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title: "Fazoli’s Celebrates Increased Sales and Traffic During National Brand Conference"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/76db34f5-339f-4b62-8aaa-601642242bb9
source: "Franchising.com"
original_url: https://www.franchising.com/news/20211112_fazolis_celebrates_increased_sales_and_traffic_during_national_brand_confer.html
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2021-11-12T12:00:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T22:33:09.847Z
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# Fazoli’s Celebrates Increased Sales and Traffic During National Brand Conference

**TL;DR:** Fazoli's celebrated its most successful year in its 33-year history at its 2021 National Brand Conference, honoring its Franchisee of the Year and other award winners. The conference recognized outstanding team members and vendor partners, including Tyson Foods as Supplier of the Year.

*originally published in Franchising.com on 2021-11-12. [Read the original](https://www.franchising.com/news/20211112_fazolis_celebrates_increased_sales_and_traffic_during_national_brand_confer.html).*

## Story

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Fazoli’s recently held its 2021 National Brand Conference in Miami, where the iconic Italian brand celebrated the most successful year in its 33-year history.

“This year’s National Brand Conference was especially momentous – we celebrated historical milestones across the system,” said Fazoli’s CEO Carl Howard. “We set our sights on the future and solidified our best-in-class brand status while energizing our team for what’s to come.”

At the President’s Awards Ceremony, the renowned brand honored Nancy McKenzie of McKenzie Enterprises as its esteemed Franchisee of the Year for 2021. In addition to this prestigious honor, she was celebrated as the first Fazoli’s franchisee to achieve a 30-year franchisee service anniversary milestone with the brand.

Sammy Brill, general manager of Fazoli’s in Oklahoma City, was named Franchise General Manager of the Year – an award given to a franchise general manager who is consistently at the top of Fazoli’s Franchise Balanced Scorecard, which is a ranking for the categories of people (training, development, retention), sales and profits. Brill ranked first on the scorecard and had an impressive year of sales, but the positive culture he created in his restaurant is what differentiated him from his competition.

Fazoli’s award for Company General Manager of the Year went to Tim Miracle for leading the brand’s Moraine, Ohio restaurant in 2018 and instilling its people, sales, profit approach. Miracle rebuilt operations and changed the location’s culture, resulting in an impressive 76.5% sales increase and guest counts up 62.4% over 2020. He also coached and developed six Fazoli’s team members into assistant managers.

In addition to recognizing its outstanding team members, Fazoli’s honored its vendor partners. Selected from over 80 suppliers and partners who work with the brand, Tyson Foods won Supplier of the Year. The award was accepted by Brian Barnes.

The Supplier of the Year award is given to the organization that is more than just a partner to Fazoli’s – it is a part of the Fazoli’s family. Tyson has been proactive and solution-driven, helping Fazoli’s maintain and elevate products during one of the most challenging and tumultuous times for supply chain, all while saving the brand both time and money.

Fazoli’s also awarded each of these remarkable individuals and brand partners during its conference:

- **Chris Hill of Indianapolis, Indiana** won Company Area Supervisor of the Year.

- **Ally Fabian of Chino Hills, California** and Dan Zellmer of West Allis, Wisconsin won Most Improved Franchise Restaurants.

- The Distribution Center of the Year honor was awarded to **PFG Somerset** and accepted by Alan Steele.

## Entities

- Franchising.com (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- sales growth (topic)
- Fazoli's (company)
- franchisee awards (topic)
- vendor partners (topic)
- national brand conference (topic)

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Originally reported by Franchising.com (https://www.franchising.com/news/20211112_fazolis_celebrates_increased_sales_and_traffic_during_national_brand_confer.html). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/76db34f5-339f-4b62-8aaa-601642242bb9).