite to this day. We currently have 21 restaurants and 3 event venues: Copper Cellar, Chesapeake's, Calhoun's, Smoky Mountain Brewery, Cherokee Grill, Corner16 and The Showroom. We are locally owned and operated and we take great pride in serving up simple foods with the finest quality ingredients.

A leader in frozen dough manufacturing, Custom Foods, Inc. offers a wide variety of products, including pizza dough, bread dough, cookie dough and more. Whether you are a restaurant chain, food service institution, grocer or organization looking for a fresh twist on fundraising, we have you covered.

Charter Foods is a vibrant and fast growing YUM Brands franchisee based out of Morristown, Tennessee. Operating in 13 states, we operate Taco Bell, Long John Silvers, KFC, Pizza Hut Express and A&W stores throughout the south and northeast regions of the United States. Charter Foods mission is to provide quality food, affordable prices and friendly service while fostering a supportive, growth-oriented work environment for its employees.

I was the RGM of the restaurant. My duties were maintaining our monthly budgets. Preparing weekly schedules for up to 35 employees. I handled inventories, placing food orders, placing bank orders, and controlling all of the day to day needs of a fast paced restaurant.

With strong, Midwestern family values and genuine hometown hospitality, Culver’s® has proudly served its signature ButterBurgers® and Fresh Frozen Custard since we opened our first restaurant in 1984. There are now over 800 Culver’s restaurants in 25 states, with more than 25,000 team members offering deliciously handcrafted meals and desserts. We believe that the smart, dedicated and hard-working people of Culver’s are what drives us to succeed in the restaurant industry. If you are interested in working at a Culver’s restaurant, 98% of which are independently owned and operated franchises, you may apply at www.culvers.com/careers. Also, are you interested in a franchise opportunity? We are looking for franchisees with strong leadership skills to operate Culver’s restaurants with the same high standards we’ve held since day one. If you are interested in becoming a Culver’s franchisee, please visit http://www.culvers.com/franchise. To learn more about Culver’s, visit www.culvers.com, https://www.facebook.com/culvers, https://twitter.com/culvers or https://instagram.com/culvers.

Stokely Hospitality Enterprises (SHE) is a hospitality company based out Sevierville, TN. SHE has a rich history in the hospitality industry in East TN spanning over 30 years. Current operations include the Full Service Division, operating The Applewood Farmhouse Restaurant and The Applewood Farmhouse Grill. The Fast Food Division currently operates five Baskin Robbins franchise locations. The Lodging Division operates LeConte Lodge in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as a concessionaire of the National Park Service. The newest venture is a franchise Fast Casual Concept, Taziki's Mediterranean Cafe, located in Knoxville, TN. SHE is proudly family owned and operated and holds true to their mission statement to provide exceptional customer experience in a unique hospitality setting by creating great memories for our valued guests who feel welcomed and treated like family by our employees.

AUBREYS INC is a company based out of 10612 KINGSTON PIKE , KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, United States.

Buddy's wife LaMuriel started it all. Buddy Smothers was working at a finance company downtown. He invested in his wife's energy and talent by helping her become the owner of her first restaurant, the Pixie Drive Inn in Seymour, Tennessee. She hired their cook, Hettie Guffey, to help her out. Hettie's son Big John is still with Buddy's today. Soon, LaMuriel and Hettie were cooking up a storm. People would drive for hours for their country buffet, and business doubled in a year. LaMuriel and Buddy decided it was time to find their specialty, and barbecue from back home in Alabama was what they were craving. They just couldn't find the barbecue that suited their taste. So they created their own. Buddy quit the finance business and joined LaMuriel in her new-found barbecue ambitions. With the help of their customers, they perfected the taste that would define Buddy's. Everything was a Buddy's original, including LaMuriel's lemon ice box pie that she she still makes today for catering and banquet hall customers. The first store with the Buddy's name opened in 1972 at 5806 Kingston Pike. When Dinah Shore stopped by and sampled Buddy's delicious hushpuppies, she just had to have the recipe for her cookbook. The house was packed on Friday nights to hear bluegrass bands like Ricky Skaggs and the Knoxville Grass. Local politicians knew a good thing and asked Buddy to bring his barbecue to rallies, and Buddy delivered it in his VW van. Word spread from the World's Fair where people began to know Buddy's as a Tennessee barbecue tradition, and Buddy Smothers as a restaurant business professional in his own right. Buddy was recognized as Restaurateur of the Year and was elected President of the Tennessee Restaurant Association.

