Holbrook Joins J.Christopher’s
November/December 2007
Restaurant industry veterans Dick Holbrook and Sam Haddock have joined with J. Christopher’s founders Chris Brogdon and Jeff (J.) McCann to create a new company designed to spur growth of the J. Christopher’s brand. The company has experienced recent growth in Atlanta with the addition of four new restaurants over the past 18 months and is currently planning to open eight additional restaurants over the next 12 months in Atlanta, Macon, Georgia. and Nashville, Tennessee. The agreement calls for the restaurant chain’s founders to continue to operate the existing restaurants and to serve on the management committee of the new company, J. Christopher’s Restaurants, LLC. Dick Holbrook will serve as president and Sam Haddock will serve as chief operating officer of the new company and both will manage the day-to-day operations. “J. Christopher’s is a unique casual-dining restaurant concept that has proven to be extremely successful by focusing on breakfast, brunch and lunch,” says Dick Holbrook, president of J. Christopher’s Restaurants, LLC. “Sam and I intend to employ a growth strategy that includes both company-owned and franchised restaurants, and we expect to begin franchising in late first quarter of 2008. We believe J. Christopher’s will thrive as a franchised concept, because it is in a new growth segment of the industry and will offer franchisees an exciting new concept with excellent sales and profit margins.”
