2022 State of the Union Recap

Every year, Summerwood comes together to celebrate the incredible work done by our teams across the company. And while we love to recognize hard work in person, this year, we were able to honor 2021’s special achievements through the Summerwood State of the Union zoom event. Restaurants leaders from every market gathered at set locations and “tuned in” to a special presentation. Congratulations to our winners below!

• Restaurant General Managers of the Year
• Area Coach of the Year
• Admin of the Year
• Mickey Noonan Award
• Jerri Toner Award
• John Monte Award
• President’s Award
• Most Improved
• Ops award to Admin
• Successful Opening Award
• Regional of the Year Awards
• Marketing Megaphone Award
• COO’s Vision of the Year Award

Restaurant General Managers of the Year:

Michael Dobrzkowski, restaurant 32675

Karen Cornett, restaurant 32674

Area Coach of the Year:

Kofi Ohene-Okae,  Area 18

Admin of the Year:

Joe DePascale
Development Manager

Mickey Noonan Award:

Lori Grossman
Director of Marketing

Jerri Toner Award:

Lisa Harman
Restaurant General Manager

John Monte Award:

Eric Tcheki
Area Coach

President’s Award

• Azelina Khan
• Marc Butler
• Christine Lovett

Most Improved

• Cynthia McKiney
  Pennsville, NJ
  (Moved up 70 spots)

Operations award to Admin

• Denise Branca
  VP of Construction & Maintenance
• Rebecca Keller
  Maintenance Manager

Successful Opening

KFC opened Feb. 26 in Sicklerville, NJ. The award was presented by Morita Olsen from KFC Corporate.

• Gabby Arizaga
• Shanon Harper

Regional of the year Awards

• Jennifer Hildebrand’s Region:
  Carissa Smith
  West Berlin, NJ
• Andre Dyson’s Region:
  Amithumar Dhruva
  Fredrick, MD
• Carl Coulter’s Region:
  Aaron Burrows
  Salisbury, MD
• John Kozar’s Region:
  Jill Herbert
  Area Coach – Western PA
• Bryon Tierney’s Region:
  Gaurav Gupta
  Falls Church, VA

Marketing Megaphone

Fred Hahn
Restaurant General Manager

COO’s Vision of the year

• Eddy Lebron
• Krystyn Habecker
• Travis Robinson