Capstone Concepts is a Knoxville restaurant company that operates Gattis Pizza and Firstwatch Cafe.

For over 25 years, we have offered handcrafted, top of the line quality hors d'oeuvres, gourmet cold canapés, and center of the plate specialties for the foodservice industry. We began selling fresh hors d'oeuvres to local South Florida hotels. As the demand for our products increased, we began offering a selection of frozen hors d'oeuvres that allowed us to increase our range of distribution and provide timely solutions for our customers. Today, the HOLIDAY FOODS™ brand is part of Schwan's Global Supply Chain, Inc., a subsidiary of The Schwan Food Company. This gives us the power of national distribution and a sales force to serve customers and distributors in major cities across the U.S. Throughout the years, we have continued to refine the methods used to handcraft our products. We view ourselves as a true extension of the chef's kitchen. Through extensive research and customer feedback, we have developed products designed to meet our customers' varied needs. Our recipes and fresh ingredients assure our products have made-on-premises quality. Our IQF process provides superior quality and fresh taste. Our packaging is designed for maximum customer convenience with cases packed as a 100 count; this matches the typical menu that is most often established in multiples of 100. We strongly believe that only the best comes out of our customers' kitchens and we guarantee a product as "wholesome" as one "made-on-premises". We proudly state that after more than 20 years, we continue to think of each hors d'oeuvre as no less than an extension of your kitchen.

VanMar Associates, Inc. is a full-service consulting engineering firm, providing Civil Engineering, Land Surveying and Land Planning services. We offer these services to private land owners, residential and commercial developers and institutional organizations throughout central Maryland, including Frederick, Carroll, Howard and Montgomery counties.

Vienna Coffee Company, LLC and its affiliate VCH, LLC dba Vienna Coffee House are independent, quality centric “Craft” coffee operations headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee. We small batch roast and distribute only Specialty Grade coffees, equipment and café supplies to Coffeehouse, restaurant and retail customers in Tennessee and the southeast. Vienna was named as Tennessee’s entry in its list of “The Best Coffee Roasters in All 50 States” by mental_floss in September, 2016. Mission, Vision, and Values Our Mission: Vienna Coffee Company, LLC arouses a lifetime passion for coffee by helping people to procure, prepare and serve the very best, freshest specialty coffees available and by teaching coffee lovers how to appreciate it. Our Vision: Vienna Coffee hopes to become the regionally recognized leader in specialty coffee preparation and enjoyment for East Tennessee and the Southeast. To achieve that vision we must provide the absolute best product available anywhere and actively teach our customers and their patrons how to appreciate the experience. Consumer education will be a key ingredient in our offering. Our Values: Vienna Coffee will conduct ourselves and our business with transparency and adherence to the principals embodied in the concept of the Triple Bottom Line. We will evaluate each undertaking with respect to its potential for sustainability and its impact on People, Planet, and Profit. The people we care about include our customers; our staff, their friends and families; our suppliers, importers and US trade partners; and the hundreds of coffee farming families who cultivate, pick, process and export these fine coffees. We subscribe to the reality that we are called to be good stewards of the Earth. We will look to constantly improve our resource utilization and “walk more softly” on the planet. We expect to make a reasonable profit from our efforts such that the business is sustainable and our owners are rewarded for their labors.