Fatz Cafe
Fatz Cafe Names New Director Of Marketing
December 5, 2008
Taylors, S.C. - Cafe Enterprises, the parent company of Fatz Cafe, recently named Margo Mize as the company's Director of Marketing for the 47-unit Southeastern restaurant chain that operates casual dining restaurants in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Mize brings 20 years of combined restaurant and retail marketing experience with her, as well as a passion for marketing.
"Margo will be an extraordinary asset for our expanding restaurant group," said Steve Bruce, president and CEO for Cafe Enterprises, parent company of Fatz Cafe. "With Margo's innovative and creative marketing ideas, she will help take our thriving brand to a new level."
Previously, Mize was Director of Marketing for Ryan's Restaurant Group and Director of Marketing with One Price Clothing stores. In her new position, Mize will oversee the development of all advertising and public relations strategies companywide. "Throughout my career in marketing, I have been fortunate to work with successful companies and am very excited to join Fatz Cafe," said Mize. "I envision elevated marketing programs for a company that has a 20-year history of offering superior guest service with delicious and generous portions of southern-style food at competitive prices."
Fatz Cafe, which offers classic American fare with a southern influence, is open for lunch and dinner seven days a week and offers menu items that include fresh salads, appetizers, soups, sandwiches, specialty drinks and desserts. Entrees include steak, seafood, pasta and Fatz Cafe's World Famous Calabash Chicken®.
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About Cafe Enterprises:
The first Fatz Cafe opened in a converted fruit shed in Spartanburg, S.C., in November 1988. Cafe Enterprises Inc. was formed to serve as the parent company to the new restaurant and the others that would follow. Headquartered in Taylors, S.C., Cafe Enterprises now owns and operates 47 Fatz Cafe restaurants throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia and employs over 3,600 associates. Fatz Cafe, ranked #52 in the 2007 South Carolina 100SM list of the state's largest privately owned companies, has also been named one of the nation's top 400 restaurant concepts by Restaurants & Institutions magazine for the past six years, most recently ranking #266. In 2008, Chain Leader magazine included Fatz Cafe in its "Top 50 Chains Under 50 Units." For more information, visit www.fatzcafe.com.
